Project Wingman

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 94%Very Positive · 94%2020

$24.99

US Steam price, checked 6 h ago

The verdict

A cheap, fun Ace Combat-style arcade dogfighter with a great soundtrack and loadouts. Skip it if you hate long no-checkpoint missions or need working VR/HOTAS.

Great for

Ace Combat fans wanting arcade dogfights, varied loadouts and a great soundtrack, ideally on a controller

Main risk

Long 20-40 minute missions with no checkpoints force full restarts after one late mistake

What players love

Worthy Ace Combat successor

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews

“Just better than either modern ace combat game in all the ways that actually matter.”
Steam review · 49.5 h played ↗

“after 72 hours playing this i can't touch ACE 7 again, the dynamic movement and engagemnt ranges are far supeior.”
Steam review · 72.6 h played ↗

“Better than Ace Combat 7 in my opinion. The gun combat and flying is so much more satisfying.”
Steam review · 55.8 h played ↗

Fun, responsive arcade flight and combat

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“Freelook on mouse without needing to hold down a button”
Steam review · 37.3 h played ↗

“Lots of fun for an arcade type flight game.”
Steam review · 49.7 h played ↗

Memorable characters and WSO Prez

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“I exclusively picked two seater planes so I could listen to her more.”
Steam review · 11.3 h played ↗

Excellent soundtrack

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“Pretty great music album. There's neat plane game included too.”
Steam review · 23.5 h played ↗

“Good for its price, and the soundtrack is just awesome.”
Steam review · translated · 10.8 h played ↗

Great price for the content

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“It has an unbeatable price at this point in its lifecycle for how much game you're going to get.”
Steam review · 6.3 h played ↗

What players complain about

Broken or unusable VR support

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“There are no actual VR controls, Vive controllers don't work at all.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“Anniversary update broke VR menus for me every time I wanna exit a map and the hanger still has random lags”
Steam review · 33.6 h played ↗

“Unplayable VR, controlled with a computer mouse, you can't even see the cursor in VR.”
Steam review · translated · 0.2 h played ↗

No mid-mission checkpoints

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“Having NO mid-mission checkpoints for 20-40 minute multi-wave, multi-objective missions is egregious behavior.”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗

“You go through a 20 minute long mission, just to be informed that there's a surprise boss battle at the end of it.”
Steam review · 9.9 h played ↗

“Without checkpoints, replaying the whole mission because you misjudged altitude in the clouds gets really boring.”
Steam review · translated · 3.8 h played ↗

Poor HOTAS and controls setup

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“the HOTAS support is still terrible. You can't even use things like your hat switches in the menus”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗

“It'd be pretty sweet if my controls didn't get reset all the time.”
Steam review · 29.1 h played ↗

Repetitive missions and poor boss design

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“bosses just use AOEs the whole time so they never have to actually aim at you”
Steam review · 19 h played ↗

“you get a string of missions requiring you shoot missles down long tubes”
Steam review · 6.1 h played ↗

Achievements bugged

Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews

“the most difficult (arguably) achievement in this game is broken and won't pop.”
Steam review · 39.7 h played ↗

“It turns out a good handful of achievements can't be unlocked on the current version.”
Steam review · translated · 15.7 h played ↗

Game abandoned, with lingering bugs

Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews

“Got softlocked out of the entire campaign due to a well known bug in one of the missions where helicopters spawn under the ground.”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows 7/8/10 64-bit

ProcessorIntel i5-2300 or AMD FX-6350 equivalent

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsGTX 660Ti / R9 270 equivalent

Storage20 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 7/8/10 64-bit

ProcessorIntel i7-8600k equivalent

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsGTX 1070 Ti Equivalent

Storage20 GB available space

OSWindows 7/8/10 64-bit

ProcessorIntel i5-2300 or AMD FX-6350 equivalent

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsGTX 660Ti / R9 270 equivalent

Storage20 GB available space

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