Release of X-Plane 12.4.3
2026-06-25We are more than happy to announce the release of X-Plane 12.4.3! Please have a look at our webpage for further information: Release Announcement Release Notes
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Laminar Research / Dec 17, 2022 / Simulation
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Ultra-Realistic Flight Simulation
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We are more than happy to announce the release of X-Plane 12.4.3! Please have a look at our webpage for further information: Release Announcement Release Notes
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87% positive, 3,247 reviews
X-Plane is the best flight simulator out there. I’m not even considering switching to MSFS. PHYSICS RULES! ---{ 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 bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{...
50 found this helpful, 2026-02-18
Play CS2 with stupid teamates, stress levels go up the roof, I did a short 6 hour flight, me landed perfectly, stress levels goes down, me live longer. In short, X-Plane good
43 found this helpful, 2026-08-12
After spending 5 years with MSFS (2020 and 2024) its clear that Microsoft is not interested in making that game into an actual desktop simulator. All effort is on eye candy rather than things that an actual aviation enthusiast would want. For example, better realistic IMC weather, icing, dynamic ground friction on contaminated runways, damage vfx. Most importantly, in XP12, you don’t need to purchase any payware...
41 found this helpful, 2026-01-15
Msfs 2024 annoyed me in dealing with its glaring performance and stability problems. So I ended up trying the X-plane 12 demo and was impressed by the fps that I was getting and just the overall stability of the game in general. Having reached my limits with Msfs, I decided to buy X-plane 12 and I have zero regrets. It does what it is advertised to do as a product and by doing so makes my sim flying experience far...
36 found this helpful, 2025-12-03
Funniest review
amazing game and is used in actual trains, just have a good pc for it ;-;

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