Best space flight simulator series#

We'll be updating this great new flight combat games arrive on Switch. Let us know your favourites from above in the comments below and feel free to nominate any other deserving candidates. Here, though - while we wait for Ace Combat or the Star Fox crew to land (or, if we're really dreaming, Rogue Squadron to somehow shoot its way out of the vaults with an HD remake) - grab your goggles, leg it to the airfield and strap yourself in for the best flight combat games on Nintendo Switch. If you're into 2D aircraft-based shooting, you may want to peruse our selection of the best Switch shmups.

Best space flight simulator series#

Whether you're shooting bogeys and blasting your way though the clouds or the cosmos, there's a host of quality dogfighting games available.Īll the games here lean heavily towards the arcade-y end of the scale - you won't find any hardcore flight simulations here - but below we've rounded up, in no particular order, the very best 3D (or simulated 3D) flight sim and flight combat Switch games we've come across.įor some unknown reason, Bandai Namco's excellent Ace Combat series is still MIA on Nintendo's console, and we've yet to see a fully-fledged, brand new Star Fox on the system either, although Ubisoft's underrated Starlink: Battle for Atlas offers a cracking Star Fox fix on Switch - see below for more details.

It's taken a while, but as with most other genres since Switch launched back in 2017, Nintendo's console has steadily built a good library of flight combat games.