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Airport CEO
Developer Apog Labs
Build and manage an international airport! From the Steam store page
192 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
70
Fresh
125 positive · 54 negative
95% range 63–76%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 125 | 54 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
4,116 of 4,990 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
71% recommend · 125 yes, 50 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 175 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (6,958 of 8,376 positive).
Players praise the deep simulation and addictive gameplay of building and managing an airport. [1][2][3] Many reviewers complain about persistent bugs, especially with pathfinding, that can ruin the experience. [4][5][6] Some players feel the developers have abandoned the game without fixing major issues. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [4]
🚫 Don't buy it. It's a waste of money. At some point, your airport will develop pathfinding bugs. It's only a matter of time. These bugs can completely ruin your airport, and there is no reliable way to fix them. There are no mods that solve the problem either. The game was released with these issues, and the developers have never been able to properly fix them. It's a well-known problem among both players and the …
- [1]
9/10 - I built a beautiful airport and immediately ruined it with one missing security desk. Airport CEO is spreadsheets with jet engines: deep systems, dramatic delays, and tiny simulated humans judging your coffee placement. Fix chaos, print money, repeat. Stressful? Yes. Glorious? Absolutely. 🛫💼🧠 Run the terminal. Blame the weather. Cash the landing fees. ✈️📊😌 …
- [2]
Airport CEO is an incredibly deep and addictive simulator that gives you total control over every detail of your airport. From constructing runways and terminals to managing staff and airline contracts, the game constantly offers rewarding challenges. It perfectly balances micro-management with large-scale planning, and watching your airport grow from a tiny airfield into a massive international hub is pure …
- [3]
Super Fun game if you like designing and factory games, realistic but more of a tycoony type factory game compared to something like factorio, although you do make everything. yourself.
- [7]
I wish the developer would release the game-code so loyal people could make this game better. Because it is a lot of fun but needs the next step. And the current developer doesnt do anything anymore besides still take people's money.
Summarised from 34 of the 188 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Airport CEO sits at 70% positive across 179 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 192 · most liked first🚫 Don't buy it. It's a waste of money. At some point, your airport will develop pathfinding bugs. It's only a matter of time. These bugs can completely ruin your airport, and there is no reliable way to fix them. There are no mods that solve the problem either. The game was released with these issues, and the developers have never been able to properly fix them. It's a well-known problem among both players and the developers. You can spend hours building and managing your perfect airport,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you read any other comments you will see "buggy" or "filled with Bugs" etc. This really is an amazing game and does something I wish I could build. I GENUINELY love this game and is a lot of fun. I have bought all the DLC's and have put in a decent amount of time in the game and do not plan on not playing anytime soon The reason why I would not recommend this to someone is it really does feel "unfinished" and like it was released in a hurry. There's so many things that just stop working,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game but this game is extremly backtracking unfriendly, it is 5 times more effort to demolish and reinstall some stuff and services than it is to completely build a new area
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish the developer would release the game-code so loyal people could make this game better. Because it is a lot of fun but needs the next step. And the current developer doesnt do anything anymore besides still take people's money.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →9/10 - I built a beautiful airport and immediately ruined it with one missing security desk. Airport CEO is spreadsheets with jet engines: deep systems, dramatic delays, and tiny simulated humans judging your coffee placement. Fix chaos, print money, repeat. Stressful? Yes. Glorious? Absolutely. 🛫💼🧠 Run the terminal. Blame the weather. Cash the landing fees. ✈️📊😌 https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42602807-Osiris-Reviews/
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like tycoon and management games but this is for those who hate their life. I've already got 12 hrs in it and I think I'll give up at this point because most of the time is spent trying to figure out how to do stuff because the tutorial is bare bones. And when I try to find a tutorial online it's either been taken down or some woman and her man are screaming at me and I'm just over it. I've restarted my airport about 5 times now in order to get something usable and each progression ends in a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so great.. so much fun.. but there are so many pathfinding problems constantly. If these would ever get solved I'll gladly change it to a thumbs up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bugged, the pathfinding will eventually kill your airport, abandoned, not worth your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There’s an insane amount of bugs, especially with the pathfinding for passengers and vehicles. How the hell have they still not managed to fix this mess after all these years?