Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Liftoff® is a drone simulator that translates the rush of first-person view drone flight to the digital world. Join the biggest community for virtual FPV racing and freestyle!
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing is a simulation, flight and racing game
developed and published by LuGus Studios.
Released on September 13th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 3 languages: English, French and Ukrainian.
It has received 11,107 reviews of which 10,535 were positive and 572 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing into these genres:
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel 8th gen / AMD Ryzen 1st gen - 2.4GHz or faster.
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce RTX 2060 / AMD RX Vega 56 - 4GB VRAM or more.
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 25 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Only playable with a game or radio controller. Single screen setups recommended. Intel integrated graphics not supported.
MacOS
- OS: macOS Sierra
- Processor: Intel systems: Intel 8th gen - 2.4GHz or faster. Apple Silicon systems: M1 processor.
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel systems: dedicated nvidia or AMD GPU - 4GB VRAM or more. Apple Silicon systems: M1 processor.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 25 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Only playable with a game or radio controller. Single screen setups recommended. Intel integrated graphics not supported.
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04 or newer. Other Linux distributions may work but are untested.
- Processor: Intel 8th gen / AMD Ryzen 1st gen - 2.4GHz or faster.
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce RTX 2060 / AMD RX Vega 56 - 4GB VRAM or more.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 25 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Only playable with a game or radio controller. Single screen setups recommended. Intel integrated graphics not supported.
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If you are new to the Drone/Quad/FPV hobby, this is not an "optional" purchase... It is your VERY VERY FIRST PURCHASE!!! I cannot stress this enough. If I had anyyyy cluuuuue jusst how simple everybody on youtube makes it look, to fly a quadcopter in all these different amazing ways - I could have saved myself nearly $2k that I spent on my initial purchase when I thought that I was "ready" to join the hobby... When in reality - I wouldd have never even thought about spending a dime more in the FPV/quad section of the RC world, if I had just listened to bardwell and everybody else, annd ONLY PURCHASED LIFTOFF & A DECENT ELRS RADIO that has BLE built in, FIRST!!!... All the youtuber's tell you to learn with sim, but I ignored that becausue I am not like most people when it comes to learning how to control any kind of vehicle. I have always been a easy & lightning fast learner in general, but especially when it comes to getting a feeling for new mechines & controlling them. I was 7 years old the first time I drove a car. it was a 1996 Ford Expedition, and the link between my brain and the vehicle was almost instanious. My own first car was a 5 speed stick shift - Got that down within 10 minutes of watching my uncle drive it in a parking lot from the passenger seat while he explained what he was doing/why... First time I rode a motorcycle, I lied to the owner and said I had owned one before - Literally rode it one way down the street to learn the clutch and shift pattern, turned around, and rode a wheelie past the owner on my 2nd pass not even 30 seconds later.... Later in life, I got in the drivers seat of a bobcat, and then an excavator and the exact same thing happened... I have ALWAYS been an absolute "natural" when it comes to learning the controls of any kind of mechanical object and almost instantly feeling as if I was "one with the machine" because the controls always feel like they're second nature to me, to the point where I have never needed to think about, or consciously calculate what my hands or feet are doing with the controls... They just do whats needed, 100% naturally without any thought, and without error...Ever, after being in one vehicle or another everyday for the past 20yrs now.... after I feel each of the controls, and undnerstand how they work, the attention/brainpower I have had to put into anyhting has always gone from 100% conscious thought, to 0% conscious & 100% SUBconscious, within minutes of learning in the real world... Mmy first nitro Traxxas RC Car?? Same exact thing there even... No matter what kind of mechanics I've thrown at myself, I have never struggled with the controls or getting a feeling for the machcine's limits.... UNTIL I TRIED TO FLY A QUAD... lol NOOOOBODY TELLS YOU HOW SIMPLE THEY MAKE FLYING DRONES LOOK ON YOUTUBE, COMPARED TO HOW MUCH ACTUAL TIME THEY'VE HAD TO SPEND LEARNING TO FLY AS WELL AS THEY DO... They all say to put 10 hours into the simulator first. but that's about all they ever say... Had I listened and thought that wouldnt appply to me - I 100% would have never spent a dime pastpaying for liftoff & my radio. I would have nevvvver considered trying to learn how to fly a quad-rotor after my first hour in liftoff... I am now, currently almost 3 years & over 100hrs into the sim, and STILL have not put my BNF drone I made the mistake of purchasing, in the air, in real life, other than just to hover around and make sure that it worked for less than 1 pack. That "One with the machine" type of feeling when you are flying a drone, Take it from somebody who bought everything in one shopping cart for almost $2,000USD and literally NONE of it has been used/is all outdated now... If you want to get into this hobby, The one and only thing you should spepnd any moneye on before anything else is Liftoff and a radio.. 