SimplePlanes 2
Fair · Strategy · 2026 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 1,554
- Genre rank
- Top 15% Strategy
Holding it back: Early access, Cost per hour, est. length
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Price and sales
- Sales
- 3 on record
- Typical cut
- 10% off
- Steam low
- $16.99 October 2026
- Sale every
- 99d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 257 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
3 discounts in the 7 months on record, a median of 10 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Juno: New Origins ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats My Winter Car ($14.99, scores 51).
More about SimplePlanes 2
This site sampled 404 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 195 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $16.99 (15% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 29 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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Dedicated GPU, 3GB VRAM, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
SimplePlanes 2 scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2840470/simpleplanes-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.