Key Takeaways
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s launch has been plagued with issues, making it Xbox’s worst-reviewed game on Steam.
- The game initially received “Overwhelmingly Negative” reviews, with only 39% positive reviews.
- To turn fan sentiment around, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 faces a monumental challenge.
It’s been a troubling start for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. The game promised to be one of the most advanced in history, displaying real-time footage of every location in the world and adding hundreds of animals, all of which could be viewed through dozens of aircraft. Unfortunately, its launch was plagued with issues.
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From day one, players have struggled to log in, been unable to access the game’s story mode, and been greeted by textures that look more like Microsoft Flight Simulator 98, causing the game to launch to “Overwhelmingly Negative” reviews on Steam.
Now that a week has passed and the dust has settled a little, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is officially Xbox Game Studios’ worst-reviewed game on Steam of all time.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s Launch Makes It Xbox’s Worst On Steam
According to the Xbox Game Studios page on Steam, Microsoft has published 61 games on the platform, or roughly 59, when accounting for individual games. Microsoft Flight Simulator is significantly the worst-reviewed of them all.
Although the game has moved from “Overwhelmingly Negative” to “Mostly Negative,” just 39 percent of its reviews are positive. This is four percent worse than Xbox Game Studios’ next game, Forza Motorsport. Minecraft Legends is the third-lowest, sitting at 59 percent positive, only two places ahead of Microsoft Flight Simulator, but with a whopping 20 percent more positive reviews.
Although the game has moved from “Overwhelmingly Negative” to “Mostly Negative,” just 39 percent of its reviews are positive.
At the other end of the scale, both Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Psychonauts 2 sit at 96 percent positive, with Age of Empires 2, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Ori and the Blind Forest and Pentiment all at 95 percent.
While games certainly have the ability to turn things around, No Man’s Sky being the perfect example of this, it represents a monumental ascent that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will need to make to turn fan sentiment around.
Xbox Game Studios Steam Data Breakdown
Below is the data we used to determine that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is Xbox Game Studios’ worst-reviewed Steam game:
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 expands the next-gen series further, adding a host of new technology for hyper-realistic weather and more. It also adds jobs for pilots to undertake, from shuttling skydivers and cargo to mounting daring aerial rescues.