The Falconeer Deluxe Edition

The Falconeer Deluxe Edition is now represented on Steam by The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster, while GOG and Epic Games Store list the expanded package as The Falconeer: Warrior Edition. This third-person open-world air combat RPG puts PC players on the back of giant Warbirds above the flooded Great Ursee, combining aerial dogfights, exploration, faction-driven campaigns, side missions, and RPG-style mount upgrades.

Free-flight combat above the Great Ursee

The Falconeer is built around free-flying aerial combat rather than conventional aircraft simulation. You control a Falconeer riding a Warbird through an oceanic world filled with islands, settlements, naval vessels, storms, ruins, and hostile creatures. The camera stays behind the rider in a clear third-person perspective, giving you enough spatial awareness to manage fast turns, dives, attacks, and evasive maneuvers.

Movement is tied to a practical energy management system. Diving increases speed and builds energy, while rising consumes momentum. That energy can then power dashes and barrel rolls, making altitude and approach angle important parts of every dogfight. Updrafts provide another way to gain altitude and energy, so skilled pilots can chain dives, climbs, rolls, and attacks instead of flying in a flat circle around their target.

Weapon aiming uses a leading indicator that accounts for projectile travel and the target's movement. This makes deflection shooting central to combat: the best shot is often placed ahead of a moving enemy rather than directly on its current position. Lock-on assistance helps with alignment, but heavier weapons may use fixed firing arcs and demand more deliberate positioning.

Combat encounters include enemy War Falcons, Weaver dragons, Mantarays, Razorbeetles, pirates, airships, naval targets, and larger vessels with multiple vulnerable systems. Against capital ships, sub-target destruction can disable engines, reduce offensive power, or expose defensive weaknesses. Critical explosions may also damage nearby components, rewarding players who prioritize clustered targets.

Campaigns, factions, and progression

The story is divided into multiple campaigns that present the political conflict of the Ursee from different factional perspectives. Instead of following one uninterrupted hero, the game shifts between Falconeer characters and Warbirds as the wider struggle over technology, resources, trade, and power develops.

Campaign chapters can be approached with a degree of flexibility, while optional activities expand the world beyond critical objectives. Missions cover aerial attacks, defensive operations, deliveries, escorts, bounty work, exploration, and encounters with dangerous sea life. This structure gives the game a broader rhythm than a pure score-attack flight game, although the main repeatable activity remains flying into a location and completing a focused objective.

Your character and Warbird improve through experience levels, equipment purchases, mutagens, and chants. Mutagens alter important attributes such as speed, agility, health, and regeneration. Chants provide additional passive or situational effects, allowing players to shape a Warbird around survivability, mobility, resource collection, or offensive momentum.

Splinters function as the main currency for purchasing weapons, armor, cosmetics, and other improvements. Progression carries meaningful continuity between chapters: experience and inventory are retained, while a chapter's default bird may change and previously spent splinter value is refunded. The result is a campaign progression system that preserves long-term investment without forcing every chapter to use the same Warbird.

What the expanded editions include

The original PC Digital Deluxe Edition was the premium version of The Falconeer, associated with the game's soundtrack and guide. Storefront naming has since shifted. On Steam, the legacy product has become The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster, and the remaster includes the previous DLC rather than treating the old Deluxe branding as the main current edition.

Steam owners of the earlier game receive the remastered version as a free upgrade. The original edition remains available through a dedicated legacy branch for players who specifically want to revisit that version. New Steam buyers are directed toward the remaster, which is now the definitive PC presentation on that storefront.

The remaster adds overhauled environments, redesigned Warbirds, dynamic illumination, refined flight handling, rebalanced missions, expanded settlements, additional visual storytelling, new cosmetic armor sets, and expanded voice acting. The Edge of the World content is integrated into the base experience, alongside the earlier free Kraken-related content and underwater exploration activities.

GOG and Epic Games Store use the Warrior Edition name for the expanded package. The listed bundle includes the base game, the soundtrack, the game guide, Edge of the World, and The Hunter content. This naming difference matters for PC buyers searching for “The Falconeer Deluxe Edition,” because the same expanded product may now appear under a different edition title depending on the storefront.

