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F-22 Lightning 3 cover art

F-22 Lightning 3

NovaLogic · 2009-06-18

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: May 20, 1999 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Mass Destruction! Use tactical nuclear weapons to level entire city regions. The most realistic weather environments ever created. Changing weather effects including: rain, snow, hail, and wind. Extreme temperatures affect flight performance. Fly it yourself or let the world's most advanced fighter do it for you!

1
playing now
70%
positive of 204 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 10:00 UTC (census sample)

F-22 Lightning 3 is a combat flight simulation game developed and published by Novalogic in 1999. It is a follow-up to F-22 Raptor (1997) and the third and final game in Novalogic's F-22 series.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 59% of 6,724 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.2k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 204 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.09 at WinGameStore (2026-07-15) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 45 of 72 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 10:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.092015-01-012026-08-212015-01-01 — best price $3.392017-02-14 — best price $2.492017-06-20 — best price $9.992017-09-07 — best price $2.492017-12-21 — best price $2.492018-05-24 — best price $2.492018-10-18 — best price $8.392019-04-01 — best price $2.492019-06-26 — best price $2.492019-09-26 — best price $2.492019-12-04 — best price $9.992020-04-06 — best price $2.492020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-12-16 — best price $2.502021-04-05 — best price $2.492021-08-03 — best price $2.492021-11-27 — best price $2.492022-01-24 — best price $2.492022-06-08 — best price $8.392022-09-01 — best price $2.492022-12-06 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-06-29 — best price $2.002023-09-11 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-05-01 — best price $2.492024-08-10 — best price $9.992024-12-09 — best price $2.492025-03-18 — best price $9.992025-06-16 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $2.222026-01-02 — best price $2.492026-05-22 — best price $9.992026-08-01 — best price $2.492026-08-21 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FlightSimulation

Census log

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

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