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Scramble: Battle of Britain
Developer Slitherine Ltd.
Scramble: Battle of Britain is a tactical dogfighting game set in 1940, featuring intense aerial battles in a 3D airspace. Take control of a squadron of fighters, planning maneuvers, witnessing real-time simulations, and analyzing battle damage with detailed camera tools. From the Steam store page
425 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
87
LovedLoved
161 positive · 25 negative
95% range 81–91%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 161 | 25 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 132 |
| Bluesky * | 9 | 1 | 97 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
179 of 204 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
87% recommend · 162 yes, 25 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 187 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (217 of 246 positive).
Some note it is still in early access with limited content and minor bugs. [1][2][3] A few reviewers find it overpriced for the current state and lacking features. [4][3][5]
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- [4]
Basically a demo at this stage - massively overpriced at £25. The few pre- made missions are mostly garbage (Friendly Fire in particular). No scenery. No weather. Only 4 planes, of which only the spitfire is flyable, except for 1 or 2 pre-made missions, and even in these, the 109 would not go over 150mph. The wing commander missions all seem to start off with all the planes stacked in a small column - basically an …
- [6]
I'm only 4 hours in. It's a good wee game, I'm enjoying it. It's got an engaging difficulty curve. I'll never master it at the highest level - I never do with any game - but it's got me wanting to improve. Never a bad thing. Hope it does well. Certainly, it's up the alley of 60+ yr olds, who grew up in the aftermath of WW II and now listen to the "We Have Ways ..." podcast. In some ways, it's like building the …
- [8]
I've been on Steam for well over a decade and this is my first review. Simply put it's already the best turn based battle game out that I have ever played. There are features I want to see added, such as being able to edit pilots, fight on both sides and everything else that adds immersion to a game, but even in early access I'm blown away by how good it actually is. The graphics could use a little touch up to make …
- [1]
SQUADRON'S LOG Day 11 ended in triumph and tragedy. Mourning our first dead pilot. At least he went down in an epic battle and his squadron eliminated all 10 enemy airplanes. It still hurt like hell to see him unable to get out of the cockpit in time before the crash. +++ RIP Borowski +++ -------------------------------------------- You will sink many hours into a fun, turn-based air battle themed game. You will get …
- [2]
Gameplay becomes repetitive in the current developpement state, i'm very eager to see the upcoming features to bring more variety. i'll definitely keep playing the game. Quite addicting as a tactical aircraft battle wich is an original concept : a very chill blend of not sim and not arcade. The early state of the game isn't buggy too much, and not at all to the point of stopping the fun.
Summarised from 34 of the 328 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 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Scramble: Battle of Britain sits at 87% positive across 186 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
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60 of 425 · most liked firstMy offering to the gods of Rule 34, Anne from Tokyo Scramble. It's a silly lil game but the lead lady is kinda cute.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Shibuya Live-Action Adventure Game” from Jiro Ishii is titled Shibuya Scramble Stories Development officially begins w/ support of over 33.5 million yen in crowdfunding (670% of goal) & the sponsorship of a company Kousei Amano & Yuto Nakamura will join the cast www.gematsu.com/2025/06/shib...
neutral · AI labelView post →Shibuya Live-Action Adventure Game crowdfunding campaign announced by Jiro Ishii (428: Shibuya Scramble executive producer/game designer) www.gematsu.com/2025/04/jiro... ubgoe.com/projects/923
neutral · AI labelView post →Today is the 5th anniversary of Team Bugulon! It started with one game jam, and since then we've made nearly two dozen games together. All the games are free and most can be played in browser! (Pictured: Stargrove Scramble) Check them out: team-bugulon.itch.io
neutral · AI labelView post →#enstars Koisuru Scramble title screen for the fan game! Be hyped because I also drew some other stuff that will be showing up in the next few chapters
neutral · AI labelView post →Jiro Ishii of 428: Shibuya Scramble fame launched a crowdfunding for a new Shibuya-based live-action adventure game, and it was instantly funded. The game is set to be formally revealed within 2025: www.rpgsite.net/news/17556-j...
neutral · AI labelView post →New preview video for Jiro Ishii's live-action adventure game Shibuya Scramble Stories. www.youtube.com/live/HuBgTGG...
