You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/ZHglS6uH-xI

Although the developer calls this a VR flight simulator, I would argue that it's closer to the arcade side of flying games so calling it a sim is probably detrimental to the developer's feedback. However, it's got a really good single player story campaign that currently consists of 6 missions. It took me approximately 90 minutes to complete the campaign, but I did have to redo several of the missions due to failure. Unfortunately, checkpoints are not generous in this game.

The campaign is fully voiced and the story has a crazy premise. You're basically forced to run flight missions for a South American drug cartel. I think the voice actors did a great job, especially for a budget title. The story kept me engaged while you basically learn the basics of flying. There's also a free flight mode where you can fly around the island at your own leisure, but that just wasn't that much fun for me.

I thought the cockpit of the plane looked nice enough, but you only have one model plane. The VR interactions are not as smooth or polished as you'd hope for. I had to retry several of the switches, buttons, or levers to get them to function properly. Even using the yoke (flight joystick) wasn't all that great as you have to grab it with both the grab / grip button and the trigger buttons held down. Unfortunately, the scenery / map doesn't look great with some poor textures. Also the sounds are rather mediocre outside of the VOs.

Game is running on the Unity Engine. On my RTX 3080, I was getting steady 90 fps (only a few frame rate drops) on almost max settings (res scale 100%, dynamic shadows on, full textures; but draw distance & foliage / tree density not at max). I did not experience any serious issues or bugs other than the game not always auto restarting the mission if you crashed (but you can restart the mission manually from the menu).

Sale Price Rating 8/10. A steal for under $4 USD. Normal Price Rating 7/10. Still a good deal at $15 USD.

Please note: I received a free Steam key through the Steam Curator Connect program. You can join my Steam Curator group here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Oculus_WMR

For some unknown reason steam is not allowing me to post a review of this game so i will leave it here.


This game is very missleading when your reading about it.

Features:
- Realistic flight physics
- Interactive cockpit. Flip switches, press buttons, manipulate levers
- Incredible graphics and details that squeeze every ounce of VR power out of the Rift, Rift S, or Quest



The actual features
- Realistic flight physics - This game has basic flight physics. They are not realistic at all being as I am a pilot of 12 year i will say they are arcade style physics.


Interactive cockpit. Flip switches, press buttons, manipulate levers. There are 2 thinks you actually use your hands for, the yoke and the throttle and the throttle is janky. its not user friendly when sitting in a chair to increase or decrease throttle. all other switches which there are about 12, you look at and hit the A button on your contoller to activate.

Incredible graphics - Granted this is VR but still barebones basic graphics presented to you.

The game is very basic and very arcadey. Might make a good entry level flight sim for some but there is nothing special about this game.


To the Devs.

i wanted to like your game as i love flying in my free time when im not flying helicopters for work but your game and its discription are very misleading. MOve your switches to actrually be flipped with the hands not the eyes, fix your minimap to resemble and actual aviation map, and the screens for your flight instruments need a major overhaul.

At this time i did refund the game.

Considering this is currently on pre-release and the devs have posted their update schedule which includes many new missions and features, I think this flight sim has a lot of promise!

I’m already loving the freedom of the cockpit controls as it really feels like I’m flying the plane like I would in real life. I really like that ALL of the interactions in the cockpit are controlled by touch so I’m grabbing the control wheel, moving the throttle, flaps and landing gear and for good measure I’m even flicking the engine switches and pressing buttons!

I thought the game actually looked better at runtime than in the screenshots although in honesty there is some room for improvement there.

Also, the drama with the cartel is definitely an interesting and unique twist for this kind of game! I hope the devs continue to update this in the coming months! :)

