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Airborne Kingdom

The Wandering Band LLC · 2022-03-07

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AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 09, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Nov 09, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Dec 17, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 17, 2020 (Mac), Nov 09, 2021 (Xbox One), Nov 09, 2021 (PlayStation 4)

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Airborne Kingdom is an Adventure, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (87% of 2400 reviews).

6
playing now
87%
positive of 2.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
4.41★
PlayStation Store rating (177 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$24.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Airborne Kingdom is a city-building video game developed by The Wandering Band. Players build and maintain a mobile, flying city. It was released for Windows and macOS in 2020, and Freedom Games published ports to consoles in late 2021.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 103 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~13/week).
  • · Review velocity up 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (560 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-26

Estimated sales: 48k–108k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,400 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.99 at Fanatical (2025-12-11) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 76 of 121 observed days · $20.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
49849820222026Week of 2022-03-01: 498 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1312026-09-14 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 6 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 13 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 8 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 8 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 6 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 6 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 7 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 5 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 13 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 9 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 4 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 10 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 5 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3225Mar 2022Aug 2026Mar 2022 — avg 322 · peak 1,120May 2022 — avg 59 · peak 130Jul 2022 — avg 35 · peak 110Sep 2022 — avg 88 · peak 576Nov 2022 — avg 32 · peak 94Jan 2023 — avg 99 · peak 516Mar 2023 — avg 21 · peak 61May 2023 — avg 29 · peak 82Jul 2023 — avg 32 · peak 92Sep 2023 — avg 26 · peak 84Nov 2023 — avg 13 · peak 28Jan 2024 — avg 16 · peak 48Mar 2024 — avg 12 · peak 32May 2024 — avg 9 · peak 25Jul 2024 — avg 18 · peak 51Sep 2024 — avg 26 · peak 131Nov 2024 — avg 12 · peak 28Jan 2025 — avg 21 · peak 56Mar 2025 — avg 21 · peak 59May 2025 — avg 9 · peak 24Jul 2025 — avg 12 · peak 34Sep 2025 — avg 29 · peak 262Nov 2025 — avg 11 · peak 35Jan 2026 — avg 14 · peak 33Mar 2026 — avg 9 · peak 24May 2026 — avg 8 · peak 26Jul 2026 — avg 5 · peak 19Aug 2026 — avg 7 · peak 20
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$24.99$4.872020-12-172026-10-142020-12-17 — best price $19.992022-05-10 — best price $19.992022-07-30 — best price $19.882022-11-01 — best price $24.992022-12-13 — best price $24.992023-02-02 — best price $14.992023-04-01 — best price $24.992023-05-16 — best price $20.432023-07-24 — best price $12.492023-09-18 — best price $12.492023-10-30 — best price $12.492023-12-05 — best price $8.982024-01-19 — best price $24.992024-02-29 — best price $24.992024-03-30 — best price $12.252024-05-03 — best price $12.492024-06-07 — best price $21.762024-07-16 — best price $24.992024-08-17 — best price $17.542024-09-27 — best price $10.002024-11-16 — best price $19.882024-12-21 — best price $8.192025-01-14 — best price $9.992025-02-28 — best price $24.992025-04-03 — best price $9.992025-05-09 — best price $8.002025-06-26 — best price $7.692025-08-04 — best price $17.542025-09-18 — best price $24.992025-11-03 — best price $24.992025-12-04 — best price $6.122026-01-19 — best price $4.992026-03-04 — best price $17.542026-04-13 — best price $24.992026-06-25 — best price $6.242026-10-14 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1912026-05-28 — 7 pageviews2026-06-01 — 4 pageviews2026-06-05 — 13 pageviews2026-06-09 — 2 pageviews2026-06-13 — 5 pageviews2026-06-17 — 2 pageviews2026-06-21 — 7 pageviews2026-06-25 — 10 pageviews2026-06-29 — 7 pageviews2026-07-03 — 3 pageviews2026-07-07 — 9 pageviews2026-07-11 — 7 pageviews2026-07-15 — 9 pageviews2026-07-19 — 5 pageviews2026-07-23 — 1 pageviews2026-07-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-31 — 19 pageviews2026-08-04 — 6 pageviews2026-08-08 — 3 pageviews2026-08-12 — 8 pageviews2026-08-16 — 7 pageviews2026-08-20 — 11 pageviews2026-08-24 — 7 pageviews2026-08-28 — 5 pageviews2026-09-01 — 6 pageviews2026-09-05 — 6 pageviews2026-09-09 — 5 pageviews2026-09-13 — 6 pageviews2026-09-17 — 5 pageviews2026-09-21 — 4 pageviews2026-09-25 — 4 pageviews2026-09-29 — 4 pageviews2026-10-03 — 5 pageviews2026-10-06 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
60.7%
earned "A Small Community"
28.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-03-07 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,6087%30
Xbox One (Xbox)1,2039%30
PS4 (PlayStation)15511%31
Switch (Nintendo)30%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DEconomySandboxBuildingColorfulRelaxingStrategyStylizedSteampunkAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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