X-Plane 12

Ultra-Realistic Flight Simulation

X-Plane 12 is a simulation, flight and 3d game developed and published by Laminar Research.
Released on December 17th 2022 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Ukrainian.

It has received 3,638 reviews of which 3,016 were positive and 622 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 52.25€ on Steam and has a 33% discount.

The Steam community has classified X-Plane 12 into these genres:

Simulation Flight 3D VR Realistic Immersive Sim Action-Adventure 3D Vision First-Person Jet Atmospheric Military Relaxing Controller Choices Matter Moddable Open World Physics Tutorial Co-op

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 or 11
Processor: Intel Core i3, i5, i7, or i9 CPU with 4 or more cores, or AMD Ryzen 3, 5, 7 or 9.
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: A Vulkan 1.3-capable video card from NVIDIA or AMD with at least 2 GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 23 GB available space
VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC
Additional Notes: NVIDIA: GeForce 900 or newer, driver version 510 or newerAMD: AMD Radeon RX 500 or newer, driver version Adrenaline 22.2.1 or newer.

MacOS

OS: MacOS 12.00 (Monterey) or Newer
Processor: Intel Core i3, i5, i7, or i9 CPU with 4 or more cores, or AMD Ryzen 3, 5, 7 or 9.
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 500 or newer, driver version Adrenaline 22.2.1 or newer
Storage: 23 GB available space

Linux

OS: Varies
Processor: Intel Core i3, i5, i7, or i9 CPU with 4 or more cores, or AMD Ryzen 3, 5, 7 or 9.
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: A Vulkan 1.3-capable video card from NVIDIA or AMD with at least 2 GB VRAM
Storage: 23 GB available space
Additional Notes: We have developers using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and newer successfully, however we don’t provide support for specific distributions. We require proprietary GPU drivers.

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Nov. 2024

After the disaster of MSFS 2024, i decided to switch to Xplane 12...Although the graphics might not compare out of the box, everything else is amazing, the physics, the huge amount of failure options to chose from. with a few payware and also freeware mods. this is quite the sim!!! and they are always improving. 100% recommend this over MSFS 2024 if you are looking for a real sim!!!

Sept. 2024

I started with flight simulators way back in the 90's when fs was delivered on a 7" floppy disk. The "earth" was a green expanse with white lines denoting runways. I thought this was marvellous and sent my wire frame aircraft up over the green expanse below. Since that time I had almost every version of MS Flight Simulator, Prepare 3D, FSX, FSX Acceleration, IL Sturmovik, World of Flight and some I can't even remember. Even Combat Flight Simulator! With the demise of FSX, I really thought that was the end of my flight simming days. Then I discovered X-Plane. OK, I only started on X-Plane 11 and immediately loved it. After doing thousands of hours I was satisfied with only loading Africa scenery. I took the decision to stay only in Africa, and South Africa. Not that I have anything against other parts of the world, but I spent many, many hours in Europe, the USA, Oceania and now at my age, i settled down to my own country. And I love every moment of it! The sheer pleasure of trying different aircraft, amazed at the time and energy developers put into it. The precision of the avionics, the hours spent on perfecting the different aircraft was staggering! I did not even have to look at other flight simulator platforms. X-Plane had it all. Lastly. Austin Meyer became a household name in the x-plane community. I can't remember a senior developer exposing himself as much and putting in as much as Austin. Something I did not experience with all the other available flight simulator platforms. At 75 years of age, change does not come easy anymore.

Aug. 2024

Having played DCS and combat sims for years, I picked up and played MSFS since launch mostly flying General Aviation type aircraft like the Cessna 172 or the Caravan 208B. In 2023 I moved to airliners starting with the Fenix A320 and not long after I got a bit fed up with the wobbly, sensitive and bouncy flight model in MSFS. Where everything reacts instantly and floats down the runway due to sudden jerk motions with even the slightest pressure during the flare. Then I switched to X-Plane 12 to try it out paired with the ToLiss A320. Graphically, I was spoiled. It took quite a while to get used to X-Plane's scenery having come from MSFS where everything looks real. As far as X-Plane is concerned, the major city that I live in barely even exists. As for the flight handling and modelling, it was a night and day difference. Planes feel like they actually weigh something in X-Plane. They demonstrate inertia, resisting your inputs to a degree. Since then I've racked up lots of hours and picked up aircraft from the likes of ToLiss (A319, A320, A321 and A340), FlightFactor (777v2, 757, 767), IXEG, X-Aviation and X-Crafts. Lots of great aircraft. I've improved the scenery with Ortho4XP combined using Sonny's LiDAR sources for terrain elevation and X-Plane, naturally, has begun to look better with each update that Laminar have released. Yes, X-Plane is expensive and I'd say that MSFS is generally more accessible. If you don't have money to burn, or you plan to fly VFR only with GA, then I'd pick MSFS. However, what X-Plane does give you is a flight model that actually feels like you're flying a plane and not something that displays virtually no inertia, reacts instantly and is far too sensitive.

July 2024

Best sim right now, coming from somebody who regularly flies in real life. If you want to make the sim look better, which most including me do, install AutoOrtho for MSFS-like scenery streaming and SimHeaven scenery for greatly improved objects in the scenery. Looks great. Download the Zibo 737 for free and if you'd like a long hauler either the FF767 or the Toliss A340, XPRealistic is also a must in my opinion. Edit: Wait for the FF777V2 for a long hauler now as its just around the corner and is in testing. Double edit: The FF777v2 is probably the best airliner available for any sim

July 2024

---{ 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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-33% 77.99€ 52.25€

8.0

3,016

622

Online players

690

Developer

Laminar Research

Publisher

Laminar Research

Release 17 Dec 2022

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