SimplePlanes
Worth it · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.73.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM3 512MB VRAM, 748 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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.
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 $2.59, set in February 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 65 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.73. The record reaches that level 55 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 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 Mon Bazou ($15.99, scores 66).
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 565 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 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.
The drop-off
55% start to <1% rarestNo 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
Players
81 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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SimplePlanes scores 76/100 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/397340/simpleplanesThe 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 Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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