X-Plane 11
BANGER · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 67% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$9.8967% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.57/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 20,432
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.89 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 53h
Price and sales
- Sales
- 46 on record
- Typical cut
- 42% off
- Steam low
- $9.89 December 2023
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 418 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
46 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 42 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 ($69.99, scores 9) and Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition ($59.99, scores 33), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $46.39. It costs $29.99.
More about X-Plane 11
22 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 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 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 518 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 876 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $14.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 26 days ago.
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
What players say
It's good, but it's not as good as Microsoft Flight Simulator. That's my opinion.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The future of flight simulation is now! X-Plane 11 is the detailed, realistic, and modern simulator you’ve been waiting for. Intuitive user interface, 3-D cockpits, new effects, 3-D sound, living airports and world-wide scenery.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DirectX 11-capable video card from NVIDIA or AMD w/512 MB VRAM, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
X-Plane 11 scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/269950/x-plane-11Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.