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't recommend this game due to the half-assed attitude of the developers. The developers have seen fit to abandon the game despite the fact that the game routinely glitches, and many necessary features are only partially fleshed out or are non-existent. Additionally the tutorial and help functions are awful as they fail to give coherent explanations for most problems leaving the player to solve them by trial and error.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a great game, especially if you love aircraft, however, the pathing used in this game was clearly created by a tortured soul and therefore never works, thereby destroying what is otherwise a great game and since updates stopped like 3 years ago, they're never going to fix it. Unfortunately, because of this, it's not worth your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to love this game but it's abandoned and broken beyond repair. Pathfinding problems can cause you lose millions without any possible fix
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is so fun to play, you make whole airport, and then realize that you should not have done that because it does not work for your future planes and have to destroy everything again. The game that makes you use your brain to think ahead! I love it so much.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you did like Prison Architect graphic style and fancy airplanes and aviation in general, then this might be a game for you. Positive: +Planes, it got airplanes! +Simulation is surprisingly deep on some aspects. +Graphics are good enough for type of the game. Negative: -Devs have moved on other projects -Some minor annoyances/bugs, example; vehicle pathing (nothing major so far) -GUI menu locations are not always logical -No cargo planes/cargo, actual customs, K9 patrols (could have been…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like Airport CEO. After 270 hours, I feel like I've given it more than enough of a chance. I've built small airports, large airports, restarted countless times, experimented with different layouts, and tried to engage with every major mechanic the game has to offer. Unfortunately, the more I played, the more obvious it became that this game feels unfinished. The biggest issue is that the simulation starts falling apart as your airport becomes more complex. Pathfinding is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like what many others have said. The game is buggy as hell and the devs seem to have given up fixing it. The main bug seems to lies with pathfinding and terminal segregation - 2 interrelated issue. I've progressed past the medium jets and want to setup one for the big jets using a new dedicated terminal, but for some dumb reason the pax are ending up in the wrong terminal and the staff and vehicles can't reach the new terminal, even though clear paths have been laid out. One simple fix to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this like crazy until my airport got too big and the game starting bugging like crazy until it was unplayable. I have to caution against the game because while it is super fun for a while, it becomes extremely aggrevating and impossible to play at a certain point. The engineering on this just bad, as they really don't make efficient use of memory, and the game just gets stupid glitchy. For example, I had thousands of passengers stuck in a single square, and an emergency plane that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The idea is really cool, and the implementation is not bad, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, this game is buggy, and it seems like there is absolutely no intention of fixing the issues. Only play this game if you really don’t care about functionality and just want to build an airport.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a nice game overall however, frustrating at times. Especially when baggage handling is to be implemented, everything gets chaotic until a system established. But its the real problem isn't it? establishing a system. This is where Airport CEO gets a bit short handed. Tutorials seem adequate at the beginning but feels quite short when trying to place a baggege handling, baggage claim area and conveyor systems. Tutorial says establish one but it doesn't tell you where to connect it and how to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a few(120+) hours into this game, my love for airports and aircraft match well with Airport CEO. As a casual game it is fun, once you figure out how everything works, its very enticing. Eventually you'll get to the point where you have to expand your airport or add a second and third terminal and that's where the downfall is. The game will bottleneck(slow down) due to the increasing amount of people entering your airport for the larger aircraft. I have done multiple designs and the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Build Airport.....Build New Aiport to make it more performing.....Build new Airport to make it more beatiful....Build Airport.....Build New Aiport to make it more performing.....Build new Airport to make it more beatiful....Build Airport.....Build New Aiport to make it more performing.....Build new Airport to make it more beatiful....Build Airport.....Build New Aiport to make it more performing.....Build new Airport to make it more beatiful....forget about time.....keep playing since you need…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Coming from an avid aviation enthusiast Airport CEO has quite an immense level of detail and depth to it, but as many have said, these things have been poorly implemented. One thing that defintely stands out is that the whole game feels dead. You don't feel that connection between what you've spent so long trying to get set up (your airport). It just feels like a "wait and maybe earn money" game. Maybe I simply haven't played enough, but Airport CEO just feels lacking and empty. SimAirport…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played this game off & on quite a bit over the years. I HAVEN'T played it much sent it went to v1.1. I thought about going back and playing again, but I see that there hasn't been a REAL update (besides a security path) in almost 3 years. I know there are improvements that they can make to the game. I mean, really, people are still reporting bugs. So, to not do ANYTHING to the game in 3 years tells me that the devs have abandoned it. Disappointing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tutorial is pretty good. The game has a lot of promise. I don't care for the top-down view so much but there are some 3D bit which add some depth. The major problems with this game are all about pathfinding and the lack of a clear way to diagnose them. I don't know if its bugs or that you have to be very careful. Setting up remote stands can be frustrating as there are a lot of things that need connecting and sometimes staff just can't find their way to the service stops. Its also…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →greatest airport game i've ever played in my life, don't read the reviews and just buy the game and watch a tutorial somewhere. this game has changed my life
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game is tuff build airport get smol plane upgrade and get big plane happy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Airport CEO is an incredibly deep and addictive simulator that gives you total control over every detail of your airport. From constructing runways and terminals to managing staff and airline contracts, the game constantly offers rewarding challenges. It perfectly balances micro-management with large-scale planning, and watching your airport grow from a tiny airfield into a massive international hub is pure satisfaction. A must-play for any Tycoon fan! Airport CEO — это потрясающе глубокий и…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another impossibly difficult game I have no patience for anymore. Maybe I'll like it better later.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slightly confusing. Only buy on steep discount. There always seems to be something wrong with your airport, and little reward when everything is going steady. I wish I had played this game less so I could return it for money back.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is really broken now. Can't report any bugs and cant even play the game after multiple re installs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super Fun game if you like designing and factory games, realistic but more of a tycoony type factory game compared to something like factorio, although you do make everything. yourself.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its really good like i am waiting at school tryna get home to play it, the only prolem is that its laggy when the airport got too big
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not sure why people are down voting you. I just looked at this game and it seriously looks like a rip off of Airport CEO which has been fully released and has all features available. Look at the reviews of this pixel game and it's missing features, looks half thought out and someone pointed out uses of AI to spit out faster. Edit: I just noticed reviews that were there a bit a go are gone. Not sure if it's because they were in a different language or owner of game is flagging them.
neutral · AI labelView post →i enjoy the game, however if the devs did one last big update, fixed a heap of issues, added features and overall finished up with the game it would be great
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found this game to be very fun as it allows for you to build an airport way that allows complete freedom of design without losing out the realism of the processes required to run an airport
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →so this is a mixed review. the game itself is very fun and good. but it is so badly optimised that towards the late game it becomes very buggy and laggy. aircraft will just sit at stands doing nothing even dismissing the aircraft it still sits there. says its waiting for a stair truck or push back truck and there is one there on the stand but aircraft still doesnt move. game is unplayable at late game stages becasue its just to laggy with the ammount of PAX trying to calculate a path. even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game but the taxi ai is a bit lame for this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i would have to give this game a 4.3 for acouple reasons 1 WHY IS IT SO HARD TO MAKE A JET WAY 2 why are you not able to play like a passenger to test your airport to find glitches 3 can the creator pls make it where you just have to place a aircraft stand LAST WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PLACE ZONES JUST TO PLACE THAT RELATED STUFF INTO TO THE ZONE
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Brilliant game a little disappointed there are not any more updates
