ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
Worth it · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 92% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$59.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$9.5984% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.88/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 57,738
- Critics
- 78 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.3h
- To 100%
- 70.7h 5.7x the story
- Achievements
- 49
Price and sales
- Sales
- 59 on record
- Typical cut
- 84% off
- Steam low
- $4.79 December 2025
- Sale every
- 42d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 512 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 77% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% 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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.79. 59 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 84 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nuclear Option ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats World of Warplanes (free, scores 26).
More about ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 3,278 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12.3 hours; clearing it takes 71, which is 5.7 times the campaign.
At 12.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
What players say
A really fun and trippy story with a hint of Kojima-shrooms! It isn't long, but it's fun and has a good sense of humor to it. The flight controls with KB/M are also very simple and easy to get the hang of. Can be configured to handle very similarly to Battlefield. And the majority of what you do is fire guided missiles, so it's also pretty easy and accessible even if you you're new to flying jets. PS. I only played...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
As someone who hasn't previously played flight games, I was floored by how fun the game was!
I really tried to like this, but it's just one disapointing mission after the other. I think the underlying problem is manufactured pressure. AC7 creates difficulty with timers, weather gimmicks, and invincible scripted aces. The convict storyline seems kind of fitting with how the game design treats the player.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Become an ace pilot and soar through photorealistic skies with full 360 degree movement; down enemy aircraft and experience the thrill of engaging in realistic sorties! Aerial combat has never looked or felt better!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti(2GB), 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN 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/502500/ace-combat-7-skies-unknownReviews 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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.