PC features, controls, and storefront differences

The PC version supports keyboard and mouse as well as gamepad controls. The remaster specifically reworks the single control scheme to make mouse-and-keyboard flight more intuitive, while controller input remains a natural fit for players who prefer analog movement during turns, dives, and aerial attacks.

Steam lists Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing, and single-player support. GOG presents its edition as DRM-free, with no activation or online connection required to play. Epic Games Store uses the Epic launcher and requires an Epic account login for that storefront version.

The game is fundamentally a single-player experience. Storefront information does not identify campaign co-op, split-screen play, competitive multiplayer, or dedicated server tools. There is also no current storefront indication of mod support or a separate anti-cheat system.

Localization is broader than the full-audio selection. Interface and subtitle support includes English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese on the Steam listing. Full voice audio is available in English, French, and German, while the Epic listing confirms the same audio languages with the wider text selection.

Who The Falconeer suits best

The Falconeer is a strong fit for players who want arcade-style flight handling in an unusual fantasy setting rather than a cockpit simulator. Its appeal comes from the sensation of controlling a living Warbird, maintaining energy through dives, and entering combat from above before using rolls and dashes to escape retaliation.

It also suits players who enjoy atmospheric worlds with layered political fiction. The Great Ursee is not a conventional medieval fantasy map: it combines oceanic settlements, airships, ancient technology, naval power, rival clans, and strange creatures into a setting that feels closer to nautical science fiction than standard high fantasy.

Players seeking a tightly structured military campaign, realistic avionics, online dogfights, or deep sandbox simulation should look elsewhere. Exploration is open-ended, but the game remains mission-driven, and its long-term loop is built around campaign completion, equipment choices, side activities, and mastering aerial movement rather than managing a persistent online career.

Related PC flight experiences

For players who enjoy mission-based aerial combat but prefer historical aircraft, arcade combat flight collections such as Air Conflicts Collection offer a more grounded alternative with multiple campaigns and period warfare. The handling is less fantastical, while The Falconeer places greater emphasis on free movement, Warbird abilities, and open-world exploration.

Those looking for faster modern jet engagements can compare it with accessible arcade dogfighting in Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.. Both games value target awareness, maneuvering, and readable combat controls, but H.A.W.X. focuses on missile warfare and modern military scenarios rather than energy-driven bird flight.

Players interested in a more unusual three-dimensional aerial combat format may also consider high-speed flying mech battles like Project Nimbus. Its Battle Frames replace Warbirds and its tone is science fiction, yet both games share a preference for vertical combat spaces, rapid target switching, and mobility as the foundation of survival.

The Falconeer Deluxe Edition FAQ

What is the current name of The Falconeer Deluxe Edition on Steam?

Steam now lists the game as The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster. The remaster replaces the legacy edition for new buyers, while existing Steam owners receive it as a free upgrade. The original version remains accessible through a dedicated legacy branch.

Is The Falconeer Warrior Edition the same as the Deluxe Edition?

It is the expanded storefront package associated with the former Deluxe offering. GOG and Epic Games Store list the Warrior Edition with the base game, soundtrack, guide, Edge of the World content, and The Hunter content. Steam uses the Revolution Remaster name instead.

Does the PC version include DLC?

The current Steam remaster includes previous DLC content, with Edge of the World integrated into the main experience. The expanded GOG and Epic editions also list Edge of the World and The Hunter alongside the soundtrack and guide.

Does The Falconeer support multiplayer or co-op?

No. The current PC storefront listings identify The Falconeer as a single-player game. They do not list campaign co-op, split-screen multiplayer, or competitive online modes.

Can I play The Falconeer with a controller?

Yes. The PC version supports gamepad controls, and the game is designed around responsive movement, aerial aiming, dashes, and barrel rolls. Keyboard and mouse are also supported, with the remaster improving the desktop control scheme.

What is the actual gameplay structure?

The game combines multiple faction-based campaigns with side missions, open-world exploration, deliveries, escorts, aerial attacks, underwater activities, equipment purchases, and Warbird upgrades. It is not a roguelike or an online service; its replay value comes from exploring the Ursee, improving your build, and mastering its flight-and-combat systems.