Airstrike HD

Airstrike HD

Skip · Short indie · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 1, under the fair line, at $1.99.

Length
2.3h 5.5h to 100%
Value
$0.87/hr
Reviews
53% of 410 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

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Raising the score
Value$0.87/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement7% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews53% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 55% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 42 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

Your goal is to destroy all buildings on the mission and defeat all Bosses. One combat operation includes 5 levels and 1 boss mission.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any GeForce or Radeon, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

64 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Isle of Jura ($0.79, scores 13) beats it on value, while it beats HomeWork Is Crazy / 作业疯了 ($7.99, scores 0).

More about Airstrike HD

Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

Finishing takes 2.3 hours; clearing it takes 6, which is 2.4 times the campaign.

The drop-off

13% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

Airstrike HD, developed and published by Fifth Dimension Company, is a stripped-down arcade game that builds its entire experience around a single mechanic and explores it with just enough variation to remain engaging-at least for a while. It feels like a modern echo of classic browser or early arcade titles, where the focus isn't on narrative or progression systems, but on refining a simple idea into something that...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 13hDec 2023Read on Steam
One button flash-tier game that doesn't support ultrawide - everything is cut off and it's basically impossible to play.
Scariest ChrisNot recommendedafter 4.7hJul 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Airstrike HD scores 1/100 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/453980/airstrike-hd
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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

DeveloperFifth Dimension Company
PublisherFifth Dimension Company
GenreShort indie
Released2016
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12