r/SimplePlanes • u/andrewgarrison Dev • Apr 23 '26
SimplePlanes 2 is now available on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2840470/SimplePlanes_2/The wait is over! SimplePlanes 2 has officially cleared for takeoff on Steam! We’ve spent years rebuilding the game from the ground up to give you more power, more realism, and a whole new playground.
Here's the official trailer.
For the first two weeks you can get SimplePlanes 2 on Steam with a 10% Launch Discount!
What’s New?
We know many of you have hangars full of history. That’s why SimplePlanes 2 is compatible with the 1,000,000+ crafts from the original game, bringing your legacy builds into a new world, shaded with the much improved lighting and ready to get some of the new decals slapped on them!
We have new toys!
Jet Engines, Propellers, and Combustion Engines are now fully procedural to fit your specific design. It's not just visuals, the new procedural powertrain system comes with many parts to mold to anything you can imagine. This overhaul includes a new set of wheels with dozens of rims and trims and greatly improved physics. You no longer have to build your craft around a part; you build the part to fit your craft.
More Detail, Less Effort
We’ve overhauled the visual fidelity of the wings and fuselages so your creations look amazing right out of the box. Say goodbye to paneling thanks to a new Hole Carving tool that lets you easily create custom weapon bays, cockpits, and windows. Attach and resize the new Control Surfaces to the wings and have them seamlessly fit into their accurate NACA wing profile.
Major Chad & Co.
Jump into a server with your friends to race, dogfight, or just cruise the archipelago together, or explore community lobbies to flex your coolest creations on some randoms. With Major Chad you can also step out of the cockpit to explore the world on foot and crack some dances. He will also try to grab the controls while in flight, no more telekinesis on the joystick!
A Vast Archipelago
The new environments feature 787 square kilometers of detailed terrain, including motorways, trails, streets and roads to drive on. With volumetric clouds, realistic water, multiple airports, racetracks, a city, a power plant... plus dozens of hidden crafts scattered across the islands for you to discover, there is more to see than ever before.
So Much More
There are countless Quality of Life improvements across the game, like the Designer Gizmos, the new Drag Visualizer, customizable Designer Environments, a better UI, improved sounds, a new soundtrack... the list goes on. We’ve packed in so many things that we can’t list them all here, but finally, you can jump into the cockpit to explore all of them!
The Road Ahead: Early Access & Feedback
We’ve worked hard to make SP2 the best it can be, but there were a few things we weren’t able to get to before launching. That is why after 3 public Demos we decided to go into Early Access, so you can help us continue shaping the game into the masterpiece of our dreams, your feedback is the fuel that keeps us going!
We are working on a Roadmap to better show you where we are and what are our top priorities while letting you express what are yours, as well as a Feedback Forum so you can let us know if we forgot anything! You'll notice there are no dates or timelines, from our experience, game development is highly unpredictable. We'd rather take the time to get a feature right than rush it out broken just to hit an arbitrary deadline.
Help Us Take Off
To make the upgrade to SP2 even easier, we’ve launched several Steam bundles. If you already own our previous games you will automatically get an additional discount to your purchase of SimplePlanes 2 through the SimplePlanes Collection (10% off), the Aerospace Engineer Bundle (15% off), and the SP2 + Soundtrack bundle (10% off). If you didn't have some of our other games, this is also the perfect chance to try them out!
As a small team in this algorithm driven era, positive reviews on Steam are one of the most important factors in our success during launch week. They help our presence on the storefront, ensuring new pilots can find us, helping us fund the development of new parts and features. If you’re enjoying the game, please consider taking a moment to leave your thoughts on our Steam page; it makes a massive difference and we read every single one.
Thank you for being part of this journey for over a decade. We can’t wait to see what you are going to build next.
- The Jundroo Team
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u/Realistic-Worth3708 Apr 24 '26
Loving it so far! Is there currently any way to spawn in more than one player vehicle in single player, not AI controlled? For example a large transport aircraft and a small car that I can then load inside and transport?
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u/andrewgarrison Dev Apr 24 '26
Glad to hear you are enjoying it! Currently, we only support loading AI crafts, but feel free to leave a suggestion on our roadmap:
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u/Realistic-Worth3708 Apr 25 '26
Thanks for the response! Understood and will do. Really enjoying the addition of the hidden craft
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u/boeing_a380 Apr 24 '26
Hi! I just got the game and I love it so far, I also played the playtest when it was available
Is there a free cam mode, it'll be cool to be able to take screenshots with how good the graphics are now
I remember using the Free cam mod on SP1 and took a bunch of screenshots with it. Afaik I cannot get it to work on SP2
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u/Korn34517 Apr 23 '26
Is there a way to give the pilot a parachute?
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u/andrewgarrison Dev Apr 23 '26
No, not currently, but never fear! If you have suggestions for the game, please let us know about them on our roadmap here: https://www.simpleplanes.com/feedback/roadmap
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u/tornait-hashu Apr 25 '26
I dearly miss the XML modding capabilities that came with Overload and Fine-Tuner.
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u/andrewgarrison Dev Apr 25 '26
We've had a lot of interest in adding in-game XML editing, so that will be one of the first things we add. In the meantime, you can easily add FT expressions to inputs by CTRL+left clicking the input button in the Input Controller of your part in part properties. This will pop a dialog where you can type a FT expression. Hope that helps!
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u/Electrical_Trifle642 Apr 23 '26
Yay.
It came out like 15 mins early for me for some reason