100-200 USD total... DO NOT SPEND A DIME ON ANYTHING ELSE UNTIL YOU SPEND AT LEAST 10HRS IN LIFTOFF, TO KNOW WHETHER YOU HAVE THE SPARE TIME & PATIENCE TO FULLY LEARN TO FLY, AND COMMIT YOURSELF TO IT... Because had I know just how simple they make it look on youtube, compared to how hard it actually is to do in the sim, and in real life - for me, personally, for whatever reason - I would have never purchased anything further. I love everything about FPV and the ehobby aspect of it. I really don't care for the actual flying part though. something about it has still just never fully "clicked" for me. Everybody learns different things in different ways. Don;t make the same mistakes I did. I have 100+ hours into this simulator and am just barely confident enough to spin my real life motors up and put my real $600 drone in the air. STILL. lol getting into this hobby in real life requires TONS of extra, real life money, and the time to spend in real life YEARS of flying daily in order to ever aquire that "subconscious, one with machine" type fo feeling over any drone. KNOW THIS, AND HEED MY WARNING!!!
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It's a sim - but it's a sim of something that translates almost near-100% to real-life. In other sims you can only translate what real-life is so far- you can't feel the thrust of jet engines of a fighter in a flight sim, nor can you feel what it would feel like to take Eau Rouge and Raidillon in a GT3 car. You can, however, completely translate what you learn in Liftoff into a real-life FPV drone. You can use the same radio controller a FPV drone uses, you can use the same rates (axis sensitivity) as in real-life, you can even fly the same drones you can build in real life. This is all for nothing if the actual process of flying a drone was boring. Well, in ACRO mode, which is what you really should be flying all of the time, the literal end-product nearly all freestyle Pilots aspire to is a great video of the flying itself. The flying itself is extremely challenging and extremely rewarding to gain skill with. The first time you load up this game, you'll spend the first 10 minutes saying 'wtf' while crashing over and over. Then you'll pick up the basics and be able to move forward without crashing. Then you will start to understand turns. Before you know it, you're completing power loops and high-accuracy zooms through windows and around trees and it all feels excellent. And again, this all translates into real life. You can use the skills you build on Liftoff and go out and buy a drone and fly it just like in the game.
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This is a must have if you getting into FPV flying. For $20, you are literally saving yourself from a $200+ dollar crash. Play this game for 15 hours and you are going to understand the freedom in FPV. Play for 100 hours and you won't be able to stop. The sky is the limit and every hour prepares you better for the real world. I also use this when it's stormy outside and honestly, after 400 hours, I can say that the outdoor flying experience feels a little to similar to this sim. Only thing missing are some maps of Ukraine haha
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The best gateway drug to spending hundreds of dollars on a new hobby you can't afford. Let's hope I crash less flying for real than I do in Liftoff.
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Best real world physics compared to an actual FPV Drone. Feels like I am actually flying my fpv's. This would be the best option for learning on a simulator FIRST, as it is almost exactly the same as real flying.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing received 10,535 positive votes out of a total of 11,107 achieving an impressive rating of 9.21.
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Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing was developed and published by LuGus Studios.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 3 DLCs available for Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing. Explore additional content available for Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing on Steam.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing does not support Steam Remote Play.
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing.
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Last Updates| Steam data | 21 January 2026 03:11 |
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
280
Developer
LuGus Studios
Publisher
LuGus Studios
Release
13 Sep 2018
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