Airships: Conquer the Skies
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 128 MB VRAM+, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
January 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $8.99. It has been discounted 49 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Terra Invicta ($19.99, scores 59) and Sprocket ($19.99, scores 51) both come in lower.
6 of the 447 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 195 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to <1% 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
Players
68 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Airships: Conquer the Skies scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/342560/airships-conquer-the-skiesThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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