Flight of the Icarus
Skip · Action · 2010
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.2h 3.7h to 100%
- Value
- $4.16/hr
- Reviews
- 42% of 253 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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
About the game
Flight of the Icarus is a game where you play as a privateer who owns an airship that helps ferry goods from town to town in a post-apocalyptic world where the skies are dominated by pirates and danger. Shoot down enemy aeroplanes with a variety of deadly weaponry. Keep the ship from falling out the sky.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Dedicated Video Card w/128MB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
54 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 85 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Guns of Icarus Online ($4.99, scores 76) and Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries ($9.99, scores 4) both outscore it.
More about Flight of the Icarus
Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 175 reviews written there were positive, against 42 percent overall, and those are 78 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.2 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Flight of the Icarus scores 0/100 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/49800/flight-of-the-icarusReviews 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.