Airport CEO

Airport CEO

Fair · Strategy · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
25.6h
Value
$0.98/hr
Reviews
83% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
25.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.98
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
83%
8,352 reviews, as of Sep 17
Players
750K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Any (at least 2 GB dedicated VRAM), 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Build and manage an international airport!
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
Value$0.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length26 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds13 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

It has never been cheaper than $6.24. That was March 2023. It has been discounted 62 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Transport Fever 2 ($39.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Transport Fever ($29.99, scores 61).

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 283 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

65% start to <1% 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

142 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I want to love this game but it's abandoned and broken beyond repair. Pathfinding problems can cause you lose millions without any possible fix
SunChaserNot recommendedafter 62h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Slightly confusing. Only buy on steep discount. There always seems to be something wrong with your airport, and little reward when everything is going steady. I wish I had played this game less so I could return it for money back.
sheanielsenNot recommendedafter 29hSep 2026Read on Steam
I've played this game off & on quite a bit over the years. I HAVEN'T played it much sent it went to v1.1. I thought about going back and playing again, but I see that there hasn't been a REAL update (besides a security path) in almost 3 years. I know there are improvements that they can make to the game. I mean, really, people are still reporting bugs. So, to not do ANYTHING to the game in 3 years tells me that the...
George PattonNot recommendedafter 755hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Airport CEO scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/673610/airport-ceo
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Reviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperApog Labs
PublisherApog Labs
GenreStrategy
Released2021
Achievements35