Flight Control HD
Worth it · Action · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.7h 9.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 549 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1383 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
Control a never-ending stream of aircraft in this insanely addictive worldwide hit from Firemint! You’re an air traffic controller at an increasingly busy airport; just point and drag aircraft to their landing zones with your mouse or trackpad. Sounds easy? It isn’t!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64MB, 92 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
34 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 18 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 198 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Arcade Moonlander ($0.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Rock 'N' Roll Defense ($4.99, scores 72).
More about Flight Control HD
Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 164 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.7 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 5.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
94% start to 6% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 00:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I remember playing the free version of this on my dad's iPhone 2... to this day it's a fun little mini-game. Achievements extend the replay potential, as does the map variety. For $5 it's surely worth it.
1 more review, not recommended
I really liked this back in the day. Apparently it's no longer installable/runnable standalone and requires some older .dll files to be manually added, so, I can't recommend right now. Hopefully it now has an Endless Mode like Mini Metro (where if you get a crash it just sets you back a bit).
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Flight Control HD scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/62000/flight-control-hdReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.