Airport Simulator 2014 Reviews

These features are promised in the ad on the library: Features The most detailed and comprehensive simulation of the events at an international airport Many management and business options for the expansion of terminals and extension of runways NO. None are included. This game is so boring and lame, it is not worth anything. There is a great foundation for a great game here, but they seem to have only finished half of it and released it. It needs so much more work to make it enjoyable.

This is a frustratingly uneven game. It starts off painstakingly slow: An aircraft comes in and you, apparently being the only person at the airport with a driver’s license, have to drive various vehicles to and from the plane: a passenger bus, a rolling staircase, a fuel truck, two types of cleaning trucks, a luggage trolley, etc. It’s very tedious, but eventually multiple planes start arriving and you have to juggle various tasks among them. The plane at gate 5 is fueling now, the plane at gate 6 wants fuel next. A plane that just landed is waiting for a parking spot and you’re trying to push back a plane at gate 3 to make room for it. At this point the game isn’t exactly *fun*, but it’s at least involving. Get those tasks done to get the planes off the ground! But then you earn money and hire help and once you hire enough employees to handle every vehicle at every gate the game becomes nothing more than a slightly interactive screen saver: A plane lands, you assign it a gate and everything is taken care of. You just sit there and wait for it to take off again. There is one maddening exception: The pallet loader for cargo aircraft. You can’t hire anyone to drive this. It’s all you, and it's buggy and annoying. For starters, only one cargo plane can be serviced at a time. If you have 3 cargo planes parked at gates you'll only get loading/unloading instructions for one of them. You can entirely finish loading up the first plane but you won't be able to start loading and unloading the second plane until the first plane is on its way to the runway. It can sometimes take 10-20 minutes between the plane being loaded up and actually pushing back, during which time your pallet loader gathers dust and other cargo planes take up gate space waiting to unload. Additionally if you make the mistake of parking a cargo plane at gate 6, 7 or 8 you need to make ridiculous round trips back and forth across the tarmac between unloading a pallet on the south end, going to a parking spot on the north end, and returning to the cargo area on the south end again to pick the next pallet up (for gates 1-5 the parking spot is thankfully right next door to the cargo area so moving the pallet loader from the cargo area to the parking spot takes about 5 seconds). There are other frustrations too: + Wonky physics that allow you to flip a plane nearly upside down with a nudge from a luggage cart + Tasks that appear and disappear from your task list + A non-intuitive interface + An inability to move vehicles to a gate prior to a plane being assigned to it + Awkward vehicle/gate rules. An aircraft can't push back until all of the vehicles servicing it have returned to their parking spots. It's not enough to simply clear the gate area. This makes multitasking difficult. For instance, say you're fueling a plane at gate 1 and when finished drive the fuel truck to gate 2 to service that aircraft. Even though the fuel truck is no longer at gate 1, that aircraft won't push back until the fuel truck has actually parked in the fuel truck area. For that small percentage of people who *really* like airports, there are bits and pieces of this game that are slightly interesting, but the bugs & game logic & freakin’ pallet loader make it nearly impossible to recommend.

No. Just, no... This game is terrible. Sound only works if you adjust it to 2001 standards (so it matches the graphics). It's slow and boring. No way to speed up time. All you do is drive around in excruciatingly slow airport support vehicles to a predetermined location and move on to the next vehicle. This must be done in a certain amount of time or else you start losing money. If you manage to actually make money, you can use it to "upgrade" each service, which simply automates it. So I guess the goal of the game is to upgrade everything to the point that it plays itself... lame. Graphics and physics are waaay buggy. I flipped a plane trying to taxi it out to the runway and couldn't recover it (see screenshots).

Utter rubbish. Don't waste your money! The game consists of waiting around a lot for things to happen. The things? Driving a few service vehicles aroung from garages to airpot gates and back. Once you have automated all but one task (for some reason loading cargo cannot be automated) you merely sit and watch the same things repeat over and over again. Your involvement is now over. The claim of countless missions is a lie and the publishers should be ashamed of themselves. There is one mission. It just repeats over and over again. Steam should remove this game from the option to buy if they are a responsible retailer. It really is that bad!!!

I've been on Steam since 2005. I own over 350 games. I've never requested a refund before today. This game is unacceptable. It's not an airport simulator - an airport sim would have you fixing planes, managing gates, planning expansions, handling emergencies, running the de-icer, scheduling logistics for the catering, tracking down lost bags... you know, airport stuff. Instead, you drive the vehicles from parking spot to parking spot and are rewarded with a view of a bunch of vehicles sitting around a plane. All that airport stuff? Carried out in the form of a timer on the objectives list. Not even so much as an animation, let alone anything interactive. Someone could whip up this game with stock assets in Unity in under a day. Indeed, they probably did. I'm insulted by this 'game'. I want a refund, I want the game pulled from the store, and I want an apology from the developers for releasing this pathetic Airport Parking Simulator.

If you like driving around, waiting for 30 mins to do the next thing, with graphics from 5 years ago. Then yes, this game is for you. Besides that, it is NOT AN AIRPORT SIMULATOR. It is a DRIVING SIMULATOR.

I might continue playing this when I am bored but other then that not really, driving the cars and such is slow, the tutorial didn't really help out at all, took me a while to figure out what to do. Read the forums do a bit of research before buying games. They warned me about not getting this game but I thought about giving it a try and it didn't turn out to well.

This game is absolutely terrible. There's not a lot to do besides waiting and the graphics looks like they were made 10 years ago. Can NOT recommend - At all!

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Airport Simulator might be the most tedious and boring game ever released. Heres what you do in this game: 1. Select gate for plane to taxi to. 2. Extend tunnel. If its a passenger plane: 1. Drive stairs to gate. 2. Drive bus to gate. 3. Drive luggage wagon to gate. 4. Drive interior cleaning to gate. 5. Drive exterior cleaning to gate. If its a cargo plane: 1. Drive cargo wagon to gate. 2. Drive exterior cleaning to gate. Wait 5-10 minutes 1. Drive everything back to the garage. Thats literallyy it. Theres no management, there is no way to lose you just get money for every task you do. You start with 8 gates even though youre probably never going to use more than half of them at a time. You can hire "helpers" that drive the vehicles for you. The game is over once everything got an "helper". The graphics are bad but you cant really expect good graphics from a 15€ game. While playing it I got the feeling that devs were never even close to an airport. On what airport do they use tunnels and stairs/buses on the same plane? On what airport does the luggage go to end of the airport and the passangers to the other? The game is also riddled with bugs. When you save the game all textures and models unload and all you see is the skybox for about 3 minutes. The Tunnels jiggle all the time and get stuck inside the terminal. When i tried to taxi a plane back to the runway the game just crashed. Not only is this game awful it is also falsly advertised: It clearly says in the description that there are "Many management and business options for the expansion of terminals and extension of runways" which there are none. Not a single one. It also says its available in german, french and italian which isnt the case either. Steam finally has to hire someone that plays every game for at least an hour before it is made available on the store. TL;DR Do not under any circumstances buy this game, dont even accept it as a gift.