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.

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