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Knights of the Sky

MicroProse Software, Inc · Nightdive Studios · 2015-04-01

SteamGOG

ActionSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: 1991 (Amiga), Jan 01, 1990 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

You are a hunter stalking Germany's most celebrated pilots, including the infamous Baron Manfred von Richtofen. Using news and intelligence reports as well as your own intuition, you track down the 16 men whose successors diminish your own.

Knights of the Sky is an Action and Simulation game released in 2015, priced at $6.99, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (53% of 38 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

53%
positive of 38 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)
Knights of the Sky is a World War I combat flight simulator designed by Jeff Briggs and published by MicroProse in 1990 for MS-DOS. Ports to the Amiga and Atari ST followed in 1991.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 27,712 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$0.89-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 19 of 25 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220152026Week of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$0.892026-09-202026-10-142026-09-20 — best price $5.992026-09-21 — best price $5.992026-09-22 — best price $5.992026-09-23 — best price $5.992026-09-24 — best price $0.892026-09-25 — best price $0.892026-09-26 — best price $0.892026-09-27 — best price $0.892026-09-28 — best price $0.892026-09-29 — best price $0.892026-09-30 — best price $0.892026-10-01 — best price $0.892026-10-02 — best price $0.892026-10-03 — best price $0.892026-10-04 — best price $0.892026-10-05 — best price $0.892026-10-06 — best price $0.892026-10-07 — best price $5.992026-10-08 — best price $5.992026-10-09 — best price $0.892026-10-10 — best price $0.892026-10-11 — best price $0.892026-10-12 — best price $0.892026-10-13 — best price $0.892026-10-14 — best price $0.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

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