Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 8, under the fair line, at $69.99.
- Length
- 62.2h
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 60% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 78% over the last 30 days against 60% all-time.
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 2 of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 25% ($52.49)
- Last discount ended
- 31 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Radeon RX 5700 or GeForce GTX 970, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Explore the world with our largest fleet of aircraft and take simulation to new heights while pursuing your aviation career within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $48.99. 5 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. On the same math Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition ($59.99, scores 33) and AirportSim ($34.99, scores 14) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Players rate it 60 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 78 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 22 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 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 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 354 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 22 percent of the 1,543 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 62.2 hours; clearing it takes 270, which is 4.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
94% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2,836 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
There are a few good flight sims out there, but I bought this one with the career as a primary motivating factor. That said, I will base my review on the career for those others like me who are considering this game solely for that reason. If you want to buy this game to enjoy a fun and engaging career flying planes, look elsewhere. The career in this game is a massive and incredibly disappointing bust, and I will...
i cant play the game in my library that i own because my old microsoft account which got hacked is linked to it. thanks microsoft
Absolutely incredible game. I spent 20 minutes setting up my flight, another 15 minutes staring at the loading screen, and then immediately crashed into a tree because I forgot to turn off the parking brake. The graphics are so good that my PC started sounding like an actual aircraft engine so much realism absolutely recommend. My GPU is currently somewhere between takeoff and TO/GA. Tried landing a 747 once. The...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2537590/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length 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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