Ultrawings Reviews

Out of the box, with no further additions, this game is pretty solid. The world is beautiful, the flying is fun, there's an enjoyable progression system that will take you to lovely places, the flying is intuitive but can become very challenging. The base game is great! But the second you try to plug in a HOTAS? Holy hell. You can tell the devs were absolutely dreading the task of "supporting" HOTAS; I've never seen a flying game with such a miserable hack job of a HOTAS system. They dragged their feet for months while the community requested a frankly base feature for a flight game. Configuring the controls is bad enough but, this game has this horrible habit of disabling one or more control systems every single time you boot the game. The devs have completely dropped any support for players and pumped out a second Ultrawings. Thanks lads, honourable work. So fine, don't use HOTAS then, right? Well, try getting gold on the more advanced airplanes with floaty-ass controls that frequently don't connect to the systems you are trying to manage. It's infuriating. HOTAS would solve this problem perfectly, as it does with most other aviation games, but it doesn't work here. Further, achievements are now broken, and the simplest task of implementing cloud saves is neglected. I looked into Ultrawings II and guess what? Same thing: heaps of complaints that things are broken and the devs show zero inclination to fix anything. It's surprising and tragic that such a fun game has such crappy devs behind it.