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in 2011, 15 years ago, the 3DS game Pokémon Rumble Blast, known in Japan as Super Pokémon Scramble, was first released. This game had you follow the story exploring why many Toy Pokémon had become Rusty. www.serebii.net/rumble2/
neutral · AI labelView post →In this new survival-puzzle-action game from Binary Haze, split-second decisions will mean the difference between life and death. TOKYO SCRAMBLE is coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch 2 on Feb 11! #NintendoDirect
neutral · AI labelView post →I was just thinking about that Game Dev Avengers art and going through which ones I've played and was like "Danganronpa... technically...I suppose there's an asterisk" (I should play 428 Shibuya Scramble though)
neutral · AI labelView post →Koisuru Scramble: Reverse Side!! mini game based off of chapter 1 events but in different POV of the Popular 4!! #enstars #visualnovel mikehan.itch.io/koisuru-scra...
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in 2011, 14 years ago, the 3DS game Pokémon Rumble Blast, known in Japan as Super Pokémon Scramble, was first released. This game had you follow the story exploring why many Toy Pokémon had become Rusty. serebii.net/rumble2/
neutral · AI labelView post →Wild seeing the game you’ve been working on advertised at the Shibuya Scramble
neutral · AI labelView post →Play Scramble Heart City this game fuckin whips
positive · AI labelView post →Basically a demo at this stage - massively overpriced at £25. The few pre- made missions are mostly garbage (Friendly Fire in particular). No scenery. No weather. Only 4 planes, of which only the spitfire is flyable, except for 1 or 2 pre-made missions, and even in these, the 109 would not go over 150mph. The wing commander missions all seem to start off with all the planes stacked in a small column - basically an instant dog fight with no chance to jockey for advantage before the battle…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Box art for the 1986 Famicom game Kidō Senshi Z Gundam Hot Scramble by Shin Ueda / 上田信. (source: Ueda Shin Gashū Character Mecha Sunrise Hen p115)
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming to Game Pass news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1... Ultimate: -Scramble Knights Online (10/26) -Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted (10/29) -Terrible Lizards (10/29) Premium: -Dodo Duckie (10/22) -The Séance of Blake Manor (10/27) -Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (10/29) -Pit of Goblin (11/3)
neutral · AI labelView post →Played similar earlier games more than a decade ago, and they were significantly better. Just two hours in, and yes, I understand that there is a leaning period, but this is hot garbage. The biggest issue is that it doesn't matter what your target is, it will just do a ridiculous forward bunt, whether the aircraft was capable of doing that or not. Bf109s, yes, direct fuel injection, so forward bunt possible. Rest no. Seeing a Do-17 immediately nosedive past the vertical to evade a attack from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⏰ TOMORROW @ 12PM ET Playtest weekend begins for Scramble Heart City! 3v3 tagteam fighting #indiegame with crossplay between browser and Steam with rollback netcode. animated by hand, frame-by-frame. support the game today with a wishlist! ❤️
neutral · AI labelView post →"428: Shibuya Scramble" director Jiro Ishii announced that his upcoming new adventure game will be titled "Shibuya Scramble Stories." www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOU0...
neutral · AI labelView post →This time we get preview of Black Scramble & Purple Scramble from Digimon Card Game Starter Deck 20! More at WtW- withthewill.net/threads/blac...
neutral · AI labelView post →Formal Digimon Card Game Starter Deck 20 & 21 previews begin with Red Scramble & Blue Scramble! More at WtW- withthewill.net/threads/red-...
neutral · AI labelView post →an obscure game titled "Sandglas Scramble" survived only by this screenshot
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm only 4 hours in. It's a good wee game, I'm enjoying it. It's got an engaging difficulty curve. I'll never master it at the highest level - I never do with any game - but it's got me wanting to improve. Never a bad thing. Hope it does well. Certainly, it's up the alley of 60+ yr olds, who grew up in the aftermath of WW II and now listen to the "We Have Ways ..." podcast. In some ways, it's like building the Airfix models of the planes. Takes a bit of time and concentration. Definitely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This time we get preview of Red Scramble & Blue Scramble from Digimon Card Game Starter Deck 21! More at WtW- withthewill.net/threads/red-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Overpriced, like all Slitherine games, but has good bones. Very light on content right now (there are like 4 planes). Can't recommend at the moment but will revisit in a couple of months.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Jiro Ishii (428: Shibuya Scramble) has announced a crowdfunding campaign for new "Shibuya Live-Action Adventure" game. www.gematsu.com/2025/04/jiro...
