Download Flight!

Paper airplane but much funner!

If someone had told me 15 years ago that a mobile paper airplane game would be released soon, I would have been incredibly excited. Since then, my thrill about a prospective game of this kind had waned a lot, though, having recently tried out Flight!, that thrill has reawakened!

This game is a genuine breath of fresh air in the mobile gaming sphere, and I’ve never felt so hooked to a game originally designed for Adobe Flash since the first Angry Birds came out in 2011. This game excels not only in gameplay mechanics but also in its overall presentation.

Now, to be clear, this still looks like an Adobe Flash game. Nevertheless, the game’s unpretentious nature, along with its no-less-than-endearing backstory, should be enough to warm some hearts and, dare I say, even jerk some tears!

The premise of the story is fairly straightforward:  A  girl misses her mom and wants her back for Christmas, so she writes a letter to Santa asking him to bring her mother back home. She then folds it into a paper plane (because, apparently, she couldn’t have a smartphone back then) and throws it off the window in the hopes that it will reach him sooner or later. The plane ends up flying across various continents, reaching various characters and triggering a plethora of funny scenes in its wake.

I’d have to say, I’m a bit surprised that this game didn’t succeed as much as it may have deserved. Notwithstanding, it’s still up and running after all these years. I was also very astonished to learn that it’s almost as old as Angry Birds, yet I somehow missed it when it was first released.