Developer posts and news about this game.
v20.2 Features City connection screen reworked; should better explain the demand to other cities. Route screen now shows the load factor, a.k.a. what percent of seats on the route's flights are occupied. Changes Congestion is now measured only against the queue capacity of airlin
Features City connection screen reworked; should better explain the demand to other cities. Route screen now shows the load factor , a.k.a. what percent of seats on the route's flights are occupied. Changes You can now 'ignore' contracts to get them off your screen. Route screen
v20.2-pre2 Features Plane models can now be retired at a specific quarter via ObsoleteAfterQuarter . Changes New Regulatory Complaints game rule to disable these. Core game data now ships as readable JSON files in the game's install folder under StreamingAssets/Defines , so modde
v20.2-pre1 This is a preview patch, so you must be on the PREVIEW branch to try it. Changes Congestion is now measured only against the queue capacity of airlines who actually operate at the airport. Since congestion drives demand suppression, expect stronger suppression at hubs
The improved Suppressed Demand tooltip and info badge . Changes - Manufacturers are now much more responsive about opening new production lines when their backlog grows. - New lines are triggered by how many days of work are queued instead of raw plane count. This should help esp
Passenger Congestion Introducing passenger congestion . Passengers no longer despawn; instead, airports have a maximum capacity (both a preferred cap for your airline, as well as an open cap for all airlines). There are new demand suppression ramps that reduce passenger spawns wh
We've got some big changes coming! Regional networks should be more viable. City proximity is now the main demand factor. For example, pax generation on SFO-LAX was massively buffed. I also surface each city's demand score in the Connections view in case you want to help me tweak
v19.3 Bugfixes: - Fixed bug where players would be unable to join a multiplayer game if the savefile was big. - Fixed bug where airlines would not get money if they were forced to sell shares. - Fixed bug where bulk order button would become clickable before you could actually af
Changes: - Clicking on an airline's avatar in the route GUI will now navigate to that airline's stock trading view. - Aircraft will now show 'Repairing' if they are repairing, to better inform players that they may need to build more hangars. - Stale events will no longer show on
Thank you to everyone who decided to try out the game today during the DAILY DEAL!!!! I appreciate the patience as I work through some bugs that you all have uncovered. v19.1 Bugfixes: - Fixed bugs with tutorial - Moved the 'accept contract' button so that it is no longer hidden
v19 is upon us! Cleaned up more rough edges regarding buy-outs, contracts, CEO rating, plane management and more. New Bird: The Dove Stock Trading Stock trading is the new method for taking over airlines . You can collect other bonuses along the way, such as mandatory codeshares,
v18.2 Changes: - Recompiled game with Unity 2022.3.62f2 in order to mitigate CVE-2025-59489 . v19 Sneak Peek Well, this is awkward. I was going to write a developer diary this weekend, but I ended up having to update the stable version to v18.2 to address the recent Unity securit
Welp, I spent 20 minutes writing out this dev diary and then Steam ate it when I tried to save and refresh my browser window. So you're getting my rushed second take at this, but. 🎉🎉🎉 Happy 1-year anniversary to Puffin Planes! Big thank you to everyone who has given this game
Ever since launching the game, I've been working on adding depth and immersion to all of the various game mechanics. Airplanes got seating classes, airports got improved buildings and concourses, and manufacturers got a massive ordering system overhaul. Well, I'm sure many of you
v18.1 Features: - Added a "Random starting location" option in the New Game menu. Bugfixes: - "Veteran Veteran" achievement now takes into account used plane purchases.
Hi all, hope you are having a good summer. After spending five months working on the Puffin Planes Planes Update, I decided to try and keep the scope for v18 smaller. It's kind of a grab bag of random tweaks and features so I'm just going to name it the Settings Update , after th
Hello everyone, I'm back with a dev diary for Puffin Planes. I'll start posting occasional dev diaries instead of posting every single preview update as an announcement; this will help keep the library view cleaner. I'll still try to post patch notes to Steam and Discord though.
What's up everybody, I'm back with a new update. This one's been 3 months in the making; I thank everyone on Steam & Discord who gave a ton of feedback and helped make this update fun to play. I'll be putting the game on sale to celebrate the new update, so if you haven't tri
A grab-bag of balance tweaks, bugfixes and small QoL features. We are almost at the finish line--the next patch will probably be a release candidate, with the update out by mid-month. v17-pre13 Features: - The Penguin: 2x speed and -50% service point cost for regular maintenance.
v17-pre11 Changes: - AI is now less aggressive about ordering+stockpiling planes (unless they have the Hoarder trait) - Tweaks to how the used market works. - Can now 'find more planes' to immediately source some extra used planes, which will be extra expensive. - Planes will now