X-Plane 12
Fair · Multiplayer · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $35.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2022. Buy it now if you want it.
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($35.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 23 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Ultra-Realistic Flight Simulation
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $35.99, set in December 2025. It has been discounted 17 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 33 percent off, with about 14 weeks between sales. Today's $35.99 at 40 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, X-Plane 11 ($29.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator ($59.99, scores 48).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 48 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 171 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 579 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
4 years after release, 764 people were playing it when we last checked, on Sep 28, 10:47 UTC.
Players
764 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 10:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
X-Plane 12 scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2014780/x-plane-12Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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