AIR
Fair · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$29.99Fair
On its price record
$11.76BANGER
- Length
- 8.9h 35h to 100%
- Value
- $3.37/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 902 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.76 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Summer stretches on endlessly. Beneath the vast blue sky. Beneath the air in which she awaits— AIR, the second game released by visual novel studio Key, is now available on Steam! Now featuring the side story novel, "First Sky Chapter" and full voice support!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB Video Memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
9 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $11.76. The record reaches that level 2 times.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 55).
More about AIR
None of the 309 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 99 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.9 hours; clearing it takes 35, which is 3.9 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
27% start to 12% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗸𝘆… 𝗜'𝗺 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁, 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗵… 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗜 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱." This vn got me crying like a baby, I cried like thousand times... :c ❤︎Misuzu❤︎
2 more reviews
i was sad when this was over :( i'd like to say i don't cry from media very easy but every route and arc got me at least a little teary, especially minagi's route and the 'AIR' arc. i loved all the characters, the only one i didn't enjoy definitely ended up redeeming herself by the end. i wanted everyone to be able to have a happy ending so bad... the music is beautiful and nostalgic, i've actually been listening to...
i think some might disagree but i found this to be the best and most consistent Key VN
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
AIR scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2983250/airReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.