SimplePlanes 2

About SimplePlanes 2

SimplePlanes 2 is a single player and multiplayer open world shooter game. It was developed by Jundroo, LLC and was released on April 23, 2026. It received very positive reviews from players.

SimplePlanes 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the original aircraft-building classic, featuring new parts, shiny new graphics, chaotic multiplayer, new physics, and more! Build planes using enhanced wing and fuselage parts. It's easier than ever to build the plane of your dreams! Reshape the airfoil of your wings using real NACA profiles with overhauled flight physics, or use improved fuselag…

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93%Audience ScoreBased on 921 reviews

graphics24 positive mentions

story6 negative mentions

Highly detailed and versatile building system that is intuitive and improved over the original game, allowing for complex and realistic aircraft, cars, boats, and more.
Multiplayer mode adds chaotic and fun interactions like dogfights and races, enhancing replayability and social play.
Improved graphics, physics, and optimization that allow smooth gameplay on modest hardware with beautiful environments including clouds, water, and varied landscapes.

Steep learning curve and somewhat clunky, unintuitive user interface and editor controls especially for new players.
Lack of missions, challenges, and diverse single-player content makes solo play feel empty and repetitive.
Performance issues and lag when many players or large builds are in multiplayer; some missing key features and polish expected for an early access title.

graphics
77 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
31% positive mentions, 65% neutral mentions, 4% negative mentions
The game's graphics represent a significant improvement over its predecessor, featuring pleasing visuals with enhanced lighting, clouds, and terrain that are praised as beautiful and well-optimized even on modest hardware. While not ultra-realistic, the graphics strike a balance between visual quality and performance, offering customization options and smooth gameplay. Some users note minor performance issues on lower-end setups, but overall the graphics are deemed a major upgrade and a strong selling point for the game.
- “Much better than the original game, graphics are not realistic, but the shadows are quite satisfying, and the game genuinely looks great.”
- “The graphics and sound from the original are an obvious improvement, the lighting and clouds are exceptional.”
- “Also the graphics... I went on a flight in the stock 727 during a sunset, and for a second I thought I was in MSFS 2020.”
- “Although I love the idea of this game, it just hates my computer. It constantly crashes whenever I load into the builder. I'm on the newest graphics drivers, Windows and Steam are fully updated, and so is the game.”
- “The fuselage sections, for example, cannot be made truly round, and there is no obvious way to make a half circle section (for use behind half cockpit, for instance). Everything has been made overly complex. We wanted a simple plane with better graphics and more options. This seems like a third-party bad copy of a great game.”
- “It still needs more refinement and polishing, for example, performance optimization (gotta be honest, the game looks mid for eating up 88% of my GPU at high graphics, and that's on a stock craft), more detailed map, a couple more options for fuselage and parts (especially for guns), the addition of in-game XML editor, and an in-game tutorial for funky trees, and many more.”
optimization
51 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
35% positive mentions, 53% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions
Optimization is generally praised for running well on low-end and older PCs, with improved physics and impressive graphics performance. However, many users report performance issues and stuttering, especially in multiplayer with high player counts or complex vehicles, indicating that multiplayer optimization remains an area needing significant improvement. Overall, while single-player and graphics optimization are solid, multiplayer performance and occasional stutters hold back the experience.
- “Performance has greatly improved, and not just how the game runs. Aerodynamic physics feel really nice, and most importantly water now has actual physics, meaning you can make boats and seaplanes that steer properly.”
- “The optimization is outstanding—despite the significantly improved physics engine, the FPS remains as stable as in SP1, which is a major achievement.”
- “Performance is perfectly fine; I played it on my laptop's integrated graphics without any problems, so I don't know why people complain about optimization issues.”
- “Even with a fairly powerful PC, I still experienced performance issues, which makes me think there may be optimization problems rather than a lack of hardware resources.”
- “It has horrible stuttering issues in multiplayer; once this gets fixed I'll change my review, but for now, I cannot recommend this product much.”
- “Only drawback is the performance issues in multiplayer, making dogfighting very difficult once the total amount of parts has surpassed 1000-1200.”
story
38 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
8% positive mentions, 76% neutral mentions, 16% negative mentions
The game lacks a traditional story mode or campaign, leading to a sparse single-player experience with no missions, challenges, or structured objectives found in its predecessor. Players praise the building and multiplayer aspects but frequently express disappointment over the absence of combat missions, AI engagement, and meaningful activities, which limits long-term engagement. Many suggest adding missions, career modes, or custom mission editors to enhance gameplay depth and replayability.
- “In the first game, you had to complete missions to progress. You built your aircraft to suit the mission, so everything you built had a purpose.”
- “I'd love to see the addition of combat missions like those in the original game, but with more options. For example: fly a low-level bombing mission to hit a nuclear facility or a supersonic/hypersonic high-altitude reconnaissance mission during which you must outrun enemy SAMs.”
- “Devs, please think about open-world missions, activities, maybe a career, challenges, and even MMO elements like world war or delivery competitions. I dream about a game allowing not only to build your crafts but to show and use them for other, wider gameplay purposes!”
- “Theres just, nothing to do in singleplayer, they clearly put their focus on multiplayer and forgot to make the game fun, still cant spawn more than one vehicle, no freecam, no photo mode, no missions, enemy AI is even worse than the first game they cant even fly, this is so insanely barebones, theres also 0 tutorials so you have to tear apart others vehicles to even learn how the games systems work (and the terrible part selection doesnt help).”
