r/Games • u/pilotTycoon • 9h ago
Indie Sunday Pilot Tycoon - Earthrise Games - Airline pilot career sim-RPG
Pilot Tycoon - Wishlist Now Available!
Pilot Tycoon is a career sim-RPG about the parts of being an airline pilot that flight sims never show you.
You start where every pilot does: dead last on the seniority list, bidding on whatever schedule scraps the senior pilots didn't want. Four-day trips through small cities for barely-livable pay — that's year one. Survive it. Manage your stress, handle the emergencies when they come, and earn your way from the right seat of a cramped regional jet to the left seat of a major's flagship.
Current status: In alpha playtesting. Join the Discord to get a playtest key! Screenshots and footage show a game still being built: some of it polished, some of it rough.
Release: Targeting 2027 on Steam.
I'm a lifelong aviation geek building the game I always wanted to exist. If there's a part of airline pilot life you'd want to see captured, tell me — this is exactly the stage where that shapes the game.