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Wings of Prey: Special Edition cover art

Wings of Prey: Special Edition

Gaijin Entertainment Corporation · Gaijin Entertainment · 2010-01-08

Steam

Simulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Dec 25, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Wings of Prey is based around large-scale aerial combat in World War II. Players can participate in some of the most famous battles piloting fighters, attack aircraft and bombers across a range of thrilling missions.

2
playing now
63%
positive of 744 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, or Wings of Prey on Windows, is a 2009 combat flight simulation video game. As in previous installments in the IL-2 Sturmovik series, it depicts combat aircraft from World War II, although with less focus on realistic simulation than other entries in the series. The game has a campaign mode in which players are able to fly the Allies against the Axis, and also a multiplayer mode in which they are able to select either faction.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 37% of 6,714 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 30k–60k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 744 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2023-12-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $9.952015-03-05 — best price $14.992015-03-30 — best price $14.992015-05-22 — best price $3.742015-06-12 — best price $3.742015-07-15 — best price $3.742015-07-21 — best price $3.742015-07-28 — best price $3.742015-08-20 — best price $14.992015-12-01 — best price $3.742016-05-07 — best price $2.492016-08-06 — best price $13.572018-04-20 — best price $14.992018-08-02 — best price $14.992019-06-25 — best price $4.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992020-07-15 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-07-08 — best price $9.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-11-03 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable Difficulty#category_playable_at_your_own_pacePlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundSurround SoundPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,5310%45

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DWarActionArcadeCombatFlightShooterTrackIRImmersiveRealistic

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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