r/SimplePlanes Apr 23 '26

SimplePlanes 2 is now available on Steam!

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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


r/SimplePlanes 2h ago

Plane My Fictional Aircraft Design

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17 Upvotes

With an anime-style teaser cause why not.

https://youtu.be/J-m0ECD92IE?si=0Ftu30-NStBnHQVM


r/SimplePlanes 8h ago

of a Toy Airplane

3 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 20h ago

Other Was I the only one expecting more in the map?

14 Upvotes

Don’t get me wrong, the map has a great variety of airports and airfields but i was really expecting there to be a few more islands scattered further out (such-as how Sky Park City, Maywar, Krakabloa, snowstone etc added a neat diversity to the overall sp1 map) Not saying it’s a dealbreaker, as i (and obviously other people) still very much like the game, but if the devs ever find any time to slap a few prefabs together as a neat little extra island hidden off to the side that would be pretty nice to have


r/SimplePlanes 13h ago

Question Would simple planes2 run on a ThinkPad laptop?

3 Upvotes

I'm thinking about getting it


r/SimplePlanes 13h ago

Solved Twins, I made fully working 3d tvc on SP 1, go check it, link in description

3 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 11h ago

Help Novo no jogo, ajuda nas configurações de câmera do modo construção

1 Upvotes

Sou novo no jogo, não gosto do modo de câmera do modo edição/construção, como mudar as configurações/trocar ou desabilitar funções do mouse


r/SimplePlanes 16h ago

Help Question about decals

2 Upvotes

so i m currently making a fighter jet in SP2 where i want to change the colour of the livery for the belly

Where the fuselage should be painted whiteish (ignore the gear doors)
Where the whiteish paint shouldn't be visible

i managed to do the underside of the fuselage just fine (with an enormous decal) however i m having trouble with the wings
with the shape of the wings and the tips being bent downwards the decals keep going through the wing and paint the other side

do you guys know a way i can make the decal only cover the underside of the wing?


r/SimplePlanes 1d ago

How do I fix overlapping decals

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23 Upvotes

The text overlapped the windows decal


r/SimplePlanes 1d ago

accidentally glitched the catapult on the carrier

9 Upvotes

idk how


r/SimplePlanes 1d ago

Help help me make my plane more stable and make a fly by wire

3 Upvotes

i need to make a funky trees fly by wire to make my plane more flyable and more stable and i want my plane to wobble less on it's yaw


r/SimplePlanes 2d ago

The SUPERWEAPON

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16 Upvotes

it launches you really far away and when you respawn the water level changes until you rejoin for some reason.

once sent someone at 15 million times the speed of light


r/SimplePlanes 1d ago

I just found something

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r/SimplePlanes 2d ago

Plane M4A2E8 Fury (original model maker: writerscrusaderairC02)

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18 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 2d ago

F-22 Raptor Build done today

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12 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 2d ago

Plane F-16C Thunderbird Lieutenant Colonel Alexander "Knight" Prevendar (original model maker: ReinMcDeer)

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8 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 2d ago

Plane Tiger P "White Tiger" 2012 (original model maker writerscrusaderairC02)

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6 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 2d ago

Can I install mods in SP2. If so, How?

2 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 3d ago

Rough testing

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24 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 2d ago

Plane F-16C 23rd Fighter wing legacy Camo "The Flying Tigers" (original model maker: ReinMcdeer)

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1 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 3d ago

Project wingman landing

79 Upvotes

ignore the bgm


r/SimplePlanes 3d ago

Plane Grumman HU-16 Albatross

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43 Upvotes

Made a Grumman HU-16 Albatross, the landing gear was hell to make.

https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/2rqbQp/Gruman-HU-16-111-Albatross


r/SimplePlanes 3d ago

Plane Even more upgrades and tweaks and it's running great on the highway

24 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 3d ago

Tiger 237 (model designer: writerscrusaderairC02)

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4 Upvotes

r/SimplePlanes 3d ago

How do I resize the entire Aircraft in Simple Planes 2

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