Bomber Crew

I don´t really like this game.
It has a lot of charm and the idea behind the game is quite good in my opinion.
I haven´t played a lot but i found no bugs and the Ui and such is good.
Still I can´t recommend this game because it just is not fun to me, but it is not a bad game.

A refreshing strategy/arcade game, akin to FTL. While on the surface, the game might seem simple, there is an attention to detail and the loop gameplay is enjoyable.
The visuals can be misguiding, the game is quite difficult and unforgiving. On the other hand, once you master the nuances, it becomes a joy ride.

If you wanna try something new, I recommend giving this game a go.

good game. fucking horrible controls god damn, to move someone is the fucking same as selecting someone so you could be trying to select your gunner to make him use his ability but woops your pilot is now going to the very back of your airplane.

Its very stressful But completing a mission makes you feel awsome! It's very fun once you understand it. Its very different to other WW2 fighter games and again its very cool. Would recommend this game to people who like WW2 era fighters/Bombers!

10 out of 10 engineers flying off the wing because my goofy ahh put the plane in a dive while my engineer was still on the wing

Very fun, yet thrilling and stressful. I highly recommend getting this.

good but a bit hard, gunners suck at shooting

Great little indie game. I've returned to it a few times. Would recommend.

very fun especially if you enjoy ww2 bombers

Really good game, fun to play. Had no issues with bugs even after i finished it and started using cheat engine

The bomber is a vehicle that is not seen often from a gameplay perspective. Fighter planes can dog fight and easily lend themselves to action gameplay, however bombers are large and slow. The only other game I can think off that focuses on bombers is The Mighty 8th, which is very dry and more of a simulator. This game realizes this, and turns controlling the bomber into a game of management where you have a team of crew members who all have their own job such as the engineer who focuses on repairs and fuel management or the radio operator who controls radar.
It is laid out in a rouge lite way where you pick which missions you want to play, and every so often there's a mission that progresses the campaign. The first missions start out fairly easy, but after a while you'll be lucky if you manage to emergency land the plane in friendly territory.
This game scratches an itch that I appreciate, and I recommend it if you like management games or bombers.

Great idea, extremely tedious and annoying to play in practice. Crew members either lack the capability for independent thought or are demoralized to the point that they fear reprisals for daring to show any form of initiative. Why do I have to tell a gunner to go get more ammo if they're out? Why do I have to act as the liaison between the navigator and the pilot for basic navigation? Why are gunners being put into service if they can't identify a target by themselves?

Great as an idea, but extremely annoying to play. Basically every single thing your crew does needs to be micromanaged, but at the same time you can't coordinate your flying route or defending yourself and all sorts of things going wrong can overwhelm even during first mission. Failing to land the aircraft back to base resets pretty much all progression and upgrades, which gets infuriating when plane systems just randomly break right before lowering landing gear. Within one hour I managed to finish game's tutorial, read every piece of information within the game and play a couple of missions to their end, surviving 1/4 attempts.

Your defensive gunners are too stupid to identify targets automatically or reload their guns, but you have no influence over their actual shooting, so they just spray full-auto until empty and then just wait for orders to walk 5 steps to get more ammo. Add to this random "criticals" you may receive (like 3 burning engines at once & hydraulic systems breaking just to spite you), extremely annoying fixed controls - and you get a game that tries to kill you by pouring a bucket of water on the floor and telling you to mop it all up before it hits electric outlets in any of the corners - while having your ankles chained together.

Quite a nice game, fun gameplay, can be stressful when 200 German planes are pelting your B-17 Fortress with so many bullets you get lead poisoning through the screen.

it is very fun and the only thing i dont like is that i cant find the U.S.A.A.F skin pack ( skin pack 3) but other tan that its perfect

very fun, but also stressful! your whole plane falling apart as half of your crew is trying to not die from hypothermia, flak, or enemy planes

main campaign is short and fun, try to lose your plane instead of your crew.

vary stressful but fun. There is a lot of upgrades to choose from and lots of ways to make custom livery's

It's like a board game where your decisions matter. I love it!

