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Solo Flight

Microprose · Atari · 2022-01-21

SteamGOG

Simulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: 1984 (Apple II), 1983 (Atari 8-bit), 1984 (Commodore C64/128/MAX), 1985 (DOS), 1985 (Thomson MO5), Jan 21, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In 1983, none other than the legendary Sid Meier created Solo Flight, one of the first commercially-available flight simulators, and one of the first to include a dedicated game mode that tasked players with the mission of delivering mail bags to regional airports in the least amount of time

Solo Flight is a Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $6.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (78% of 18 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

78%
positive of 18 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
$6.99
steam price (US)
Solo Flight is a third-person flight simulator written by Sid Meier for Atari 8-bit computers and published by MicroProse in 1983. It includes a game mode called Mail Pilot. This was the fourth flight simulator Meier wrote for MicroProse—following Hellcat Ace, Spitfire Ace, and Wingman—and the first which did not involve aerial combat.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 84% of 16,643 Simulation games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

GOG$1.05-85%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 19 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220222026Week of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$1.052026-09-232026-10-142026-09-23 — best price $6.992026-09-24 — best price $1.052026-09-25 — best price $1.052026-09-26 — best price $1.052026-09-27 — best price $1.052026-09-28 — best price $1.052026-09-29 — best price $1.052026-09-30 — best price $1.052026-10-01 — best price $1.052026-10-02 — best price $1.052026-10-03 — best price $1.052026-10-04 — best price $1.052026-10-05 — best price $1.052026-10-06 — best price $1.052026-10-07 — best price $6.992026-10-08 — best price $6.992026-10-09 — best price $1.052026-10-10 — best price $1.052026-10-11 — best price $1.052026-10-12 — best price $1.052026-10-13 — best price $1.052026-10-14 — best price $1.05
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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