Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Reviews
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a monument to aviation in its broadest and most all-encompassing form. Asobo Studio restarts from the excellent base of the previous chapter to make the Redmond-based company's historic simulation even more vast, majestic and outsized. Stemming the difficulties of the early days related to the cloud infrastructure, the production now opens up with its unparalleled offering, for the first time smiling at the audience that is also looking for a more traditionally playful facility in addition to simulation as an end in itself. With the knowledge that the title will only get better with time (and become even more technically stable), there is no doubt about it: get ready to fly the skies around the world... for real.
Review in Italian | Read full review
If there was one thing missing from the 2020 Flight Simulator, it was a more game-like element to attract a broader audience beyond hardcore fans of the genre. This gap is filled in the sequel with a well-structured career mode that, thanks to a variety of activities, further enhances the simulation aspect, which remains the core of the experience. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a grand achievement that improves on every aspect of its already exceptional predecessor—a more of the same crafted with remarkable intelligence and care by the team at Asobo. While it remains a simulator not suited to every taste, I’m confident it will captivate a new audience, as it did with me.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a detailed flight simulator with grand ambitions, dragged down to earth by technical issues that ruin the overall experience.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a solid improvement on the previous title. Whether or not the addition of the career mode, some new aircraft, and some new scenarios are worth the price tag of an entirely new game or not likely depends on how into this kind of game you are. If you are just into the free flight modes and seeing the world, the 2020 game edition does that almost as well. When playing on the Steam Deck, it might initially seem fine. If you're flying a single prop plane, a fighter jet, or even a small private jet, the performance can be fine, often staying above 25 FPS. But if you try to fly a jetliner, you'll often be playing at around 15-20 FPS, with frequent crashes making the game unplayable. Hopefully, this is just an issue with Proton right now and can be fixed, as well as Asobo optimizing the game, but I wouldn't purchase Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 to play on a Steam Deck.
I imagine this can still be salvaged with a handful of desperately needed updates. When Asobo finishes fixing this game, then Flight Simulator 2024 might actually end up being worth your time. The potential is there, you can clearly see it. As it stands, however, I really don’t care it’s pretty, that it has more content, or a fully-fledged career mode; it’s simply too glitchy and unpolished for me to bother.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is recommended because it delivers what it promises: to take flight simulation to new heights. Any aviation fan will enjoy it for hours thanks to its multiple game modes and the unique immersive experience it offers. However, it should be noted that the title requires a permanent Internet connection.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
But for all its ambition, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 feels weighed down by its own shortcomings. This simulator demands time, patience, and perhaps a little forgiveness. For those willing to embrace its imperfections, the horizon holds incredible promise. But that promise feels like it’s out of reach, lost somewhere in the clouds.
It’s good when it works, and if your machine can handle it.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is packed with content and modes, and taking flight in its hundreds of aircraft is incredible. The landscapes are beautiful to look at, as are the aircraft models, and the network connection for meterelogic data acquisition succeeds in delivering a feeling of continuous realism. Too bad about the disastrous day one, but Asobo is working hard to improve a situation that could have jeopardised the game's launch.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 delivers exciting innovations and an engaging career mode for aviation fans, but issues like weak localization, clunky AI voice acting, and lengthy loading times make it worth considering a wait for future updates.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a simulator that unfortunately loses all its charm with its existential flaws and pales in comparison to its 2020 predecessor.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
From fast-paced, tricky time trials to relaxing photography sessions that are more chill than yoga, this simulator is an aviation fan’s wet dream… Well, when it wants to work, that is. Not only have people had issues simply reaching the main menu after installing the game, but it takes a good 2-3 minutes to start flying on PC every single time; even longer if your internet's as fast as a sleepy koala.