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Skies above the Great War

Skies above the Great War

Skies above the Great War is a hybrid of action and grand strategy sandbox game set on the Western Front during the First World War. Manage your air forces or take control of any plane yourself in real time.

Released Jul 24, 2024 Developer Puntigames Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux World War IStrategyRTSFlightRealistic
View on Steam ↗ $11.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

73.3%positive150 reviews
Recommended · 4 found this helpful

“This is a great game, There are so many moving parts for those that like to manage and command. It is a bit overwhelming at the start. (I wish there was a proper tutorial with speech etc) The plane controlling will make you feel like a complete amateur. My absolute favorite is…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“this game is a weird weird mess, i kind of fw it tho”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Not recommended · 8 found this helpful

“Broken mess, bad design, iffy and poorly designed UI functionality, incredibly small number of aircraft in play. Air combat is either poorly simulated (if allowed to resolve itself), or boring (if the player handles it). The real-time strategic layer was a serious mistake, as…”

— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

10achievements
4.1%median completion
0.3%rarest: The legend lives on
16.9% of players 12.0% of players 7.4% of players 4.3% of players 4.3% of players 4.1% of players 2.8% of players 2.6% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 16.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
16.9%Ace — You achieved your fifth aerial victory.
12.0%Balloon Buster — You shot down your first reconnaissance balloon.
7.4%Master of the Air — You manually dropped bombs over enemy terretory.
Rarest badges of honor
0.3%The legend lives on — The Red Baron was shot down at your hand.
0.3%Honour to whom honour is due — A flying ace has been defeated by you.
2.6%Armistice of Compiègne — Win the Great War with the Allies.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Mar 17, 2026
patch 2.1

With the latest engine version and several additional fixes, the game now runs even more smoothly (at least on my end). You can now switch between Vulkan rendering and DirectX 12. So if you run into v

Dec 08, 2025
patch 2.0

I finally found the time to really sit down with the game again and patch it into a very, very good state. Even though it’s still not perfect, this is a huge step forward. Performance and memory issue

Mar 15, 2025
patch 1.92

Ported to the latest engine version for more stability and better performance. Ported to the Jolt Physics engine for better results and performance. The ui now scales with higher resolutions. Gone are

Oct 25, 2024
hotfix 1.81

small fixes to the patch, including... reduced lag when squads appear on the map painting the aircraft, copying and favoring paintings now works again pilots now heal faster

Oct 23, 2024
patch 1.8

Ported to the newest eninge version for more stability. The way the textures of the aircraft are loaded into the game has been changed, which should significantly reduce RAM-related slowdowns. I'm loo

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Indie, Strategy
Player tagsWorld War I · Strategy · RTS · Flight · Realistic · Action · Open World · 3D · Wargame · Management · Arcade · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · DualShock Controller Support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Indonesian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Swedish, Czech, Turkish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Tradition…
ControllerFull support
Achievements10
Official sitehttps://puntigames.com/#skies_above_the_great_war
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 10, 11 Processor: middle class dual-core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8 series or AMD equivalent Storage: 3 GB available space Sound Card: any