Microsoft Flight Simulator

I really enjoy my computer turning into an actual jet engine trying to run this game! Flying is fun and it heats my house!

---{ 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
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☑ 9
☐ 10

So Microsoft Flight Simulator is a fantastic way to enjoy the planet, flying and all of it's wonders from the comfort of your chair. The simulator can be as simple or as realistic as you want it to be, it can be a money pit in which some of us could have bought a house or it can cost virtually nothing. Be prepared to spend an age downloading it and all of it's associated content, be prepared to face problems but if you persist, it might just be enough to make yourself forget you're in your house and not in the skies somewhere. At this stage of it's development, I would definitely recommend it to anyone on the fence or who just haven't bought it yet. I've flown countless hours around the USA, Europe and Asian territories and found every minute of it to be an eye opening and stunning experience.

---{ 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
---{ 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
---{Community }---
☐ NPC Guide is my best friend (It's Offline bruh)
☑ Family Friendly
☐ Average
☐ 17+
☐ Nothing to do here
---{Rating }---
☐ 1
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☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☑ 9
☐ 10

Buyer beware. It takes 10 hours to download the mandatory install which is close to 130gb.
I bought it on sale to play the free Dune expansion and its very much worth it.

The game title is slightly misleading, It is called "Flight Simulator", however, more accurate term is "Download Simulator".
The players are challenged with downloading gigabytes of mandatory updates, pushed out at random times throughout the year, while looking at the pictures of various planes and helicopters. (I guess that is the "Flight" portion).
The game also offers a unique feature: a download progress bar that can actually move backwards and well as forward, so the player has to guess when the download will actually finish, if at all.
While the download may succeed, the update can still fail (that is the "simulation" part of the game),. In this case the process will repeat again, which offers an excellent replayability value.
The game comes from a small indie developer called "Microsoft", therefore, some growing pains and occasional bugs are expected. With refreshing honesty, the developer also freely admits its inexperience with this genre right in the title of this release: "40th Anniversary".
The devs have also promised to release a new version in 2024, in which the download simulation process will happen not before but during the game, offering even more excitement.

Although this sim has some issues or limitations it is the best flight simulator available right now. Warning for steam users with slower internet - game is huge and sometimes downloads are quite slow. It goes even over the 2 hours testing period (game refund). Basically you spend your refund window for game to install. It can take even 2-5 hours before you will be able to play and that is only mandatory install and updates - latest game version. If you want better textures for scenery then there is already 17 large world updates (my guess is another 100gb+).

If you want to try flight simulator and you havent bought this game yet I recommend to wait for November 2024 when the successor MSFS24 is going to be released.