Airport Simulator 2019 Reviews

Not to bad of a game but needs more updating to be a good game. Found numerous bugs. If you you can overlook the bugs them could be a fun game for you. A few more options would be nice too.

What a brilliant play loop. Once you have the equipment needed and staff employed (24), you can micro manage everything and watch your account rise. There is a fair amount of grinding to start, but that is expected of this type of simulator. I like to jump in to the roles from time to time just to help out, but do enjoy watching my workers doing all the tasks. If you like repetitive menial tasks and watching others do your work then this can be fun. The driving can be a little sharp, but you adapt pretty quickly. I have only just picked this up, so am late to the party,. Have really enjoyed the play loop and the graphics are good.. And you get to see planes take off and land...

1st of I will say, I'm going to keep the game. While the bad reviews are valid, I don't agree with them. This is a simple task game. Think a typical Game House old school Diner Dash type game. Except, in this case, the food is the bus and various other airport support vehicles. Once you understand that and don't pay full price (buy during a sale) I think you will enjoy this game. My view is to hire personal and equipment so you don't need to do them yourself. That's where the game lacks. It's clear to me that the player doing a task is not the goal and as such when driving vehicles the controls are horrible. To get around this what I did, don't take any planes to manage and hire staff then fast forward to the day that you will have at least 2 truck drives and one engineer. It takes a few game days for hired staff to show up similar to real-life you don't hire a person then they start the same day. The period before you have staff is pretty bad. If you buy it and want to try it before your time runs out on possible return, skip the tutorial, hire two truck drivers and an engineer don't take any planes to manage then, click next day until you have a full staff. Then play the game. The game then becomes a decent sim to manage the support of an airport. The one true downside is that no matter what video settings I use there is an occasional frame rate drop, this isn't an issue if you are not driving. But as I mentioned before you shouldn't drive anyway.

This game is terrible! Stupid AI, flights are not finishing properly, vehicles are possessed, a lot of bugs, boring, workers doesn't know what to do with their vehicles. Do not buy this sh***t!

I played for 30 minutes and, like everyone else says, you literally go point a to point b. Its incredibly boring and repetitive. I'm not sure theres a way to improve this game... Its really boring. I refunded it.

*14/7* Several hours in now, and startng to hit a few major bugs that prevent flights completing. Would advise against buying for now. --- (Insert generic comment about wanting a "meh" option here) So an hour in, I'm deciding to stick with the game and pass refund time on it. While it's another simulator, it's not UIG and another cynical money grab, I can see the developers are genuinely trying to do something here, and I support that. They're active too. The game is a bit basic and the AI is...special, but it's a worthwhile attempt to do something new with the genre.

Terrible game Drive from garage to plane and then back to garage and so on I can also hire helpers and to make it even worse I am stuck in the garage I am not positioned in the control tower like Airport simulator 2013 and 2015 so I cant see anything happening it is incredibly boring.

Any of you have that one game you play late into the night when you're bored and too tired to be entertained by anything normal? AS19 is that game for me. I still am unsure why I find it enjoyable after 43+ hours, but there it is. I have literally sat up all night playing this three times lol. I think what you need to do with this game is *not* play it as designed, and then it becomes good. The majority of my hours have been logged running in control tower mode and letting the AI run my vehicles - I play this like a logistics simulator, running only one set of vehicles and jamming flights back to back in an effort to fail jobs as at this point I have millions of dollars and really can't lose. It's just...weirdly satisfying actually losing sometimes. Yes, there are bugs. AS19 deserves lots of the hate it gets, mainly due to jet bridges which slam into invisible walls and never serve your flights, rendering full manual control of higher-paying jobs impossible. Vehicle conditions degrade through use or even just being left outside and cannot be repaired - you can send them to the garage which claims to service them but it does not. But even with these issues, I still like it. You might as well, just be sure and wait for a sale as these developers have a nasty habit of abandoning poorly performing titles early.

Honestly super boring. You drive from point A to point B in a vehicle of your choosing. Rinse and repeat. ResidentSleeper

If you want to play a game where your objective mainly consists of driving from point A to point B, some times in impossibly slow vehicles, then this is the game for you. Firstly, there does not seem to be any penalty for driving like an absolute idiot. The waypoint system has a tendency to show you the safe route, but this is the slow route. So why not cut across a some fields and drive across a taxiway. In real life road safety on an airport is paramount and there are super strict rules against veering even slightly off course or speeding. For a simulator game that consists mostly of driving, this seemed like a great opportunity of having some airport cop up your butt as soon as you decided not to go around the fuel depot, but through it instead. As for the tasks. It's literally: Get a task, get in a car, drive the car to the destination, wait for the bags/passengers/fuel to load, then drive back. At the end of the day, you are highly reccomended to drive all your vehicles back to the garage to avoid wear. (I didn't do this once and suddenly all my vehicles went "critical service status".. oops.) But I simply didn't do it because it was SO BORING. It was just another excuse to force me to drive another mundane drive through the same mundane airport layout you've driven through 30 times even after just 30 minutes in game. The driving controls are sub par. The AI is stupid and the cruise control is... well let's just say temperamental. There's no way of knowing if you've actually enabled the cruise control, until your car suddenly just starts braking after a few seconds, or you continue on your way. As for the AI. They seem to just go along some strings, making mostly sure they don't crash into anything. Even driving on a road with the baggage car, and an AI coming towards you, they'll just stop in the middle of the street in the lane next to you because they're afraid they might hit you. And yes, you get to hire workers, and manage your vehicles etc. but... that's not a simulator game. The only simulation in this game is driving. And there are plenty of games that do that better. This is more like a tycoon game where you're forced to do all the boring stuff yourself to earn enough money to start tycooning. But all this could have been forgiven if they'd actually put some interesting mechanics into the game. I've read that previous versions of this series have had minigames with tasks... why is this gone? Why do I just get a fade out when I reach the plane with my fuel truck? Why can't I get out of the truck, grab my hose, find the fuel intake, unscrew that and fit the hose. Then head back to the truck and make sure I fill up the plane with the correct amount of fuel requested by the pilot, at the correct mixture? THAT'S SIMULATION, not this crap.