IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 overview

Overview

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 comes from 1C: Maddox Games and is published by Fulqrum Publishing. It arrived on Steam on Jun 13, 2008, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, LAN PvP, Co-op, LAN Co-op, Steam Cloud, and Includes level editor. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 40 players at 3 October 2026 - 19:08:45 UTC, with a tracked peak near 137. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 88% positive across 3,158 reviews.

Language and system requirements

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 is available in 2 languages including:

5 regional rating boards including esrb, dejus, pegi, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 has sold up to 138,000 units and has 2,659 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $902,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 overview details

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Il-2 1946 includes all of the original IL-2 series content: IL-2 Sturmovik™: Forgotten Battles, Ace Expansion Pack, Pacific Fighters™ and alternate histry campaigns of year 1946. What was years ago began as a one-aircraft study sim is now an astonishing anthology, with a whopping 229 flyable aircraft and over 300 aircraft total! The game has been updated to the latest version 4.12.2. This community made update includes widescreen support with correct FOV, many new planes, maps and scenarios. New Aircraft: 32 new flyable fighters and bombers, and four new AI aircraft! New Maps: Large new historical maps of the Kiev region; a map of Manchuria focusing on a border region between USSR, China and Japanese-occupied Korea; a large bonus Burma map; and an online Khalkin Gol / Nomonhan map. New Campaigns: Nine new campaigns with nearly 200 missions add incredible realism and attention to detail. There are detailed careers for fighter and bomber pilots, for the German, Soviet, and Japanese air forces, offering such varied objectives as flying jet bombers over occupied Europe, to intercepting American B-29 Super fortresses over Iwo Jima and Japanese home islands! Alternate History: Three of the nine campaigns are a departure into alternate history, focusing on hypothetical battles between the Soviet Union and Germany in the year 1946, while WWII still rages on. Nearly 1,000 new Paint schemes: The new planes, as well as many of the other ones in the series, come with a host of historical paint schemes, showing many of the individual aircraft or squadrons that served in WWII.

SteamPulse editorial summary

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 is listed as a game with $9.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, LAN PvP, Co-op, LAN Co-op, Steam Cloud, and Includes level editor, and is associated with Simulation. SteamPulse's latest observation records 40 players at 3 October 2026 - 19:08:45 UTC, a tracked peak of 137, and 88% positive reviews.

Overview tags

SimulationFlightWorld War IIMilitaryHistoricalRealisticMultiplayerTrackIRActionClassicSingleplayerWarJetModdableVR

Support and legal notes

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