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Mini Airways

CCC Games · Erabit · 2024-07-30

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 01, 2025 (iOS), Jun 30, 2025 (Android), May 15, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 10, 2024 (Mac), Jan 10, 2024 (Linux), Jun 25, 2026 (Nintendo Switch)

Mini Airways is a real-time management game where you play the role of an air traffic controller. Clear your aircraft to takeoff & land, direct them to the destination...and most of all don't let them crash!! London, Tokyo, Shanghai... Test your ATC skills in distinctive maps around the globe!

Mini Airways is a 2024 Casual, Indie, Simulation and Strategy game priced at $6.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 1588 reviews).

39
playing now
92%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
11,472
twitch viewers (latest)
11472.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 39 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 179 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity down 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 29,098 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 32k–71k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,588 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
31731720242026Week of 2024-07-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 317 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

145322026-09-15 02:00 — 37 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 58 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 52 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 36 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 42 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 32 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 34 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 102 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 114 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 61 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 82 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 113 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 43 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 67 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 122 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 64 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 79 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 114 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 51 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 70 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 104 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 43 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 36 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 39 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
19638Aug 2024Aug 2026Aug 2024 — avg 190 · peak 554Sep 2024 — avg 196 · peak 626Oct 2024 — avg 85 · peak 206Nov 2024 — avg 58 · peak 156Dec 2024 — avg 81 · peak 226Jan 2025 — avg 103 · peak 310Feb 2025 — avg 88 · peak 205Mar 2025 — avg 72 · peak 161Apr 2025 — avg 66 · peak 142May 2025 — avg 56 · peak 126Jun 2025 — avg 57 · peak 147Jul 2025 — avg 74 · peak 148Aug 2025 — avg 63 · peak 130Sep 2025 — avg 51 · peak 130Oct 2025 — avg 44 · peak 109Nov 2025 — avg 38 · peak 88Dec 2025 — avg 45 · peak 92Jan 2026 — avg 42 · peak 93Feb 2026 — avg 43 · peak 95Mar 2026 — avg 42 · peak 106Apr 2026 — avg 43 · peak 98May 2026 — avg 63 · peak 288Jun 2026 — avg 55 · peak 179Jul 2026 — avg 63 · peak 162Aug 2026 — avg 57 · peak 129
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
84%
earned "Outbound Priority I"
24.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsIncludes level editor1 DLC

13 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Dutch, Ukrainian…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2026-05-14, latest 2026-09-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9321%65

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DJetIndieCasualFlightStrategyManagementMinimalistRogue-likeSimulation

Census log

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

Recent updates

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