How do players who really played Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 rate it? TrueGG Rating 80.0%
Players who really played rate it higher than Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks. Recent reviews are recovering.
vs Steam overall
Positive among players with 10+ hours (last 180 days) · 2,867 reviews
- TrueGG, all time
- 65.2%
- Steam overall
- 60.7%
- Japanese, all time
- 53.4%
Early wall
Reviews written under 2 hours: 7.1% of all reviews. Their positive share is 23.4%.
This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).
Does the rating change the longer people play?
Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.
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| Playtime | Positive | Japanese | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–1 h | 32.9% | 0.0% | 70 |
| 1–2 h | 38.8% | 0.0% | 67 |
| 2–5 h | 80.3% | 100.0% | 421 |
| 5–10 h | 80.6% | 100.0% | 521 |
| 10–20 h | 84.2% | 66.7% | 631 |
| 20–50 h | 82.3% | 60.0% | 886 |
| 50–100 h | 71.7% | 100.0% | 541 |
| 100–200 h | 77.4% | 0.0% | 358 |
| 200+ h | 81.8% | 100.0% | 451 |
How long people play: half of reviewers had played 10+ hours. 49% had 20+ hours and 17% had 100+ hours (all time).
Summary
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has a TrueGG Rating of 80.0%: the positive share among 2,867 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 10+ hours. That is 19.3 points above Steam's overall 60.7%, so players who really play the current version rate it higher than the headline number suggests (all time: 65.2%).
Reviews written under 2 hours make up 7% of the total, and only 23% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.
Beyond the first hours, approval is fairly even across playtime.
Negative reviews most often mention crashes and bugs, controls and UI, and updates and the developers (less than at launch). Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.
Re-weighting reviews by trust signals gives 56.4% (-4.3 points vs Steam overall); keep this in mind when reading the headline number.
All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-17.
Why it is rated this way
Complaints center on technical quality (Crashes & bugs, Performance). These can be fixed, so check recent reviews too. It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).
− Most mentioned complaints
- Crashes & bugs46% of negative reviews (7% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch · 5 positive reviews say it improved
- Controls, UI & camera13% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among under 2h players · ongoing since launch
- Updates & developers12% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · less than at launch · 5 positive reviews say it improved
- Performance11% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch
- Movement & pacing9% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among under 2h players · less than at launch
+ What players praise
- Fun & feel19% of positive reviews (11% of negative)
Counted from 375 recent negative and 368 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count
Checking the numbers
Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.
| Metric | Positive | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Official Steam rating | 60.7% | All time, all languages · 23,105 reviews |
| Adjusted rating | 56.4% | Weighted by trust (95% range 55.5%–57.3%), −4.3pt vs official |
| Japanese-language reviews | 47.6% | All time, Japanese-language reviews (−13.2pt vs overall) · 143 reviews |
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Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.
| Condition | Positive reviews | Negative reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Under 2 hours played at review | 1% | 9% |
| Very short text | 49% | 11% |
| Key activated outside Steam | 11% | 9% |
| Received for free | 1% | 0% |
| Owns very few games | 28% | 21% |
| Over 100 reviews written | 1% | 2% |
| Average trust (1.0 = full) | 0.71 | 0.85 |
The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 43.8 hours. 399 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-17
When did the rating change?
Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.
Reviews per month
Positive share per month
Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.
Reviews per day, last 30 days
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| Month | Positive | Negative | Positive |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11 | 2,804 | 4,885 | 36.5% |
| 2024-12 | 1,108 | 1,332 | 45.4% |
| 2025-01 | 471 | 534 | 46.9% |
| 2025-02 | 331 | 368 | 47.4% |
| 2025-03 | 306 | 399 | 43.4% |
| 2025-04 | 287 | 279 | 50.7% |
| 2025-05 | 269 | 218 | 55.2% |
| 2025-06 | 221 | 172 | 56.2% |
| 2025-07 | 340 | 242 | 58.4% |
| 2025-08 | 299 | 194 | 60.6% |
| 2025-09 | 327 | 198 | 62.3% |
| 2025-10 | 301 | 150 | 66.7% |
| 2025-11 | 327 | 155 | 67.8% |
| 2025-12 | 633 | 206 | 75.4% |
| 2026-01 | 434 | 157 | 73.4% |
| 2026-02 | 368 | 121 | 75.3% |
| 2026-03 | 532 | 191 | 73.6% |
| 2026-04 | 429 | 145 | 74.7% |
| 2026-05 | 373 | 112 | 76.9% |
| 2026-06 | 529 | 159 | 76.9% |
| 2026-07 | 445 | 119 | 78.9% |
| 2026-08 | 476 | 151 | 75.9% |
| 2026-09 | 560 | 149 | 79.0% |
| 2026-10 | 210 | 58 | 78.4% |
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| Day | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-18 | 12 | 4 |
| 2026-09-19 | 19 | 6 |
| 2026-09-20 | 16 | 3 |
| 2026-09-21 | 11 | 3 |
| 2026-09-22 | 11 | 1 |
| 2026-09-23 | 12 | 6 |
| 2026-09-24 | 16 | 4 |
| 2026-09-25 | 9 | 3 |
| 2026-09-26 | 18 | 4 |
| 2026-09-27 | 21 | 1 |
| 2026-09-28 | 10 | 0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 9 | 3 |
| 2026-09-30 | 11 | 1 |
| 2026-10-01 | 16 | 1 |
| 2026-10-02 | 18 | 9 |
| 2026-10-03 | 26 | 8 |
| 2026-10-04 | 17 | 4 |
| 2026-10-05 | 16 | 6 |
| 2026-10-06 | 20 | 8 |
| 2026-10-07 | 13 | 3 |
| 2026-10-08 | 14 | 5 |
| 2026-10-09 | 17 | 6 |
| 2026-10-10 | 23 | 7 |
| 2026-10-11 | 21 | 4 |
| 2026-10-12 | 14 | 9 |
| 2026-10-13 | 22 | 1 |
| 2026-10-14 | 21 | 5 |
| 2026-10-15 | 21 | 6 |
| 2026-10-16 | 22 | 3 |
| 2026-10-17 | 2 | 1 |
Recent sentiment
| Period | Positive | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 80.6% | 666 |
| Last 180 days | 78.7% | 3,933 |
| All time | 60.7% | 23,105 |
| Japanese, last 180 days | 65.0% | 20 |
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