Airborne Kingdom

Airborne Kingdom

Fair · Strategy · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

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

Length
7.4h
Value
$3.38/hr
Reviews
87% positive
It needs 68% off ($7.99) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
7.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
13.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.38
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
87%
2,407 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
76
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
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

Holding it back
Value$3.38/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length7.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds7 of 574 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

April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 44 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Reus 2 ($9.99, scores 89) and Settlement Survival ($19.99, scores 71) both outscore it.

76 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 574 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 175 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

61% start to 3% 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

3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 22:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Absolutely gorgeous, incredibly chill, lovely music and smooth gameplay ! A real gem !
steflefRecommendedafter 1.9h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Fun game, unique building aspect. Good for about 15ish hours of gameplay. There is a NG+ but I didn't bother. Worthwhile to get if it's on sale IMO!
LimeywaterRecommendedafter 17hAug 2026Read on Steam
This is a very good looking game, with a relaxed vibe and forgiving mechanics, but it wasn't really for me. At 8 hours I've played through about 2/3rds of the game (not entirely certain, but I had allied with 2/3rds of the required city states) and while it has a relaxed vibe to it, at the point I stopped, it was asking me to do more with my flying town with fewer resources to do it with, which put me off. It's one...
AlitariRecommendedafter 8.5hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Airborne Kingdom scores 51/100 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/982290/airborne-kingdom
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+11
Critics
76
Players
87
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 2,407 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperThe Wandering Band LLC
PublisherThe Wandering Band LLC
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Achievements30