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F29 Retaliator

Digital Image Design Ltd. · Cosmi Valusoft · 2020-07-03

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 03, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The skies are your hunting ground in this high speed, high action Cold War flight sim, featuring 100 missions of dogfights and strategic bombings across three geopolitical theaters.

F29 Retaliator is a Simulation game released in 2020, estimated to have 0 .. 20,000 owners, priced at $2.44, with Positive (88% of 16 reviews) sentiment.— census verdict as of 2026-10-02

88%
positive of 16 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
−65% · $2.44
was $6.99
steam price (US) · on sale
F29 Retaliator is a combat flight simulator video game developed by Digital Image Design and published by Ocean Software in 1989 for Amiga and Atari ST, 1991 for MS-DOS, 1992 for PC-98, and 1993 for FM Towns. The game was developed during the end of the Cold War, based mostly on speculations on then-future aircraft that were expected to be in use by the year 2002, in particular based on the design of the Lockheed Martin F-22 and the Grumman X-29A.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 87% of 16,820 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220202026Week of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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