Vertical Strike Endless Challenge
Skip · Shooter · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 243 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
A flight-based action game designed to be easy to pick up and enjoy right away, and be playable over short timeframes. Make use of a range of weapons and achieve dangerously high levels of mobility by disabling your Alpha Limiter to spear your way through waves of enemy attacks.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 90 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 46 percent on value. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Altitude (free, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Vietnam War ($14.99, scores 36).
More about Vertical Strike Endless Challenge
Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 136 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 4% 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
Endless replayability, love it. Would love it even more with a bit more planes and a much wider variety of game modes, as well as plane customization.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Y'know how Gran Turismo 2 for the PSX had two separate discs, one for the 'actual' game and one for the arcade mode? If you didn't, now you do. Anyways, I mention that because Vertical Strike is the arcade mode disc equivalent of a PS2-era Ace Combat. It's not making itself out to be anything more than what it is; what you see on the store page is what you get. Anti-Air takes place in an endless stretch of Plain...
This is a pretty barebones arcade flight game. The controls feel way clunkier than they need to be, which makes dogfighting more frustrating than fun. There's also not much variety since it's basically just endless waves with the same few objectives repeating over and over. After a while, it starts to feel really repetitive. There are plenty of better arcade flight games out there, so it's hard to recommend sticking...
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Cite this score
Vertical Strike Endless Challenge scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/313390/vertical-strike-endless-challengeReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.