Last updated on November 26th, 2025 at 10:25 pm
Planes Control! – Casual Game Review
Planes Control! is a Casual/Simulation game from Antonio Calvino Esquer, first launched in 8th August 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 6,161+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Planes Control! Stand Out
Take control of the sky and land your planes avoiding collisions and enemies.
Guide your planes to ensure safe landing in this incredibly easy to learn yet surprisingly addictive game!
Get an adrenalin rush while avoiding dangerous collisions, blazing storms and tornadoes, put out forest fire, get ready to repel an attack of enemy fighters and fight off an alien invasion!
GAMEPLAY
Planes Control is an game with simple controls.
Draw lines with your fingers to determine the path each plane will follow as they find their way to land or to engage the enemy.
This sounds easy? You will need fast fingers and strategy to manage all your planes and keep the sky under control.
AIRCRAFTS
You can navigate more than 60 different planes and helicopters including airliners, WWII fighters, jet planes and tilt rotors while playing Planes Control.
Beside this, you will enjoy flying the SR-71 Black Bird (the world's fastest plane), the Antonov 225 (the largest aircraft in the world to fly multiple times) and famous combat planes like the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, the F-14 Tomcat or the Apache AH-64 combat helicopter.
LEVELS
Planes Control has 13 awesome levels for mobile devices plus 6 new levels full of challenges created for tablets. More levels are on the way.
• Earn your wings on a holiday resort, guiding your planes and helicopters.
• Aerial combat! Shoot down hostile planes and helicopters over the scorching desert.
• Air Tankers: Fight wildfires by dropping water with your planes and helicopters.
• Storm Carrier landings: Command your military fighters and helicopters between the clouds and rain.
• Navigate canyons in the Arizona’s Desert.
• Successfully land your Aircraft during a tornado outbreak.
• Night landings: Switch your landing lights on and find your way around the airfield.
• Keep an eye on emergency calls and give priority landing to the planes that are running out of fuel.
• Avoid cargo planes flying around your air space.
• Land your planes in the middle of an alien invasion !
READY FOR A CHALLENGE?
Earn new and different achievements in every level and challenge yourself to the limit.
Please sit back, fasten your seatbelt and enjoy taking control of the sky – download Planes Control now!
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This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Planes Control! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th April 2025
Recent improvements include:
Some bugs were fixed and some improvements made.
Download & Availability
Planes Control! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Planes Control! on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Recommend. We recommend this game because its tricky but in a fun way. You can choose easy hard or really hard. And us and our mom both play it because its an awesome game.
This game is phenomenal. When we first downloaded this game, we thought it would be one of the games we would play when we had no WiFi and nothing else to do. We did NOT expect this to be by far our favorite game on our phone. The 13 main levels are amazing and they each have their own gimmick, from avoiding storm clouds, to blizzards knocking runways offline to fighting forest fires to desert/naval combat to defending earth vs aliens. And thats not even including the 9 time machine and the 6 HD levels. The sound and art are also amazing, and the music, well, we could write an entire paragraph on how good it is alone. Its even free from the problems that commonly plague other mobile games. Ads are decently sparse (and even when they are there, theyre extremely short), no money is required to unlock every level (albeit with a bit of grinding), and we haver never encountered a single bug, glitch crash or any sort of malfunction. We just cant describe our love for this game However, no game is perfect, and neither is this one, but we do have 4 small changes to improve it a tad bit 1, add the hd levels to phone versions of this game. We dont see why not to adding them. If the screen size is an issue, just say a warning like these maps are very large and may not work well on smaller devices or something 2, perhaps there could be a button to show advanced stats for each level such as your best score for each difficulty, and your longest game time. 3, increase the rescue team limit (or remove it entirely) and add additional ways to gain rescue teams, such as being awarded one for every 100 plane you land or by watching an advertisement 4, very small one that annoys us, the art for the Korea level in the time machine uses the USSR flag, not the Korean one PS, please explain what the blue plane does in alien attack, Thanks! Edit: we learned that the Korea level using the USSR flag was intentional as the planes belonged to the USSR.
Been playing this for a long time, and still greatly enjoy it.
Almost as fun as the real thing.
Developers please respawn to this Why is the f35 in desert strike an enemy if it has the us air force sign on it.
