We’re delighted to announce Aviator, a new game in development at Mood For Games.
Aviator is an airline strategy game set in the golden age of commercial flight — a time of polished airframes, optimistic timetables, and the firm belief that any city could become the next great destination if you opened the right route.
You’ll start with a name, a colour, a home city, and one small advantage. From there, build your airline quarter by quarter: spot promising city opportunities, open routes, grow your fleet, and decide when a glamorous opportunity is worth the fuel bill. Your rivals have their own identities, strategies, and expansion plans, so the skies should remain agreeably crowded.
The game’s historical aircraft lifecycle brings a little drama to the fleet. Aircraft arrive on a save-specific timeline, enjoy their years in the spotlight, grow older, become obsolete, and eventually retire. Even the most magnificent machine must one day hand in its boarding pass.
Along the way, you’ll follow passenger numbers, revenue, profit, regional performance, world rankings, oil prices, fuel reserves, and the many small decisions that turn an airline into an empire. The aim is a management game with a romantic heart and a mischievous spreadsheet.
One of the big features on our roadmap is local multiplayer. We want Aviator to feel like a classic board game with the ease of digital play: friends gathered around the same table, planning routes, comparing fleets, watching the market, and trying to outthink one another. A smart moderator will help with the bookkeeping, explain the systems, and keep the game moving so the group can spend its time on the decisions that matter.
Aviator is currently in development, with the prototype focused on its core management systems, rival airlines, aircraft market, route opportunities, and long-term progression. We’re also exploring the foundations for a shared local multiplayer experience, with the smart moderator as an important part of that design. We’ll be sharing more from the flight deck as development continues.
The engines are warm. The route board is open. Now we just need to find out who put the budget in first class.
The screenshots here are from early builds: one shows the bright world map where routes, rivals, and opportunities begin to tangle together; the other looks into the aircraft hangar, where a fleet of historical planes waits to be compared, purchased, and occasionally blamed for the quarterly figures.