Bomber Crew

Bomber Crew

Worth it · Roguelike · 2017

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $15.99.

Length
15.5h
Value
$1.03/hr
Reviews
88% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
15.5h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
25.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.03
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$15.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
88%
15,531 reviews, as of Sep 17
Metacritic
75
critic score
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Geforce 9800 GT (1024 MB), 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!
Description from the Steam store page.

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
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.03/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length16 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
Refunds9 of 800 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

The value story

February 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 82 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Space Crew: Legendary Edition ($15.99, scores 36) and Plane Mechanic Simulator ($11.99, scores 1).

Critics scored it 75. Players sit 13 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 857 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

The drop-off

75% start to 5% 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

85 players online when we last checked, on Sep 25, 23:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

First I get it start the game, doing really well, about to beat the whole campaign, but then i lose a gear, A SINGLE GEAR. and i go in for landing, the whole thing explodes, everyone dies, my whole game is ruined. If your good at keeping you gear i do recommend, if your not, i would not get the game
JimmajammaNot recommendedafter 19h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Bomber Crew scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/537800/bomber-crew
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+13
Critics
75
Players
88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 15,531 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRunner Duck
PublisherCurve Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Achievements30