Korea. IL-2 Series is a next-generation flight simulator set during the Korean War. Climb into the cockpit of early jet fighters and shape the outcome of legendary aerial battles.
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Dev Blog 92: New UI Features
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Greetings, comrades! In November, we plan to release a major update for Korea, featuring a wide range of improvements and refinements. Some of these will be particularly substantial and significant. In addition to graphics improvements, new mission types in Career and Task Editor, and map enhancements, we have two…
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Greetings, comrades! In November, we plan to release a major update for Korea, featuring a wide range of improvements and refinements. Some of these will be particularly substantial and significant. In addition to graphics improvements, new mission types in Career and Task Editor, and map enhancements, we have two major new features planned. Those are what we'd like to talk about today. Our first new feature is an in-game player ranking system with a continuously updated leaderboard. Developing such a system is quite a challenge: you have to compare and weigh a wide variety of achievements against one another. But our team includes quite a few experienced IL-2 players, including members of the Flying Barans squadron, whose experience helped us find a solution. The leaderboard will be divided by game type: achievements in battles against AI opponents—PvE (Career, Task Editor, co-op, and official campaigns)—and achievements in battles against other players—PvP, which in our case means Dogfight. Each of these two modes will also be divided into difficulty categories. Your statistics will count toward the appropriate category based on the mission's difficulty settings. If you're already playing Korea (and if you're not, what are you waiting for?), you've probably noticed the bar displayed when selecting mission difficulty settings. It has four ranges: "Full real," "Hard," "Normal," and "No rating." This bar indicates which player ranking category your statistics for that mission will count toward. Rankings will be calculated over each calendar month. At the beginning of every…
IL-2 25th Anniversary Sale: Save up to 85%! The IL-2 series turns 25 this November! We’re kicking off the celebrations with our biggest discounts yet. It’s the perfect time to expand your hangar or take to the virtual skies for the first time!HERE’S WHAT’S ON OFFER85% off most games and add-ons in the series.45% off…
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IL-2 25th Anniversary Sale: Save up to 85%! The IL-2 series turns 25 this November! We’re kicking off the celebrations with our biggest discounts yet. It’s the perfect time to expand your hangar or take to the virtual skies for the first time!HERE’S WHAT’S ON OFFER85% off most games and add-ons in the series.45% off Odessa and Leningrad and Siege of Odessa. For the first time, 25% off Korea. IL-2 Series! The sale runs from November 1 until November 15 at 11:00 UTC. Choose your aircraft and join the celebration. See you in the skies!
Greetings, comrades! Today, we continue our extensive coverage of Deck Ops, the expansion for Korea: IL-2 Series. This time, we're returning to a Dev Blog format we haven't used in quite a while. But it might just be one of the most interesting kinds of Dev Blog. In these issues, we take an in-depth look at the places…
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Greetings, comrades! Today, we continue our extensive coverage of Deck Ops, the expansion for Korea: IL-2 Series. This time, we're returning to a Dev Blog format we haven't used in quite a while. But it might just be one of the most interesting kinds of Dev Blog. In these issues, we take an in-depth look at the places where pilots experience some of the most thrilling moments of their lives—and which you spend most of your time looking at while flying in the simulator. We're talking about cockpits. And in this issue, we're going to take a close look at the F9F-2 Panther's cockpit. The first man to travel into space flew the MiG-15. Today, we'll explore the cockpit of an aircraft flown by the first man to set foot on the Moon. We covered the aircraft as a whole, as well as Armstrong's experience flying it, in Dev Blog #88. In this issue, though, we'll delve into the fascinating details of its cockpit layout and equipment. As a carrier-based aircraft, the Panther was designed under strict dimensional constraints imposed by carrier operations. Its fuselage was more compact, and its cockpit noticeably narrower than, for example, that of the F-86 Sabre. Pilots noted that there was very little room around their shoulders and elbows inside the Panther, with the instrument panels positioned closer to them. Compared with the Sabre, there was also less headroom and poorer rearward visibility. Both were consequences of the more streamlined canopy, which sat lower and blended more closely into the fuselage contours. As usual, we'll begin our tour of the cockpit instruments at the…
74.6% of 500 Steam reviews are positive, which after adjusting for sample size gives a reception score of 70.6. The developers have shipped 3 substantial updates in the past six months, adding 15.4.