Amazing idea for a game and a pretty cool set of mechanics. I would have loved this game if it weren't for one small and previously implemented feature... push pause!

The initial tutorials give you a limited idea of how to operate your bomber but after that you're learning from 5 second real time text prompts mid mission as you're simultaneously directing navigation, machine gun fire, bomb runs and repairs. If and when you lose a crew member or even your entire bomber you lose all the progress and upgrades which you likely need to complete the next mission, essentially soft locking you from completing the campaign and forcing you to start again.

Apparently the early versions of the game had push pause but the douche bag gamer elite pushed the developers to remove the feature completely for ...reasons? This is the exact reason I refunded They Are Billions. How about let people play video games they want to play them? Have an easy and hard mode. I have a life outside of Steam, so I lack the hours a day it takes to "git gud". And to the people making the argument that the frenetic gameplay matches the real life experience, these crews were thoroughly trained in their jobs. I'm certain it was chaotic, but I'm equally certain they weren't frantically reading manuals in their bombers as they were getting shot at.

i love it but i just landed with two landing gears and a soldier died while being in the back of the plane even though it was a soft and clean landing

I will downvote any game that is using update section in steam home page to promote their other games. Use news instead.

At first I was skeptical about buying this game, But then after playing it for some time I found it to be really fun, The game is hard to manage at some times and you'll be losing crew left and right, but thats what really adds to this game.

If you like micro-managing, challenges, and a lotta fun, buy bomber crew.

Bought it the day before and already have 4h on it. It did not dissapoint very fun

This game is actually very fun, though it can get rather grindy at times.

ive only played a few hours so far and already have 2 crews in all the games the space crew is really fun too...JUST REMEMBER TOO GRIND, YOU DONT HAVE TO ADV. TO THE NEXT STAGE..wait until your Navagator is leveled up...it takes awhile...worth way more then they have ever charged...you dont need luck if you have ammo

Insanely fun game, this is the first review i've ever wrote and I feel like I had too, this game is amazing, I got if for sale for like 3 bucks and this game goes on sale so much. The gameplay is pretty straight foward and it can take some skill to play, it is very high risk however so if you like high risk games i'd recomend. They also do DLC right, both of them add amazing content which could be a whole seperate game. Lowkey a amazing and finished game, I would like new content but it doesn't need it, I just want it.

doesn't fully explain mechanics, you spend over an hour getting upgrades just to get reset because your landing gear suddenly vanishes, fun until you have to redo it over and over for no reason.

Nice little Game to Enjoy!

All the Diffrent game Aspect make i treally fun to play, altrough the game gets a little bit repeating at the End.

Still a very good game with an interesting campain!

Very nice gameplay and is sometimes very challenging, I always spare a bomb to drop on some english town before I land

This game is one of the best singleplayer games of all time. And the USAAF DLC is really fun and worth buying. That feeling after you have completed a hard mission and just made it with no casualities is one of the best feelings of all time.

great game, l love how the guns look and the fire affects. l got it on a sale.

Great game,everything is good,the base game is not too hard to enjoy,but also not too easy to become boring.i hope someday the developer will fix all the problem about the usaaf dlc,so that i will buy and enjoy it too

really fun and it is harder than it seems as a warning to eveyone

I bought this game expecting cute and cozy ww2 manager.
This is as intense as it gets.
I prepared my crew for the first critical mission as much as i could.
And then i lost the plane, and all of my crew except for two.

Been playing this game for 30 minutes and its really fun it has great content, i cant recommend it more!!

ballin game, goes on sale a lot and i eve got one of the DLC's for sale too. w game with a lot of fun things to do

Game is very fun, makes me want to beat my son once in a wile, but other than my crippling alcoholism being only tamed my this game i would highly recommend

this game is very fun if you like flying games or bombing

I found even the tutorial to be too hectic, I couldn't get through without losing my plane and all my crew. That feels really bad to me, tutorials are the time for hand holding. It feels like you're just let loose on the game and you'll either figure it out or rage quit. Game functions not very well explained, spent a solid 10 minutes just trying to figure out how to reload the guns. Skill issue? Probably. Its a very well made game, art style is really cool, the idea is really cool. If you like putting your balls in a blender you'll like it. Not for me.

