Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol
Skip · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews▼
- 69% of 831
- Genre rank
- Top 62% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.4h
- To 100%
- 23.6h 6.9x the story
- Achievements
- 52
Price and sales
- Sales
- 73 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.24 November 2015
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 26% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
39% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 13:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 73 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Age of History II ($2.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Sid Meier's Starships ($14.99, scores 0).
More about Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol
Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 120 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.4 hours; clearing it takes 24, which is 6.9 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
dang, i feel like theres a good turn based combat system hidden here, you control WW1 planes, and you have to move your units constantly since they cannot remain stationary, they use altitude as a resource to perform maneuvers, all that sounds good, and when all the pieces connect, it can feel like turn based dogfighting, but i feel the game makes a poor job at explaining its mechanics, i CONSTANTLY i find myself in...
2 more reviews
Gotta agree with the positives. None of the gacha stuff from the app version. At discount you can't really go wrong
I'm a WW1 air biff & a HMGS ( Historical Miniature Game Society ) Game Master. his the best WW1 air Game I've player in V loong time " Great Job " Sid
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Battle to Rule the Skies!The skies over Europe are a dangerous place, where ace pilots lead their squadrons to glorious victory or crushing defeat! Take control of dozens of the most famous fighter planes of WWI and head into the dogfight. Roll, slip, and loop to get the drop on enemy aces.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol scores 25/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/244070/sid-meier-s-ace-patrolReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.