neutral · AI labelView post →This time we get previews of Black Scramble & Purple Scramble from Digimon Card Game Starter Deck 21! More at WtW- withthewill.net/threads/blac...
neutral · AI labelView post →My first thought on seeing this game was, "why hasn't anyone made this game before?" It's such a great idea! I love simultaneous turns for this kind of thing; the comparison that always pops into my mind is BSG: Deadlock (and Star Hammer before it), but having to worry about things like gravity, blackouts and detailed systems damage adds a lot to the experience. After playing it, I can appreciate why we don't have a million games like this, and it's because they had to solve some pretty tricky…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the free games included with the Commodore 64 Ultimate is Scramble Infinity which is an excellent port of the Arcade game Scramble. The graphics are vivid in colors and details, the music is awesome, and the game play is excellent. QuickShot is ready, let's go! #Commodore #C64 #C64U #Arcade
positive · AI labelView post →The "Shibuya Live-Action Adventure Game" from Jiro Ishii (428: Shibuya Scramble) is officially titled 'Shibuya Scramble Stories'. www.gematsu.com/2025/06/shib...
neutral · AI labelView post →Made it to Shibuya Scramble. Hope i don't get killed and transported into a sadistic Reaper's Game!!!!
positive · AI labelView post →great concept of a game. usually hopelessly out numbered ...1 flight of 3 planes fighting 8, almost 3 to 1 odds. the lines for nose direction, gun lanes and circles showing hit box on enemies needs to be lot darker to see. would be good to zoom from your own plane to the target to get a better idea for where your shots are going. would be good to have at least 1 more plane in your flight so you can have a wingman, more aircraft to control to make each turn last longer. some sort of pilot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⏰ SEPTEMBER 12-14 💥 SCRAMBLE HEART CITY RETURNS Our browser-based fighting game is hosting a weekend online playtest. Enjoy.
neutral · AI labelView post →428: Shibuya Scramble game developer Jirō Ishii will launch a crowdfunding campaign for a new game set in Shibuya, with some familiar voices!
neutral · AI labelView post →Just added Hurricanes to the game. So you mainly fly Spits and Hurricanes. Graphics and sound are very good. Being an older player I rather enjoy the turn based aspect.It may not be for everybody. Pretty refined game from what I am seeing. I do recommend it if you like turn based strategy. The rest of it is really a sharp dog fighting sim type game. savable replays. They even offer a replay with red or blue trail for every plane in the battle depending on friend or foe. Extremely detailed.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is great! It reminds me a lot of turn-based tabletop flight games like X-Wing. The destruction effects and Squadron Leader game mode are fantastic, adding a lot of immersion to the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been a pilot my whole life. I've also been fascinated by the Battle of Britain since I was ten. I'm also on old board gamer, and loved games about aerial combat. So, yes, I'm your Huckleberry, Slitherine. This game mission setup is a little more abstract than I prefer. I'd like to choose my base (Biggin Hill!) and maybe select some abstract sectors to patrol, while leaving some pilots on scramble duty, on an actual map. But that's hardly the meat of the game. The planes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We are excited for Scramble Star Crossing to be a part of Game Devs of Color Expo once again! #GDoCExpo #indiegames #gamedev @gdocexpo.com Check out the sale here! store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexp...
neutral · AI labelView post →New gameplay preview for Jiro Ishii's live-action adventure game "Shibuya Scramble Stories." www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QLn...