Firstly STEAM and this game need to update the compatible headsets. This have works on Quest 2 for sure... Most Rift games do... Second I'm rocking a 3080, and there are occasional studders. I can't max out the graphics. At very nearly max they aren't any MSF 2020. Some reviews talk about changing things with your eyes plus the "A" button. May be possible, but so far I've been able to touch everything I thought should be interactive. The controls feel somewhat arcade like. There is no rudder that I've found, and my guess is that auto-rudder equals arcade feeling video game. The grip button alone doesn't grab the yolk, you have to use the trigger and the grip, this is a bit tiring, and I don't know why they did it... Would have been nice to know before I crashed over and over because my hands went right through the yolk. They have you fly through hoops that don't appear very quickly leaving you on a timed mission with no idea where to go until you may already be going the wrong way... Overall the voice acting didn't bother me. It could be better, but what couldn't... Send y fine to me. The controls don't have some weird impossible to find and correct trim setting line X-plane 11 VR does and so the flight element while not fully realistic, at least is pleasant. The directions are down right bad on the bombing mission. When it says to use the targeting screen the GPS should immediately become a targeting screen. Also you can't skip the intro videos, so you can be 2 seconds from a fully complete mission 500 times and you will have to watch the mission videos 500 times... The timelines get really aggressive really fast, and I think this should be stepped a bit. Overall, despite everything listed above I'm having fun. This has me wondering if the voice in hearing is Chris Demarais, from BlackBoxDown or not... Anyway, I'd like to see this as it will be when finished. When done is like to see them make a game like the Android game Flight Simulator 2018, which simulates working your way up as an airline pilot... There are several games like that, but all of them pay to play on some level... It would be awesome to see a real publisher make a have like that in VR. Right now this is about as close as we get (at least natively having VR support). Also this did run reasonably well on my previous system with a 1660 super even though my 3080 doesn't like 100 percent trees... With that says 100 percent trees was a lot of trees lol. Over all fun game from a publisher I have extraordinarily high hopes from.

There need to be more games like this for VR. It's a bit of GTA meets Flight Simulator. Ok, it's not quite as crazy as that, but it's close. I applaud the developers on the theme and story of the game, there's nothing quite like it. The objects in the cockpit are an awesome touch as well! I just unlocked the revolver, pretty cool.

Enjoyable to play as an arcade style flight simulator. Not much freedom for free flight nor is there much room for exploration. The fun comes from the missions, but there's only like 8 of them? More maps would be fun. More objectives as well. The full price just seems too much.. This is something you would go play at an arcade VR machine and put $5 in and play for 15 minutes and prob not come back to play it again because you don't feel the any pull towards the game.

It would be a good indie game for, let's say, 10 euros max. so no recommendation based on price alone.

The game is simple, it is a fun pastime for several hours for flying lovers

But that's all this game has to offer.

So at a glance, this looks alright and I have some hopes for the future. But sadly at the moment it has issues with tracking, and missions at times I will clearly complete them but will still register as a fail for what I cannot discern is any good reason. No feedback as to why I failed whatsoever.

Flight 74 is a great flight sim where you are forced into working for the cartel. You will be flying under pressure from Hector the cartel boss. One wrong move and BOOM. The game has two modes of gameplay. Mission mode (which is what I look at) and free flight mode. In free flight mode, you can relax, enjoy the graphics and view and practice landing and taking off from seven different airports. The mission mode finds us trapped under the thumb of Hector the cartel boss. Where we must fly certain mission for him or else.

I played the game using a Meta Quest 2 and airlink and had no issues, in fact it's one of the better control flight sims I have played. A lot of other flight sims I have played force me to use a flight stick or a gamepad to play them. The few that did let you use your motion controllers, did not do a good job at it. This game on the other hand works amazing with the motion controls. I had no problem holding and moving the flight stick in game using the motion controls. With the rumble you feel in the controls it felt very real. The game also sports a very interactive cockpit, where you can use your VR hands to operate everything. I usually have a hard time in flight sims, but this one felt very natural and easy to control.

I had a lot of fun playing this flight sim, and was very immersed into the plane. Most flight games I give up on, this one I am wanting to play more.
If you enjoy flight sims, and wonder what it would be like to fly under pressure of the cartel, this is a must experience game. Get Hector's coffee, jump in your plane and get ready for an adventure.

Watch my preview here,
https://youtu.be/GmHwj0BpRE4

Stunning game. I loved every single moment of this. Although this in it's pre release stage i absolutely love it. Infact it is one of my favourite vr games. From the immersion to the graphics it is superb. The handling is really well and i love the plot line to the campaign mode. The graphics are amazing for a pre release vr game. The texture of the sky, mountain, trees up above are amazing. I am not running on a high end pc (1650, ryzen 5) and my game ran perfectly. If you are looking for a flight, story, immersive vr game this is the game. Controls are really easy and i love how the cockpit is interactive.

I rate this game a 5/5 and is a must buy.