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Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition
Take to the skies in the World’s favourite flight simulator! The multi award winning Microsoft Flight Simulator X lands on Steam for the first time. Take off from anywhere in the world, flying some of the world’s most iconic aircraft to any one of 24,000 destinations.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
What reviewers agree on
39 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“[b] Graphics are junk [/b] cause this game is basically prehistoric but it is [b] very fun [/b] Easy to find free mods online and there are loads of cool DLCs you should not buy. Comes with tons of planes and airports…”
“You're an AvGeek, but your computer is as new as a DC-9? You really want to get the basics of aviation simulation, but you don't have a Boeing 747-8 dashboard at home? You want to deep dive into the avionics stuff, but…”
“Played this sim for years, prefer it to FS2020 and FS2024 of which I have both!”
14 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“You're an AvGeek, but your computer is as new as a DC-9? You really want to get the basics of aviation simulation, but you don't have a Boeing 747-8 dashboard at home? You want to deep dive into the avionics stuff, but…”
“been playing for almost 20 years. highly recommend, especially if your pc isnt powerful enough for FS24. hundreds of thousands of addons and tools to dial in the sim. to your liking.”
“this game is good for low end pc's and have decent physics, planes selection is good,good library and TONSA of FREEWARE + PAYWARE addons.”
10 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“been playing for almost 20 years. highly recommend, especially if your pc isnt powerful enough for FS24. hundreds of thousands of addons and tools to dial in the sim. to your liking.”
“this game is good for low end pc's and have decent physics, planes selection is good,good library and TONSA of FREEWARE + PAYWARE addons.”
“I'm reinstalling this in one of my office computers just for playing on occasions where I need to kill a bit of time. Not as good as the other flight sims I own, but it's always been a great fallback when I want it.…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Best flying Flight Sim game I've ever played. More aircraft fly correctly, the scenery is acceptable and it flies with a joystick for ultimate control, not an inflexible Xbox controller !”
“I have severe vertrigo. Despite that i flew Air Creation 582-SL Trike Ultralight from Pau to Herrere Oloron airport using only topography clues (pretty accurate) and managed to find the small grass strip and land…”
“Excellent Flight simulator, good graphics and operates well. If you like to fly , you will get hooked on it.”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Very good for starter that wants to play aircraft simulation especially pilot students”
“It's a whole lot easier to set up and fly than some of the newer versions. Wonderful for a beginner.”
“great intro into flight sims on a budget”
17 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“[b] Graphics are junk [/b] cause this game is basically prehistoric but it is [b] very fun [/b] Easy to find free mods online and there are loads of cool DLCs you should not buy. Comes with tons of planes and airports…”
“FSX crashes too often. I will buy FS 2024.”
“will not work on a duel screen set up very fun some of the airports are a bit out dated I flew to YPEC and in fsx it's still just dirt”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“terrible for windows 10, it ruined my damn display and ran like dogwater despite it being so old. wouldnt recommend unless you have legacy hardware.”
“Overwhemingly outdated for latest spec especially Win 10. CTD a lot, and one time crashed my driver to the point that my PC needed hard restart (I have latest driver installed). It also still doesn't support 64-bit.…”
“Program runs poorly both on a Ryzen 7 7730 laptop and a Ryzen 7 desktop with MSI graphics card. My wish is that Steam would engineer a version of the original 1982 game (which I own) that would run decently on modern…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“[b] Graphics are junk [/b] cause this game is basically prehistoric but it is [b] very fun [/b] Easy to find free mods online and there are loads of cool DLCs you should not buy. Comes with tons of planes and airports…”
“will not work on a duel screen set up very fun some of the airports are a bit out dated I flew to YPEC and in fsx it's still just dirt”
“Fajna jak na starą grę ale jeśli ktoś nie lubi starych gier z średnią grafiką to wtedy nie polecam”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I wanted to give it a second chance, but it was a waste of time. First of all if you have a small screen, the configuration doesn`t let you play because the button it`s to low on the frame. Second, the configuration…”
“I'm reinstalling this in one of my office computers just for playing on occasions where I need to kill a bit of time. Not as good as the other flight sims I own, but it's always been a great fallback when I want it.…”
“its ok be better if it had a better traffic more airline at the airport like in real time”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“I wanted to give it a second chance, but it was a waste of time. First of all if you have a small screen, the configuration doesn`t let you play because the button it`s to low on the frame. Second, the configuration…”
“Sadly does not work properly under Proton. Many different issues: * This is a Win32 product, and moans being under a Wine64 prefix * Needs the verdana font, but not easy to install, you need to download it and put it in…”
“It's controller sensitivity is bad. Other than that, there is nothing else bad.”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 86.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-20
“long story short when i was a 8 years old. i like this game so much, but because of budget, and hardware issue, i'll wait untill i've got an proper laptop for play FSX when i was at 15 years old but i can't bought this game untill i had my own money now, i'm very busy for my…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“---{ 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…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“I've got older and newer games that just run. This one has 10 different ways it breaks. I'm spending more time just getting the game to launch most days. Delete the logbook.bin file, run in compatibility mode. make sure steam is ran as administrator. Oh still wont run thinking…”
— a player, Steam review · 178 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 12:14 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Simulation |
| Player tags | Flight · Simulation · Realistic · Open World · Multiplayer · Singleplayer · Moddable · Adventure · First-Person · Atmospheric · VR · Action (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Estimated owners | 2,000,000 – 5,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.fsxinsider.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or later Processor: 2.0 Ghz or higher (single core) Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX®9 compliant video card or greater, 256 MB video RAM or higher, Shader Model 1.1 or higher (Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required) DirectX: Version 9.0c Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 30 GB available space Additional Notes: Broadband internet connection required for multiplayer features