Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
2024 video game developed by Asobo Studio
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a flight simulation video game developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios. The successor to Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), the game was released on November 19, 2024, for Windows and the Xbox Series X/S, and on December 8, 2025, for PlayStation 5.
The game was announced at the 2023 Xbox Games Showcase on June 11, 2023. Compared with the 2020 entry, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 places greater emphasis on structured aviation activities through a career mode, expanded mission types, a denser simulated world, and revised aircraft and systems simulation. As of July 2026, the game had received multiple numbered Sim Updates, smaller hotfixes, and free World and City scenery updates distributed through the in-sim Marketplace.
Gameplay
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 retains the globe-scale free flight, live weather, online traffic, and satellite-derived scenery systems of the 2020 game, while adding a more explicit activity structure around aviation jobs and skill progression. Its career mode allows players to begin at an airport of their choosing, gain experience and reputation, earn certifications, and unlock aviation specializations ranging from medevac and remote cargo operations to aerial firefighting, search and rescue, and airline passenger transport.
Mission types include aerial firefighting, air search and rescue, helicopter cargo hook transport, air ambulance, cropdusting, mountain rescue, skydiving, commercial aviation, aerial crane construction, outsize cargo transport with the Airbus Beluga, arctic cargo transport with the Airbus A400M, VIP air charter and executive transport, air racing, weather reconnaissance, experimental aircraft testing, and nap-of-the-earth flight with the A-10 Warthog. New aircraft categories include gliders, airships, hot air balloons, and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The game also includes non-career activities such as landing challenges, rally races, low-altitude challenges, World Photographer objectives, and free flight.
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