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2008PC, Steam Deck playable85 % positivefree

A highly realistic PC flight simulator where you pilot jets and warbirds with fully modeled cockpits and complex systems. It works as a huge sandbox for missions, campaigns and online combat, with a very steep learning curve.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Deep systems to master
  • Driving or flying
  • Historical setting
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IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

94 %Match

2006USK 12PC, Steam Deck playable88 % positive9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about DCS World: a historical setting, driving or flying and complex systems to tinker with.

A sprawling World War II flight combat simulator with over 200 flyable aircraft, huge maps and many campaign missions. It offers authentic, demanding dogfights for fans of historical flight sims.

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Driving or flying

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Sandbox with your own goals

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War Thunder

Driving or flying

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Hell Let Loose

Competing against other players

A realistic WWII tactical shooter with huge 50-vs-50 battles where squads, supply lines and vehicles must work together. Teamwork and communication decide who wins the front.

Squad 44

Challenging difficulty

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Assetto Corsa

Driving or flying

A hardcore racing simulator built around highly detailed driving physics, authentic cars and tracks. A huge modding scene and online racing give it lasting appeal for sim enthusiasts.

Arma 2

Sandbox with your own goals

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Call to Arms: Gates of Hell - Ostfront

Challenging difficulty

A highly detailed World War II real-time tactics game where you can command squads and take direct control of individual soldiers and vehicles, from top-down to first-person views. Realistic damage, destruction and dynamic campaigns, including co-op, make for demanding and varied battles.

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