- “There are no missions or challenges like there is in the first game. You can't spawn in ground units or make a ground attack mission like it shows in the trailer; you would have to have a full multiplayer lobby which is unlikely at this point to have a big ground attack missions.”
- “This game is confusing and way over priced, there is not much to do, no missions, once you build something it's just boring. If it was a $12 game, I would be happy with it, but a $25 game should have either a good campaign, great graphics, etc. After building a plane and goofing off with a friend for around an hour we ran into a problem: there's not that much to do.”
gameplay
36 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
31% positive mentions, 61% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions
The gameplay is praised for its intuitive and fun vehicle-building mechanics, realistic physics, and smooth performance, offering a satisfying blend of flight, driving, and ship operation. While some find the learning curve challenging initially, the game provides extensive customization, community content, and potential for cooperative play, though advanced design options and deeper gameplay modes are desired. Overall, it represents a significant improvement over its predecessor with promising ongoing development.
- “Much better physics compared to SimplePlanes 1, though former players will still be familiar with the construction mechanics.”
- “The new fuselage mechanics make it super easy to create real-looking aircraft and vehicles, and the game gives you access to XML editing and 'funky trees', the in-game coding language. Everything is super easy to understand and very intuitive.”
- “The game has fun vehicle physics sim mechanics and nice sculpting capabilities to make any vehicle shape you want.”
- “The wings are lacking in easy-to-use mechanics regarding several different advanced design variations.”
- “Gameplay is sometimes relaxing and sometimes it is frustrating.”
- “I could never get a good grasp of the original Simple Planes building mechanics; it always felt clunky, not intuitive, and too simple.”
stability
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 67% negative mentions
The game generally runs well and offers a positive experience, especially for an early access title, with good multiplayer stability. However, users report various bugs, glitches, and occasional crashes, particularly with the building system and performance drops, indicating that further polishing is needed.
- “Multiplayer is good, runs well, and the game is relatively bug-free (for being early access).”
- “Despite my PC having specs way below the recommended ones, it runs great (in multiplayer too).”
- “Overall, so far the game runs great, and feels much better than SP1.”
- “Again, as others have already mentioned, the building system is not very user-friendly for new players and is buggy, which needs further polishing.”
- “This game is cool but freezes my entire PC, forcing a hard restart after a few minutes.”
- “I highly recommend it, though keep in mind that it is still in early access - things may be a bit buggy for a while, and there's quite a few things that are very unfinished as of the time of writing.”
humor
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The humor in the game is largely derived from its exaggerated physics and chaotic multiplayer moments, leading to frequent, uncontrollable laughter. The juxtaposition of realistic constraints with over-the-top gameplay elements, like overly sensitive controls and absurd stunts, adds to the comedic experience. Overall, the game's fun and silly crashes, explosions, and vehicle antics create an entertaining and humorous atmosphere.
- “Less than 10 minutes of playing and I couldn't breathe because I was laughing too hard blowing up other people's planes (and other people blowing up mine) in multiplayer!”
- “Like, the control axis are so hilariously sensitive and overpowered... in real life the average fighter jet is not really capable of pulling ten consecutive loops without either tearing to pieces or stalling... but in SimplePlanes 2?”
- “It's funny, for a game called SimplePlanes, the most unintuitive and downright frustrating part of the game is the building, not because of complex physics or having to work around real life limitations, but because the editor and controls constantly fight you and make it as hard as possible to achieve the results you want to have, while at the same time the actual systems in the game are extremely simple.”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions
Grinding is described as very time-consuming, often requiring multiple playthroughs or "second lives" to progress. Players interested in unlocking content without heavy grinding may find this aspect frustrating.
- “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
- “If you like airplanes and don't want to unlock them from DLC or by grinding a tech tree.”
emotional
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
Users praise the game for its heartfelt and emotionally impactful experience, highlighting the genuine care and dedication of the development team. The strong connection between the devs and community enhances the emotional depth, making the game more than just gameplay alone.
- “One of the biggest reasons I play isn't the game itself, even though it's superb, but the team behind the game. Some people forget there are humans behind these games who care about the game just as much as the community does. The devs at Jundroo always make their games heartfelt in a way that, when you play, you can tell how much love and time they have put into it. They always support their games and communities to the fullest extent. Much love guys, we all appreciate the effort you have put forth into this game.”
- “I cried a lot.”
music
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The music is highly praised, described as engaging and immersive, with standout mentions of a "fire" original soundtrack and a "sick vaporwave" soundtrack that enhances the overall gameplay experience.
- “The OST is fire, by the way.”
- “You've got a sick vaporwave soundtrack while you work.”
- “The music isn't grating on the ears and the addition of multiplayer automatically puts it in a league of its own.”
replayability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The game offers significantly enhanced replayability through additional missiles, new areas, and multiplayer features, marking a clear improvement from its predecessor and providing virtually endless playtime.
- “More missiles, areas, and of course multiplayer make this a lot more playable than before, which I really appreciate.”
- “An improvement from SP1 across all categories and infinitely replayable.”
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
The monetization is well-received, with users appreciating the reasonable price and the absence of in-game purchases.
- “The price is reasonable for what it is, especially since there are no in-game purchases.”