X-Plane 11
BANGER · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 53h
- Value
- $0.57/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.89, set in December 2023. 44 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 42 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
Value 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 6) 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 $46.18. It costs $29.99.
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 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 558 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.
Players
381 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
It's good, but it's not as good as Microsoft Flight Simulator. That's my opinion.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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X-Plane 11 scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/269950/x-plane-11The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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