Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-08
- Career mode is praised
- Graphics are stunning
- Better than MSFS2020
- Career mode extremely buggy
- Performance issues and poor optimization
- Frequent crashes during flights
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows 8-11GB VRAMmixedWindows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Mixed (5/10)
- Total reviews
- 22,313
- Positive
- 13,32759.7%
- Negative
- 8,98640.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,728,556
- Estimated revenue
- $120,981,634
- Game price
- $70
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 1522.03%
- Estimated copies lost
- 11,775
- Estimated revenue lost
- $824,132
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 1522% Avg playtime 1h | 290.4% Avg playtime 1.3h |
| > 2h playtime | 1,69622.7% Avg playtime 184.2h | 5,59574.9% Avg playtime 223.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 11.4 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 27.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 587.5 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 657.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
7,472 total
Organic purchasers7,07194.6%
Voted up: 75%
Key activations4015.37%
Voted up: 78%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
7,472 total
First impression0-2h2843.80%
Voted up: 25%
Mid game2-10h1,68422.5%
Voted up: 79%
Late game10-20h1,20016.1%
Voted up: 82%
Endgame20h+4,30457.6%
Voted up: 75%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 75.3%
2 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 22,313 total.