Elsewhere
A flight simulator for places that don't exist.
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Elsewhere is a calm, open-ended flight experience for exploring places that don’t exist. Fly a bush plane or light jet through endless procedural mountains, islands, coastlines, clouds, weather, and changing light. No missions, scores, or marked destinations - just follow your curiosity.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views
Niche: simulation games · 118 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Adventure Games
- Developer Tools
- 3D Modeling
- OpenAI Day
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Could you build this?
No Creating an open-ended flight simulator with procedural infinite terrain, fluid aerodynamics, volumetric clouds, and dynamic lighting requires specialized graphics and physics engine programming.
What it would actually take: This needs a custom engine in C++ or advanced Unreal Engine/Unity setups with custom HLSL/GLSL compute shaders for infinite procedural terrain generation (marching cubes or clipmaps), continuous LOD management, volumetric atmospheric raymarching, and blade-element theory aerodynamics physics. It requires seasoned graphics and simulation engine developers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 154 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
- I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger · hn · 2026-09-14 · 441 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- flight-simulator-2024-setup-guide · github · 2026-10-31 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Overhead Flights · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Underplane · ph · 2026-10-10 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Flight Routes · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- nonstopflightsfrom.com · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Travel Geo Map Explorer · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Deep Flight · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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