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Project Gunship
Rain hell on the enemy from 12,000 feet in an AC-130 Gunship. Project Gunship provides an authentic and historical simulation of combat in all gunship variants from Vietnam to present day.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
What reviewers agree on
51 of the 87 reviews raise this.
8 of the 87 reviews raise this.
“this is the most accurate AC-130 simulator that I have ever played! I know that the game is $15 but it is WORTH it!!!”
7 of the 87 reviews raise this.
“game is actively being worked on by the dev, just look at the discord”
“THE. GAME. IS. NOT. DEAD. For those of you who wanted to buy this game please ignore the review that says "The game is dead". This game only had 1 dev working on it. So it is understandable that it took him this long to…”
5 of the 87 reviews raise this.
3 of the 87 reviews raise this.
“great game. visuals are close to real life. love the narration of the tutorials. controls are easy to use and understand. the ability to "tweak" the small things is a huge plus, adds to the realism. only issue i…”
17 of the 87 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“great game. visuals are close to real life. love the narration of the tutorials. controls are easy to use and understand. the ability to "tweak" the small things is a huge plus, adds to the realism. only issue i…”
“Nice. Feels like wargame not "tower defence". Although some bugs exists. I hope that dev will polish gameplay and fix bugs.”
13 of the 87 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“it doesnt seem like the developer plans on ever finishing this game... its got very limited replayability and there is nothing like a campaign or even any support for mods via workshop..”
“dead game”
“Honestly biggest mistake ever to purchase this game if I knew they werent gonna update this game I wouldnt have bought it”
10 of the 87 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“it doesnt seem like the developer plans on ever finishing this game... its got very limited replayability and there is nothing like a campaign or even any support for mods via workshop..”
9 of the 87 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
8 of the 87 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“i cant seem to figure out how to play this at all, maybe im just dumb idk. seems way to sensitive, i cant never keep it the aim on point and the guns NEVER seem to align. i wanted to like this i just cant get into it.…”
“horrible. terrible. not even worth capital letters. sucks so bad. can't get kbm configured, can't get gamepad configured. you fly into a block of terrain, surrounded by blackscreen. can't even load a whole map at…”
“this game suck balls. it wont move the camera”
Counted across 87 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 75.6% positive rating · as of 2026-05-14
“Stop review bombing. This game is amazing for having one developer. If yall joined the discord, you would see that the developer is still actively working on it. He has been too busy to update the steam page. His goal is to update it by August.”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“NOT ABANDONED! This game has been sitting in my library for a bit now with updates and sitreps being sparse. After a recently large gap in information or updates I assumed the game had been abandoned and I was simply frustrated that such a cool idea was left behind and my money…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“I had very high hopes for this game but sadly it has been seemingly abandoned. The last actual game update was from April of 2025 and there has been no communication from the dev beside a few off topic messages in the discord server for the past couple of months. I do understand…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPrice tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update Build 0.8.0.0 (new "publicbeta" branch)
Hello everyone! Hope you all enjoyed the long weekend (US residents) and are having a good week so far! As usual, I'm a bit behind schedule with this as I ran into some issues with packaging, but I'm
SITREP: August 2026
Hey everyone! Time as usual has been creeping by at lightning speed, but development has continued strong. The goal was to get out a release by the end of August, but a few more things need to be work
SITREP: June 2026
Hey everyone, as some of you have pointed out, it has been a while since I've provided any official update on development, so I'd like to provide some insight into what has been going on since the las
SITREP: March 2026
Greetings! I had originally planned to provide a SITREP at the start of the new year, but I wasn’t able to get to it until now. It has been quite a while since the last update, and I want to share som
Update Build 0.7.3.0
This will be a quick one since most of the work done for this update was on the back end. However, I’m happy to say a sought-after and planned addition has finally been worked into the game, and I thi
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Simulation · Singleplayer · Military · Immersive Sim · Realistic · War · Shoot 'Em Up · Action · Tactical · Combat · Shooter · Historical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 (x64) Processor: Intel Core i or AMD Ryzen with 4 physical cores Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Geforce GTX 770 or AMD Radeon HD 7970 with at least 4 GB of VRAM DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 6 GB available space