Fun, relaxed arcade dogfighting
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Overall love the gameplay and the dog fighting.”
Steam review · 10.6 h played ↗
World of Warplanes
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 58%Mixed · 58%Wargaming Group Limited2022Flight · FPS · Third-Person Shooter
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A free, easy-to-learn arcade dogfighter with many historical planes, but crash-prone, full of bots, and pay-to-win at higher tiers. Skip it if you want stability or fair matches.
Great for
Casual players who want easy arcade dogfights with historical planes and don't mind bots or grinding
Main risk
The game crashes or won't launch, and higher tiers are pay-to-win with a tiny playerbase.
What players love
Easy, accessible arcade controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“this game is pretty easy to play and pick up, really does not require much skill. with that being said, skill can deffs give you an edge.”
Steam review · 186.9 h played ↗
Many historical planes and tech trees
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“Fast aerial battles and a huge selection of aircraft make climbing through the different tech trees genuinely enjoyable.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗
Favorable comparison to War Thunder
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“better than warthunder in terms of arcade gameplay and damage mechanics and tech trees, but worse in terms of graphics”
Steam review · 138.5 h played ↗
Runs well on weak PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“I have a poor laptop but it always runs so well.”
Steam review · 7.9 h played ↗
What players complain about
Constant crashes and launch failures
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“Crashes on opening, crashes entering a match, crashes ending a match, crashes going back to hangar, crashes alt tabbing”
Steam review · 1211.9 h played ↗
Dead playerbase, matches full of bots
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“I queued up, random Battle Tier I I was the ONLY human player in the lobby”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Pay-to-win premium planes and ammo
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“But around tier IV/V you start running into whales shooting golden BBs.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Sealclubbing veterans and unbalanced matchmaking
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Too many sealclubbers especially at lower tiers driving away any hope for new players”
Steam review · 33.8 h played ↗
Abandoned, outdated, no UI scaling
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“You can't even resize the UI, so be prepared to squint a lot if you play at 4k.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Slow grind and expensive hangar slots
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“Planes and pilots level up extremely slowly! Hangar slots cost sky-high prices!”
Steam review · translated · 10.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable35 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 / 8 / 10
ProcessorIntel Core i3-2xxx or higher
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsShaders 3.0 (NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB, Radeon HD 3870) or higher
Storage35 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 x64 / 8 / 10
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2ххх, AMD FX 8xxx / higher
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVidia GeForce GTX 660 1GB, Radeon HD 7870 / higher
Storage45 GB available space
OSWindows 7 / 8 / 10
ProcessorIntel Core i3-2xxx or higher
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsShaders 3.0 (NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB, Radeon HD 3870) or higher
Storage35 GB available space
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