Pilot Brothers

Pilot Brothers

Fair · Narrative · 2014

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.5h 1.6h to 100%
Value
$3.33/hr
Reviews
90% of 424 positive
It needs 7% off ($4.65) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.65 or less.

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

Holding it back
Value$3.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 228 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The case of the stolen elephant! Elephant... Rare... Striped. ...has been kept for many years by an animal trader named Karbophos. Being unable to overcome abuse, it escaped and found a home at the zoo in our city. This is definitely Karbophos's work. To the zoo!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 800x600 minimum resolution, OpenGL support, 492 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 61 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Botanicula ($14.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Return to Monkey Island ($24.99, scores 65).

More about Pilot Brothers

1 of the 228 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 194 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 12:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

loved it 20 years ago as a kid and still love it today as an adult ♡♡ very short but cute and nostalgic game ☆
cyberdvstRecommendedafter 1.6hMay 2023Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Pilot Brothers is a point'n'click adventure game first released in the 1997. It is based on animated series that was very popular in the 90's Russia. You play as two characters: Boss, a parody of Sherlock Holmes, and Colleague, his infantile brother. The characters interact differently with objects, which makes it harder to try every possible combination. Yet most of the puzzles in the game are illogical and the...
SirozhaRecommendedafter 2.0hJul 2021Read on Steam
Тому больному, кто дизайнил загадку с переключателями на холодильнике, я от всей души желаю такое же устройство на ширинке штанов, и нескончаемую, лютую и всеуничтожаюшую диарею. Чтобы каждый раз перед тем, как снять в сортире штаны, ему приходилось решать этот сраный, е5учий, человеконенавистнический, десять раз проклятый паззл. Совсем е5анутые.
HazardFMNot recommendedafter 2.0hSep 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Pilot Brothers 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/336760/pilot-brothers
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer1C Wireless
PublisherFulqrum Publishing
GenreNarrative
Released2014
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate