Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition ▶ Trailer
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Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 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.

Developer
Asobo Studio
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Franchise
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Release date
Aug 25, 2026
Store page updated
Aug 25, 2026
Price
$59.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

59.0/ 100

Based on 348 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 77% of 499
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 79% of 73,053
“meaningful tool that challenges mental abilities”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.14
Onboarding -1.04
“Required signing into Microsoft, Xbox, confusing UI, three separate installations totaling 60GB before playing.” (14)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+1.27
World +3.79
“convincing copy of planet earth, landmark achievement in simulation” (20)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+2.06
Volume +1.77
“huge map, variety of aircraft, many missions” (10)
всем привет кто хочет купить эту игру! я перечислю все минусы и плюсы. Минусы на клавиатуре играть не возможно для того что бы нормально играть нужен геймпад в идеале вообще специализированный джостик thrustmaster, Очень дорогие допы в самой игре (моды из инета не считаем), старая карта если вы хотите полетать в новом месте (построеное после 2020 года) и последний минус очень долгая загрузка и при входе и первичная загрузка плюсы огромная карта,разнообразие самолетов,очень много заданий и есть допы из интернета (ОЧЕНЬ ОСТОРОЖНО скачивай только с ПРОВЕРЕННЫХ сайтов что бы не нахватать вирусов)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+2.88
Visuals +3.45
“visually exceptional with realistic environments and atmospheric effects” (83)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+2.83

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +3.67

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-2.35
Monetization -2.49
“price could be cheaper according to reviewer” (25)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-3.05
Performance -2.53
“130GB+ updates prevent playing, 31 hours downloading with no flight yet” (58)

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
60%70%80%90%
Aug 2020Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 494 reviews, peak 27/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 348 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English53%
  • Russian9%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Chinese6%
  • Spanish5%
  • French4%
  • Other14%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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