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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.

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 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

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  • · Top 71% of 6,714 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.3k–5.4k copies

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

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.39-45%
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 56 of 59 observed days · $4.10 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.392015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — 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 $4.792026-08-30 — best price $4.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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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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