Airline Tycoon Deluxe
Fair · Shooter · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.3h
- Value
- $0.65/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 681 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
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About the game
Airline Tycoon Deluxe is a funny economy simulation proceeding in realtime and assigning you the complete responsibility for an airline.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 31 MB of memory, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 90 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dealer's Life ($3.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats SimAirport ($24.99, scores 51).
More about Airline Tycoon Deluxe
Of the 335 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
This was a favoritt of mine when it came out. Still love it today. Sadly Airline Tycoon 2 did not live up to this gem. Hopefully we will see a new modern version in the future that still keeps the cartoonish and fun style. But untill then, this still is a great and fun game, that holds it age well. Strongly recommend, if you love the old classic way of gaming.
1 more review
Silly, funny, easy to learn. As tycoon games go, this isn't exactly a major challenge. But it's fun.
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Cite this score
Airline Tycoon Deluxe scores 65/100 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/331920/airline-tycoon-deluxeReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.