Sky Rogue

Sky Rogue

Worth it · Roguelike · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$19.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$4.9975% off

Cost per hour
$1.60/hr
ReviewsS
93% of 1,239
Genre rank
Top 10% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reach

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
12.5h
Finish
6% reach the ending
Achievements
28

Price and sales

Sales
76 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$4.99 December 2022
Sale every
49d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $4.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
4 now
Cheaper than
9% of its genre
Better reviewed
89% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

83% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

76 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.

Its score sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yet Another Zombie Survivors ($14.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Flyout ($19.99, scores 41).

More about Sky Rogue

Of the 338 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 167 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 5 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 338 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

What players say

I wish there were more arcade flight combat games like this, they're so much fun. also being able to play coop is great.
lanceloveswindowsRecommendedafter 4.1hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I had this game for years and never really played it much, but recently I got a T.16000 and was trying to find games to just test it out on and I remembered this game from my library. I was surprised that this old-ish little indie game supported my flight stick at all though the only unfortunate part is it doesn't support my throttle mapping, but kb+stick is still nice. Anyways as for the game itself it's pretty...
PsyrialRecommendedafter 4.6hAug 2026Read on Steam
I love Sky Rogue! Yes, it's a little rough around the edges (and it is a pretty old game as of me writing this) but all in all, it's pretty good. I was skeptical at first. It's honestly rough in some places. The UI looks kind of dated. I seriously wish we could change the control settings mid save. The controls can be hard to get the hang of. There are a couple of bugs, too. But as I continued playing, I realized...
CragsRecommendedafter 21hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Sky Rogue scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/381020/sky-rogue
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperFractal Phase
PublisherFractal Phase
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements28