Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition
Skip · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 73,520
- Critics
- 91 players 12 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 41% Strategy
Holding it back: DRM, Refunds
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 43
Price and sales
- Sales
- 28 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $20.99 February 2026
- Sale every
- 52d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,310 now
- Recent reviews
- 83% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 75% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
63% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
28 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, X-Plane 11 ($29.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 ($69.99, scores 9).
More about Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 91 against 79 percent.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 36 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 260 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 23 of the 36 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. In its first 30 days on sale, 4 of 128 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 1,819 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 17 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
About the game
From gliders and helicopters to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570, 150 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).
Cite this score
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1250410/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-40th-anniversary-editionReviews set the ceiling. With no length in our data, value sits at a neutral middle whatever the price, and the BANG Score is docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.