Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China
Skip · Shooter · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $3.66/hr
- Reviews
- 71% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 813 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2.9 GB of storage. Windows only.
FLYING TIGERS: SHADOWS OVER CHINA is an air-combat action game based on the historical events of America’s secret volunteer squadrons that defended China against Japan in the China-Burma-India theatre of World War 2.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in January 2023. It has been discounted 78 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 116 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LUFTRAUSERS ($1.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats WWII Online (free, scores 0).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 296 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 4.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
As arcade flying games go this is pretty decent. Like Blazing Angels with more depth basically. The controls take a touch of getting used to, especially of you're used to more realistic flight-sims but the learning curve is pretty gentle. I'm playing using an Xbox controller, seems the easiest option to me. The game runs fine on a pretty old laptop and looks very pretty with the settings turned right up on a decent...
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I really hate to give this one a thumbs down, I can see what they were trying to achieve and to some extent, they nailed it. That said, to finish the campaign in 3 hours leaves a bad taste even at this price, and some of the missions are really odd design choices. For example, fly in formation for a minute or 2, cutscene, bomb something, change to fighter, dogfight a bit then back to a bomber. On occasion I was...
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Cite this score
Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/365810/flying-tigers-shadows-over-chinaReviews 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 2.
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