Shit game, got hit with 1 bolt of lightning and my entire ship explodes into rubble, lose hours of progress and time, don't buy this game

Oh neat, a crew based, mission completing, permadeath strategy game set in one of the more underrepresented branches of WW2. A fairly straight forward introduction to crew and bomber mechanics, a few easy missions, nice, I like where this is going.

Wait, the upgrade process is painfully slow, crew members level up quickly but die even quicker, and missions become impossibly hard? Oh, you have to hang a cursor on a target, individually spot each target with a progress wheel that feels like it takes an eternity when you're under fire from 20 directions at once. AND you can only spot from a weird exterior 3D camera, of which your bomber obstructs about 50% of your view? Who thought that was a good idea? AND it's a common game mechanic for enemy fighters to park low and aft of your ship, perfectly positioned so you can't even spot them if you wanted to, despite being in literal spitting distance of your tail gunner because they're BLOCKED BY YOUR OWN B-24/B-17? THAT was what you went with?

I'm sorry, I normally love games of this ilk. FTL, Into the Breach I play the hell out of. Because those games while hard, are at least fair. This feels like the game wants you to become frustrated, lose whatever ship you spend your initial build dollars on, then be permanently hamstrung by having a base-model garbage plane that is not even close to being well-equipped for the missions you must now embark on after you inevitably get ripped to shreds 4-5 sorties in. I'm sure seasoned vets could point out flaws in my playstyle, how I didn't upgrade this or that armor plating on this or that specific fuselage segment instead of upgrading turrets or primary systems.

Other difficult strategy games at least appear to have a depth that is satisfying once you understand it, this just feels like it unnecessarily beats you over the head with a mallet because the developers thought it'd be more fun to tip the scales egregiously against you. I'm sorry, but FUCK THAT

This is not a bad game - its reasonably well balanced, allows a bunch of playstyles but for me the penalties for failing are too much. One mistake and you are back to grinding up your plane and gear, with hours of progress gone.

A cute delivery with some fun mechanics. It does however, go over the top with difficulty to the point where it's on the "souls" game level of punishment. If I could take control of the guns and get myself out of trouble I think it might work but the RNG based gunners just don't seem to ever get the monkey off your back. Also this game routinely takes cheap shots and feels like it's trying to manufacture a situation wherein the player will lose. In short, it doesn't seem fair. Like in Mario Kart when a player is in last place and suddenly get's all the best stuff and a faster cart only to lose those perks upon becoming 1st. This game gives you no perks (allowing the player taking control of guns to actually be effective).

It has potential but I feel needs a bit more time for balancing.

Cute, fun, just the right amount of challenge
Slightly unusual controls
There can be a lot to focus on at once (there's a slowdown feature I forget to use cause I'm already focused on other things)

this game is hard and awesome. just play it. but it does need multiplayer.

It's a fun, cartoony game set in WWII. Simple to learn, but challenging to play, in a good way. 10\10. Would recommend.

I heard this game was on sale recently, unfortunately I was late to the party...
I always found this game every now and then on Youtube, and once I found it again, now with the money myself to buy it myself, I decided to buy it, even if I needed to buy it full price.
As far as I'm concerned, money well spent as the game is not only fun & enjoyable, but has an excellent aesthetic to it as well.
Also it truly punishes you when you make a mistake, so you will quickly learn to never make the same one again.

honestly really fun

In my opinion it's a solid game, I bought all the DLC's and game for just $17 bucks and had a pretty fun time playing the game, It does get boring after some time because it's pretty repetitive but overall it is a good game, I'd recommend to give it a shoot!