Stunning graphics and world detail
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Very good graphics. Everything is like the real world.”
Steam review · translated · 318.1 h played ↗
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 60%Mixed · 60%Asobo Studio2024Flight · Sandbox · Simulation
The verdict
A visually stunning, deeply realistic whole-Earth flight sim that is great for free flight and add-on airliners. Career mode is still buggy and Microsoft/Xbox account login can fail, so skip it if career is your reason.
Great for
Free-flight sightseers and VATSIM/add-on airliner fans with a strong PC who want a realistic whole-planet sim
Main risk
Buying for career mode, which is bugged and fails long missions, or being locked out by login problems
What changed in the last 30 days
117 recent reviews
Recent positive reviewers say the sim has matured after Sim Updates, now beating MSFS 2020 on performance and add-on support. Recent negatives still center on career bugs and login issues. Confidence is moderate.
117 recent reviews
What players love
Realistic flight and aircraft immersion
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“MSFS is close enough to the real thing that I'm constantly in awe of it.”
Steam review · 34.8 h played ↗
Greatly improved after rough launch
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Now with SU4 - one year later - it overtakes 2020 in all areas. Better graphics, better flightmodel, more FPS, all the important addons...its fantastic now, buy it.”
Steam review · 118.2 h played ↗
Huge world to explore, good for sightseeing
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“its literally js a 1:1 creation of earth with planes.”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗
Great for VATSIM and third-party add-ons
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“If you like me come from MSFS2020 just to do freeflight and realistic airliner flying(Like Vatsim), its excellent”
Steam review · 396.1 h played ↗
Career mode enjoyable for some
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“I have enjoyed the career mode too much, it needs a lot of strategy and it's full of surprises”
Steam review · 186.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
Pervasive bugs and broken aircraft systems
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“LITERALLY EVERY PLANE has at least 1 bug”
Steam review · 83.5 h played ↗
Career mode is bugged and wastes hours
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“You can spend three hours on a flight, land it clean, taxi all the way to your parking spot - and then have the whole thing thrown away because the HP on one tyre drops to 0% under normal braking.”
Steam review · 59.7 h played ↗
Crashes, freezes and poor optimization
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“I've spent more time restarting the game after it crashes than actually playing it at this point.”
Steam review · 2.8 h played ↗
Poor ATC, repetitive AI voices and confusing UI/controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“The ATC system is unhinged.”
Steam review · 142.3 h played ↗
Microsoft/Xbox login and authentication failures
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Game is UNPLAYABLE DUE TO INFINITE ACCOUNT AUTHENTICATION ERRORS.”
Steam review · 33.8 h played ↗
Expensive with marketplace microtransactions
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Why is this game such a money grab!?!?!? It continuously pushes you to the marketplace OVER and OVER and OVER.”
Steam review · 4.6 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unsupported50 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10
ProcessorAMD Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel Core i7-6800K
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsRadeon RX 5700 or GeForce GTX 970
Storage50 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10
ProcessorAMD Ryzen 7 2700X or Intel Core i7-10700K
Memory32 GB RAM
GraphicsRadeon RX 5700 XT or GeForce RTX 2080
Storage50 GB available space
OSWindows 10
ProcessorAMD Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel Core i7-6800K
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsRadeon RX 5700 or GeForce GTX 970
Storage50 GB available space
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