Dogfight 1942

Dogfight 1942

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City Interactive · Simulation · Sep 21, 2012

Worth it for the right player.

At $9.99. It has been as low as $0.99.

79%
Mostly Positive
1k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 54 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 54 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Controls: 47 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 19 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Performance: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 1k player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise25% are divided25% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
let me just start by stating that this game is an arcade game, i have no idea to whatsoever gets people to think this is a sim game. now, this game is actually pretty alright, after i got the game running in english and after a blue screen of death, i jumped into the first mission (i skipped the tutorial) and it immediatly dawned on me, this game feels alot like arcade mode in Warthunder or birds of prey. the steering, atleast with a mouse and keyboard, is a little wonky, you'll get used to it after 5 minutes of gameplay tho. the graphics are pretty mediocre, it looks like your normal arcade flyer. the difficulty is kinda...meh, i only played on normal which was no challenge at all, a 4 year old couldve done as well as i did, i havent tried hard mode yet tho. the story takes you through the battle of midway, the battle of britain and some other pacific theater battles i dont remember, it REALLY lacks a Luftwaffe campaign, after taking out the Hurricane MK.II a couple of times it gets kinda boring, and that the BF 110 acts as a fighter in the game also confuses me a little bit, anyway for a price of 2 euros, which i got it for it is pretty good game, very interesting with very good voice acting (really thumbs up on that), if you need something to waste an hour on, get this, its worth it
54 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The graphics are pretty good for their time.
54 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
Little WW2 arcade sim... it runs quite smoothly, there's some mission variety to keep things from getting boring and it controls OK with a gamepad.
47 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
Once you finish the campaign, you can either play arcade mode against other CPUs, play Co-op with other pilots, or play the campaign again with a much harder difficulty.
38 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
let me just start by stating that this game is an arcade game, i have no idea to whatsoever gets people to think this is a sim game. now, this game is actually pretty alright, after i got the game running in english and after a blue screen of death, i jumped into the first mission (i skipped the tutorial) and it immediatly dawned on me, this game feels alot like arcade mode in Warthunder or birds of prey. the steering, atleast with a mouse and keyboard, is a little wonky, you'll get used to it after 5 minutes of gameplay tho. the graphics are pretty mediocre, it looks like your normal arcade flyer. the difficulty is kinda...meh, i only played on normal which was no challenge at all, a 4 year old couldve done as well as i did, i havent tried hard mode yet tho. the story takes you through the battle of midway, the battle of britain and some other pacific theater battles i dont remember, it REALLY lacks a Luftwaffe campaign, after taking out the Hurricane MK.II a couple of times it gets kinda boring, and that the BF 110 acts as a fighter in the game also confuses me a little bit, anyway for a price of 2 euros, which i got it for it is pretty good game, very interesting with very good voice acting (really thumbs up on that), if you need something to waste an hour on, get this, its worth it
34 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
let me just start by stating that this game is an arcade game, i have no idea to whatsoever gets people to think this is a sim game. now, this game is actually pretty alright, after i got the game running in english and after a blue screen of death, i jumped into the first mission (i skipped the tutorial) and it immediatly dawned on me, this game feels alot like arcade mode in Warthunder or birds of prey. the steering, atleast with a mouse and keyboard, is a little wonky, you'll get used to it after 5 minutes of gameplay tho. the graphics are pretty mediocre, it looks like your normal arcade flyer. the difficulty is kinda...meh, i only played on normal which was no challenge at all, a 4 year old couldve done as well as i did, i havent tried hard mode yet tho. the story takes you through the battle of midway, the battle of britain and some other pacific theater battles i dont remember, it REALLY lacks a Luftwaffe campaign, after taking out the Hurricane MK.II a couple of times it gets kinda boring, and that the BF 110 acts as a fighter in the game also confuses me a little bit, anyway for a price of 2 euros, which i got it for it is pretty good game, very interesting with very good voice acting (really thumbs up on that), if you need something to waste an hour on, get this, its worth it
19 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love6 themes
Story and characters54 reviews
Graphics54 reviews
Controls47 reviews
Co-op38 reviews
Gameplay34 reviews
Audio19 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Combat49 reviews
88%
Difficulty33 reviews
94%
Multiplayer15 reviews
87%
Players complain% still recommend
Crashes19 reviews
58%
Bugs9 reviews
89%
Performance8 reviews
50%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

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Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $0.99.

5 points recordedtoday · $9.99

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Player review score
79%
Mostly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
22
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Average playtime
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