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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover cover art

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover

1C: Maddox Games · Fulqrum Publishing · 2011-07-19

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 31, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Join the Royal Air Force, face off against the deadly German Luftwaffe and the Italian air forces and battle for Britain!

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is a Simulation game released in 2011, with a Mixed sentiment (67% of 1013 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 100,000 .. 200,000.

0
playing now
67%
positive of 1.0k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is a World War II combat flight simulator released in 2011. It was originally developed by the Russian software house 1C:Maddox Games but since 2012 it is under development by Team Fusion Simulations. In 2017 that latter released an improved version of the game under the name IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover - Blitz which started the so called Dover series. The basic Blitz game represents the Battle of Britain during the summer of 1940 while an add-on released in 2020 represents the air combats during the Western Desert campaign in North Africa in the period of 1940-1942. A second add-on is in the works to cover the leadup to and the Dieppe Raid with a release date of the second half of 2024.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (18 reviews).
  • · Top 15% of 16,694 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 41k–81k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,013 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at GamersGate (2014-08-25) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $35.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320162026Week of 2016-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$35.99$2.492015-01-012026-06-112015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-03-05 — best price $16.792015-04-13 — best price $9.992015-05-15 — best price $11.402015-06-18 — best price $15.822015-08-13 — best price $11.132015-12-16 — best price $2.492016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-05-06 — best price $14.412016-07-28 — best price $9.992016-11-03 — best price $2.492018-09-21 — best price $8.992018-10-02 — best price $8.992018-10-13 — best price $8.992018-10-24 — best price $8.992018-11-03 — best price $8.992018-11-13 — best price $8.992018-11-23 — best price $8.992018-12-05 — best price $8.992018-12-15 — best price $8.992018-12-25 — best price $8.992019-01-08 — best price $8.992019-01-18 — best price $8.992019-01-28 — best price $8.992019-02-07 — best price $8.992019-02-17 — best price $8.992019-03-01 — best price $8.992019-03-12 — best price $8.992019-03-23 — best price $8.992019-04-02 — best price $8.992019-04-13 — best price $8.992019-04-23 — best price $8.992019-05-03 — best price $8.992019-05-13 — best price $8.992026-06-11 — best price $35.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

73132026-05-29 — 24 pageviews2026-06-02 — 24 pageviews2026-06-06 — 28 pageviews2026-06-10 — 27 pageviews2026-06-14 — 19 pageviews2026-06-18 — 16 pageviews2026-06-22 — 44 pageviews2026-06-26 — 73 pageviews2026-06-30 — 30 pageviews2026-07-04 — 19 pageviews2026-07-08 — 31 pageviews2026-07-12 — 29 pageviews2026-07-16 — 22 pageviews2026-07-20 — 20 pageviews2026-07-24 — 31 pageviews2026-07-28 — 31 pageviews2026-08-01 — 29 pageviews2026-08-05 — 39 pageviews2026-08-09 — 29 pageviews2026-08-13 — 17 pageviews2026-08-17 — 19 pageviews2026-08-21 — 21 pageviews2026-08-25 — 26 pageviews2026-08-29 — 19 pageviews2026-09-02 — 25 pageviews2026-09-06 — 26 pageviews2026-09-10 — 21 pageviews2026-09-14 — 23 pageviews2026-09-18 — 25 pageviews2026-09-22 — 34 pageviews2026-09-26 — 20 pageviews2026-09-30 — 20 pageviews2026-10-04 — 19 pageviews2026-10-08 — 22 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudValve Anti-Cheat enabledStatsFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Czech

Player tags

FlightHistoricalSimulationWorld War II

Census log

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

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