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Airplane Mode (video game)

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voices the captain of the game's aircraft and provides its announcemnets. The lead developer Hosni Auji wanted to replicate the experience of flying on an airline, while including various scenarios that the average person would witness while flying. Due to licensing problems, the developers chose to
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is a simulation video game. Players control a plane passenger as they go on a flight that lasts multiple hours in real time. They can choose to go on either a two and a half hour flight, or a five-hour flight to Iceland. While on their chosen flight, players can perform several activities. They can
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short video. Crossword puzzles are available through an airline magazine. The player can also access their own personal cell phone, which can be used to listen to podcasts and music. Some random events occur across the flight, including travel delays and turbulence.
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include public domain movies as part of the in-flight entertainment system. A trailer was released in 2019, and the game was released on October 15, 2020, for
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praised the game's graphics and voice acting, but found the game to be monotonous, writing that it "just captures a super boring part of real life".
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appreciated the game's faithfulness to its premise, but agreed that the game was a boring experience.
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According to the review aggregator website Metacritic,
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developed by Hosni Auji and Bacronym and published by
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received "mixed or average reviews". In a review for
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Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
AMC Games
Platform(s)
Windows
macOS
Genre(s)
Simulation
Single-player
simulation video game
AMC Games
Windows
macOS
real time
in-flight entertainment
Merrie Melodies
Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors
Tucson
Las Vegas
Bennett Foddy
Windows
macOS
Shacknews
Mega Ran
The Games Machine



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