Sky Force Anniversary
Fair · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics card, 451 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Legendary shoot-'em-up makes its way on the PCs! Abundant explosions, truly epic boss fights and beautifully crafted 3D environments are here to keep you entertained. Sky Force Anniversary offers single player experience and local cooperative mode for 2 players.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was November 2018. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 51 in the 11 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 19 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Nex Machina ($19.99, scores 66) outscores it, and so does Jamestown ($9.99, scores 78). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 363 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 305 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 35% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
3 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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Sky Force Anniversary scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/355050/sky-force-anniversaryThe 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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