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: @ $10 or under it's a no brainer IF you're mentally prepared to hit a point where you've built too far in the wrong direction a few times and just restart from scratch a half-dozen times. If you tough it out, I think you'll both have a lot of fun, and build something you're proud of. It's not perfect, but it's workable for what it is. The Bad: Leading with The Bad, but read The Good before making a decision - This game needs a Quality of Life update Some items have sidewalks, or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If they didnt abandon it - it would be probably positive. Still too many issues and bugs. Needs a remake at this point.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →kinda buggy once you get into the weeds (the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ catering and cleaning vehicles ARGH), but an urban planner's (or ADHD person's) wet dream. (I will say, this doesn't run all that well for being mostly 2D - I get 30-40 fps average, with lows down to the single digits.)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →7 hour review: Right now I'm just trying to figure out how to "connect-the-dots" to make a commercial flight work. The game feels rewarding when 1 or 2 of the 4 red alerts turns to green, but also very confusing trying to figure out what exactly the game is complaining about that still needs to be fulfilled before a flight is 100% ready to go. Locked Stands: There's a condition where an airplane stand can't be turned off, because there's an airplane assigned to it, and when the airplane goes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a nice game with many mechanics and a lot of open world freedom! Pls try this game. You could even learn a few things in the game which can make you into a real life CEO! If you are the one who wants to challenge himself with the mechanics, You'll love it!!! There are a few bugs which should be fixed. They're a bit annoying. 9.8 out of 10!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent Game, but Frustrating for Achievement Hunters ⭐⭐⭐ Don't let the basic graphics fool you into thinking this is a lightweight game. While it looks simple on the surface, Airport CEO suffers from poor optimization and becomes incredibly CPU-demanding as your airport expands, leading to significant performance drops. Because of this intense CPU load, your cooling fans will be blasting at maximum speed, making your PC loud and creating a genuinely unpleasant experience while trying to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like this tycoon game, it was very fun to learn. Yes, you'll do some googling just to figure things out, but personally I prefer that to handholding, and it doesn't teach you how to perfectly build an airport, you have to learn each tool as you go. I really enjoyed it. I cannot stand playing this any more because of the pathing issues. No matter what I did to my service roads and vehicle checkpoints, the fuel deliver tankers would cruise right on through the airport and never enter…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →genuinely the worst game ive ever played in my life, when i saw the trailer i expected good building mechanics but i got nothing good to say about this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am terrible because I am a perfectionist... and I think that's what got me through 80 hours or so already. It's enjoyable, simple, but difficult if you don't "look up the formulas". Just play, suffer, and enjoy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worst tutorial ever. I prefer SimAirport, much more approachable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to give this a positive recommendation. But the devs have stopped developing the game years ago, even though there are still several aspects that are unfinished. In many ways this shows more promise than SimAirport, and this game is very detailed in some aspects, but it lacks in execution and polishment. Early game works incredibly well, and everything seems very thought-through. But in the middle to late game, the game starts breaking down. One thing is pathfinding and optimization,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was a little wary of this due to the reviews mentioning bugs, but I have to say...I am having a great time! really in-depth, but maintains accessibility. Decent tutorial (misses off some later tools, but always easy to find guides online.) Economic system is challenging but fair. it's captured me way more than I expected it to! As for the bugs...sure the odd staff member freaks out and gets stuck, the passengers are a bit like lemmings and funnel themselves into stupid places...but every bug…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The stream is over. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and hung out. Replaying the game was a blast. We'll be back tomorrow night for Halloween Forever. We kept the fun going by raiding Mikepaws who's currently playing Airport CEO.
neutral · AI labelView post →Excited for his YouTube Livestream on his Airport CEO save game
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is very cool I recommend buying it when it's on sale since it has some bugs with pathfinding especially which sometimes make you rebuild your whole airport but other than that i say its worth the money if u enjoy games like these
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good, No crashes. Really liked this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →has the most ♥♥♥♥ tutorial in the globe. dead game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's fun at first. But then gets unnecessary complicated/micro-management the bigger the airport gets. Don't get me started on the baggage handling :) 3.5 Stars out of 5. It's fun to play around with for 25 bucks. Just don't expect to build a Major Airport with it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Needlessly Complicated This seems like a slam dunk game for me, but it is far to complicated for a casual sim player. The tutorial is very unhelpful and I could not make heads nor tails of it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very Nerdy but Fun as Heck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Airport CEO is one of the best games I have ever seen! The Visuals are great, you will never not know what you are looking at! The AI path finding has some work to be done, but it's not that bad. This game is very relaxing when you get the hang of it and get set up, but occasionally you need to get out of your comfort zone (AKA upgrading something). When you make a major upgrade to the airport it will probably be stressful, (i Example:) You have to tear down a boarding desk so you can replace…
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