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LUFTRAUSERS
Developer Vlambeer
Luftrausers is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Netherlands-based indie developer studio Vlambeer and published by Devolver Digital for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. It was released in March 2014 and ported to Android by General Arcade on May 28, 2015. A demake of the game, titled LuftrauserZ, was developed by Paul Koller for Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and Commodore 64… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
236 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
81
LovedLoved
143 positive · 34 negative
95% range 74–86%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 143 | 34 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 27 | 1 | 29 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
3,100 of 3,427 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
81% recommend · 148 yes, 34 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 182 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (4,105 of 4,534 positive).
Players praise the addictive arcade loop and satisfying gameplay. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the controls and lack of a reset option. [4][5][6] A few players note difficulty spikes and balance issues. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [9]
It could just be that I'm just really really really bad at this game but I just find it really frustrating to play. You have a crap ton of projectiles coming at you from all directions that you can't even tell from where until they enter your screen which is very limited. A lot of the time when you realize there's a crap ton of projectiles coming at you, you're already dead. There could be a battleship a mile away …
- [1]
'Luftrausers' is an entertaining arcade shooter that is a lot of fun due to the numerous variations. The game only requires 5 keys to play. The arrow keys and X. But that's more than enough. Each game lasts a few minutes, or longer depending on how good you are. You play a plane that consists of 3 individual parts that you can change and unlock, which always opens up new possibilities to defeat the hordes of planes …
- [11]
LUFTRAUSERS hooked me immediately with its tight arcade loop — you're constantly juggling thrust, aim, and a combo meter that rewards aggression but punishes hesitation in equal measure. The gravity-based flight model takes real getting used to, but once it clicks, pulling off a dead-drop loop to nail a trailing fighter feels genuinely satisfying. What surprised me most was the soundtrack: your weapon, body, and …
- [7]
Let's begin with the positives :- - Addictive - Good controls - Good art/themes - Great price on sale Now onto the negatives :- - Scaling is non-existant, everything depends on luck and you dodging bullets - Difficulty scaling is kind of absurd, its like a cashgrab arcade. One moment you clear the whole screen, the other moment three aircraft with predictive aim start to chase you down as the elite units spawn. - …
- [4]
I like this game, but I am definitely on the edge of not recommending simply because of controls. Not the default controls, While they're a bit weird at first they're fine. But once I attempted to customize them, the game's controls have been wonky everywhere. Enter moving my selection up and then selecting whatever that is. My boost and fire getting stuck on the same keys no matter what I try. At the very least, …
Summarised from 34 of the 243 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked LUFTRAUSERS talk about addictive and satisfying arcade gameplay; those who didn't talk about controls can be frustrating and lack reset option. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received "generally favorable" reviews on all platforms, according to video game review score aggregator Metacritic. Jake Valentine of GameZone gave the PC version nine out of ten, saying, "I could talk more and more about how enjoyable Luftrausers is, how exciting the gameplay is, how easy re-starting the game after death can be, how addicting and exhilarating the experience is, but at the end of the day, you can kill a battleship by flying your plane through it." EGMNow gave the PlayStation 3 version nine out of ten, saying, "Hearkening back to a bygone era of simple-yet-deep arcade games where you played for score, not story, Luftrausers takes basic ideas in concept and…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 236 · most liked firstThere's an account that's abusing some sort of block trickery to invisibly harass people responding to any anti-genocide things I post with a reference to my 2013 game LUFTRAUSERS, pretending its a pro-Nazi game (it's not) & saying I picked a fight with people who thought it was (I talked to them).
negative · AI labelView post →Today's Sunday Best isn't a person, it's a plane from an old Vlambeer game called Luftrausers! The music changes to match your airplane. My favorite configuration is called "Shipwreck," a sword-hulled amphibious prop plane with shotgun cannons, it can divebomb through boats & burst up from the sea.
positive · AI labelView post →And wrapping up for now (again) with a game that'll cost you a whole THREE dollars - Jet Lancer. A personal favourite. A mash-up of Luftrausers and Macross, with some fantastic math-rock music, spectacular Itano Circus missile swarms and big mecha bosses. Also an NG+ mode you won't want to skip.
