From Press Release:
December 12th, 2025 — 1C Game Studios presents the first gameplay reveal of the coming Korea. IL2 Series combat flight sim. The video shows in-game footage of the new in-game Museum mode and actual gameplay on the MiG-15 attack on the B-29 bombing force during the Korean War in 1951.
Korea is a generational leap that honors the dramatic transition from propeller-driver aircraft to jet fighters in the 1950s, featuring the largest map in IL-2 Series history and eight meticulously detailed and designed in-game recreations of historic aircraft. Built on an entirely new engine featuring enhanced damage and flight modeling, Korea delivers incredible immersion while maintaining the franchise’s signature balance of authentic simulation and accessibility. The game is scheduled for release in Q2 2026 with Early Access starting in Spring 2026. Exclusive preorder that includes Early Access feature is available at il2-korea.com.
Korea. IL-2 Series will launch at $99.99 on full release and 1C has established a dynamic discount to reward early adopters: the current preorder price is discounted to $79.99 and increases to $89.99 at Early Access launch. The Founders Edition ($139.99) includes all preorder content plus Year 1 DLC access, featuring five additional aircraft and new gameplay features to be revealed in the future.
Eight meticulously recreated player-controllable aircraft will form the core of Korea. IL-2’s roster, each constructed from real schematics, historical photographs, pilot manuals, and museum documentation. Every gauge functions. Every gunsight operates as it did in the hands of the pilots who flew them.
Flyable Aircraft:
- F-86A-5 Sabre
- MiG-15bis
- F-51D Mustang
- IL-10
- Yak-9P
- F-80C-10 Shooting Star
- La-11
- F-84E Thunderjet
Korea. IL-2‘s obsessive attention to detail extends far beyond the aircraft themselves. Dozens of AI-controlled planes — including B-29 bombers — vehicles, trains, and ships populate the battlefield with an exceedingly high level of detail, rarely achieved in flight combat simulation titles today.
Players will pilot these legendary aircraft across a 75,000+ square mile/200,000 square km) map, the largest in the IL-2 franchise’s history. It is not a modern Korea, either — the team at 1C Game Studios referenced historical maps and documents to painstakingly reconstruct the landscape as it existed in the early 1950s, even accounting for dramatic changes like filled straits and altered coastlines that transformed the region over seven decades.
Additional Features:
- New Museum Mode: Offers players a personal hangar where they can examine every rivet, explore cockpits, manipulate controls, and dive deep into the development history and combat record of each aircraft.
- Commander Career Mode: Places players in the role of squadron commander at a historically authentic airbase, managing personnel and materiel while reading actual news from the period. Lead flights into combat when the moment calls for it, or focus on the strategic challenges of keeping your unit operational during one of the 20th century’s most intense conflicts.
- Accessibility: Korea maintains the IL-2 franchise’s philosophy — real pilot procedures are available for those who want them, but you won’t need to memorize engine startup sequences to experience the thrill of jet combat.
- Supported Hardware: Gamepads, Desktop flight sticks, High-end HOTAS systems, Full VR support via OpenXR and OpenVR
- Dozens of historically accurate airbases
- Hundreds of cities and townscapes, vistas with period-accurate layouts, including details like seaports and dams
- Extensive transport networks including roads and rail lines
- Terrain reconstructed from 1950s maps, not modern geography
For more information and to preorder Korea. IL2 Series, visit il2-korea.com. Keep up with news by joining the Discord channel or following the official Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook channels.
