Best Flight Games on Steam
Games about piloting aircraft, gliding, aerial combat, or skybound traversal.
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1Stormworks: Build and Rescue - Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.
Sep 17, 2020
In this game, you can…
- pump water out of an airlock 200 meters underwater, juggling fluid pressure until the chamber clears.
- build a missile that loiters around a waypoint until a target appears, then guides itself in for a strike.
- use radar automation to coordinate an automatic drone firefighter swarm as a tiny robotic emergency fleet.
- design your own air-sea rescue fleet, then take it into storms to fight fires, repair oil rigs, and run power stations.
- wire a full command center with cameras, live monitors, and radios you built, then run the whole vehicle remotely.
- iterate a boat through failures until it becomes a 200+ km/h hydrofoil that outruns most multiplayer craft.
- design a pipeline that flexes with waves, locks together, and feeds an oil rig while a tug boat holds everything in place.
- fly a helicopter through heavy winds and land it in rough seas, where the waves are big enough to punish bad design.
2Brick Rigs - Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!
Jul 14, 2023
In this game, you can…
- spawn a car, start driving, and get obliterated by a thermonuclear pizza flying past at mach 23.
- spawn a full McDonald's, then hit it at light speed with a flying cigarette box and watch the whole building explode apart.
- crash a nuclear-cargo train off a bridge and turn it into a city-sized wreck.
- build a working tank, invite friends, and blow enemy LEGO tanks into pieces in multiplayer battles.
- snap together custom LEGO vehicles fast in the editor, then drive them and rewatch the wrecks in slow motion.
- download workshop creations like helicopters, planes, APCs, and trains, then throw them into derbies, dogfights, races, and custom maps.
- build vehicles from scratch using steering, suspension, sensors, and logic, then finally get a fully functional machine rolling.
- trigger explosions so huge they can crash a multiplayer server or even your PC.
3Besiege - Besiege is a physics building game about constructing medieval machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
Feb 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- stack millions of bombs under a rocket, set them off, and get launched kilometers into the air as burning debris rains down.
- build a self-stabilizing VTOL airship with 12 missiles, turrets, a cargo bay with doors, a cockpit view, and jet boost.
- build a catapult to launch a boulder, then watch the boulder launch the catapult and still win.
- build a spiked go-cart, then keep escalating into catapults, flying machines, and other siege contraptions.
- plant a bladed windmill on a post and let incoming birds fly into it.
- use hinge parts as tank tracks and roll a handmade tank across the battlefield.
- create a walking robot with cannon arms, a flamethrower mouth, and a helicopter head that still moves and fights.
- turn on god powers to ignite anything, drag machines around, switch to zero gravity, and make builds invincible for testing.
4Trailmakers - Build the ultimate vehicle and explore a vast open world filled with challenges and adventure. Play solo or team up with friends in multiplayer to conquer the toughest obstacles. With a thrilling campaign mode and endless creative possibilities, Trailmakers is the ultimate sandbox for adventurers.
Sep 18, 2019
In this game, you can…
- go to space in your own build, fly through a starfield, and test it against space pirates.
- bolt logic blocks into your builds until your machines behave like programmable contraptions.
- drop into multiplayer, spawn a tank in the middle of your friend's build session, and open fire on their latest creation.
- turn a little car into a flying machine by slapping on wings and a few thrusters.
- start with a bare-minimum buggy, then snowball through rafts, bigger tires, stronger engines, hoists, and pontoons as you recover parts.
- hunt salvage tucked into hard-to-reach spots, then haul it back with whatever vehicle you can invent to reach it.
- fly a custom hover ship into a volcano, grab a critical salvage piece, and get back out in one piece.
- build a submarine and dive into deep trenches to reach loot and routes that other vehicles can't touch.
- spawn a giant vehicle with hundreds of parts and push the physics until the game starts to struggle.
5The Plan - A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.
Feb 14, 2014
In this game, you can…
- reach the "sun," discover it's a red-hot light bulb, and fly into it
- hit a point where control fades and an unseen force pulls you upward in a straight climb along rays of light
- rise so high the trees fall away and you're a dot against star clouds and galaxies
- start as a tiny fly in the dirt and climb straight up
- get buffeted by wind, smacked by falling leaves, and stuck in spider webs you can struggle free from
- climb into the finale while classical music surges to match the ascent
6A Short Hike - Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Jul 30, 2019
In this game, you can…
- break blocked entrances with a pickaxe, water bouncy flowers into shortcuts, then chain the new vertical routes across the island.