Been playing for a couple weeks after seeing coworkers play it. Was looking to see other games from the developers and read some reviews for this one. Honestly have to say its such a simple game and very easy but gets joyfully complex as you get further into an attempt. That being said, from playing the game some of the reviews Ive read are just a skill issue and not a fault of the game or developers. You did a great job with this game and its become our new work pass time game.
We downloaded this out of nostalgia for a game thats no longer available called Flight Control. Its essentially the same game mechanics and style (same developer or they just stole the look), but the maps are too zoomed out. Id like to be closer to map or be able to zoom in and out.
Its a very fun game! We enjoy it very much. However, there are times it is absolutely impossible. Also, ads crash it. Particularly the ad for Google. Once again, an ad has crashed the game! If youve got to have the GD ads then at least make sure they dont crash the GD game.
Multiple times we have beat our high score, but it hasnt saved. Very frustrating.
Its very complicated and not fun to play. We miss old game from 10 year back.
We have been on this game for hours.
Very fun game that keeps you occupied for hours. Simple yet surprisingly challenging on some levels. Just guide the planes to the runway with different approaches. Would highly recommended.
We play this game every time we are on a flight. It keeps us entertained for hours!! We highly recommend you download it too.
Best game ever you can become a pilotalso another game.
The game is great! Very fun way to pass the time. We do have 1 request though. When there is a collision, the game immediately goes to a full screen question asking if we want to pay to continue. But- we dont always see what went wrong. Where was the collision? We must have been looking elsewhere. Allow us to see what happened before or after asking if we want to continue.
Our new go-to game whenever we want to spend a few minutes, or more, with a game that is a thinking but relaxing game. We recommend everyone give it a try. A bit of strategy, quick planning, and real-time so its got some exciting moments, etc. Our suggestion: levels 1, 2, and 3 are fun, something we enjoy playing for a long time (e.g. Up to score 200+) but Id love to see MANY more optional levels just like level 2 (mesa level), so we could really spend time figuring out optimal flight paths and strategies for each level. When you introduce new features like fires to out, or enemy planes to shoot down, we find we cant always figure out how it works! And then our games are incredibly short, we get frustrated, its not worth it to listen to a 30 second ad just to play a 15 second game just to figure it all out May we suggest you might like to have a 2 dimensional game choice, with added elements going right to left as you currently have, but then going up and down make a few dozen maps at each level so we can really play the level of difficulty we want. E.g. We would like to choose from dozens of different mesa-type maps. Meanwhile, we believe we will play your first three levels over and over and over because they are so much fun. This is a must try game for everyone.
So we got this because our dad has it and he used to fly planes so we got it it is so fun nothing else we can say but we recommend you get this.
Its a great strategy game and we just love it! Good game! Five.
We love the game but we wish that you were able to stay where your high score was so then you didnt have to start all the way over because its really hard to get all the planes landed and also get to other worlds. That was one suggestion but our second suggestion is you shouldnt make it such a big number to get planes landed because its really hard for us so yeah, could you help us with that please we love this game and if you could change those suggestions then that would make this game Epic.
Im glad to see Flight Control reborn as Planes Control. Fun game. One request/question: is there a way to say a game youre currently playing so you can resume later. We had a game with 1000+ landing paused, but accidentally swipe closed the app and lost those hours of effort.
It seems to be stuck on recoding our total at 30. Just did 200+, but it still shows 30! Ugh.
We played this game for a few hours, paid to remove ads: all was good, except one extremely annoying thing: the red warning halo around the planes. We cant find a way to turn it off, it appears even when we know for a fact that the planes are not going to crash, and when it goes away it makes a strobe-like ripple. We think if we play it too much we will start having seizures from all these useless red flashes. So we deleted. It has so much potential, please fix. Thanks.
The planes spawn at a very high pace Which makes it very hard to direct the planes without a collision.
The game just crashes when we die on alien attack.
Bro we play this game like 3 times a day. Our only complaint is that we play this game so much that we missed a day of work.its just soooooo fun, definitely worth it, should get it. Never regretted getting this game.
We like the game, but it needs more maps because Im going to finish them.
This is a very good game, we would rate it 4.5 out of 5 but it doesn't let us rate with decimals. The reason it is 4.5 and not 5 is because it could be a tiny bit better but Its pretty good. :D.
We play this on our iPad and iPhone. Best way to pass the time when waiting for anything or anyone! Simple enough to play, but challenging enough to keep us coming back..almost daily! Keep up the game.
For a free gam its quite good.
