SimplePlanes 2
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Playing now
158−68 vs. yesterday
All-time peak
1,039Apr 2026
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| Game update | Update notes for 0.7.03.200 v0.7.03.200 Multiplayer · Added the ability to disable multiplayer chat via the game settings · Added a button in the player list to block chat with individual players · Updated multiplayer chat to support clickable SimplePlanes website links while removing other external links · Removed rich text formatting support from multiplayer chat UX / UI · Added a pending new row automatically in Overlo… | — | |
| In-game event | Update 0.7.3 | Overloaded With Power Update 0.7.3.1 is now LIVE on Steam! This update includes the highly requested Overload XML editor , plus a number of UI improvements, bug fixes, and more! You can find the full patch notes at the end of this post, but let's talk about the star of the show: Overload Being by far the most-requested feature on our Roadmap , Overload is now fully integrated into the stock game, allowing you to dir… | 23397045 | |
| Game update | Changelog for v0.7.2.201 v0.7.2.201 UX / UI · Added configurable quick-save and auto-save functionality for designer crafts · Added support for cloning parts with the translate tool by holding CTRL while dragging a gizmo · Changed Funky Trees dropdown name to Custom Input and added information to the input dialog · Added an option to stop showing the Designer Tutorial flyout when there are incomplete tutorials · Fixed… | — | |
| Game update | v0.7.2 now available, + THANK YOU! Hello everyone! SimplePlanes 2 has been out for a few days now, and today we’ve just released our first patch, v0.7.2 , which re-adds the missing bug report button and fixes some bugs y’all have uncovered in your time playing. (Note: all players in a multiplayer lobby must be playing the same version of the game as each other!) Make Your Voice Heard! If you don’t know, we have a ROADMAP on our… |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.
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| News | SimplePlanes 2 is now available! 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. 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 t… | — |
| Announcement | Good News Everyone! SimplePlanes 2 is now releasing April 23rd After we announced that we're releasing on April 28th we had kind of an awkward realization that s&box , a spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, was also releasing on the 28th. This is good news for all manner of sandbox game players, but given that SP2 is itself a sandbox game and therefore the two games have an overlapping target audience, we're worrie… | — |
| Announcement | SimplePlanes 2 LAUNCH DATE! Hey everyone! You’ve read the title already (I assume…) so let’s cut to the chase: SimplePlanes 2 is releasing into Early Access on April 28th!! Fun fact: this is almost exactly two years after we posted our initial announcement trailer, which released on April 26th 2024. The game has come a very long way since then, and we’re really excited for you all to finally get to see first-hand what we’… | — |
| News | Steam Next Fest! Hello again, we hope you all have been having fun with the new demo this past week! Today marks the beginning of Steam Next Fest , a week-long event run by Valve where thousands of game developers publish demos of their upcoming games, and we're happy to announce that we're participating! If you haven't already tried the demo, head on over to the SimplePlanes 2 Demo Steam page and you can simpl… | — |
| News | SimplePlanes 2 Demo 3 is LIVE!!! Hello again! I think it’s about time for another SimplePlanes 2 demo, don’t you? Since the start of this year we’ve been hard at work on our biggest demo by far, and you can play it starting right now until March 2nd! This demo features both Driftwood Island and Bannock Station from the previous two demos, plus a new location, unlocked part properties , and more! HOW TO PLAY To play this demo,… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Hole Carving Hey everyone! We hope you’ve been enjoying the demo, it’s been awesome seeing you playing (and breaking) it this past week. We’ve got a bit of an impromptu SimplePlanes 2 blog post here for you today. Normally we post dev blogs dedicated to multiple related topics at a time, but this time it’s just focused on one topic, and it’s one we think a lot of you are going to be very excited about. Rece… | — |
| News | SimplePlanes 2 Holiday Playtest is LIVE!!! Surprise!! With the holiday season now upon us and the ten year anniversary of SimplePlanes 1’s release on Steam coming up on December 17th, we’ve released another SimplePlanes 2 demo (or playtest, whichever you’d rather call it) for you to try that you can play RIGHT NOW , featuring an all-new area, new stock crafts, and more! This second demo will be available all month long, ending on Januar… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Environments Part 4 For this next dev blog, we’re going to be talking about a major new set of POIs (points of interest) located on the southern tip of New Yoke Island, and what better way to start than with the heart of it all: Power Plant Sat next to a mountain running with gigantic trenches is a large power plant, providing electricity to the surrounding area using a mysterious substance dug from a big mine on… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Blimps & Rails A new day, a new blog post. This time, it’s about more environmental vehicles! If you missed the last time we talked about these, please check out Environments Part 3 . Among other things, it goes over Emmanuelle Le Nouaille’s contributions to the game, which we’ll be going over more of here. Blimps & Balloons In the linked post (as well as in the first demo if you played it) you may have notic… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Fuselages Part 2 A few months ago you got to see some of the capabilities of the brand new fuselage part in SP2. This next blog post will showcase some other bits we didn’t talk about, like the UI (which wasn’t ready at