Yeah, and you can customise your planes colours, so I made them all the same colour so it felt like a proper airline. Another thing I liked was the variety of planes available, everything from the tiny Cesnas to jumbos, and there's even a Starship!

You also get a twenty five percent bonus to the fares if everyone on the flight is going to the same destination which adds a little bit of strategy to using lay-overs and trying to fill flights as efficiently as possible. Yeah, that annoyed me a little bit, but things start to pick up once you have a decent international airline. One major problem we had with this game is that instead of a normal globe it uses a flat map, meaning you can't fly directly from Australia to America like you can in the real world. If you could unlock everything straight away why would you stay in the game?īecause it's fun? But yeah, I did find it satisfying to build up my network and expand across the globe. That's the developers way of keeping you playing, Hex. I found myself wanting to buy more airports when I had enough coins but the option just wasn't there. Progress is very slow though, because you can only unlock an additional airport once you level up. Naturally I started in Oz, and from there I expanded to New Zealand. Yeah, but anyway, the first decision you need to make is where to base your airline. and some flights can take over an hour to arrive. Once I'd got all my planes in the air there was nothing to do but watch them fly. I was constantly checking to see if one of my planes had landed and was ready for another trip.īut that's the bit that frustrated me, Hex. The gameplay is simple, you pick up passengers and cargo from one airport, and take them to another to collect their fare.Īnd one of the great things I love about these types of games is that you can pick up a few fares, and then put it back in your pocket where it continues to tick away in real time. Like the last game, Pocket Planes is another resource management simulator that puts you charge of your very own airline, raising it up from a small time rural start-up, into an international jet-setting mega-airline. It's a 'freemium' game - that means you can play for free but you get extra stuff if you do pay for it. Pocket Planes is the latest game from the same team that bought us Tiny Tower.

Pocket planes