SimplePlanes
Worth it · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 65% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$12.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.5465% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.00/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 10,929
- Critics
- 69 players 24 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.54 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.5h
- Achievements
- 72
Price and sales
- Sales
- 66 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $2.59 February 2026
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 34 now
- Cheaper than
- 23% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
55% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 66 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.74. The record reaches that level 56 times.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stormworks: Build and Rescue ($24.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Juno: New Origins ($19.99, scores 75).
More about SimplePlanes
Critics scored it 69. Players sit 24 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 566 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 722 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
At 6.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.24 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 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
About the game
Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM3 512MB VRAM, 748 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
SimplePlanes scores 76/100 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/397340/simpleplanesReviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.