Games like Microsoft Flight Simulator X on PC
Closest overall match: DCS World (★ 2.8). Highest rated: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 at ★ 4.1. Quickest to finish: DCS World at about 1 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for Microsoft Flight Simulator X — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. What ties them together most: Realistic, Singleplayer and Flight.
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71%
1. DCS World
Shares Flight, Military, VR, Realistic and First-Person and 4 more tags; rated 1.0 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 10%
- Shared genres
- 14
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64%
2. Train Simulator
Shares Fishing, Moddable, VR, Realistic and Open World and 1 more tags; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 16%
- Shared genres
- 14
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64%
3. Rise of Flight United
Shares Flight, Realistic, Partial Controller Support and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 14
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63%
4. IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Shares Flight, Military, Moddable, Realistic and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 54%
- Shared genres
- 14
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61%
5. Take On Helicopters
Shares Flight, Open World, Partial Controller Support, cooperative and Singleplayer; rated 1.7 lower.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 2.0
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 14
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60%
6. Bigscreen Beta
Shares VR and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 14
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58%
7. Cities XL Platinum
Shares Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 30%
- Shared genres
- 14
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57%
8. Farming Simulator 17
Shares Moddable, Realistic, Third Person, First-Person and Open World and 2 more tags; about 10h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 69
- Playtime
- 12h
- Finish rate
- 38%
- Shared genres
- 14
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57%
9. Mitos.is: The Game
Shares cooperative and Singleplayer; rated 1.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.3
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 15%
- Shared genres
- 14
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57%
10. Trainz Simulator 12
Shares Realistic and Singleplayer; rated 1.6 lower.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 2.1
- Playtime
- 2h
- Shared genres
- 14
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56%
11. Euro Truck Simulator
Shares Moddable, Realistic, Third Person, First-Person and Open World and 2 more tags.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 14
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56%
12. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
Shares Flight, Realistic, Open World and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 0.4 higher; about 19h longer.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 21h
- Finish rate
- 22%
- Shared genres
- 14
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Microsoft Flight Simulator X on PC?
On our similarity model, DCS World is the closest match to Microsoft Flight Simulator X on PC — shares Flight, Military, VR, Realistic and First-Person and 4 more tags; rated 1.0 lower; released within 1 year.
Which game like Microsoft Flight Simulator X is rated highest?
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.1/5 from 271 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Microsoft Flight Simulator X on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.