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Project Wingman
Project Wingman is a flight action game that lets you take the seat of advanced fighter jets and become a true ace. Fight in various missions and gamemodes ranging from intense aerial dogfights to large scale ground assault in an alternate scorched earth setting.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
38 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“I bought this I think right before AC7 came out, never really played it until 2026, in a pre AC8 era. It really is a homage to Ace Combat, the music, the English that is ever so slightly off, the political intrigue, its…”
“The final mission fried my: - Eyes - Brain - Ears - GPU - CPU - Monitor - Heart - Emotion 10/10 would recommend”
“aoa > flares”
22 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“Only game in existance where i could finally watch California get nuked while the sound of violins is playing in the background”
“Viper simulator. In vr. Fun characters. I don't need to add much more. Only downside is vr mode is abandonware and its pretty difficult to run even with my specs. Totally worth the chugging on select missions. Make sure…”
“Project Wingman straps you in and doesn't take its hand off the throttle from start to finish. You, solely are responsible for destroying an entire nation's air force, fleets of airships and their navy. Upgrade and…”
14 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“Only game in existance where i could finally watch California get nuked while the sound of violins is playing in the background”
“I bought this I think right before AC7 came out, never really played it until 2026, in a pre AC8 era. It really is a homage to Ace Combat, the music, the English that is ever so slightly off, the political intrigue, its…”
“Eat my ass, Galaxy Prez screaming in my ear is pure perfection”
9 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just…”
“Best arcade flight game. It still boggles my mind that AC7 had no support for any HOTAS setup at all and in that indie game, you can setup head-tracking and HOTAS with ease. Of course those are not required at all, but…”
“UPDATE: I want to add that out of the 40 achievements, 7 are bugged. These are 4 related to beating campaign on specific difficulty and 3 related to alert level (think GTA wanted level) in conquest mode. ORIGINAL: I…”
5 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“I've been enjoying Ace Combat since 1997 with Ace Combat 2 on PS1. I finished Ace Combat 7 and then I thought about giving Project Wingman a try, and let me tell you, it's more challenging, but it's fun! Doesn't have…”
“"They tried a drug test on me after a sortie one time. Couldn't get a reading. Too little blood in my adderall." -Crimson 1 It's a love letter to Ace Combat, and a good one at that. Running this in VR with a HOTAS setup…”
“Do you like Ace Combat? Good then play Project Wingman. Project Wingman makes the Belkans nuking themselves look like a kids balloon party. I think developers really like the colour orange and enjoy ignoring the Geneva…”
5 of the 101 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Viper simulator. In vr. Fun characters. I don't need to add much more. Only downside is vr mode is abandonware and its pretty difficult to run even with my specs. Totally worth the chugging on select missions. Make sure…”
“ace combat on steroids, but with (imo) better mouse and keyboard controls and also more lag”
“gud game, like mass murder. (hav 2 refund though bc my pc sucks”
5 of the 101 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“UPDATE: I want to add that out of the 40 achievements, 7 are bugged. These are 4 related to beating campaign on specific difficulty and 3 related to alert level (think GTA wanted level) in conquest mode. ORIGINAL: I…”
“I LOVEEEEEE ITTTTTTT THE VOICE ACTING THE ATHMOSPHERE THE MUSICCCCCCCCCCCCCCC THE CHARACTHERS THE LORE THE GAMEPLAY THE STORY THE DLC THE VOICE ACTORS AMAZZZZINGGGGGG I love everything about this game except for the…”
“I'm accustomed to the controles from Tom Clancy's HAWX and setting up the key bindings was a nightmare. So many menu related bugs. Other than that, great game.”
4 of the 101 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“I backed this game on Kickstarter for a fun AceCombat-like arcade shooter. At times it lives up to that idea. The game is lacking critical options like monitor selection. Lots of unexpected behavior within the options…”
“I'm accustomed to the controles from Tom Clancy's HAWX and setting up the key bindings was a nightmare. So many menu related bugs. Other than that, great game.”
“Sector D2 must be filled with mush-headed people who don't give two craps about the most fundamental part of the game - THE MENU. Holy god guys, I can't even get the game menu to work. It shouldn't be this stupidly…”
4 of the 101 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“I backed this game on Kickstarter for a fun AceCombat-like arcade shooter. At times it lives up to that idea. The game is lacking critical options like monitor selection. Lots of unexpected behavior within the options…”
“The game is fine, not the most fun flight sim (even comparing fellow arcade-y ones like this one is) but better than about 50% of them out there. If you just want an arcade flight sim with some simple gameplay content…”
“i cannot stress enough that you need to play at least the tutorial for ace combat 7 or other ace combat games before playing this. there is a tutorial but the game assumes that you've played multiple ace combat games.…”
3 of the 101 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Awesome in VR, but ridiculus that they didn't put in a checkpoint halfway through the mission. Or a save game”
“Spiritual Successor to Ace Combat and in my opinion, exceeds it in multiple ways, with the only thing that really it doesn't excel in, is its stock of available jets. The story is pretty good, not going to lie, I got a…”
“pretty fun, the money gains should be tweaked though”
Counted across 101 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 93.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“I enjoyed this game more than Ace Combat 7 and I loved Ace Combat 7. Project wingman takes everything Ace Combat does and cranks up the ridiculous to 11 and it works. It’s an insanely fun game. I enjoyed the lore of the world on fire (the game’s world) the characters, all of it.…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“NOTE: This game should not be played by those with sensitivity to motion, flashing lights, or sudden perspective shifts. It's been a long time since I've played a flight action game (probably back in the X-Box 360 days with the demo of Project Sylpheed) and Project Wingman had…”
— a player, Steam review · 48 hrs played“Ace Combat on steroids. Love it. A great contender in the arcade flight combat scene. I've played both the main campaign and the DLC, and it's just incredible in a lot of aspects. Dare I say it matches Ace Combat 7 in certain metrics. + Fun gameplay. Gun reticule is much much…”
— a player, Steam review · 66 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:05 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price 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.
DLC Release: Project Wingman: Frontline 59 Campaign
Ready to jump back into the cockpit? Grab your flight gear and get ready for action, the DLC release of Project Wingman: Frontline 59 Campaign is here! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2536180/Proje
BETA BRANCH UPDATE #1: Platform Update 2.0
A new version of Project Wingman is now live on the beta-branch! Join the beta branch on Steam to participate in the beta testing of this version! How ya doing? It’s been a while since we’ve put toget
DEVELOPMENT NEWS #2: Anniversary Orchestra
Hello again everyone! It's here! This orchestra, performed by The London Pops Orchestra in the world renowned AIR Studios. Jose Pavli, has once again taken the lead in remastering and orchestrating th
DEVELOPMENT NEWS #1: Orchestra Announcement + News
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SOUNDTRACK UPDATE #1 : FLAC Format + OST Sale!
Hello everyone, Project Wingman composer here. We now have added the High Quality files to the OST (.flac format). We know some of you have been waiting this for a long time now. You can now purchase
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Flight · Action · Jet · War · Military · Indie · Arcade · Singleplayer · Great Soundtrack · VR · Simulation · Controller (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · VR Supported · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Korean, Russian * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 40 |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.humblegames.com/games/projectwingman/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit Processor: Intel i5-2300 or AMD FX-6350 equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 660Ti / R9 270 equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 20 GB available space VR Support: SteamVR, OpenXR, and Oculus PC. Keyboard or gamepad required. No motion controls.