ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
Worth it · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $59.99.
- Length
- 12.2h
- Value
- $4.92/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti(2GB), 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
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!
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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.79. 59 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 84 percent off, roughly 6 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 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nuclear Option ($19.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats World of Warplanes (free, scores 26).
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; 16 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 3,272 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12.2 hours; clearing it takes 71, which is 5.8 times the campaign.
At 12.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
86% 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
340 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Genuinely surprised me how damn good this game is, its been a while since a game gripped me with every mission it had. Its a shame the story really sucks but from a pure gameplay/fighter enthusiast standpoint its pure kino.
Story and voice acting is terrible, but the gameplay is a lot of fun. It's the right amount of flight physics and hammerspace missiles.
"MISSILE" I haven't played this game in a while but I can still hear it. 10/10 would recommend
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN 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/502500/ace-combat-7-skies-unknownThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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