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Airplane Mode cover art

Airplane Mode

Bacronym · AMC Games · 2020-10-15

Steam

IndieSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 15, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 15, 2020 (Mac)

Airplane Mode delivers all the thrills of a real-time, six-hour commercial airline flight—in Coach. At least you've got a window seat. Buckle up.

2
playing now
66%
positive of 399 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Airplane Mode is a 2020 simulation video game developed by Brooklyn-based creator Hosni Auji and Bacronym and published by AMC Games. It was released on October 15, 2020, for Windows and macOS. In the game, players control a plane passenger as they go on a flight that lasts multiple hours in real time. The player can watch movies and perform other tasks such as eating in-flight meals and drawing as they wait out the duration of the flight. The game received mixed reviews from critics.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 39% of 18,324 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.0k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 399 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2022-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.99$2.392020-10-152026-07-092020-10-15 — best price $10.792020-12-22 — best price $5.992021-06-24 — best price $5.992021-11-24 — best price $5.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-04-11 — best price $5.992022-06-23 — best price $2.992022-11-22 — best price $3.592022-12-22 — best price $2.392023-03-16 — best price $3.592023-06-29 — best price $2.392023-11-22 — best price $3.592023-12-21 — best price $3.592024-01-29 — best price $2.392024-03-14 — best price $2.392024-04-15 — best price $2.392024-05-27 — best price $2.392024-06-27 — best price $2.392024-08-05 — best price $2.392024-09-16 — best price $2.392024-10-28 — best price $2.392024-11-27 — best price $2.392024-12-19 — best price $2.392025-01-27 — best price $2.392025-03-13 — best price $2.392025-05-05 — best price $2.392025-06-26 — best price $2.392025-08-18 — best price $2.392025-09-29 — best price $2.392025-11-17 — best price $3.592025-12-18 — best price $2.392026-03-19 — best price $2.392026-06-25 — best price $2.392026-07-09 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed InputFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian

Player tags

FunnyIndieCasualComedyFlightSatireEconomyRelaxingRealisticSimulation

Census log

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

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