Indie · December 17, 2015

SimplePlanes (2015)

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BUILD AIRPLANES You have the tools you need to bring any airplane to life. Snap parts together to build your airplane's body. Place engines to add thrust. Design and attach wings and then strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies. DOWNLOAD AIRPLANES Over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free from Find anything from old WW2 bombers to next generation fighters to sci-fi spacecrafts. You can upload your own airplanes and rise through the ranks from a bronze builder to a gold level builder. LOOKING FOR VR? Are you looking for the new SimplePlanes VR? After you get to the bottom of this page, you can check out the list showing a quick comparison between SimplePlanes and SimplePlanes VR. DYNAMIC FLIGHT MODEL Flight simulation at its finest. Every little decision you make while designing will impact how you fly it. Weight distribution, thrust, lift, and drag are all calculated continuously while flying. Parts can break off in a spectacular fashion while you're flying due to over-stress or by impacting something. The fun won't stop there though. You can keep on flying even with a missing wing if you've got the skills. CHALLENGES Climb in to the cockpit of one of your craft and see how you fare piloting it in the challenges. The challenges will keep you entertained for hours. Land on aircraft carriers, escort bombers, dodge surface-to-air missiles, race through courses, and so much more. SANDBOX Use all available parts to build airplanes with no restrictions. The sky is the limit. Literally. MODDING Modding is fully supported so you can build your own parts and environments. Download our Unity package which includes specially designed tools to aid in designing and building mods which you can then share with your friends and the community. Still have a question about SimplePlanes vs. SimplePlanes VR? Let's see if this helps... Both games have access to the same crafts* SimplePlanes includes an aircraft builder, SimplePlanes VR does not. Except for those which require building; all challenges, islands, locations, aircraft, etc. are available in both games. Buying both of them on Steam will automatically enable VR in SimplePlanes. After VR is enabled in SimplePlanes you can do everything there, without switching games. *See SimplePlanes VR's store page for information related to downloading crafts in VR.

Indie releases from 2015

32 Indie titles launched in 2015 — top 6 by review volume.

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Flight · 376
  • Sandbox · 368
  • Automation · 364
  • Physics · 363
  • Building · 360
  • Exploration · 356
  • Racing · 339
  • Automobile Sim · 334
  • Combat Racing · 328
  • Controller · 328
  • Military · 328
  • 3D · 325
  • Open World · 321
  • Strategy · 317
  • Funny · 309

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume10.5k Steam reviewsTop 25% in Indie
Positive rating93% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 37%
Metacritic69/100Genre average 77 — top 91% of Indie titles
Engagement hours19 h averageTop 32% for session depth among Indie

Reception Metrics

Steam community

93%Very Positive · 10.5k reviews

9.7k positive · 733 negative

Metacritic

69/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

9.6k

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

19h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

0h

Current engagement

Achievements

72

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateDec 17, 2015
DeveloperJundroo, LLC
Base price$4.54 -65%
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Partial Controller Support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

  • Buy SimplePlanes