The most popular flight simulation games

The most common kind of vehicle simulation is without doubt flight simulation involving planes or helicopters of any kind. There are two distinct types of flight simulation games: the ones focused on aerial combat (often involving historical scenarios, missions, etc.) and the ones based on civilian flight.

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SimCopter

Windows XP/98/951996 Maxis

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

DOS1991 LucasArts

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe is a combat flight simulation game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (later known as LucasArts) in 1991. It was designed for MS-DOS systems and later released for Amiga computers. The game ...

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat

DOS1991 Electronic Arts

Chuck Yeager's Air Combat is a combat flight simulation video game released in 1991 by Electronic Arts. The game is named after and endorsed by the real-life aviation legend, Chuck Yeager, who was the first pilot to break the soun...

Jet

DOS1985 subLOGIC

Tracon for Windows

Windows 3.x1993 Wesson International

LHX Attack Chopper

DOS1990 Electronic Arts

F-16 Combat Pilot

DOS1989 Digital Integration

EF 2000

DOS1995 Digital Image Design

Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0

DOSMac OS1989 The Bruce Artwick Organization

Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0 (MSFS 4.0) is a flight simulation game released by Microsoft in 1989 for MS-DOS. It was the fourth major version of the Microsoft Flight Simulator series and introduced several improvements over its ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0

DOS1988 subLOGIC

Thud Ridge

DOS1988 ACME Interactive

Blue Max: Aces of the Great War

DOS1990protected Artech Studios

Forget missiles—Blue Max: Aces of the Great War takes you back to when air combat meant leather helmets, canvas wings, and a healthy fear of gravity. Released in 1990 for DOS, it’s a flight sim that drops you into WWI&...

Jetset

DOS1982

Air Strike USA

DOS1990 Digital Integration

Released in 1990, Air Strike USA is what you'd get if Top Gun had a baby with a Saturday morning cartoon. You pilot a heavily armed jet through side-scrolling skies, shooting down everything that moves and quite a few things that ...

RAPCON: Military Air Traffic Control Simulator

DOS1989 Wesson International

F29 Retaliator

DOS1990protected Digital Image Design

F-15 Strike Eagle

DOS1985demo MicroProse Software

Solo Flight

DOS1985 MicroProse Software

Not many people know that the first games created by Sid Meier were flight simulations. Solo Flight was published by MicroProse in 1983 for Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari, and a year later, in 1984, for PC. The game takes place in ...

Overlord

DOS1994 Rowan Software

Cougar Force

DOS1990 Coktel Vision

MiG-29 Fulcrum

DOS1991 Simis Limited

Tornado

DOS1993protected Digital Integration

F-22 Lightning 2

DOS1996 NovaLogic

Extreme Assault

DOS1997 Blue Byte Software

David Wolf: Secret Agent

DOS1989 Dynamix

Jetfighter 2: Advanced Tactical Fighter

DOS1990 Velocity

Apache Longbow

DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected Digital Integration

Step into the cockpit of the Apache Longbow, a 1995 combat flight simulator where you’ll experience the thrilling sensation of trying to figure out keyboard controls before getting shot down by invisible enemies. It's a seri...

Flying Corps

DOSWindows 3.x1997protected Rowan Software

Advanced Tactical Fighter 2

DOS1990 Digital Integration

Strap in and squint at the horizon—Advanced Tactical Fighter 2 wants you to dogfight like it’s the Cold War and your joystick is a weapon of mass confusion. Released in the golden era of chunky graphics and keyboard gy...