Airplane Mode, the sim that lets you recreate the sky-high thrills and spills (or rather, the relentless, soul-splintering monotony) of a six-hour economy class flight in first-person in real-time, launches tomorrow, 15th October, on PC and Mac.
Airplane Mode, developed Hosni Auji and Bacronym Games and published by AMC, is inspired by Penn and Teller’s infamous monotony simulator Desert Bus, but switches that game’s wonky wheel and Arizona sprawl for more familiar tedium among the clouds.
Passengers will have a choice of two flights – a six hour run between JFK and Reykjavik, or a somewhat brisker two-and-a-half-hour journey from JFK to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – and, once they’ve safely boarded their plane, they’re free to pass the time however they please.
Airplane Mode: Live Action | Official Trailer | AMC Games Watch on YouTube
As you might expect, fellow passengers, cabin crew, questionable in-flight cuisine, and randomised events – delays, turbulence, bad wifi, and screaming babies, for instance – constantly threaten to worsen the ordeal, but Airplane Mode does at least offer a few distractions help pass the time more tolerably.