| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | |
| Developer: | Asobo Studio |
| Publisher: | Xbox Game Studios |
| Series: | Microsoft Flight Simulator |
| Released: | November 19, 2024 |
| Genre: | Amateur flight simulation |
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is an upcoming flight simulation video game developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios. A successor to Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020), The game is scheduled for release on November 19, 2024, for Windows and the Xbox Series X/S.[1]
Announced at the 2023 Xbox Games Showcase on June 11, 2023, it will include a career mode-style missions system. It is being run using Asobo's in-house engine.
New mission types include aerial firefighting, air search and rescue, helicopter cargo hook transport, air ambulance, cropdusting, mountain rescue, skydiving, commercial aviation, aerial crane construction, outsize cargo transport with the Airbus Beluga, arctic cargo transport with the Airbus A400M, VIP air charter and executive transport, air racing, weather reconnaissance, experimental aircraft testing, and nap-of-the-earth flight with the A-10 Warthog. New aircraft types include gliders, airships, and hot air balloons. New environmental features include snow, tornadoes, auroras, animal migration and herds, live marine and flight tracking, the four seasons, and better ground traffic reporting.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will be a standalone version, but Microsoft stated that "virtually all" addons purchased on Flight Simulators online marketplace for the previous version will work with the new release.[2] Whether external third-party addons will work is unclear.[3] The company described the new missions and aircraft as part of aviation career modes. 2024 will have an electronic flight bag, improved physics engine with greater control for addons' flight dynamics, improved electrical, pneumatic, fuel, and hydraulic aircraft systems and avionics, and multithreading for better performance.[4]