reception 70.6·support +15.4·Strong
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Current price
$59.99$79.99−25%
Development
Actively supported
Last heard from developers
10 days ago
Historical posting rhythm
every ~7 days
Substantial updates (6 mo)
3
Current silence
within normal range
The developers post roughly every 7 days and were last heard 10 days ago — within their normal range. 3 substantial updates recorded in the past six months, 1 classified as major. It is currently 25% below its usual price.
Last successful news check: Nov 7, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC. This is when we checked Steam, separate from when the developer last posted.
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patchAug 28, 2026
IL-2 Series: Korea Exits Early Access and Launches Fully
Korea: IL-2 Series has officially launched, closing out its Early Access phase. The announcement, posted by author Wolf on August 4, 2026, credits Early Access participants for meaningful contributions to the development process — players who tested aircraft, worked through the Career mode, and submitted feedback that the team says it continues to draw on.
What the announcement covers
The game is now out of Early Access and fully released
Early Access players were the first to fly the Korean theater, engage with Career mode, and shape development through feedback
The team states it is already working on future updates
A major expansion is described as in progress, with details promised "very soon"
The release announcement is largely ceremonial in tone — gratitude to the community, acknowledgment of the Early Access cohort — rather than a detailed breakdown of what changed at launch. No specific aircraft, maps, patch notes, or pricing details appear in the source.
For players who followed the Early Access period, the release marks a formal milestone, though the developer frames it explicitly as a continuing project rather than a finished one.
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Greetings, comrades!In November, we plan to release a major update for Korea, featuring a wide range of improvements and refinements. Some of these will be particularly substantial and significant. In addition to graphics improvements, new …
IL-2 25th Anniversary Sale: Save up to 85%!The IL-2 series turns 25 this November! We’re kicking off the celebrations with our biggest discounts yet. It’s the perfect time to expand your hangar or take to the virtual skies for the first tim…
Greetings, comrades!Today, we continue our extensive coverage of Deck Ops, the expansion for Korea: IL-2 Series.This time, we're returning to a Dev Blog format we haven't used in quite a while. But it might just be one of the most interesti…
Greetings, comrades!We are hard at work on the first expansion for Korea: IL-2 Series—Deck Ops. We have already told you a little about this expansion in our Dev Blogs: for example, in Dev Blog #88, you can read about the Panther. In future…
Greetings, comrades!Today, we would like to talk about what we have managed to implement in the game's input and control system. Let's start with Force Feedback (FFB).Generally speaking, FFB systems in flight simulation are going through so…
Hello, pilots!Today, we’re bringing you update 1.005. In this version, we’ve improved AI behavior in air combat, introduced a wingman behavior setting, and added a MiG-15 training mission. We’ve also fixed issues affecting aircraft, mission…
Greetings, comrades!Today, we are starting a new topic in the Korea Dev Blogs and would like to tell you about the Deck Ops expansion. As we mentioned in our article about the IL-2 series roadmap, it will feature five carrier-based aircraft…
Pilots, thank you for your feedback on update 1.004!Hotfix 1.004b addresses some of the most important issues identified after the release of update 1.004. We continue working on additional fixes for the next update.LIST OF CHANGESFixed an …
Hello, pilots!Today, we are releasing update 1.004 for Korea. It includes numerous changes: improvements to AI behavior, new missions, Career improvements, manual control of aircraft fuel systems, as well as improvements to controls, multip…
Greetings, comrades! Today, we would like to talk about the progress we are making on improving aircraft AI.As we have mentioned before, improving aircraft AI remains one of the key areas of our work. Currently, we are focusing on further i…
Greetings, comrades! As promised earlier, today we have a substantial dev diary dedicated to our plans for the coming year across the entire IL-2 series. To provide a clearer overview, we have prepared a Roadmap for the second half of 2026 …
