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Airline Tycoon 2 cover art

Airline Tycoon 2

b-Alive · Kalypso Media Digital · 2011-10-24

Steam

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 24, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Run a modern airline, design unique airplanes and grow a run-down carrier into a globally recognized company that passengers practically beg to fly.

Airline Tycoon 2 is a Simulation, Strategy game released in 2011, priced at $3.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Negative (18% of 578 reviews) sentiment.

2
playing now
18%
positive of 578 reviews
Overwhelmingly Negative
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
20/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 20% of 16,568 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 23k–46k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 578 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.89 at GamersGate (2017-11-23) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 73 of 114 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720152026Week of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 03:00 — 5 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
522Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 40 · peak 90Dec 2012 — avg 15 · peak 56May 2013 — avg 8 · peak 26Oct 2013 — avg 7 · peak 25Mar 2014 — avg 18 · peak 139Aug 2014 — avg 12 · peak 88Jan 2015 — avg 7 · peak 23Jun 2015 — avg 6 · peak 18Nov 2015 — avg 5 · peak 16Apr 2016 — avg 6 · peak 17Sep 2016 — avg 6 · peak 18Feb 2017 — avg 6 · peak 21Jul 2017 — avg 4 · peak 15Dec 2017 — avg 4 · peak 21May 2018 — avg 4 · peak 13Oct 2018 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2019 — avg 4 · peak 16Aug 2019 — avg 3 · peak 9Jan 2020 — avg 3 · peak 13Jun 2020 — avg 3 · peak 9Nov 2020 — avg 3 · peak 10Apr 2021 — avg 3 · peak 8Sep 2021 — avg 3 · peak 11Feb 2022 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2022 — avg 2 · peak 8Dec 2022 — avg 3 · peak 9May 2023 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2023 — avg 2 · peak 6Apr 2024 — avg 4 · peak 10Oct 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2025 — avg 2 · peak 6Aug 2025 — avg 3 · peak 9Jun 2026 — avg 2 · peak 5Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 8
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$1.372015-01-012026-08-282015-01-01 — best price $3.752015-05-14 — best price $4.992015-11-29 — best price $19.992016-04-15 — best price $19.992016-09-12 — best price $19.992017-06-22 — best price $2.492017-12-05 — best price $19.992018-06-11 — best price $9.992018-12-04 — best price $9.992019-05-24 — best price $4.992019-09-24 — best price $2.492020-01-04 — best price $7.852020-04-10 — best price $2.052020-07-11 — best price $9.992020-09-27 — best price $9.992020-12-15 — best price $7.342021-02-20 — best price $9.992021-04-16 — best price $2.332021-07-10 — best price $9.992021-11-04 — best price $2.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-05-07 — best price $9.992022-08-26 — best price $8.692022-11-23 — best price $2.992023-02-20 — best price $9.992023-05-31 — best price $3.002023-09-12 — best price $3.002023-12-07 — best price $2.642024-02-26 — best price $3.002024-06-04 — best price $9.992024-09-05 — best price $9.992024-12-10 — best price $1.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-17 — best price $1.992025-09-27 — best price $9.992026-01-07 — best price $9.992026-04-20 — best price $2.002026-08-25 — best price $1.952026-08-28 — best price $1.80
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing2 DLC

3 supported languages: English, German, French

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2012-04-19, latest 2012-06-13 (Steam store data)

Player tags

EconomyStrategyManagementSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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