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24 alternatives to Microsoft Flight Simulator
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Microsoft Flight Simulator is a PC flight simulation game offering detailed global exploration across over 37,000 airports, 2 million cities, and 1.5 billion buildings. The software renders real-world geography… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Microsoft Flight Simulator launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Fly to every country as a passenger. Choose your next destination and collect country flags automatically as your flights finish.
Sep 2026 · inflightsimulator.com · its alternatives →
- 2IM
Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!
2025 · jameshard.ing · its alternatives →
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Play and Enjoy the History of Microsoft Flight Simulator - s-macke/FSHistory
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a real-time flight tracker that renders 10,000+ aircraft on an interactive 3D globe, entirely in the browser using Rust compiled to WebAssembly.
Apr 2026 · flight-viz.com · its alternatives →
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Free multiplayer dogfights in your browser, the official reboot of the 2017 hit. Five aircraft, five game modes, no download.
2017 · airma.sh · its alternatives →
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2020 · skynetsimulator.com · its alternatives →
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APIs are a little like the open road—always waiting, full of opportunity, but hardly utilized. So here’s America, composed of several APIs that paint a vivid, real-time picture of a good old-fashioned road trip. Get local classifieds and photos. Tune into local radio stations. Talk wit other drivers. And more. Exploring the country by car was an invaluable experience for me during my time in the states. I’ve since moved to Barcelona, and find myself missing the territory. This is my attempt at recreating the magic.
2022 · 4m3ric4.com · its alternatives →
- 8AF
I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022 · its alternatives →
- 9OF
We started this flight simulator about 2 years ago to be PC based, after realizing that it was too big of a task, we switched to Windows Phone 7 (Release Apr 2011) and recently released on iOS (March 2012). So far, the reviews have been encouraging, and we're closing in on our second update. Last update brought iPad3 support, new airplanes and bug fixes. Next one will bring 2 additional aircrafts, missions, better map, IFR Fixes/Airways... Now, for the things that the HN crowd might be interested in: - It's entirely in C#. Codebase of the simulator itself (excluding XNA, MonoGame) is 99%…
2012 · feedback.flyingdevstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Fable Flight▲74Learn to fly with a live AI instructor
Jul 2026 · flight-sim-sandy.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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AirlineSim▲77A very realistic airline simulator in your browser
2015 · airlinesim.aero · its alternatives →
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Most realistic flight sim and dogfights since Ace Combat.
2016 · alliancethegame.com · its alternatives →
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Super 3D Airplane Flight Simulator-Pro Pilot
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · 8bitbyte.ca · its alternatives →
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Free Real-World Intelligence: Give Your AI Real-Time Access to the Physical World. Grassland lets developers give their software an API for accessing real life environments regardless of economic, geographic or political barriers.
2019 · grassland.network · its alternatives →
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X-Pilot▲328Hi HN, I'm Heshan, founder of X-Pilot. We're building an AI Video Generator for online courses and educational content. Unlike most text-to-video generator that render videos directly from models (which often produce random stock footage unrelated to the actual content), we take a code-first approach: generate editable code layers, let users verify/refine them, then render to video. The Problem We're Solving Most AI video generators treat "education" and "marketing" the same—they optimize for "looks good" rather than "logically accurate." When you feed a technical tutorial or course…
Apr 2026 · x-pilot.ai · its alternatives →
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No Man's Sky▲272Explore a nearly endless procedurally generated universe
2016 · playstation.com · its alternatives →
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Flighty 4.0▲296Live flight tracker w/ the world's fastest delay alerts
2024 · flighty.com · its alternatives →
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Direct Flights▲295Explore all non-stop flights from any airport ✈️🌎
2019 · direct-flights.com · its alternatives →
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This is a simulator of a frigate from about 1800. It has realistic physics, tuned to match historical performance. The UI is based around commands given in period naval language. Rather than use the current weather, it has a full year's weather data (for 1980 - taken from https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.html). This allows the weather to change realistically under time acceleration. To learn the basics of handling a square-rigged ship, start the "Harbour" scenario, click on the instructions button at the bottom left, and follow the instructions…
2023 · thapen.itch.io · its alternatives →
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Explore the universe directly in your browser
2025 · universesim.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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I (17y/o) have been developing a rocket launch simulation that allows the user to explore what it's like launching a rocket from earth and putting it into orbit. This idea originally started as an educational simulation but as i've gone more down the rabbit hole the more i've wanted to make it realistic. The problem is that I've never had a formal orbital mechanics class or anything like that so I don't know what I'm missing, what I currently have implemented is: Variable gravity Variable Atmospheric drag (US Standard Atmosphere 1976) Multi-stage rockets Closed-loop guidance /…
Jan 2026 · donutthejedi.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, I'd like to share a 3D plane tracking web app that I developed called: skies-adsb. Living near KMIA (a very busy airport), I spend a lot of time plane spotting and thought it would be cool to track planes in 3D. In October 2021, I built a prototype 3D ADS-B flight tracker called skies-adsb using p5.js. In April 2022, I released version 1.0 of skies-adsb, rewritten in Three.js. However, this release still relied on manual editing of GeoJSON layers. By late 2024, I had learned enough about GIS and GeoPandas to automate map creation using custom GeoJSON layers. During the Christmas…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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