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Sky Battles

Peter Lacalamita · Volens Nolens Games · 2015-03-25

Steam

ActionIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 25, 2015 (Mac), Mar 25, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Pilot your plane and battle giant robotic monsters with unique capabilities in tenfantastic settings. Then, take to the skies in online multiplayer dogfights and showthe world who's boss.

Sky Battles is an Action, Indie and Strategy game released in 2015, priced at $4.99, with a Mixed sentiment based on 58% of 126 reviews, and an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

2
playing now
58%
positive of 126 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 35% of 27,782 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 3.1k–7.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 126 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.39 at Steam (2022-11-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920152026Week of 2015-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

23502026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 40 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 235 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 35 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2720Mar 2015Apr 2025Mar 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2015 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2015 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2015 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 0Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2021 — avg 10 · peak 232Mar 2021 — avg 10 · peak 291May 2021 — avg 13 · peak 100Jul 2021 — avg 3 · peak 120Sep 2021 — avg 6 · peak 43Nov 2021 — avg 6 · peak 88Jan 2022 — avg 19 · peak 275Apr 2022 — avg 26 · peak 528Jun 2022 — avg 41 · peak 801Aug 2022 — avg 20 · peak 222Oct 2022 — avg 33 · peak 418Dec 2022 — avg 43 · peak 309Feb 2023 — avg 11 · peak 203Apr 2023 — avg 20 · peak 569Jun 2023 — avg 37 · peak 286Aug 2023 — avg 42 · peak 152Aug 2024 — avg 9 · peak 169Oct 2024 — avg 73 · peak 498Dec 2024 — avg 164 · peak 639Feb 2025 — avg 49 · peak 543Apr 2025 — avg 16 · peak 182
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.002015-01-012026-08-052015-01-01 — best price $0.002015-06-01 — best price $4.992015-07-10 — best price $6.992015-08-28 — best price $9.992015-12-07 — best price $3.492016-02-05 — best price $3.142016-04-11 — best price $3.492016-10-10 — best price $6.992017-01-16 — best price $2.092017-06-22 — best price $2.092018-05-16 — best price $5.002019-04-15 — best price $1.992019-11-18 — best price $1.992021-01-05 — best price $1.992021-03-20 — best price $0.512021-08-24 — best price $0.512021-12-06 — best price $0.512022-02-14 — best price $0.792022-06-23 — best price $0.512022-09-30 — best price $0.512022-12-22 — best price $0.392023-03-16 — best price $0.392023-06-29 — best price $0.392023-09-16 — best price $0.492023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-03-14 — best price $0.492024-06-27 — best price $0.492024-11-05 — best price $0.492025-02-07 — best price $0.492025-05-07 — best price $0.492025-09-07 — best price $0.492025-12-05 — best price $0.492026-03-01 — best price $0.492026-06-25 — best price $0.792026-08-05 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
0.4%
earned "Cave Illuminary"
0.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CuteEpicIndieActionArcadeFlightAmericaStrategySimulationMultiplayer

Census log

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

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