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Heliborne Collection

You pilot military helicopters spanning several decades, taking on reconnaissance, attack, and air-assault roles. Aircraft differ in their weapons and in whether they can carry troops. Battlefield tasks include capturing bases, attacking ground targets, transporting soldiers or cargo, and supporting advancing forces. Frontline matches feature ground-vehicle convoys, while Domination centers on capturing points. Play solo, in co-op sandbox missions with procedurally generated tasks, or in competitive multiplayer. A research progression system unlocks helicopters and weapon options, and the flight model includes momentum and inertia.

Fly combat helicopters, support ground troops, and capture bases across battles inspired by conflicts from Vietnam to Kosovo.

Released 12 Oct 2017

74%positive of
4.0k player reviews

$29.99

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Military

Flight

Massively Multiplayer

War

Fly Attack Helicopters

Deploy Ground Troops

Capture Frontline Bases

Rotary-wing aviation and helicopter combat with a dynamic battlefield and the support of ground forces. Appreciated for MMO elements and an addictive gameplay loop. Use tactics and make strategic decisions or fly around and shoot in historically accurate maps.

Developed by Klabater · Published by Klabater

Going Heliborne with them choppers so I can win the Unreal Tournament!

Players Praise Most

Helicopter Variety
Combined-Arms Battles
Accessible Flight
Co-op Missions

Common Player Critiques

Sparse Multiplayer
Repetitive Missions
Hard-to-Spot Enemies
Clumsy Controls

74%

positive of 4.0k player reviews

71/100

Metacritic

From the Devs

Helicopters are widely considered to "have come of age” during the Vietnam conflict. Over the following decades, they have become integral to the military's very way of life. Heliborne seeks to showcase rotary wing aviation as it’s evolved over five decades of conflict, support, and development.

Heliborne offers 6 major maps inspired by the largest military conflicts in the history of mankind and their locations until the 2000s:

Operation Nguyen Hue in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam
Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan
Khost Region in Afghanistan
Kosovo
Binomo Islands
Training ground - in addition to the maps, pilots can make test flights on a training polygon map, before getting into the real battles.

The multiplayer offers two principal game modes: Domination and Frontline.

The Domination mode offers standard capture-the-flag gameplay. It is active on maps Badakhshan and Gulf of Tonkin.

In Frontline mode, the bases are captured by players, and ground vehicles spawn in convoys and move across the map to fortify bases and positions.
This mode is active on maps: Operation Nguyen Hue, Khost Region, and Kosovo.

The solo and co-op Sandbox missions offer procedurally generated tasks based on the Frontline mode.

The load-outs for each in-game helicopter are based entirely on historically accurate weapons systems employed in the actual combat operations.

The flight system in Heliborne models over 70 different aspects of flight per helicopter. This includes momentum and inertia dynamics.

There are three classes of helicopters: Attack, Air-Assault, and Reconnaissance, and some of them can add a new level to the dynamic battlefield by carrying ground units.

Scout (reconnaissance) helicopters are small, fast, and may or may not carry a small number of soldiers.
Attack helicopters are dedicated to air-to-air or air-to-ground operations and they carry no troops.
The Air-Assault helicopters typically carry a mix of troops and weapons and can fill multiple roles in combat.

The Airborne Troops, MANPADS or “Man-Portable Air Defense system”, RPG soldiers, and mortar troops can be deployed anyplace, on any map.
The ground vehicles include Tanks, Troop Carriers, and Anti-Aircraft Artillery.

over 40 legendary helicopters, including models from 1955 to the 2000s
over 100 possible payload variants
5 wide open maps, inspired by historical conflicts and locations, including The Gulf of Tonkin (Vietnam), Operation Nguyen Hue (Vietnam), Badakhshan Province (Afghanistan), Khost Region (Afghanistan), and Kosovo
single-player, co-op, and competitive multiplayer for up to 16 players
fully supported gamepads, flight sticks, and keyboard & mouse

refreshed UI and reworked visuals
additional prototype machines
night versions of maps
an upgraded game engine
updated in-game physics

Back of the Box

Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux
Steam Deck	Playable
Achievements	50
Age ratings	ClassInd (Brazil) 10 — Violência IGRS (Indonesia) 18 — Kekerasan Penggunaan bahasa Interaksi Daring Steam (Germany) 16 — Drastische Gewalt Derbe Sprache
Controller support	Xbox
Controller required	No
Content notices	Online interactivity
Metacritic	71/100 View on Metacritic