neutral · AI labelView post →Spent all day grinding Scramble Heart City. Game is actually insane, I love it in every way
positive · AI labelView post →Countdown from twenty Scramble to find a good spot Game of hide and seek #haikufeels #haiku #poetry #prompt
neutral · AI labelView post →Really fun, tactical gameplay. Would be nice if we could play BOTH sides.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the idea, and the game is truly fun and challenging! But I am super disappointed that the changes from the demo, to "early access" were minimal. 1 new mode has been added which only adds some UI clicking and dragging, otherwise the rest is just random battles which you could do already in the demo. I have a policy that I do not like to buy into early access and this is why. Once the game releases, I promise to give it a full shake but the progress from early access to demo is not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I let this game languish in my backlog, and I'm sad about that but I'm doing my best to make up for it. Right now, this game is a combat simulator set during the Battle of Britain during WW2. They recently added a squadron commander mode, but at it's heart this game is a mainly a furball simulator. You can choose from set missions, you can click instant action and get what you get, but the game is about small groups of planes trying to murder each other. There is no searching for the enemy,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game and think it has a LOT of potential, I just think though it has been released too early and they have loaded the RAF aircraft with a load of guaranteed failure points to ensure the pretty poor AI is able to win some. For example G force, yep its a factor in air combat, but when the German planes never seem to suffer no matter how tight they turn yet a Spit, known for it ability to turn inside a 109 attempts it the pilot blacks out virtually EVERY time no matter…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Glad that @ceogaming.org has an indie game area. Definitley needs to return next year. Scramble Heart City is a neat indie fighter I enjoyed. #ceo2025
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been on Steam for well over a decade and this is my first review. Simply put it's already the best turn based battle game out that I have ever played. There are features I want to see added, such as being able to edit pilots, fight on both sides and everything else that adds immersion to a game, but even in early access I'm blown away by how good it actually is. The graphics could use a little touch up to make the aircraft really shine, but the mechanics are perfect, Pilots have traits…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't think I've ever played anything like this. Scramble: Battle of Britain is like an interactive version of the History Channel's old Dogfight series. Turn by turn you engage in aerial battles above the English channel where tactics, positioning, and a bit of luck come together to make for an engaging experience. This doesn't replace other aerial combat games in my library but supplements them and between the turn by turn process and the excellent replay system I've developed new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On the 1st of October 2003, the 1st episode of Shinkon Gattai Godannar!! aired. It ran for 26 episodes, had a PS2 game & debuted in SRW Scramble Commander 2 (PS2) in 2007. Happy 23rd Anniversary 🎉
neutral · AI labelView post →This time we get previews of Yellow Scramble & Green Scramble from Digimon Card Game Starter Deck 20! More at WtW- withthewill.net/threads/yell...
neutral · AI labelView post →Learn the story of how Scramble Knights Online evolved from a battle royale to an MMO-lite over its development, available now on XBOX Game Pass: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1...
neutral · AI labelView post →SQUADRON'S LOG Day 11 ended in triumph and tragedy. Mourning our first dead pilot. At least he went down in an epic battle and his squadron eliminated all 10 enemy airplanes. It still hurt like hell to see him unable to get out of the cockpit in time before the crash. +++ RIP Borowski +++ -------------------------------------------- You will sink many hours into a fun, turn-based air battle themed game. You will get attached to your pilots and watch in horror when they go down. Yes, it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Scramble is is pretty freaking cool. Reminds me favorably of Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock's combat, and I played that game like crazy. It takes a bit to get a feel for it, but once you do it becomes something of a basic fighter maneuvers chess match. I have played flight sims and combat flight sims for most of my life, and employing familiar tactics from this perspective in a turn based tactical game is really cool and refreshing. The turn based movement slices up real time into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →do you remember how they came with instructions for connecting it to a "to be announced" second board, that never seemed to show up in stores? that's because they waited 41 years to make "Screwball Scramble: Level 2" in 2020, and they've done a couple more since (Level Up, Sasuke)
neutral · AI labelView post →Its opinion about early acces version (late february 2026). The game looks groundbreakingly beautiful, but like the early stages of development. The most difficult and tedious part is searching through all possible positions and trying to find the target with the reticle. Another problem is the lack of a wider perspective option, meaning you can see the situation from a distance away from the plane, sometimes even sideways. We now have a two-dimensional image, but we're operating in three…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay becomes repetitive in the current developpement state, i'm very eager to see the upcoming features to bring more variety. i'll definitely keep playing the game. Quite addicting as a tactical aircraft battle wich is an original concept : a very chill blend of not sim and not arcade. The early state of the game isn't buggy too much, and not at all to the point of stopping the fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you ever played the paperback game Aces of Aces or played table top games like Wings of Glory then this is the PC turn base simulator for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has some great potential but definitely not ready for sale at the moment. Unless you micro-manage every pilot's action, they will brainlessly dive into the sea. Needs more AI support that allows wing men to support your attacks without each pilot being micro managed. On large battles, the amount of micro management makes this came confusing and hours long. What the game is successful at, is showing just how complex and difficult air combat was during 1940.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This needs an on hands tutorial. It could be made where you get to graduate through flight school while learning the ropes. As it is, my first battles ended with me face planting into the water or crashing into another player. Its frustrating to say the least. Of course it is a tactical turn based game which means planning and patience are important, but even those don't matter when you cannot understand the finer dynamics of flight and air combat. Trying to get on somebody's six makes sense,…
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