How many people are playing Load Factor right now?

Load Factor has 0 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 2 and an all-time peak of 4 on 6 Sep 2026.

What is the all-time peak player count of Load Factor?

4 concurrent players on 6 Sep 2026.

When was Load Factor released on Steam?

Load Factor was released on Steam on 6 Sep 2026.

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Game update15 Sep 2026Load Factor 0.17 to 0.20Four updates rolled into one. I held them together because they turned out to be the same job: the simulation already knew a great deal, and the game was doing a bad job of telling you any of it. I want to be straight about something first. A fair number of the entries below are fixes for things I got wrong, and most of those are here because a player sat down and wrote up exactly what had happ…Game update14 Sep 20260.16.1 — Busy flights fill up, fewer weather cancellations, and a RoadmapA small hotfix, almost all of it from your reports. Thank you. Fixed · Busy flights now fill up. A route carrying far more demand than it had seats still couldn't get past about 88% full, the seat limit was being applied twice, so day-to-day variation in bookings could only ever take passengers off a flight and never put them on. It's applied once now. An oversubscribed departure goes out full,…

Published	Kind	Announcement	Build
7 Sep 2026, 15:01 UTC	Game update	0.15.1 FIX Cancelled flights no longer display aircraft as flying on the map	—
7 Sep 2026, 14:25 UTC	Game update	Load Factor 0.15.0 NEW Route and flight reports. Pick any completed flight and see passengers and revenue by cabin, local versus connecting traffic, fuel, crew, maintenance, airport fees, distribution, and what the flight actually contributed. Every route now keeps 4, 12 and 48 week history for flights, seats, passengers, load factor, fares, costs and on-time. UI scaling, 80% to 200%, in Settings > Display. If yo…	—
6 Sep 2026, 15:48 UTC	Game update	0.14.4 Loading Error - Grey Screen Fixxed stuck on grey screen on loading.	—
6 Sep 2026, 15:05 UTC	Game update	0.14.3 — 6 September 2026 FIXED - Alt-tabbing out of fullscreen no longer leaves blank duplicate windows behind. Every time you tabbed away from the game, Windows added another empty "Load Factor" entry to the alt-tab switcher, and they stacked up until you quit. The culprit was a Chromium flag that the Steam overlay helper turns on for every game that uses it - Only one copy of the game runs at a time. Launching it aga…	—
6 Sep 2026, 14:17 UTC	Game update	0.14.2 — Career Mode, Certifications & Lifetime Stats CAREER MODE New Game now asks how you want to play. Sandbox is the game as it was — everything unlocked from the first minute. Career starts you small: turboprops only, economy cabins, domestic routes, outsourced ground handling, and a $150M credit ceiling. Everything else is earned. THE CERTIFICATION TREE 38 certifications across five branches, on a new Certs tab. They unlock jets and widebodi…	—
6 Sep 2026, 10:36 UTC	Steam news	Load Factor is out now Load Factor is out now You run an airline. Not an airport, not a construction site, an airline. Every runway in Load Factor already exists. There is nothing to build and nothing to lay down. What you get instead is the real world: around 3,100 airports, real traffic between real cities, and a fleet catalogue running from 19-seat turboprops up to the A380. Five decisions That's the whole game, a…	—

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7 Sep 2026, 15:01 UTC

Game update

0.15.1

FIX Cancelled flights no longer display aircraft as flying on the map

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7 Sep 2026, 14:25 UTC

Game update

Load Factor 0.15.0

NEW Route and flight reports. Pick any completed flight and see passengers and revenue by cabin, local versus connecting traffic, fuel, crew, maintenance, airport fees, distribution, and what the flight actually contributed. Every route now keeps 4, 12 and 48 week history for flights, seats, passengers, load factor, fares, costs and on-time. UI scaling, 80% to 200%, in Settings > Display. If yo…

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6 Sep 2026, 15:48 UTC

Game update

0.14.4

Loading Error - Grey Screen Fixxed stuck on grey screen on loading.

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6 Sep 2026, 15:05 UTC

Game update

0.14.3 — 6 September 2026

FIXED - Alt-tabbing out of fullscreen no longer leaves blank duplicate windows behind. Every time you tabbed away from the game, Windows added another empty "Load Factor" entry to the alt-tab switcher, and they stacked up until you quit. The culprit was a Chromium flag that the Steam overlay helper turns on for every game that uses it - Only one copy of the game runs at a time. Launching it aga…

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6 Sep 2026, 14:17 UTC

Game update

0.14.2 — Career Mode, Certifications & Lifetime Stats

CAREER MODE New Game now asks how you want to play. Sandbox is the game as it was — everything unlocked from the first minute. Career starts you small: turboprops only, economy cabins, domestic routes, outsourced ground handling, and a $150M credit ceiling. Everything else is earned. THE CERTIFICATION TREE 38 certifications across five branches, on a new Certs tab. They unlock jets and widebodi…

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6 Sep 2026, 10:36 UTC

Steam news

Load Factor is out now

Load Factor is out now You run an airline. Not an airport, not a construction site, an airline. Every runway in Load Factor already exists. There is nothing to build and nothing to lay down. What you get instead is the real world: around 3,100 airports, real traffic between real cities, and a fleet catalogue running from 19-seat turboprops up to the A380. Five decisions That's the whole game, a…

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