Greetings, comrades!Very soon we will share news about the bombers for Great Battles and tell you about the first update for Korea. Today, we will discuss an equally important topic—the foundation on which our future plans for the project's…
Greetings, Pilots!Well, the release of “Korea” has taken place, and the first week has passed, during which we made tremendous and quite successful efforts to fix the set of shortcomings and issues that were identified at the beginning of t…
Hello, pilots!Today we are uploading the second hotfix for the release version of Korea. It includes important stability fixes, as well as corrections to multiplayer, aircraft, localization, and other game elements.Thank you for your report…
Hello, pilots!Today we are releasing the day-one patch for the release version of Korea. It includes fixes for missions, Career, aircraft, multiplayer, graphics, sound, and other game elements.Thank you for your reports and feedback—we cont…
Korea. IL-2 Series is available now! To celebrate the launch, content creators from our community will be taking to the skies of Korea live on our Steam page. Join the broadcasts, watch different pilots in action, and discover the game toge…
Korea. IL-2 Series is available now! Take your seat in the cockpit and enter the skies of the Korean War — jets and piston aircraft, aerial combat, Commander Career, and a vast world await. Thank you to everyone who joined us on the journey…
Hello, pilots!Today, a new chapter begins for our team and the entire IL-2 series—Korea is officially out.This day was made possible by people who are genuinely passionate about history and flight simulators—people for whom not only the mec…
The release of Korea. IL-2 Series is almost here!We want to help you prepare for tomorrow’s sortie, where you’ll meet up with friends and new players in the skies over Korea.The map below shows the exact time the game will become available …
Greetings, comrades!The release is just around the corner. Korea: IL-2 Series is coming next week, along with a new patch. We're continuing to improve it daily, testing it, and fixing bugs so that it looks and works even better on launch da…
Greetings, comrades!Today, we are releasing another Early Access update, featuring numerous improvements that bring our project closer to release.These improvements include major changes that significantly improve performance in heavily loa…
Comrades, greetings!We continue to share information about the development process and highlight specific improvements, refinements, and general areas of focus. One key topic is how the project works in VR.We’ve seen a lot of positive feedb…
Comrades, greetings!In the Dev Blog, we discussed upcoming changes and our overall work plans. Today, we’ve decided to delve a little deeper into one of the topics we touched on and talk about the environment in more detail. A colossal amou…
Greetings, comrades! So, early access to Korea. IL-2 Game Series has begun! Now anyone who pre-ordered can try out our new project and see for themselves much of what we’ve been talking about in our diaries and briefings. We’ve received ver…
Greetings, comrades! Today is a very sensitive topic. Sensitive not just in simulators or even the gaming industry as a whole, but sensitive for the entire world. Sometimes, just by mentioning this term, people can, without understanding th…
Comrades, greetings! Today, we’ll talk about a somewhat unexpected aspect of our new project, "Korea. Il-2 Series": The music. Yes, naturally, we operate in the genre of hardcore combat flight simulators where realism of physics models, wea…
Dear friends, First of all, we want to sincerely thank everyone who is taking part in the ongoing beta testing. The time, effort, and passion you invest into testing the game mean a great deal to our entire team. Every report, comment, sugg…
Greetings, comrades! Today, we have another comparison in store. But this time, rather than comparing two specific aircraft, we are comparing fundamentally different types of planes. The Korean War of 1950−1953 was not merely the first clas…
Greetings, comrades! Today, we have a hot topic, one that truly stirs the minds and hearts of all combat aviation enthusiasts! Which aircraft is stronger in aerial combat: the MiG-15bis or the F-86A Sabre? We will try, and most likely somew…
Greetings, comrades! In Korea, all aircraft will feature highly detailed cockpits meticulously recreated using the latest technologies, equipment, and instruments at a completely new level. The readings of all instruments will correspond to…
