SimplePlanes VR

SimplePlanes VR lets you pilot aircraft and other creations from SimplePlanes in virtual reality. You reach for the flight controls, operate cockpit switches, and guide your craft through takeoffs and landings. The experience includes haptic feedback, and the world features other aircraft in flight, a bush plane landing in the distance and even a giant mech on the runway.

Aircraft and flight

You can download more than 100,000 community-made crafts, including World War II bombers, modern fighters and sci-fi spacecraft. All crafts can be piloted, though not all have VR-optimized controls or interactable cockpit switches. Creators may use different control setups and can provide their own instructions for operating a craft.

The flight model continuously calculates the effects of weight distribution, thrust, lift and drag. Parts can break off from stress or impacts, but you can keep flying with a missing wing if you can manage it.

Challenges and sandbox

Challenges let you pilot a craft through tasks such as landing on aircraft carriers, escorting bombers, dodging surface-to-air missiles and racing through courses. In Sandbox, you can use any craft for any purpose.

Mods and building

SimplePlanes VR supports mods, though it does not use Steam Workshop. Mods are fundamentally compatible with SimplePlanes, but existing mods are not guaranteed to work when VR is enabled. You can enable mods directly in SimplePlanes VR.

SimplePlanes VR does not include an aircraft builder, so you cannot build or modify crafts in this game. Both SimplePlanes and SimplePlanes VR have access to the same crafts, challenges, islands and locations, except for content that requires building. Buying both games on Steam enables VR in SimplePlanes, where you can access everything without switching games.