World traveler achievement does not unlock after completing all classic levels of the game.
The app is not recording our highest scores.
We really love the game but for some reason we cant unlock a level even though we landed 39 planes in Hawaii HD.
The game was good but when we played it our high score was 3 or 2 and it was really hard. But the most of it was fun. We liked the gameplay and the music. And there was not a lot of adds that popped up. But the planes were so fast so we could not keep track.
We were hoping that the game was close to or identical to the original. We loved the original version of this game and was really praying that this developer had the rights and it-turn the ability to be able to really make it come to life in a new and different way. Unfortunately advertising has been added and upon completion of an ad series, the audio then becomes buggy. It was great to play for just a few minutes, but not worth the cash to upgrade, especially with the bugs and the fact that on our iPhone 15 Pro Max the entire screen is not truly utilized.
The old version was waaay better. No ads and it was a lot more enjoyable. The levels are too complex and not nearly as fun.
Little to no ads! Love that! Good game if you like to find order in chaos.
We like this game because it is challenging but fun and exiting Thank you.
We AM ADDICTED!! We love this game, but its very hard to land the planes. How do we know if a plane is landing, or has to do a go-around.
But frustrating to control cuz we don't multitask well. But still fun.
Ive enjoyed playing this game for quite some time. Gameplay is intuitive, and the graphics are enjoyable. Theres enough variety across the various scenarios that the game feels fresh every time. The most recent Oktoberfest offering led us to hoping that there will be a Christmas theme coming soon where we have to maneuver the planes around Santa Claus! (Also, perhaps allow the seasonal offerings to be played any time under their own seasonal categorynext to time machine and classic.).
If your an acft flying fool. This game will keep you on the edge of seat.
We have been playing this game for over three months and we are still playing it and thar is so much more fun than the day we played it for our first time.
Hey Rarepixels, RPS here. This game is a really good recommendation for time pass. It really triggers you in action to play this. Although we do have some points here to make the game more realistic. 1) If we direct a plane, we do turns in our path tracing for the aircraft. However when the plane comes to the turning point of the tracing we did, it looks like the plane uses only rudder control to turn and move to its assigned location. This gives it a very unrealistic feeling to us. So if it is possible, can you make it look like the plane is tilting a little on turns, and banking hard on hard turns in order to make it look like a proper plane?. And during takeoff and landing of a plane, make it look like its tilting slightly upward. It will look way cooler if it was 3D instead of being 2D all the time!. If it isnt possible, its ok, we understand. 2) can you add a smoke effect at the bottom of a plane every time when plane lands?. This will also give it a realistic feeling 3) Can you make the A-10 in Desert Strike move a little faster?, its a lot fast in real life. And when a missle hits an aircraft, can you put an exploding effect, and a fiery effect when it is halfway damaged?. Bonus: Can you make any plane that has landed to go to the end of the runway?. If any of these are not possible, its totally okay, we understand how it is, and if you are not able to do it, no worries, we already like the current version of the game Thank you.
So good if ur reading GET IT NOW! SO FUN.
The planes and conditions and airfields and options are all really cool! It is tricky and done well so it is exciting and fun to play Edited to add note to devs: if possible to be able to zoom out on the map.
Thank you for giving us this brilliant game. EA took the original to the grave. Quite a bummer.
We really like this game, its fun and challenging. But theres one problem, when we have planes close to the edge of the map, other planes spawn next to it and crash and we have no way of stopping it. Please fix this.
This can be such a better game with just a few adjustments. After downloading the game, we realized that it immediately put us in Hard mode. For a first-timer, it scared the pants off us! When we found the place to change it to East mode, we thought that it would get better. Unfortunately, it didnt seem much different at all. Im not sure if thats just a glitch in the program. All we know is that a user should be allowed to get used to the game first. Secondly, the map should be zoomed out more to allow the user time to make corrections to their incoming aircraft. A normal flight pattern can be decided by the user to allow them to make more adjustments. Granted, we WAS able to land one plane, LOL! We think that if those changes could be made, we would definitely play it more. Otherwise, nicely done for a really good game.
Love the game! We like to try to beat our high score and it keeps resetting; so we rarely play it.
Why would planes spawn in our lane that the other planes are coming in from. Makes no sense.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.2.301
- Size: 36.36 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Antonio Calvino Esquer
Last updated: 25th April 2025 | Genre: Casual, Simulation | Developer: Antonio Calvino Esquer