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The Ancient Art of War in the Skies

Microprose · Atari · 2022-01-20

Steam

SimulationStrategy

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

Releases: 1992 (DOS), 1993 (Atari ST/STE), 1993 (Amiga), Jan 20, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take command of WWII air campaigns in this classic strategy game. Manage your squadrons, set goals, plan routes on the overhead tactical map, and then head into the cockpit for side-scrolling dogfights, squadron-to-squadron battles, and eagle-eye bombing runs.

0
playing now
100%
positive of 10 reviews
Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$6.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-09-24 01:00 UTC (census sample)

The Ancient Art of War in the Skies is a video game developed by Evryware in 1992 for MS-DOS as a sequel to The Ancient Art of War and The Ancient Art of War at Sea. In 1993 conversions were published for Amiga and Atari ST.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Top 99% of 11,599 Simulation games in the census by review count.

All-time low: $1.04 at Steam (2025-07-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 10 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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3320222026Week of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$1.042022-01-202026-09-032022-01-20 — best price $6.992022-07-07 — best price $6.992022-11-29 — best price $6.992023-01-05 — best price $6.992023-03-23 — best price $6.992023-07-13 — best price $6.992023-08-14 — best price $6.992023-11-06 — best price $6.992023-12-18 — best price $6.992024-01-04 — best price $6.992024-02-12 — best price $6.992024-03-21 — best price $6.992024-06-10 — best price $6.992024-07-11 — best price $6.992024-09-06 — best price $6.992024-10-28 — best price $6.992024-12-04 — best price $6.992025-01-02 — best price $6.992025-02-17 — best price $6.992025-03-20 — best price $6.992025-03-30 — best price $6.992025-05-14 — best price $6.992025-07-10 — best price $6.992025-08-04 — best price $6.992025-09-28 — best price $6.992025-10-06 — best price $6.992025-11-18 — best price $6.992026-01-05 — best price $6.992026-01-28 — best price $6.992026-03-26 — best price $6.992026-04-23 — best price $6.992026-06-06 — best price $6.992026-07-09 — best price $6.992026-07-20 — best price $6.992026-09-03 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

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Census log

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

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