I love this game, personally. It has a high learning curve, but you'll pick it up quickly if your passion for aviation or ATC (Air Traffic Controlling) is strong enough.

I'm neither a pilot or real ATC, just an enthusiast who spends hours watching aviation channels, and gaming channels that focused on this game. I truly wanted it, If you've watched videos on this topic, if you watch people play 30 minutes or an hour at a certain airport on youtube and wanted more? This game may be for you.

I say may because there are too many issues with game itself. EVEN IF you hit all the benchmarks above I still want you to be weary of this purchase.

There are only 3 airports included in the default game. PHL (Philadelphia), LAX (Los Angeles), and the 3rd, I don't remember, but it's just 1 runway and very small. Great for an introduction but once you get the basics down and move on, you're really only left with 2 airports that can really give you a challenge. For example, multiple runways, taxiways, and aprons/terminals.

There are over 25 individual airports that you need to purchase individually. And right now with the Summer Steam Sale going on it adds up to ~$360.

But wait, there's more. You also need to go on their actual website, to buy EVEN MORE DLC. DLC that you cannot buy here on steam.

If you want to use real callsigns like Delta 504, Quantas 7, Japan Air 306? You need to buy that for about $7-$10. The base game replaces the callsigns with fictitious ones. So to really enjoy the immersion of being an ATC, it's a must buy. (Should be included in the game by default, but moving on...)

So, you bought the game, you bought the callsign DLC off the website. You decide to load up Philadelphia. All the planes are white. Yep. There's a DLC for that. So you want to see the cool liveries on the planes? You need to buy that.

And that's not a one time buy, like the callsigns. Thankfully you buy the real airline names, and it applies to all maps.

If you buy the liveries for the planes in Philadelphia? They stay in Philadelphia. So not only do you need to buy each map individually, you need to purchase the liveries for the planes, for each airport. At that rate just bundle the map and liveries together and just raise the price, at least you could psychologically trick us into buying it, rather than being so blatantly obvious about it.

Ultimately, if you're still sold on hearing all the facts about this game. These are fact, this is not my opinion this is all real, and what you'll have to do and go through if you want the immersion in this game.

Is it a good game? Yes, absolutely in my opinion I love it and always finding myself coming back to do an hour session here and there. It's addicting.

Can I recommend it? No, I honestly can't. Especially if you're just a casual personal passing by thinking this looks cool? First time seeing this game or this page? Absolutely not.

If you've seen game play of this, thoroughly enjoy aviation, especially the ATC side of things, and were already aware of this game prior to coming to this page?

Honestly it's up to you at that point. If you can set aside everything I said, and still don't mind giving these developers money only further incentivizing their practices?

Then go for it.

In conclusion would I recommend this game? No. Not for a casual player and not even for an enthusiast because there is so much other stuff wrapped up in it, you feel like you're only buying half a game

I can't recommend this game even on sale because I've bought more fully fleshed out games at $30 (The current Summer Steam Sale price) Let alone $50.

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REVISIONS

September 9, 2021: If you decide to do a clean wipe and install of your OS, you lose your Real Traffic you downloaded off the website.

April 4th 2022: I was able to contact the Developers through Facebook and they were able to restore my DLC I purchased off the website.

August 8th, 2022: Cleaned up a few things about my review. Website is no longer sketchy and looks like a normal website now. Separate DLC purchased off the website now installs via .exe installer, as opposed to my original review where I said the files needed to be placed in a directory manually. Windows didn't flag the .exe installer, but it also wasn't 100% safe about it either. Take that as you will.