Jet Lancer
Worth it · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.7h
- Value
- $2.63/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 640 (2048 MB) or Radeon HD 4850 (1024 MB), 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Jet Lancer is a high-velocity aerial combat shooter where you duel enemy aviators, hunt giant robots, and defy death at supersonic speeds as you evolve from an unknown rookie aviator into a once-in-a-generation ACE pilot.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was November 2024. 38 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, LUFTRAUSERS ($9.99, scores 74) and Jamestown ($9.99, scores 78) both come in lower.
This site sampled 390 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 249 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.7 hours. Doing everything runs 31, 5.4 times as long.
At 5.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
95% 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 03:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Skies blaze with bright fire Fearless wings dance through the storm Freedom rides the wind
If you were expecting something like Lûftrausers you came to the wrong place, the only similarities are aerial bullet hell gameplay, some control over your loadouts and pixel graphics. The game has a story progression and over 30 different levels with a handful of different objectives, although most of them end up being 'shoot down enemy plane'. Some of these missions are actually brutally difficult and some you...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Jet Lancer scores 84/100 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/913060/jet-lancerReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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