They can become damaged in combat, in which case you’ll have to pay to get them repaired before they can be flown again. Planes are never destroyed, so once you buy one, you’re stuck with it. Pro tip: when buying a plane, go for quality over quantity… upgrading a great airplane doesn’t cost any more than upgrading a cheap one. Upgrading a plane by all 25 or 30 levels is very expensive and likely your biggest cost. When the tutorial ends after a few more missions, you’ll be given one more plane.Įach plane has five or six aspects that can be upgraded, each with five levels. In your first two missions, you’ll be given a modest fighter plane and a light bomber. Most of the plane types are pretty much the well-known ones you’d expect, but a few are a bit fanciful, including a few experimental aircraft that never saw actual combat, and even a German flying saucer (in version 2). Your squadron can only have one of each type of plane. The details of the combat missions you’ll get also vary by country, but the differences are mainly visual except for the enemy planes you’ll be facing (and Germany is fighting a two-front war with both British and Soviet enemies, while the other countries have only one enemy within the game). The choice of planes available obviously varies from one country to another, with each country offering from 12 to 18 planes.

Each country is effectively a game-save slot, with progress recorded separately from the other countries. Your squadron flies for one of five countries: US, Britain, USSR, Germany, or Japan - US and Japan are new in version 2 of the game. You take the role of a squadron commander, in charge of an air base and its planes and airmen. If you must have multiplayer, you can stop reading this review. There is no multiplayer capability at all. Note: Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight is a single-person game.

First, it’s an amazing value at about $10 US. Just looking at its game aspects, I’d rate it 7 stars - definitely competent but nothing ground-breaking.

If viewed that way, the game does quite well. It’s primarily a resource management game, and the arcade-style air combat is how you get the monies to spend. Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight on Switch isn’t a great aerial combat simulation, but I don’t think it was intended to be one.

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