the time we first talked about these). Sliders No, I don’t mean “slider” as in the type of burger (Chad probably doesn’t even know how to cook). Sliders are a UI element that you click and drag… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Propeller Engines Our procedural powertrain system might seem like it’s just for cars, however it is anything but that. We are adding aircraft engines that can interact with powertrains in the same way the car engine can, using a brand new procedural propeller part you attach to the front (or to a driveshaft anywhere else!), and it all interconnects nicely to let you do just about whatever you want. You can powe… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Sound Design Hello again! It’s been a few weeks since the last dev blog, as we took a break while you all were playing the demo (which we really hope you had fun with, we plan to do more in the future!) but we’re back with more. We’re kicking things back off with something you may have already noticed a bit of in the demo: sound design. A lot of work has been done to make SimplePlanes 2 sound nicer than our… | — |
| News | The SimplePlanes 2 Demo is LIVE! The SimplePlanes 2 Flight Demo is officially live! To participate, just go to the SimplePlanes 2 Steam page and click the “Request Access” button in the playtest box. The game will automatically be added to your Steam library so you can just download it and start playing! This demo runs until November 3 , so you have all week to play. What To Expect As we’ve talked about before, this demo does… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Crafts & Performance The Demo is just around the corner! This will be the final dev blog before the demo goes live on October 27. This blog will be going over the stock crafts you'll be playing with, as well as some performance and quality of life changes. Stock Crafts The SimplePlanes 2 Flight Demo contains a variety of brand new stock crafts using the new goodies the game has to offer, with many more planned for… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Wings Part 3 Welcome to Part 3 of our set of blogs showing off the new wings! This one goes into some more enhancements to visuals and physics, so let's get into it, starting with... Propeller Blur Er... propellers are technically wings, right? I know, put away your nerd emojis, I just had nowhere else to put this. So anyway... When something like a propeller blade spins very fast, it creates a blur effect… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Music As much as I love the music from SimplePlanes 1 , it quickly got pretty repetitive in-game as there were only five songs and they played all the time, ultimately leading to many people just muting the music and listening to something else while they play. So for SimplePlanes 2, we have a brand new in-game soundtrack comprising of fifteen songs , composed by a lovely duo called Fat Bard (who we… | — |
| News | SimplePlanes 2 Demo Release Date! As some of you may know, Steam Next Fest started yesterday, which is a week-long event Steam runs a few times a year where tons of game developers publish demos of their upcoming games. As you probably also know, the SimplePlanes 2 Demo isn’t a part of it. We would have loved to participate in this Next Fest, but the Flight Demo just wasn’t ready in time. However, though the demo isn’t ready ri… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Activities Like its predecessor, in SimplePlanes 2 you’ll be able to play a number of activities, ranging from races to combat challenges to some less conventional activities we’ll get into soon. Unlike SP1 though, in SP2 you’ll be able to play all of these activities in multiplayer! Races In SP2, there are a bunch of races for you to choose from in a variety of locations, from traditional circuit races o… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Open Water Sitting in SimplePlanes 1’s vast ocean is one of the game’s most iconic locations, which isn’t an island at all, nor necessarily a building; it’s a ship. The USS Beast has been a much-loved part of the original SimplePlanes, but with its last revision being all the way back in 2019 with Version 1.8 , it’s been long overdue for an upgrade. The USS Beast II I’m not gonna mince words: Kevin has do… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Environments Part 3 Hello again! It's blog post time again, this time with yet another set of map-related stuff to show off! We've got vehicles, a new island, and more! So let's get started: In SimplePlanes 2 there are a number of vehicles that spawn around the map, ranging from cars to airplanes, boats, and even the occasional blimp or hot air balloon. They all spawn in predefined areas that we’re able to set, an… | — |
| Announcement | Good News & Bad News Hey everyone, It’s getting late in 2025, and we’ve been hearing a familiar question more and more: "When is the game actually coming out?" So, let’s talk about it. I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news: We finally have a release month The bad news: It's not until next year We are going to release SimplePlanes 2 on Steam as Early Access in March of 2026. We're still considering what the… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | SimpleWheels Among the original SimplePlanes parts in desperate need of a facelift is the Resizable Wheel. It was introduced over nine years ago and has received relatively little change since then, besides the addition of a number of new visual styles. Needless to say, improving the wheels has been a high priority for SimplePlanes 2, and we’re really excited to finally show off what we’ve been working on.… | — |
| Community | SimplePlanes 2 | Wings Part 2 This post serves as a follow-up to our previous post about the new wings and fuselages in SimplePlanes 2, with more in-depth information than we gave you in the last one. If you missed Part 1, check it out here . Wings This one is going to be a slight change of pace compared to our previous showcases, with some more nerdy talk than usual. If that isn’t your style and you’d rather skip it, then… | — |