Nadia Oxford, a writer for Gamezebo gave SimplePlanes a 4/5 for its realistic flight challenges, sandbox mode and the amount of building options. The biggest issue critics had was the process of building. SimplePlanes received "mixed or average" reviews, according to Metacritic, where it garnered a score of 67/100. The people who purchased the game through this method had to email the receipt to get the Steam key. Mac copies were also sold via the Mac App Store. All purchasers from Gumroad received a free Steam key. The Windows and OSX versions were first sold on Gumroad but when SimplePlanes was released onto Valve's Steam on 17 December 2015 after going through the Steam Greenlight process, all sales were moved there. Soon after it was ported to iOS and Android. The challenges involve short tutorial-type activities (such as the "take-off tutorial" and the "landing tutorial") but can get more advanced with missions (such as "SAM Evasion" (a 4 stage level which gets increasingly difficult) and "Trench Run" (a race through a canyon-like area on the game map) There are also weapons (bombs, wing guns and mini guns, missiles, rockets and torpedoes) in the game for the player to use on their creations.įollowing the release of popular games SimpleRockets and SimplePhysics, Jundroo LLC released SimplePlanes on Windows and Mac OSX. SimplePlanes contains challenges which the player can do. The game also gives players the ability to build cars, boats, trains and mechanical objects. When the creation or build is finished, the player can fly/drive/sail it around the map which contains 5 different islands with unique features, (4 on IOS or Android) and/or upload it to the SimplePlanes website. Planes (or other creations) created by the community can also be downloaded from the website. In SimplePlanes the player is given the freedom of building anything they want to create using the materials and objects provided. The game received mixed reviews from critics, with the main downfalls mentioned the most being the “slippery controls” and the graphical design. It was released onto Steam on the 17th of December 2015 after going through the Steam Greenlight process. The game was first released on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows and was ported to iOS and Android later. SimplePlanes followed the release of SimplePhysics and SimpleRockets and before Simplerockets 2. SimplePlanes is a simulation video game developed and published by American indie studio Jundroo LLC.
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