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Falcon cover art

Falcon

Sphere, Inc. · MicroProse Software · 2016-01-08

SteamGOG

Simulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: 1988 (Atari ST/STE), Jan 08, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1987 (Mac), 1989 (Amiga), 1992 (TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine), 1987 (DOS)

When you climb into the cockpit of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, get set for the "flight of your life" as the powerful FALCON F-16 takes you streaking across the sky at Mach 2.

Falcon is a Simulation game released in 2016, priced at $4.54, with an estimated owner base of 200,000 .. 500,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 18 reviews).

0
playing now
72%
positive of 18 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.54
steam price (US)

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

Falcon is a combat flight simulator video game and the first official entry in the Falcon series of the F-16 jet fighter's simulators by Spectrum HoloByte. Originally developed by Sphere for Macintosh and MS-DOS in 1987 and ported to several platforms between 1988 and 1992, the game earned commercial success and critical acclaim.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 84% of 16,694 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

Current store prices

GOG$4.55-35%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.78 at GreenManGaming (2019-03-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 71 of 99 observed days · $3.77 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220162025Week of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$0.972016-01-082026-10-152016-01-08 — best price $5.242016-05-30 — best price $6.992016-10-28 — best price $0.972017-02-06 — best price $0.972017-05-15 — best price $6.992017-10-24 — best price $6.992018-01-03 — best price $6.992018-05-16 — best price $6.992018-08-30 — best price $0.972018-11-27 — best price $6.992019-02-12 — best price $6.992019-05-14 — best price $0.982019-09-23 — best price $6.992019-11-28 — best price $0.972020-01-27 — best price $6.992020-05-01 — best price $0.982020-08-08 — best price $0.972020-11-16 — best price $0.972021-02-15 — best price $6.992021-05-24 — best price $0.972021-10-11 — best price $6.992021-12-16 — best price $0.982022-04-08 — best price $0.982022-07-29 — best price $6.992022-12-22 — best price $0.972023-03-18 — best price $6.992023-10-27 — best price $5.592024-03-21 — best price $6.992024-12-19 — best price $5.242025-04-25 — best price $6.992025-08-26 — best price $4.892025-11-05 — best price $6.992026-02-04 — best price $6.992026-05-01 — best price $4.552026-08-23 — best price $6.992026-09-09 — best price $4.552026-09-24 — best price $4.552026-10-09 — best price $4.552026-10-15 — best price $4.55
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

13052026-05-30 — 11 pageviews2026-06-03 — 9 pageviews2026-06-07 — 18 pageviews2026-06-11 — 17 pageviews2026-06-15 — 22 pageviews2026-06-19 — 15 pageviews2026-06-23 — 17 pageviews2026-06-27 — 31 pageviews2026-07-01 — 16 pageviews2026-07-05 — 19 pageviews2026-07-09 — 13 pageviews2026-07-13 — 15 pageviews2026-07-17 — 10 pageviews2026-07-21 — 16 pageviews2026-07-25 — 16 pageviews2026-07-29 — 18 pageviews2026-08-02 — 12 pageviews2026-08-06 — 15 pageviews2026-08-10 — 21 pageviews2026-08-14 — 16 pageviews2026-08-18 — 13 pageviews2026-08-22 — 24 pageviews2026-08-26 — 12 pageviews2026-08-30 — 17 pageviews2026-09-03 — 15 pageviews2026-09-07 — 14 pageviews2026-09-11 — 13 pageviews2026-09-15 — 19 pageviews2026-09-19 — 7 pageviews2026-09-23 — 11 pageviews2026-09-27 — 17 pageviews2026-10-01 — 21 pageviews2026-10-05 — 12 pageviews2026-10-08 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DFPS1980sRetroActionArcadeCombatFlightRemakeClassic

Census log

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

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