Glider Sim
Experience the ultimate sensation of gliding through the sky!
Glider Sim is a professional paragliding and paramotor simulator built for real pilots in mind and is aiming to achieve photorealistic graphics! The sim can be played outside VR or inside VR. We recommend playing in Virtual Reality as it provides the highest level of immersion!
The simulator takes place in Sun Valley, ID, United States. The scenery is derived from real world satellite imagery and overlaid with high resolution textures, grass, trees and wildflowers! The scenery also includes custom placed roads, houses, buildings, power lines, soaring eagles, cruising airplanes and more! We are striving to create a beautiful living environment with many placed detailed scenery objects that you can discover as you fly and explore the map.
Lots of attention went into the flight physics of the gliders as well as the wind and thermal system. Set your launch point and flying conditions then takeoff into the skies! Use wind current such as ridge lift and thermals to stay airborne, or if you’re using the powered paramotor (Paramotor Trike) throttle up and cruise over the detailed scenery. You can toggle on and off the wind visualization particle systems as well as change other flight conditions such as wind speed and direction.
Experience state of the art flight physics where each cell of the glider is modeled and has physics applied! You can do maneuvers such as wingovers, spirals, stalls, and swoops. Watch out and don’t let your wing collapse!
More features we hope to add to the game during Early Access is as follows:
- Scored Challenges/ Missions.
- Multiplayer
- Updates to scenery such as more trees, rocks, houses, road traffic and detailed buildings.
- More gliders to choose from such as speedwings, miniwings and hang gliders.
Don’t forget to share this experience with your fellow gliding enthusiasts and we look forward to hearing your feedback in the community hub as we continue development!
See you in the skies!
——–Special Note ———
If you are interested in hooking up Glider Sim to a harness while in VR we have a separate edition called Glider Sim – Harness Edition. It includes bonus features such as flight tracking and post flight analysis tools. Meant for Instructors and the die hard paragliding pilots. Please go to 5drealities.com/games/GliderSim_Harness.aspx website to learn more.
Game Discussion
Steam User 5
Experienced on the Meta Quest 3
You can view my gameplay & early impressions here:
I enjoyed this experience more than I thought I would. This game / app has basically the depth behind it if you're really serious about a gliding simulator. However, if you're not serious about gliding, it's also a quirky way to visit spots all around the world (using the Earth Online subscription).
Now, some of you may be turned off by the Earth Online costs. That's fine. You really don't need to get it to enjoy this gliding experience. However, if you do, you will have a pass to visit all around the world where there's Google Maps. That includes multiplayer. Just imagine hang gliding with your bestie in Paris, France or London, England or Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. It's thrilling, but also approachable by the most casual of gamers.
Keep in mind, there's really only 3 detailed locations without the Earth Online subscription. So the sub is almost mandatory if you're looking at this as a tourist-type app for VR. I think it's worth it. You get 30 days free to try it out just for purchasing the main game though. I never buy subscriptions, but I'll be making an exception for this experience.
Rate 7.5/10.
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Steam User 2
The new Earth Online plus mode is amazing. The quality of the environment rivals MSFS2020, and being able to paraglide from my backyard virtually is quite the experience. I stream VR to my Quest over Steam Link - it works great.
Steam User 0
Mainly flown the PG, excellent simulator. Love the raptors flying with you, they're good indicators as the clouds are all the same & a bit small to get to before they dissipate. In the XC it is easier just to use ridge lift, given the time taken to sniff out thermals.
Would be great to have some collapse situations (wing-tips from thermals to asymmetrics/frontals from rotor, etc) and more focus on active flying; I understand that this would be a huge project. It would probably just be a PG only sim to get all this in. Also big-ears having a (dedicated) control & ability to stall/recover (or not).
This has replaced my reliance on MS Flight Sim for soaring since they ruined the whole experience.
It crashed when I was flying using the world map, but the maps included offer a lot of potential. Great job, thank you.
Steam User 0
as the game develops , the realism is gaining credentials. getting lost in a cloud building above a ridge, after a great climb was a great addition.
Steam User 0
A great addition to Flight Simulator lovers, It is better to add a mini helicopter to enjoy the Google Earth sceneries in VR.
Steam User 0
I've just gotten my first wing in real life and this game has been amazing when the weather is not good. Always getting updated and improved. Would highly recommend this game for anyone the wants to start or does paragliding.
Steam User 0
Having Been A Hangglider pilot for more than 37 yrs its a real joy to be able to go back and fly at some of the old sites that i have not flown in years. This Sim is so close to the real deal. I can wait to try it on VR.