Pick your faction. Fly contraband. Build a criminal empire one real MSFS flight at a time.
FS Kingpin launches in Early Access on Windows in June 2026 at $20 USD, rising to $25 USD at full 1.0 release. The game is fully playable today through closed beta and continually updated. Waitlist sign-ups receive the launch announcement first, with the buy link the day Early Access opens. One email at launch. No newsletter, no cross-promotion.
You start as a nobody. A pilot nobody trusts, flying the cheapest plane on the ramp for people who'd replace you tomorrow.
Then you climb. You buy your own aircraft. You recruit a crew. You build labs across continents, claim territory, and push rivals off the map, until you're the one giving orders.
Your faction sets your home airport, your starting country, and the order regions unlock as you level up. Pick once. You can't change it later unless you reset your career.
Price zones span every continent. Product is cheap where it's made. Luxury contraband peaks in the cities that can afford it. Cash is cheapest where it's being laundered. Weapons go for more the further from the factory you fly them. The market remembers.
Find the spike, fly the route, before somebody else does. Daily volatility keeps yesterday's winning route from being today's.
You don't just move product. You move it toward the right price.
Land anywhere and the game writes you new runs. Contracts scaled to your level, your unlocked regions, and your aircraft, from 20nm bush-strip hops up to 2,000nm intercontinental hauls.
You pick what's worth flying. If nothing is, land somewhere else and the board rewrites itself.
Some runs ship with optional rules attached. Hit the rule and you bank a sizeable XP bonus on top of the cash. Skip it and the mission is just a normal run. The cash never changes. You decide what you're up for.
Take off after local sunset at the origin and land before local sunrise at the destination. The destination always has at least one lit runway. Time of day is read from MSFS, so use the in-game time slider freely.
Fly the entire route under the AGL ceiling on the active mission banner. A 3-second grace lets you clip it on rising terrain, but a sustained climb above busts the bonus. Ceiling opens up as you level up: 1,200ft early career, 5,000ft late game.
Sustain 60 seconds in high wind, low visibility, or precipitation during cruise. Works with any weather source, live or preset. Calm flights simply skip the bonus, no penalty if the front breaks ahead of you.
Hire crew members to fly your contraband while you're not at the stick. Dispatch them on runs, let the payouts roll in, and keep your own schedule for the jobs that matter.
Lookouts cut heat. Accountants skim better margins. Lawyers bury evidence. A dozen roles, each with stacking bonuses you feel on every run.
Six classes from Light Single to Heavy Airliner. FS Kingpin reads whatever plane MSFS reports and slots it automatically (default, payware, freeware, all of it). Your existing hangar is already compatible.
Build labs at airports you control and start producing your own product, from street-tier compounds up to the high-margin stuff.
Use your crew to fly products to buyers.
The map isn't scenery. It's a battleground. Los Cuervos push from the north. La Sombra works in the shadows. Ndrangheta plays long. Each rival has its own territory, aggression, and reasons to come after you.
While you're off flying, rivals expand into airports you used to own. Turf wars get declared. Defend them or lose them.
You don't just build an empire by flying. You take it from somebody.
FS Kingpin runs beside Microsoft Flight Simulator as a standalone desktop app. It reads your flights, grades your landings, and stitches them into a 50-level criminal career. Fly the sim you already own. Everything else happens here.
Contracts regenerate from wherever you parked the aircraft. Distances scale with your level, from 20nm mule hops to 2,000nm international freight.
Street-tier product at the bottom. Weapons, exotic wildlife, counterfeit docs in the middle. Black-ops shipments where failure isn't an option. Each tier pays more, and punishes harder.
The Mule (L1–5). The Hustler (L6–15). The Kingpin (L16–50). Debt clears around level 4, the map opens from Colombia outward to every continent, and the handler's tone changes as you become the problem.
Five price zones span the globe. Buy cheap at the source, sell high wherever the price is better. Hot markets spike payouts by 1.5×. Daily volatility keeps yesterday's winning route from being today's.
Recruit soldiers, lieutenants, lookouts, accountants, lawyers, and regional bosses. Each role grants a stacking bonus. Loyalty drifts. Informants happen. Manage accordingly.
Los Cuervos, Cartel del Golfo, La Sombra, Los Diablos, Ndrangheta. They expand, contest airports, and hit your turf whether you're playing or not. Defend your territory, or lose it.
Build labs at any airport you control. Production runs on a real-time tick and catches up when you launch FS Kingpin. Your empire runs while you sleep.