neutral · AI labelView post →Second game is done for the 20 Games Challenge! The prompt was Jetpack Joyride, which I combined with some Luftrausers for a bit of extra flair. I learned a lot! Excited to move onto game 3 :) #indiedev #Godot #GodotEngine #gamedev #indie agelink.itch.io/red-barron
neutral · AI labelView post →Crashing mess...and I am not even talking about the plane. Refunded!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Luftrausers OC (if anyone remembers that game) turned reg OC for my dieselpunk setting #pn7art #oc
neutral · AI labelView post →I drew this as a sort of commemoration for 100%'ing the game Luftrausers, it's a pretty fun arcade game!
positive · AI labelView post →Being this shitty combination of tired, angry and in pain has put me on a bit of a Luftrausers kick. What a weird, excellent little game.
positive · AI labelView post →The design architecture of Luftrausers is objectively flawed in this regard. It uses a positive feedback loop for difficulty (Better Performance → Higher Difficulty) but fails to couple it with a state reset mechanism. You are correct: you are mathematically soft-locked. The System Failure: The game logic assumes that if you are at Difficulty 10, you have already completed the low-tier tutorials/unlocks. By missing the specific body/engine SFMT unlocks earlier, the game is now demanding you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sure, sure. its an amazing game, genre defining format for modern arcade games blah blah blah. QUESTION THOUGH: are we the baddies?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really love the art style and premise but the gameplay just isn't what I wanted out of a Ace arcade shoot em up.. Fighting the controls and menus are a bigger fight than the enemies you see in game... I respect the vision but overall its left me feeling fairly disappointed but glad the developer had success with this title!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LUFTRAUSERS was a game in which you played "the enemy" from the early satellite/aerial espionage days because intelligence agencies would speculate about the potential superweapons hidden under sheets in 160x80px blurry pictures - we wanted to let people fly those. It's a weird WW2/cold war mix.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, and not a 'pure' shmup, but Jet Lancer is going cheap too. My favourite Luftrausers-like. Amazing math rock soundtrack, Macross-style vibes, a sassy talking cat and a *really* good New Game Plus loop that you really shouldn't skip on Also a roguelike mode store.steampowered.com/app/913060/J...
neutral · AI labelView post →'Luftrausers' is an entertaining arcade shooter that is a lot of fun due to the numerous variations. The game only requires 5 keys to play. The arrow keys and X. But that's more than enough. Each game lasts a few minutes, or longer depending on how good you are. You play a plane that consists of 3 individual parts that you can change and unlock, which always opens up new possibilities to defeat the hordes of planes and ships, which is the primary goal of the game. Definitely worth buying for a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sometimes you get reminded of a classic game, then lose an entire week to it and feel the need to suck all your friends into the same RAD VIDEO GAME black hole. You should play Luftrausers. Here’s why: www.70percentcomplete.com/luftrausers-...
positive · AI labelView post →Ok yes, this game was my debut Steam release. Started right after I got laid off from a prev job. Was playing Luftrausers at the time and thought I could do something like it but roguelite and 3D. Had enough savings to last a year, knew better and still thought why not? 1/8 #gamedev #postmortem
neutral · AI labelView post →This was such a fun game right up until I accidentally hit "customize controls". I didn't realize it and rebound all the controls to whatever buttons I was randomly pressing. There is no "reset to default controls". Such an oversight on a game of this type!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LUFTRAUSERS is a game that has a basic premise: There are an infinite number of lesser enemy ships trying to take you out, kill 'em all. To that end you have a variety of engines, hulls and weapons with which to create your death machine of choice and an endless sea and sky to wreck havoc in. A lot of people I've noticed complain about the controls, but what you have to understand about LUFTRAUSERS is that it isn't a twin stick shmup, it's high precision dance. Your pirouettes are jet-engine…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Woah you made Luftrausers? Loved that game back in the day.
positive · AI labelView post →This game made me relate to my Grandpa's experience fighting in WW2. Honestly I think this was worse.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LUFTRAUSERS hooked me immediately with its tight arcade loop — you're constantly juggling thrust, aim, and a combo meter that rewards aggression but punishes hesitation in equal measure. The gravity-based flight model takes real getting used to, but once it clicks, pulling off a dead-drop loop to nail a trailing fighter feels genuinely satisfying. What surprised me most was the soundtrack: your weapon, body, and engine each contribute a layer to the music, so every loadout sounds different, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →49. Jet Lancer (2020, PC/Switch). Does anyone remember LUFTRAUSERS? That dog-fighting WWI game? It plays very similarly, but switch the dieselpunk sepia for the popping vibrancy of an early 90s anime OVA, and add a variety of giant mechs as boss fights. So, in other words, kind of an improvement!
