Lakehopper
Photon Games · 2026 · Simulation, Flight, Exploration, Immersive Sim, Transportation
PC
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About Lakehopper
Challenge your piloting skills in a seaplane focused flight simulator that takes place in a persistent world where you are responsible for the care and maintenance of your plane. Parts wear out and must be replaced. Otherwise, you risk in-flight failures. At its heart, Lakehopper is a flight simulator, with a physics-based flight model that aims to be realistic and challenging. Fly between isolated communities in a flooded, rugged landscape that only seaplanes can serve. Deliver cargo and help connect towns separated by huge distances of nothing but mountains and open stretches of water. Use your skills as a pilot, and the navigational tools at your disposal, to hop between far-flung destinations. Keep your deliveries safe in unforgiving terrain and treacherous waters. Learn intricately simulated plane systems that are a mix of the familiar and the near-future.
A detailed simulation of a workhorse flying boat
- Assemble your twin engine flying boat seaplane from 100+ parts.
- Walk around inside your plane! Being in a vehicle doesn't simply lock you into the pilot's seat, even while flying. Roam around the plane, do in-flight repairs, and reconfigure systems. Just watch your step and keep the door closed!
- Refuel your plane and deliver cargo to isolated communities around the region.
- Detailed plane subsystems with start-up sequences that require attention to detail.
- Complex water physics for seaplanes that float, take off, and land like real seaplanes!
A vast map to explore
- Fly across and explore a mountainous, flooded 360,000 square km (140,000 square mi) map.
- Realistic terrain based on real world landscapes.
A challenging, persistent world
- The game doesn't end just because your flight does. Each flight informs the next!
- Check the condition of individual plane parts and replace them before they cause in-flight failures... or don't!
- Track jobs, run checklists, look up navigational info, and reference assembly instructions with the in-game reference binder.
Fly your way
- Support for gamepads, joysticks, yokes, throttle quadrants, and many common flight sim peripherals with detailed control rebinding options.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game is NOT READY! I love what the game is trying to do, it seems like a great time and I'd love to play it. BUT Midway through my play, about 30 min. in, the game suddenly bugged out and my whole computer froze. After I restarted the computer I saw that for some reason my computer no longer recognized my GPU. I had to do a ton of troubleshooting to figure it out, and I figured it had to be this game running because nothing else or unusual was running at that time and it worked flawlessly all day. So in short, I tried it, I loved it, but I can't recommend it because it seems to mess with my PC and I don't need a game THAT much in early development.2 found this helpful
good game, but buying it is basically a preorder with a gameplay demo included flying is a bit tricky, but the actual construction system is nice (at least i think it is) the planes have good models, and there is options to paint them custom colors the jobs are less jobs, and just "take box, fly somewhere, give box", no reward, unless you count wasting your time as one basically everything is difficult until you do what you are meant to do and read the binder in depth, which has some small issues but actually does a good job explaining it its not really playable as a "game" yet, but its still a neat thing to buy and mess around with until it has story, actual gameplay features, and other stuff like that1 found this helpful
It's cheap and simple, could of done with more content before release I won't lie but as is it's a pretty fun game to just relax with. If you want to wait nobody will blame you, but as is I've had some fun. Keyboard controls are ok but this game would benefit from a nicer setup if you can have one. Could do with changing weather, more mission types (SAR, Timed, passenger, etc), and honestly more engine detail but the dev updates pretty often and I can feel the heart, which to me heart is more important than content. Pretty bugless in my experience and physics work decently ish.
Incredibly bare bones. Would not recommend buying right now as it isnt much more than a tech concept.
Im really hopeful for this one, but it needs a better autopilot system and a money system.
Multiplayer would make this so fun. I think this game just needs some more plane options, difficulty/complexity options for more parts and switches and stuff, which could be with more plane options, and some more goals rather than just carrying cargo, and some cosmetics. And things to do during flight would be nice.
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