Super Satisfying Airplane Explosions, Crashes & Takedowns! V274 | IL-2 Sturmovik Flight Crashes
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What are the best plane games on PC? It’s a pretty broad topic, so if you’re looking for a list of top airplane sims you may struggle to pick any single one out. The airplane games genre encompasses everything from complex flight simulators and meticulously detailed military facsimiles to arcade jet fighter games and relaxing wingsuit sims.
To help you organize your thoughts and pick out something that suits your tastes, we’ve assembled a list of some of the best plane games on PC in 2022, with a representative from all of the different niches, even a fair few that are free PC games. So whether you want to soar gracefully through the air for hours on end, settle down for a cozy evening of piloting a jumbo jet from New York to Las Vegas, or want a grizzly WW2 dogfight, there’s something for everyone. As with many simulation-based genres – we’re looking at you submarine games – a lot of the classics can be tricky to get hold of and run on modern PCs, so we’ve tried to keep the majority of our entries recent for ease of access.
These are the best plane games on PC:
War Thunder
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
IL 2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad
Arma 3
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
X Plane 11
Superflight
Rogue Sky
Bomber Crew
Star Wars: Squadrons
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Microsoft’s long, long, long-anticipated flight simulator follow-up landed in 2020 and went on to receive some outstanding reviews. Our very own Microsoft Flight Simulator review notes that despite the rough loading times and plentiful crashes present in the review build, “none of it has dulled the game’s splendor or chipped away at the awe induced by the things I’ve planned, done, and seen in-between them.”
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad
If you’re a fan of WW2 games then IL-2 Sturmovik is the touchstone for plane games set in the era. While it plays like a solid flight sim, IL-2 Sturmovik is also refreshingly accessible to beginners and its latest iteration does a tremendous job of drawing you in with its realistic graphics and damage modeling.
Small details like water streaming over the canopy when flying through clouds or AI enemy flying towards the sun to make you lose track of them go a long way toward making you feel like you’re really in the cockpit of a WW2 fighter. It also boasts a dedicated multiplayer community of dogfighters, so you won’t struggle to find a match.
Arma 3
While most combat plane games focus on dogfighting, in Arma 3 you can jump in the cockpit of a jet fighter and help out on the battlefield by strafing heavy tanks and performing airstrikes. The flight physics and depth of mechanics don’t compare to some of the hardcore flying games on this list, but there’s still plenty of scope for mastery.
Air-to-air combat is mostly about managing your position and using a variety of missiles to take down targets from high above the battlefield. There is also a significant role for air-to-ground aircraft, with modern tech like laser-guided missiles and anti-armor cannons making good pilots essential on the battlefield. There are even plenty of helicopters should you tire of airplanes.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
While it certainly looks authentic, the gameplay and story of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is anything but. The story is baffling unless you’ve stuck with the series since its inception, so it’s handy that Ace Combat 7’s best assets are its slick visuals and breakneck dogfights.
Bandai Namco has done everything in its power to make the campaign missions as dramatic and overwrought as possible, leading to canyon dogfights, daring raids under cover of lightning storms, and the odd flyby between collapsing buildings. If you’re looking for some arcadey plane games and are willing to fully submit yourself to some stupidity then you can’t go too far wrong with Skies Unknown – check out our Ace Combat 7 review for more information.
X-Plane 11
X-Plane 11 is a more modern take on FSX, with much-improved graphics, cockpit models, and a menu system that won’t leave you slamming your head on the desk before your first take-off.
In fact, there’s plenty more to enjoy about X-Plane 11 before actually flying – just sitting in the airport and watching the cavalcade of catering trucks, tugs, refueling tanks, and cargo trolleys moving about is endlessly engrossing. But it’s in the air where X-Plane 11 is at its most convincing, especially in light aircraft where you can really feel every bump and quirk of the plane’s flight characteristics.
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