Airport CEO
Airport management sim about building terminals and keeping flights moving
Apog Labs · Released Mar 4, 2021
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 83% of 8,356
- Recent reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 74% of 31 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 133
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 7 months ago
- Jan 24, 2026
What is Airport CEO?
A single-player sandbox construction and management simulation in which you build runways, taxiways, gates, and terminals from scratch. You hire staff, sign airline contracts, schedule flights, manage budgets and passenger services, and respond to delays, bad weather, equipment failures, and emergencies.
For you if...
- +you enjoy detailed management systems and long-term layout planning
- +you want freedom to design an airport from scratch
- +you prefer single-player sandbox play with extensive micromanagement
Not for you if...
- −you avoid detailed planning and resource management
- −you dislike rebuilding layouts as your airport expands
- −you want multiplayer airport management
What players say
83% of 8,356 reviews are positive · 74% of 31 in the last 30 days
Players praise the freedom to design an airport from scratch and the depth of its planning and management systems. The most common complaints are passenger and vehicle pathfinding bugs and severe slowdowns as airports grow; players also criticize the limited tutorial and say updates have stopped.
Screenshots and trailer
Airport CEO system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor
- Intel Core i5 2.4 GHz or AMD 3 GHz
- Graphics
- Any (at least 2 GB dedicated VRAM)
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 11 (64-bit)
- Processor
- Intel Core i7 2.6 GHz or AMD 3 GHz (or higher)
- Graphics
- Any (at least 6 GB dedicated VRAM)
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 8 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 12
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 35
- Steam features
- Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, German, French, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Dutch, Turkish, Czech, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Polish.
Tags
- Resource Management
- Moddable
- Management
- Simulation
- Singleplayer
- Flight
- Building
- Immersive Sim
- Strategy
- Sandbox
- Automation
- Capitalism
- 2D
- Top-Down
- Realistic
- Economy
Recent updates
- Jan 24, 2026 · Airport CEO 1.1-3 released
- Nov 3, 2023 · Airport CEO 1.1-1 released
- Mar 8, 2023 · Airport CEO 1.0-45 released
- Nov 3, 2022 · Airport CEO 1.0-44 released
- Oct 28, 2022 · Airport CEO 1.0-43 released
5 DLC available.
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