SimConnect reads your flight in real time, grading every landing and stitching every flight into a working contraband economy. Your save data, aircraft, and settings stay untouched.
FS Kingpin is a small Windows companion app that runs alongside MSFS 2024. If your PC already runs MSFS comfortably, FS Kingpin will run alongside it without breaking a sweat.
From street-corner hauls to stolen Picassos. Each tier pays more, and punishes harder. A small sample of what you'll be moving:
FS Kingpin runs as its own Windows app alongside MSFS. It doesn't ask for your Microsoft account, doesn't change your save data, aircraft, or settings, and saves everything locally.
Windows installer. Under 200MB. Nothing touches your MSFS install.
Launch MSFS 2024 in any mode. FS Kingpin finds it via SimConnect automatically.
Pick a tutorial mission. Land within 3nm of destination. Collect the payout. Repeat.
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FS Kingpin launches in Early Access on Windows in June 2026 at $20 USD, rising to $25 USD at full 1.0 release. Drop your email and we'll send a single message the day Early Access opens, with the buy link. No newsletter. No cross-promotion.
A standalone Windows desktop app that runs alongside Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. It adds a cartel career mode (missions, progression, contraband, economy, rivals, an organization to manage) on top of whatever you were already doing in the sim.
MSFS 2024. We're building against the 2024 SimConnect SDK. A 2020 version may come later.
Mostly no. The main FS Kingpin app is a separate Windows program that reads telemetry from MSFS via SimConnect. It doesn't change your save data, your existing aircraft, or your settings. The one exception is a small companion package that drops into your MSFS Community folder for an in-cockpit EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) tablet. You can remove it any time, and the rest of MSFS stays untouched. More EFB features coming in future updates.
No. The airport database and all game logic are bundled into FS Kingpin and stored locally in SQLite. Plays offline once installed, no telemetry reporting, no always-online requirement.
Yes. FS Kingpin detects whatever aircraft MSFS reports and maps it to one of six classes (Light Single → Heavy Airliner). Custom mappings are supported if the auto-detect gets it wrong.
Your faction is the crew you start with. There are four: Los Halcones (cartel, Bogotá), the Marchetti Family (mob, Palermo), the Adamson Firm (firm, London), and Kuroda-Gumi (yakuza, Tokyo). It sets your home country, your starting airport, and the order in which regions unlock as you level up. You pick once at the beginning. You can't change it later unless you reset your career.
Depends on your faction. Los Halcones starts in Bogotá, the Marchetti Family in Palermo, the Adamson Firm in London, and Kuroda-Gumi in Tokyo. Your home region opens up first, then the world unlocks progressively from there until, by the late game, any airport in MSFS is fair game. Fly wherever you want once the region is unlocked. (See the next question if you'd rather not wait.)
Yes. The default progression gates regions to your level, so the world opens up as you climb. But if you'd rather fly wherever you want from day one, say you only care about Europe, or you want to start your career in Asia, FS Kingpin's settings let you unlock regions and other progression gates ahead of schedule. The default is there for the career arc. The toggles are there if you'd rather not earn it.
Early Access opens in June 2026 on Windows at $20 USD, rising to $25 USD at full 1.0 release. One-time purchase, includes every update through 1.0 at no extra cost, so buying during Early Access locks in the lower price for life. Waitlist sign-ups get the launch announcement first.
The game is playable end to end today in closed beta. Every system in the design (50 levels, 47 commodities, factions, rivals, crew, labs, economy) is in. When Early Access opens in June 2026 you can buy and play immediately. We'll keep polishing, adding content, and reacting to player feedback right through to 1.0. Early Access buyers get every update through full 1.0 release at no additional cost.
Existing beta testers stay in the beta until Early Access launches. The closed beta keeps running. Watch the FS Kingpin Discord for the upgrade-path announcement closer to launch.
Solo developer based in Norway, MSFS pilot. FS Kingpin started because the career mode I wanted in MSFS 2024 didn't exist. Buying Early Access supports a one-person studio directly.
FS Kingpin is digital content delivered by immediate download. Before download: full refund within 14 days, no reason required. After download: case-by-case where you've experienced genuine issues, and your statutory rights for defective products are always unaffected. Refunds are processed by Paddle. Full details on the refund policy page.
Auto-updates inside the app. Launch FS Kingpin, the new build downloads in the background and applies on next quit. Public release notes live at /changelog.
No. FS Kingpin is an independent third-party add-on. Microsoft Flight Simulator and Asobo Studio are trademarks of their respective owners.