Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 182.1h
- Value
- $0.14/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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 $2.49, set in June 2025. It has been discounted 57 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. 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).
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 2,862 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 824 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.
Players
About 486 players at once, as of Jul 8.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
this still the best and most useable flight simulator with all kinds of free addons on Simvation.
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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Cite this score
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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