Games like X-Plane 12
If X-Plane 12 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator, Space Explore and DCS World Steam Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, immersive and community driven content. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →X-Plane 12 is a flight simulation released in 2022 by Laminar Research, priced at $59.99 USD. The game features a realistic physics engine and procedural scenery generation, with extensive flight model customization and mod support that enables a substantial library of community-driven content. Players describe the experience as both challenging and immersive, with reviewers highlighting the replay system and the importance of tactical positioning in flight planning. The simulation demands significant dedication, offering a massive experience for solo players who engage with its sit-down session shape. It does not currently support Steam Deck. The title holds an 86% positive rating from 2820 Steam reviews.
About X-Plane 12: Ultra-Realistic Flight Simulation
Players who liked X-Plane 12 also play
Steam players who put hours into X-Plane 12 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares procedural scenery generation and an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Top pick for X-Plane 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator lets you explore the world of flying in a quality never seen before. Fly a large selection of highly detailed aircraft or a helicopter with interactive 3D cockpits. Aerofly FS 2 currently features over 200 airports in the south western USA and global elevation and satellite imagery.
Space Explore
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for X-Plane 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
Space Explore gives you a first hand experience of the journey that astronauts take while embarking on space missions. The space station circles the earth, 400 kilometers above us. It serves as a research laboratory and is also suited for testing spacecraft systems and equipment.
DCS World Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Third-strongest match for X-Plane 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
Feel the excitement of flying the Su-25T "Frogfoot" attack jet and the TF-51D "Mustang" in the free-to-play Digital Combat Simulator World!
Aerofly FS 4 Flight Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Ranked #4 for X-Plane 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
We promise you will feel like a pilot flying airliners, helicopters, fighters, gliders, historical and aerobatic aircraft in a photorealistic world! Over 10,000 real world flights, highly detailed cockpits and scenery are awaiting you.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Ranked #5 for X-Plane 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is the continuation of the legendary IL-2 Sturmovik series that has set the standard for PC combat flight games for more than ten years. This new entry into the series will offer virtual pilots an even more accurate simulation of the most famous air battles.
Tactical Warfare Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for X-Plane 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
Experience Adrenalin fueled dogfights over the western front.
RealFlight Evolution
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Ranked #7 for X-Plane 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
RealFlight® is the industry-leading flight simulator for radio-controlled airplanes, helicopters, and drones. Fly more than 300 hyper-realistic vehicles in an immense, open world right from your desktop. This RC classic is a must-have tool for flight enthusiasts of all skill levels!
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Ranked #8 for X-Plane 12 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
Il-2 1946 includes all of the original IL-2 series content: IL-2 Sturmovik™: Forgotten Battles, Ace Expansion Pack, Pacific Fighters™ and alternate histry campaigns of year 1946. What was years ago began as a one-aircraft study sim is now an astonishing anthology, with a whopping 229 flyable aircraft and over 300 aircraft total!
Reviewers mention these as similar to X-Plane 12
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Reviewers of X-Plane 12 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
From gliders and helicopters to wide-body jets, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.
X-Plane 11
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Reviewers of X-Plane 12 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
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.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Shares mod support with X-Plane 12.
Reviewers of X-Plane 12 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
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.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
WHY THIS
Shares mod support and an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Reviewers of X-Plane 12 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
Explore the world with our largest fleet of aircraft and take simulation to new heights while pursuing your aviation career within Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
Saratoga
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with X-Plane 12.
Reviewers of X-Plane 12 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Saratoga is a digital implementation of the Saratoga, Volume I of the Great Battles of the American Revolution wargame published by GMT Games and designed by Mark Miklos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below X-Plane 12 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under X-Plane 12 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under X-Plane 12 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
BeamNG.drive
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under X-Plane 12 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under X-Plane 12 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under X-Plane 12 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under X-Plane 12 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under X-Plane 12 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
RimWorld
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under X-Plane 12 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with X-Plane 12.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about X-Plane 12
- Does X-Plane 12 work on Steam Deck?
- X-Plane 12 is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does X-Plane 12 cost?
- X-Plane 12 is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does X-Plane 12 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — X-Plane 12 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, LAN Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to X-Plane 12?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside X-Plane 12 are Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator, Space Explore, DCS World Steam Edition.
- Who developed X-Plane 12?
- X-Plane 12 was developed by Laminar Research.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on X-Plane 12.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.