- mess around freely: sail a motorboat, swim along the lakeshore, fish the river, take naps, and leap off cliffs without punishment.
- manage high-altitude cold that freezes your used-up flaps until you warm back up.
- learn to climb, glide, and flap farther by finding golden and silver feathers.
- launch off mountain peaks and glide over forests to reach distant ledges.
- dig up buried treasure by following map clues to hidden stashes and cliffside chests.
- enter parkour races with a limited number of feathers and win by finding the fastest route and chaining shortcuts.
- reach the summit for cell reception, then glide all the way back down while spotting everywhere you explored from above.
7Project Wingman - Project Wingman is a flight action game that lets you take the seat of advanced fighter jets and become a true ace. Fight in various missions and gamemodes ranging from intense aerial dogfights to large scale ground assault in an alternate scorched earth setting.
Dec 1, 2020
In this game, you can…
- stack multiple special weapons on one plane, including eight machine-gun pods at once.
- launch your own missile swarm while dodging tens of incoming missiles at the same time.
- drill railgun shots into carrier-sized airships while weaving through their defenses.
- fly a two-seater jet with a voiced backseater talking the whole time.
- pull post-stall, high-G turns to break missile locks and whip back onto targets.
- skirt the ground through storms and brutal terrain, staying low while the world shakes around you.
- build a mercenary army in a roguelike conquest mode, taking territory and fighting escalating waves and bosses.
- hover in a Harrier and use it like a real VTOL in combat.
- fly in VR with a HOTAS and fight close-in dogfights from inside the cockpit.
8VTOL VR - VTOL VR is a near-futuristic combat flight game built for Virtual Reality. Pilot advanced multi-role jets, using your hands to flip switches, press buttons, and manipulate the virtual flight controls.
Aug 3, 2017
In this game, you can…
- flip cockpit switches with your own hands, press every button, and yank the ejection handle when it all goes wrong.
- launch off an aircraft carrier, come back for an arrested landing, then taxi and set up to catapult again until you nail it.
- take off vertically, hover, and set down on rooftops before switching back into normal jet flight.
- run a full jet start-up by hand—battery, APU, engines, screens, visor—then launch off the runway under your own control.
- hear a missile-launch alarm, dump chaff and flares, and pull hard to dodge a SAM before it reaches you.
- fight a dogfight by physically turning your head to find targets, cue weapons with your look, and keep flying while guns and missiles chase you.
- line up for aerial refueling and stay rock-steady on the tanker's hose long enough to actually take fuel.
- fly a two-seat aircraft with a friend, splitting roles in the same cockpit while you run missions together.
9X-Plane 11 - The future of flight simulation is now! X-Plane 11 is the detailed, realistic, and modern simulator you’ve been waiting for. Intuitive user interface, 3-D cockpits, new effects, 3-D sound, living airports and world-wide scenery.
Mar 30, 2017
In this game, you can…
- simulate detailed failures like bird strikes, radio outages, and runway light failures whenever you want.
- start a Boeing 737 from cold and dark, program the flight computer, and configure it for takeoff and landing.
- walk around your aircraft in VR, change seats, and flip cockpit switches with the motion controllers.
- practice real flight maneuvers like touch-and-gos and approaches until they feel like muscle memory.
- run full instrument routes with intercepts and holding patterns, then review what you flew afterward.
- leave your jet cruising on autopilot, come back to an engine oil-pressure zero, divert to a new airport, and land on one engine.
- fly a multi-city route across the USA in one airliner, hopping airport to airport until you reach the other coast.
- fly at night over real cities and spot your own street or hometown landmarks in the world.
10SpaceEngine - The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Jun 11, 2019
In this game, you can…
- land on a planet in Andromeda and look up to see the Milky Way as a tiny spiral overhead.
- fly toward a black hole and watch the whole scene warp and shift colors as the light changes with your speed and distance.
- find the exact Apollo 11 landing site by searching the Moon for its real coordinates and walking yourself to the spot.
- stand on a planet around a real cataloged star and look back to see Sol as a dim point in the distance.
- drift until Earth disappears, click a faint red dot, and land on an Earth-sized airless world in a whole new star system.
- leave the solar system, keep zooming out, and scroll from planets to galaxies to the universe without hitting an end.
- stand on an icy moon in Saturn's rings, speed up time to watch the sun loop around Saturn, then shrink the entire system to something you can hold.
- stand on Saturn's rings, examine the particles up close, then dive underwater on another world because oceans have depth and terrain.
