Airplane Mode, the sim that lets you lives the highs and lows (but mainly lows) of a six-hour economy class flight in first-person in real-time, will land on PC and Mac this autumn.
Announced last November, Airplane Mode, developed by Hosni Auji and published by AMC, is inspired by Penn and Teller’s infamous monotony simulator Desert Bus, in which players are tasked with driving a slightly defective bus for eight straight hours in real-time along a single strip of road between Arizona and Nevada.
Airplane Mode, however, focusses its attention on one of life’s slightly more familiar monotonies, challenging players to keep themselves amused on a long-haul flight – including taxi, take-off, and landing – from the relative comfort of an economy class window seat.
Airplane Mode – Halifax | Official Trailer | AMC Games Watch on YouTube
Airplane Mode is aiming to deliver the full, soul-sappingly authentic long-haul flight experience, meaning you’ll need to contend with fellow passengers, cabin crew, questionable in-flight cuisine, and randomised events – delays, turbulence, bad wifi, and screaming babies, to name a few – while you, as AMC puts it, “stare in silence at the slowly passing clouds [and] try to make time go faster through sheer force of will.”