Combat Wings: Battle of Britain

Combat Wings: Battle of Britain

Fair · Shooter · 2009

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The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $0.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.1h 8.2h to 100%
Value
$0.32/hr
Reviews
80% of 746 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

Fair$4.99

Today

−80%Fair
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.32/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $1.61/hr
Holding it back
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 182 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

Destroy the Luftwaffe! There’s something new in the air, and it’s more than the hum of hundreds of aero engines... As the Luftwaffe launches its aerial offensive, the outnumbered Royal Air Force is scrambling to bring into combat new planes that will ensure victory over a stronger foe. Will they succeed?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible Video Card with 64MB RAM, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

101 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 80 percent off still sits 102 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN ($59.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Dogfight 1942 ($0.99, scores 56).

More about Combat Wings: Battle of Britain

Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 194 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 3.1 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.6 times as long.

What players say

Combat Wings: Battle of Britain is a World War II-themed aerial combat title developed by City Interactive that embraces the spirit of classic arcade flight games rather than aiming for strict historical simulation. Set during the iconic Battle of Britain, the game places players in the cockpits of legendary aircraft and tasks them with defending the skies against overwhelming enemy forces. Its design philosophy is...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12hDec 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
It was fun when it came out. I have good memories of some awesome dog fights. Don't know if it has held up to the test of time though. Maybe, but I don't care to even see for myself. ha
Soul ReaverRecommendedafter 3.3hSep 2025Read on Steam
Great Dogfighter A very fun WWII dogfighting game the levels are all really good although some scenes are reused from time to time and the AI voice lines got repetitive fast 7/10
T22DunnRecommendedafter 22hSep 2025Read on Steam

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

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Combat Wings: Battle of Britain scores 57/100 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/34820/combat-wings-battle-of-britain
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperCity Interactive
PublisherCI Games
GenreShooter
Released2009
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate