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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th cover art

B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th

Wayward Design · MicroProse Software · 2014-10-30

SteamGOG

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 30, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Feel the power of flying a 10-men crew on a B-17 over occupied Europe in WWII. Plan the mission, choose your men and take action in every post onboard, from pilot to bombardier and machine gunners. Get ready for a high-flying adventure in this all-time classic.

B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th is a $4.39 Simulation game released in 2014, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (76% of 90 reviews).

0
playing now
76%
positive of 90 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.39
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th is a combat flight simulator developed by Wayward Design and published by Hasbro Interactive under the MicroProse brand in 2000 as a sequel to the 1992 flight simulator B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action. Tommo purchased the rights to this game and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 16,638 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 90 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.79-40%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.69 at WinGameStore (2015-09-04) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 92 of 93 observed days · $4.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2014-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.392015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-04-15 — best price $7.492015-06-08 — best price $1.492015-10-05 — best price $3.492016-02-26 — best price $1.742016-06-13 — best price $1.492016-09-19 — best price $6.992016-12-20 — best price $1.742017-04-18 — best price $1.492017-08-14 — best price $1.742017-11-20 — best price $1.742018-02-19 — best price $1.742018-07-05 — best price $6.992018-09-10 — best price $5.992018-11-12 — best price $6.992019-01-19 — best price $1.742019-04-08 — best price $6.992019-07-10 — best price $6.992019-10-25 — best price $1.742020-01-07 — best price $6.992020-03-24 — best price $6.992020-06-23 — best price $1.742020-10-23 — best price $1.742021-01-05 — best price $6.992021-04-29 — best price $5.992021-07-23 — best price $6.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992023-09-11 — best price $7.992024-04-09 — best price $7.492025-02-05 — best price $9.992025-07-18 — best price $9.992025-10-28 — best price $6.492026-03-11 — best price $4.792026-08-17 — best price $4.792026-09-14 — best price $4.792026-10-04 — best price $4.792026-10-14 — best price $4.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2232026-05-29 — 12 pageviews2026-06-02 — 4 pageviews2026-06-06 — 8 pageviews2026-06-10 — 9 pageviews2026-06-14 — 8 pageviews2026-06-18 — 13 pageviews2026-06-22 — 13 pageviews2026-06-26 — 15 pageviews2026-06-30 — 11 pageviews2026-07-04 — 10 pageviews2026-07-08 — 11 pageviews2026-07-12 — 12 pageviews2026-07-16 — 13 pageviews2026-07-20 — 10 pageviews2026-07-24 — 7 pageviews2026-07-28 — 9 pageviews2026-08-01 — 10 pageviews2026-08-05 — 11 pageviews2026-08-09 — 10 pageviews2026-08-13 — 8 pageviews2026-08-17 — 22 pageviews2026-08-21 — 14 pageviews2026-08-25 — 10 pageviews2026-08-29 — 15 pageviews2026-09-02 — 10 pageviews2026-09-06 — 3 pageviews2026-09-10 — 4 pageviews2026-09-14 — 8 pageviews2026-09-18 — 7 pageviews2026-09-22 — 8 pageviews2026-09-26 — 6 pageviews2026-09-30 — 7 pageviews2026-10-04 — 16 pageviews2026-10-08 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, French

Player tags

WarRetro1990'sActionCombatFlightStrategyNonlinearRealisticHistorical

Census log

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

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