Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition
From gliders and helicopters to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition is a simulation, flight and realistic game
developed by Asobo Studio
and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on August 17th 2020 is available only on Windows
in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish.
It has received 63,694 reviews of which 50,297 were positive and 13,397 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 69.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i5-4460 | AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 770 | AMD Radeon RX 570
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 150 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR, Oculus PC, or OpenXR. Keyboard and mouse required
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After 2,549.1 hours of playing this game I have finally decided that now is the time to post a review. My review? It's a pretty good game. My final verdict: "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020: the only game that ends up costing about as much as what it simulates."
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Microsoft Flight Simulator is overall an amazing game. In terms of graphics, it cannot be beaten. The map is detailed and very accurate to real life in most circumstances, and its always fun to fly over your favourite place or your home city. I personally enjoyed flying over the beautiful mountains of Queenstown New Zealand. When it comes to gameplay and the cockpits, not all buttons work, which is expected, as it is more off a "sim-cade" than a fully fledged simulator, such as DCS. Modded aircrafts can be easily added to the game, and in many cases, depending on the aircrafts developer, the mod can be such high detail that every button in the cockpit has a purpose! There are of course mostly paid models, but if you know where to look, you can find some very good ones for free! The sound design in this game is excellent. I spent most of my time flying the Airbus A-320, and the sound when you go full thrust for takeoff, and roll along the ground approaching v1, theres nothing like it. It really just helps immerse you in the experience. Overall, it is a great game, but the physics are not 100% accurate or realistic, which is why I have given it the title of a "Sim-cade". Even with all of this positive feedback, a lot of the experience has been broken and ruined for me due to something that has been happening to so many people, the "install/update loop bug". This bug has been out for YEARS, and still they have done NOTHING to fix it. When i first purchased the game, it took me a full 20 hours of having the game open trying to install it. The games install would reach 93%, then the download sleep would hit 0mbps, and then it would drop down to 76%. Once it reached 93% again, same thing would happen. The download speed would reach 0mbps and the download would reset to 76% all over again. After spending a week trying to download it every day, and watching SO MANY tutorials, I eventually found that limiting your download speed on your computer would help the issue occur less, and it worked!!! I was so happy to finally play the game after 20 HOURS of restarting the download due to it LOOPING. Even now, while writing this review, I am unable to play the game due to an update that was added to the game a few weeks ago, because now when installing the update, my download just does the same thing as before, it loops. This wasn't just an issue on my end, as I was in contact with someone last year when installing this game who was having the EXACT SAME PROBLEM. Its such a shame for such a great and enjoyable game to be ruined by a bug like this. But, if you look past that annoying bug, MSFS is an extremely great and memorable game and experience for sim-pilots and aviation enthusiasts alike! 8/10
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☑ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☑ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
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---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Insane ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☑ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1 TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10
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I really enjoy my computer turning into an actual jet engine trying to run this game! Flying is fun and it heats my house!
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Online players
7,754
Developer
Asobo Studio
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Release
17 Aug 2020
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