Airplane Mode

Hot on the heels of the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, which has reignited the Flight Simulator with amazing graphics, maps generated by Machine Learning that allows you to fly anywhere in the world and spot your own house I received an email in my inbox.

This email was ground breaking, a press release promising “The Most Realistic Flight Simulation Ever Created”, could Microsoft big come back be short lived after flight sim fans waited a fourteen long years? Will Flight Sim fans not just get a massive amazing update to the iconic original Flight Simulator but a competing realistic flight simulator in the same year?

Well like buses it seems that you wait ages for a flight sim game and then two arrive at once and, like a bus, the leg room in this flight sim is a little more restricted.

Airplane Mode Announcement Trailer

If you want to know what travelling around the world for work looks and feels like, as someone that travels globally for work under normal circumstances this game looks the most accurate depiction yet.

The game bills itself as a“A spiritual successor to Penn and Teller’s cult hit mini-game Desert Bus”, a game described by Simon Parkin in his New Yorker review as the “Very Worst Video Game Ever Created”, Airplane Mode “encourages players to sit back — but not too much, this is Coach after all — and experience the Zen-like routines of commercial flying.”

“Six hours can be a big investment of time, so we’re happy to offer this shorter flight option for players who want to experience Airplane Mode on a tight schedule. And for those folks, I have just two words: O, Canada!” said Hosni Auji, Airplane Mode’s creator in the press release. “We’re also excited to have Bennett lend his voice to a key member of our crew. As an early advisor on the game, he helped mold it into the singular and somewhat quirky experience that it is today.”

What does the game promise?

Here are just a few of the things you can do in Airplane Mode:

• Grab a window seat, and stare in silence at the slowly passing clouds as you try to make time go faster through sheer force of will.

• Experience a more realistic depiction of how people really fly than even the most ambitious AAA flight simulations launching in 2020. For example, players can enjoy the myriad delights of their carry-on luggage, including a book, and a pen. And headphones!

• No learning curve! Players can pick up and play without the need for extensive tutorials, instructions, or — strictly speaking — consciousness.

• Other flight simulators give you high-definition cockpits with a billion switches and dials, but Airplane Mode is the only one that offers a realistically rendered seatback trays.

• Enjoy an inflight safety video from AMC Games’ “slightly off” network sibling IFC.

Need to know more? Add Airplane Mode to your Steam Wishlist to get updates on announcements, release date, and more: https://store.steampowered.com/app/931310/Airplane_Mode/

PC System Requirements

The specifications the developer suggests Airplane Mode will need to run are a little modest the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

This has genuinely made me laugh throughout writing this article and brightened my day, if there is ever a release of this game let me know if you’d like to see this played on stream.

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