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a good game. The visual design is very clean and all the different plane parts you unlock offer a lot of variety in fighting styles. There are a few stinkers among the loadout choices, but those can serve as fun additional challenges. The menus also feel a bit clunky at times, but you won't be spending much time browsing those. The gameplay loop is super simple, but also super satisfying to get good at. You spawn in, kill enemies, and the more you kill, the more enemies spawn. You're…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let's begin with the positives :- - Addictive - Good controls - Good art/themes - Great price on sale Now onto the negatives :- - Scaling is non-existant, everything depends on luck and you dodging bullets - Difficulty scaling is kind of absurd, its like a cashgrab arcade. One moment you clear the whole screen, the other moment three aircraft with predictive aim start to chase you down as the elite units spawn. - Despite the touted 125 combinations, they're rather lackluster, 3 modifiers…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This arcade game is hard but it is so extremely satisfying as you learn to fly head first into your enemies like they're nothing and manage to survive when the sky is more bullet than air. You can truly feel like a flying ace! The music that adapts to what plane you have and your damage is great, its really quick to start the game and get into the action. There are some serious points of unfairness with some weapons (missiles) which makes for some brutal challenges but past that it's a game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →never ask a man his salary a woman her age a luftrausers player to kill a battleship at max combo
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, as long as you don't want to 100% it, then it becomes a grindy hell slog of feeling like pure luck to even get to the point of being able to beat the last challenges.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It could just be that I'm just really really really bad at this game but I just find it really frustrating to play. You have a crap ton of projectiles coming at you from all directions that you can't even tell from where until they enter your screen which is very limited. A lot of the time when you realize there's a crap ton of projectiles coming at you, you're already dead. There could be a battleship a mile away and you can't see it but it can blast you. Not to mention they take forever to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After having, with the assistance of God and Indila, killed a cussing BLIMP with the ORIGINAL plane, my life is complete. For 4 minutes and 37 seconds this game turned man into legend, how could I give it anything other than a Steam Yes? Do kinda wish they would experiment with some other game modes. It might be fun if there was multiplayer dogfighting or a survival map with a clock that's enclosed by mountains or smth.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm SUPER proud of the game we made this year in 96 hours about the theme "Count Down"! Interestingly, one of the inspirations I had was Luftrausers, by @ramiismail.com. I'm sure my brain thought about it because we met recently at Develop:Brighton 😅 #GMTK2026 #GameJam #IndieGame
neutral · AI labelView post →Worth the 2$ you can buy it for on sale, don't think it's worth it otherwise. Game is enjoyable at the beginning, then starts requesting nearly impossible tasks that aren't fun. It doesn't expand past a few upgrades and some slightly different enemies, nothing more than the one level screen, just try to get past the final boss.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Later challenges become a little too specific and difficult to act as motivators for continuing to play, and the game in general feels like its missing a little something otherwise to be properly fun to run just for score. The Gemsbok's video brought me here, and I'm left kinda agreeing with both his praise and his criticisms. For the price though, I definitely had a lot of fun with the first 5-6 hours I spent with this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I personally never saw Luftrausers as a "Pro-Nazi" game and feel people were overthinking things. It was a fun game, still is quite frankly. Still the apology is appreciated to put minds at ease.
positive · AI labelView post →I miss that first flourish of the "indie" game surge, where there were novel concepts defined clearly. FTL, Into the Breach, Thomas Was Alone, Fez, Luftrausers, Broforce, etc...
