Final Approach

Final Approach

Worth it · Action · 2016

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $14.99.

Length
9h
Value
$1.67/hr
Reviews
94% of 350 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2201 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

Raising the score
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$1.67/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 15 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

Take control of the skies like never before in a full Virtual Reality world! Airplanes on fire, commuter aircraft low on fuel, mid-air collisions, emergency helicopter rescues, military exercises and so much more!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 5 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

21 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 314 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kiwi Clicker - Juiced Up ($4.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Real Pool 3D - Poolians (free, scores 43).

More about Final Approach

Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 157 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

79% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

This game reminds me of a mobile game I used to enjoy a bit. I really like seeing all of the little details. The controls can be a little confusing at times, but overall the game is great fun, and one of the more feature complete titles out currently. A tip though, I was having some problems with neck strain with looking down the whole time, until I realized you can open up the room settings in game and bring the...
XentrigRecommendedafter 3.8h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
At first glance it looks like a mobile game or something really shallow and simple. On the contrary! There are a lot of missions and they all have a good variety of objectives. The graphics are fairly cheap but there still is quite a bit of detail to the maps and some aircraft look awesome. I adore the diorama-esque view that you can get in VR and this game really takes and runs with it. This isnt a half assed...
DATARecommendedafter 3.0h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This game is still amazing even eight years after launching. I can't believe it hasn't been ported to the Quest platform. Surely it would sell really well on there. Steam is incorrectly showing that I've only played four hours of this game; I've actually played tens of hours. I've had this game pretty much since it launched back when I had the original HTC Vive. I've since placed it on Vive Pro, and more recently...
PsimanRecommendedafter 4.9hOct 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Final Approach scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/380670/final-approach
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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.

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Details

DeveloperPhaser Lock Interactive
PublisherPhaser Lock Interactive
GenreAction
Released2016
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements47