1C Game Studios announces the release date of Korea. IL-2 Series — August 4, 2026. The Early Access contents has also been unveiled. Starting June 25, 2026, all customers who have placed a pre-order will receive access to the pre-release version. Pre-orders are available on the project’s official website until the full release.
What will be available at the start of Early Access:
- Museum. Players will be able to explore aircraft and other in-game objects, learn about their history and characteristics, view cockpit equipment diagrams, aircraft variants, paint schemes, piloting tips, animations, sounds, and use quick “FLY NOW” access with a selected aircraft.
- Single Missions. A selected set of story missions with briefings will be available, based on existing game content and pre-configured scenarios involving in-game AI.
- Mission Planner. The Mission Planner will include three basic mission types at the start of Early Access: Free Flight, Duel, and Dogfight.
- Multiplayer. Multiplayer will be available with a large Team Death Match mission and several official 24/7 servers with different difficulty settings. Players will also be able to host their own Dogfight and Cooperative servers directly from the game, or use the dedicated server application.
- Settings and Controls. We are preparing a more accessible setup experience, including detailed explanations for game options, a device mapping wizard for unrecognized controllers, and more than 70 control mapping templates with layout diagrams for different devices.
- Graphics and Performance Options. Supported technologies will include FSR, DLSS, OpenVR, OpenXR, Indirect Ray Tracing lighting, and other available options.
During Early Access, the team will continue improving, expanding, and polishing the game based on the development plan and the feedback received from the community.
The first playable version of game will be available for exclusive hands-on at the Pimax booth #716 during FlightSimExpo 2026, taking place on June 12–14 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre in Saint Paul, MN, USA.
Korea is a next-generation game of the IL-2 series. It is created on a new engine featuring updated damage and flight modeling.
Players will be able to fly eight aircraft of that era. They were recreated in great detail using real blueprints, photographs, and documents:
★ MiG-15bis
★ IL-10
★ Yak-9P
★ La-11
★ F-86A-5 Sabre
★ F-51D Mustang
★ F-80C-10 Shooting Star
★ F-84E Thunderjet
Apart from player-controllable aircraft, there are dozens of machines on the battlefield and in the air, such as B-29 bombers, as well as meticulously recreated ground vehicles, trains, and ships.
The action takes place on the largest map in the series’ history: more than 200,000 square kilometers. It is not a modern Korea but a region from the early 1950s that was reconstructed using historical documents. On the map, there are dozens of airbases with accurate layouts, hundreds of settlements, as well as ports and dams: all these places are connected by an extensive transport network.
