Sky Rogue
Worth it · Roguelike · 2017
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Integrated graphics card (Intel), generally anything from 2004 or later, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Sky Rogue is a fwooshy rogue-lite action flight simulator! Blow things up over land, sea, and air, on an infinite number of procedurally-generated islands. Go toe-to-toe with enemy aces or assault giant flying aircraft carriers, but watch out for volleys of missiles; when you die, you're dead.
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
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in December 2022. 74 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. 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.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yet Another Zombie Survivors ($14.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats RealFlight Evolution ($99.99, scores 48).
Of the 337 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 165 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
82% start to 6% finishMost players never reach the end. 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 Rogue scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/381020/sky-rogueThe 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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