Last updated on December 14th, 2025 at 04:07 pm
X-Plane: Starship – Travel Game Review
X-Plane: Starship is a Travel/Simulation/Adventure game from Laminar Research, first launched in 18th November 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 847+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes X-Plane: Starship Stand Out
SpaceX is about to fly a Starship to 45,000 and belly-flop to a landing in Texas.
Here's your chance to fly the mission yourself.
And then… try it on Mars.
All with realistic physics.
This Travel game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, X-Plane: Starship is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th January 2021
Recent improvements include:
Updated engine sound based on the SN9 static fire from yesterday.
We now have the 'raptor honk' sound on shut-down as observed on the pad.
Download & Availability
X-Plane: Starship is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get X-Plane: Starship 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:
We like it when you do the Mars Entrance.
Can you add different options like different types of ships and new missions like go to the moon or Jupyter and other things it make the game better.
We would recommend this game if you want to be a astronaut.
It is the best it has instructed videos to tell you how to do the missions and it is free roam but limited gas so be careful.
Easy to learn, hard to master. Controls are kind of hard.
For the nexts update please make the 1st and 2th starship.
The game is great, but you should add super heavy, it would be challenging to try to catch it. Also, you should add the starship full stack, that would be cool. But other than that, great game! Its fun and we play it in our free time, just thought you could use a suggestion to make the game even better.
Its a good game but how do you move around while flying.
This game is very and we mean very great its a good game for people who love space exploration and the starship. So if we were you and you love space GET THIS GAME 10/10 or 5/5.
Hello owner! We gave this a 5 star-rating because mars is our favorite planet! And yknow, the icon of the app is mars! So Im just complimenting the app because we really like it.
This game is still pretty fun but now we feel like it needs some SuperHeavy action with landing that puppy in between the chopsticks.
We love tho it would be nice to have multiplayer in mars launch.
This game could be A HUGE competitor for KSP 1 and 2. But it should have mission planing. There should be super heavy. There beads to be orbital mechanics you should be able to plan trips to mars with menuver nodes. There should be planed refueling ships. Overall this game has started well but should have work continued.
This is a good app, we like it. The app is challenging , which is good because Ive been needed a challenge, it also helps us understand Starship, the controls are a little hard to learn, but they seem easy once you get the hang of it. Its a great app overall, five stars.
The rocket is very hard to control, and we feel like there can be more missions.
We cant go down from the atmosphere.
We love space so much and we were getting bored and we went on the App Store. Thats when we put in space shuttle simulator and we go through then we found this game and we tried it out we can say the graphics are good and like test flighting the star ship in mars or earth and we can say its a real fun game this might maybe be our favorite ever game yet that someone designed for someone who likes space. Whoever made this game Im giving you a 5 star rating of how fun and the graphics are in the game. We love it.
Loved this game awesome replica of Starship.
We like this game a lot. You should try playing it.
This game is a great game the graphics are UNREAL and the game is just overall great and it really helps in those times when there is just nothing to do.
Ok this is the cool because you can fly starship 200,00 or more ft and land back also you can go to mars and land there, very cool game keep it up.
The game is fun in all but when we go to brief it glitches and plays wile Im playing the game also when the speed goes to 4K it kicks us out we hope the creators will see this goodbye.
Idk if its us being a newbie or theres only one starship in game is there any other rockets or missions its a perfect game though.
This game is the best game you could have but you have to listen to the brief or you will kick you out of the game its still fine though.
Love this app! Try landing on Mars before you try anything else..so much fun especially on FlyBy setting. It really looks like the Mars surface.
We love this app. Stumbled across it looking for X-Plane stuff, and it was like discovering a Christmas gift lost under furniture.
Its a great game our favorite missions are probably the mats on especially mats landing because you have to come in at just the right angle. But a suggestion is maybe adding the super heavy but awesome game overall.
Best space game 2nd favorite wish it has more updates and all like docking and all of that cool stuff.
Very enjoyable good videos to help you figure it out good controls and ez.
Good app that demonstrates the forces that Starship experiences.
This app has exceeded our expectations.
We think we have the most fun seeing how big of a collection of Telsas we can make while landing the mock flying water tower hop test! We HAVE 1 MAJOR COMPLAINT!!!! NO REPLAY OR FLIGHT DATA so we guess ill keep blowing up without looking where we zigged instead of Zagged.
Please add to play store for android users if possible.
Can u make a new update pls Im tired of waiting for it its to fun.
This has to be the best Ive seen so far of anything! Its so addicting to attempt flight of the starship. We would like a landing configuration option so we could choose what engines we want to use for landing ( like using triple engine and switch to one like Sn10, or the engine 1 and 2 on Sn8). Either way this simulator is great.
This game is great, but will there ever be a starship/superheavy orbital flight in this game.
This is really fun because you get to spoil the planets kind of and on earth you get to actually see you again as a facility or something.
The game is simple it walks you through everything but its not to easy its a lot of fun.
We wanted a starship game for sooo long and finally found yours which is also free! Just wanted to tell you this deserves 7 stars.
This game was really fun to play but something that would be cool was if we had the option to control the percentage of power output like in the X-plane mobile games. Also if the sensitivity was decreased just a little it would help because sometimes it tilts too much so other than that its all good.
We have this strange thing were the controls are hard! We rate it 5 because this is our IPad thats causing it.
FIX THE SOUNDS there is a beeeeeeeep sound.
This app does a nice job giving the feel on Elon Musks approach to a Mars landing. One can always count on Laminar Research to provide interesting and unique aerospace challenges based on true physics. These are that kinds of experiences you wont find elsewhere.
A perfect challenge for people who are really engaged in the space flight community. Its more fun and challenging than we were expecting but it has us hooked. Would recommend.
Could you maybe add a tilt sensitivity option because by default when we always keep our phone stable, and also when you are pressing the raptor launch and raptor land button, you should make it so that the camera controls are on the left side of the screen. You should also do the Falcon 9 rocket and the Falcon Heavy in the future.
Please add Super Heavy, Throttle control, And the ability to either have the Raptors auto controlled or manually controlling which Raptors are on.
It is fun but it takes for ever to download sorry but it is very fun.
This game (or simulator) accurately simulated the descent of starship.
Good as sliced bread. Not quite as good as Beany Weanies or Vienna Sausage, but close.
We were looking for a game like this and finally found it. This game is absolutely amazing. Great Work.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.15
- Size: 3,528.47 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Laminar Research
Last updated: 15th January 2021 | Genre: Travel, Simulation | Developer: Laminar Research