Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.14/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 26,589
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 182.1h
- To 100%
- 1625h 8.9x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 59 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $2.49 June 2025
- Sale every
- 55d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 446 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 59 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, X-Plane 11 ($29.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats BeamNG.drive ($24.99, scores 67).
More about Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 23 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 760 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 2,378 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 182.1 hours. Doing everything runs 1625, 8.9 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 17 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
this still the best and most useable flight simulator with all kinds of free addons on Simvation.
1 more review
I've been playing FSX for nearly a decade and I have to say that it is one of the best experiences for simulation flying. While its age is showing, it makes up for its simple set up, efficiency, and flexibility. With tons of freeware aircraft available on the internet, there are tons of open options for all types of flyers. My main issue? I keep coming across a bug where my FSX has a significantly high chance of...
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About the game
Take to the skies in the World’s favourite flight simulator! The multi award winning Microsoft Flight Simulator X lands on Steam for the first time. Take off from anywhere in the world, flying some of the world’s most iconic aircraft to any one of 24,000 destinations.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/314160/microsoft-flight-simulator-x-steam-editionReviews 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.