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The skies will be set aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Select from over 125 combinations of weapons, bodies, and propulsion systems and take to the skies to battle enemy fighter planes, battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

LUFTRAUSERS is a indie, bullet hell and arcade game developed by Vlambeer and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on March 18th 2014 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 4,426 reviews of which 4,023 were positive and 403 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.56€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified LUFTRAUSERS into these genres:

Indie Bullet Hell Arcade Action Pixel Graphics 2D Shoot 'Em Up Great Soundtrack Singleplayer Retro Shooter Fast-Paced Flight Addictive Difficult World War II Simulation Score Attack Replay Value Rogue-like

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP
  • Processor: 1.2Ghz+
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatibale + 256MB Video
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OSX 10.8+
  • Processor: 1.2Ghz+
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatibale + 256MB Video
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
Linux
  • Processor: 1.2Ghz+
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatibale + 256MB Video
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025
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 almost always surrounded, dodging projectiles and firing your weapon to maintain the combo. Your plane goes down quickly and can only recover durability when you're not firing or taking damage. It's a fun balancing act between getting kills and not getting too carried away and forgetting to heal. The adaptive soundtrack is a memorable feature. Music consists of three overlapping tracks, which change depending on your loadout. The music also reacts to you being on low health, getting more uneven, muffled, and playing in tune with the emergency siren. Overall, Luftrausers is a simple and addictive "time waster" type of game.
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Jan. 2025
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 with 5 options, so 5*5*5 is how you get that 125 number, don't let it fool you, realistically only maybe 5 of those combinations are viable enough to run. You unlock 4 from each row very easily, and the last one takes forever, as of writing this, I still haven't unlocked it while I unlocked the 4*4*4 just 1 hour in. Why am I still recommending this? If, and only if, you get it on sale, its a great time killer when you're taking breaks. You can easily go 5 - 10 runs in under 10 minutes. Would I recommend this on full price? Absolutely not. There are much better options out there that offer a ton of more content and variety in builds as well as better scaling. One such recommendation is Nova Drift while it is a bit more expensive, it is way more value for money. I have over 200 hours in Nova Drift and I still have yet to exhaust all the content and builds that I want to run. Yet in this game, 6.5 hours in and 90% of the game is done. There's nothing to do now but do the same mundane crap again. I'd much rather a modern roguelike than just die in 20 seconds over and over with absolutely nothing changing besides enemy RNG.
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Dec. 2024
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.
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Aug. 2024
'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 few bucks.
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June 2024
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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Frequently Asked Questions

LUFTRAUSERS is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

LUFTRAUSERS is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

LUFTRAUSERS received 4,023 positive votes out of a total of 4,426 achieving a rating of 8.76.
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LUFTRAUSERS was developed by Vlambeer and published by Devolver Digital.

LUFTRAUSERS is playable and fully supported on Windows.

LUFTRAUSERS is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

LUFTRAUSERS is playable and fully supported on Linux.

LUFTRAUSERS is a single-player game.

LUFTRAUSERS does not currently offer any DLC.

LUFTRAUSERS does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

LUFTRAUSERS does not support Steam Remote Play.

LUFTRAUSERS is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for LUFTRAUSERS.

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LUFTRAUSERS
9.75€ -95% 9.75€ 0.56€ -80% 9.75€ 2.04€
8.8
4,023
403
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Vlambeer
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Devolver Digital
Release 18 Mar 2014
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