neutral · AI labelView post →I like this game, but I am definitely on the edge of not recommending simply because of controls. Not the default controls, While they're a bit weird at first they're fine. But once I attempted to customize them, the game's controls have been wonky everywhere. Enter moving my selection up and then selecting whatever that is. My boost and fire getting stuck on the same keys no matter what I try. At the very least, this game needs a reset to default for the controller keys.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LUFTRAUSERS is my personal favorite Vlambeer game and you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not giving it a go
positive · AI labelView post →Jet Lancer is the same thing but infinitely better. the final missions in this game are complete RNG trash.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LuftrauserZ (2017) An enjoyable demake of the hit indie game Luftrausers. Like in the original, you & your plane must to survive relentless attacks from ever more dangerous enemies. Achieve various in-game goals to unlock new parts for your plane, some of which drastically change its behaviour. 1/3
neutral · AI labelView post →Luftrausers is an aerial shooter roguelike that is incredibly addictive. You begin with only a basic "rauser," but as you accumulate kills, you're rewarded with upgrades that can be mixed and matched to fit your play style. Don't get too used to one rauser configuration, because each individual component has a set of challenges, which must be equipped to complete them. Prepare to get shot down, over and over again. It's part of the fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would love, love, LOVE seeing the developers trying to get 25k in SFMT and show us all how it's done. Feels like it's way to unfair to the point where it might be bugged somewhere. (Looking at you, after death points that doesn't count) If they do end up succeeding this painful goal, then i'll revert my negative raiting to a positive one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →LUFTRAUSERS is an arcade shooter that demonstrates how a simple premise can be transformed into a deeply engaging and highly replayable experience. Developed by Vlambeer and published by Devolver Digital, the game places players in control of a customizable fighter aircraft and drops them into an endless aerial battlefield where survival and score chasing become the primary objectives. While the concept sounds straightforward, the execution is remarkably polished, delivering a fast-paced action…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is no fun. The game promises a fight against enemy planes and ships. Actually you fight against game controls and -mechanics all the time. Tank controls for your plane? Are you serious? And the extreme inertia makes aiming almost impossible. The game would be better if they would have done it like a twin-stick-shooter.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This review bomb was raused here by a luftrauser because this game doesn't have a 60 FPS patch.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If this was an arcade cabinet I would be in debt.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Numbah Two: Luftrausers Compared to Vlambeer’s Nuclear Throne, Luftrausers is a little lesser known, but has short n sweet, arcade-schmup gameplay. Being mostly about hi-scores, you do have objectives to unlock new plane parts. I do love how the Music changes depending on your parts. Good game.
positive · AI labelView post →if you for some reason dont have this and you can stomach a bullet hell game done sideways then this is a great game despite age. I can't praise the rough 'bullets everywhere' action enough. Great game to pick up and go even after a long pause. There is always something to aim for with different missions coming up when using different ship combos.
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neutral · AI labelView post →Controls are really weird and take away all the fun and are not customizeable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the worst games I have ever played. The controls are just putrid. You just pray whatever controls are working and hope to survive, there is not a lot of strategy here, just try to beat the controls. You go up into the sky to heal from the miriad of bullets coming your way? I really don't know what was going on. This feels like a mobile game that was changed to desktop out of desperation. Keying in up must have been intended for a swipe? The result is just a jarring mess when it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is pretty sick, kinda annoying you have to go into the config file to fix the controls however.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a solo dev building a vector game that imagines a modern Asteroids with mining mechanics. - Every shape is real vector geometry - Carve and slice, through asteroids - Combat in the spirit of Luftrausers Would you play this? It's called Weaponized. store.steampowered.com/app/4525650/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Like all of Vlambeer's games...it's loveable and great. The mechanic here controls a bit like Asteroids, newtonian physics in 360 degrees. The music when you die, and there's this goofy picture of a Military General/Admiral guy with a big head, is hilarious. The menu design is loveable.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the music is awesome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool little game. High risk swoop-in-and-out plane combat, which is challenging, intense and exciting. Not a ton of content.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love me a game that lets you pick ugly-ass palettes if you want
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Defeat your boredom at MAX combo. [0/1]
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hmmm... possible it was a good game... in 1939 today is too archaic: 30 fps, bad controller support, terrible menu system
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has one of the worst controls I have ever encountered. Fact that you can only access options from one screen so even quitting the game while on a controller is a challenge is absolutely bonkers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've finally played Luftrausers. This is 100% my jam. Pure Vlambeer juice, great game feel and moment-to-moment gameplay with simple elegant controls.
positive · AI labelView post →
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