DogFighter

DogFighter

Skip · Action · 2010

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 9, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
1.1h 19h to 100%
Value
$3.63/hr
Reviews
61% of 435 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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 3906 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

Holding it back
Value$3.63/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews61% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 62% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 23 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 to the skies in this fast paced, arcade aerial combat game featuring arena style gameplay. Fly solo in single player or compete against other players in online multiplayer modes.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB DirectX 9.0c compliant supporting Pixel Shader 2.0 or better, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 3 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 127 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 558 weeks ago.

It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. Spin Rhythm XD ($19.99, scores 67) outscores it, and so does BallisticNG ($14.99, scores 90). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about DogFighter

Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 61 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 1.1 hours; clearing it takes 19, which is 17 times the campaign.

The drop-off

13% start to 2% 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

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 10:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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DogFighter scores 9/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/42500/dogfighter
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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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDark Water Studios Ltd
PublisherInstinct Software Ltd.
GenreAction
Released2010
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29