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Airline Tycoon Deluxe

Spellbound · HandyGames · 2014-11-14

SteamGOG

Simulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Oct 05, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 21, 2014 (Android), 2011 (Mac), Nov 14, 2014 (Linux), May 31, 2012 (iOS)

Airline Tycoon Deluxe is a funny economy simulation proceeding in realtime and assigning you the complete responsibility for an airline.

Airline Tycoon Deluxe is a 2014 Simulation game priced at $9.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (84% of 676 reviews).

17
playing now
84%
positive of 681 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (148 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

17 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Airline Tycoon is a simulation game where the player acts as manager of an airline, competing against three other tycoons. The names of the four tycoons are: Tina Cortez (Sunshine Airways), Siggi Sorglos (Falcon Lines), Igor Tuppolevsky (Phoenix Travel) and Mario Zucchero (Honey Airlines). The player must keep their aircraft in good shape and equip them at such a level as to keep the customers satisfied, buy new planes (from the expensive Airplane Agency or from Mr Schlauberger at the museum who sells old planes at a much lower cost) and take out bank loans if required. The player must also (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 17 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 31 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 16,638 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–41k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 681 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.80 at GamesPlanet FR (2022-07-08) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 73 of 141 observed days · $9.19 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220172026Week of 2017-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2902026-09-15 01:00 — 10 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 9 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 21 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 8 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 11 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 15 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 9 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 12 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 21 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 19 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 12 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 27 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 22 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 25 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 9 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 25 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 9 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 16 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 11 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 17 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
356Nov 2014Aug 2026Nov 2014 — avg 7 · peak 28Mar 2015 — avg 7 · peak 24Jul 2015 — avg 6 · peak 21Nov 2015 — avg 7 · peak 24Mar 2016 — avg 10 · peak 28Jul 2016 — avg 10 · peak 31Nov 2016 — avg 9 · peak 27Mar 2017 — avg 11 · peak 30Jul 2017 — avg 12 · peak 39Nov 2017 — avg 9 · peak 33Mar 2018 — avg 13 · peak 38Jul 2018 — avg 12 · peak 34Nov 2018 — avg 10 · peak 38Mar 2019 — avg 14 · peak 38Jul 2019 — avg 13 · peak 38Nov 2019 — avg 15 · peak 41Mar 2020 — avg 19 · peak 67Jul 2020 — avg 17 · peak 42Nov 2020 — avg 19 · peak 51Mar 2021 — avg 16 · peak 42Jul 2021 — avg 12 · peak 35Nov 2021 — avg 13 · peak 38Mar 2022 — avg 14 · peak 36Jul 2022 — avg 15 · peak 39Nov 2022 — avg 14 · peak 41Mar 2023 — avg 15 · peak 40Jul 2023 — avg 16 · peak 42Nov 2023 — avg 16 · peak 43Mar 2024 — avg 17 · peak 48Jul 2024 — avg 19 · peak 45Nov 2024 — avg 17 · peak 43Mar 2025 — avg 16 · peak 47Jul 2025 — avg 17 · peak 48Nov 2025 — avg 17 · peak 42Mar 2026 — avg 15 · peak 40Jul 2026 — avg 15 · peak 43Aug 2026 — avg 13 · peak 36
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$0.832015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $3.992015-06-08 — best price $4.992015-12-19 — best price $4.982016-02-12 — best price $8.542016-11-07 — best price $9.952017-10-02 — best price $2.492018-03-24 — best price $9.992018-09-02 — best price $8.992018-12-02 — best price $8.492019-03-25 — best price $9.992019-07-15 — best price $2.002019-11-01 — best price $19.992020-01-11 — best price $3.392020-03-30 — best price $1.992020-06-10 — best price $9.992020-09-10 — best price $9.992021-01-11 — best price $9.992021-03-14 — best price $8.382021-05-04 — best price $8.232021-07-14 — best price $8.382021-09-17 — best price $1.792021-12-16 — best price $2.002022-03-04 — best price $1.992022-07-11 — best price $7.222022-11-19 — best price $9.992023-01-24 — best price $1.892023-06-28 — best price $1.712023-11-16 — best price $8.192024-03-18 — best price $2.002024-06-19 — best price $1.992024-10-01 — best price $1.962024-12-27 — best price $2.002025-03-31 — best price $1.792025-07-14 — best price $7.142025-10-08 — best price $9.992026-01-19 — best price $1.992026-06-01 — best price $1.992026-09-07 — best price $9.992026-10-12 — best price $9.992026-10-14 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGFunnyIndieRetroFlightEconomyStrategyManagementSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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