IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Il-2 1946 includes all of the original IL-2 series content: IL-2 Sturmovik™: Forgotten Battles, Ace Expansion Pack, Pacific Fighters™ and alternate histry campaigns of year 1946. What was years ago began as a one-aircraft study sim is now an astonishing anthology, with a whopping 229 flyable aircraft and over 300 aircraft total!
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About IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
The game has been updated to the latest version 4.12.2. This community made update includes widescreen support with correct FOV, many new planes, maps and scenarios.
- New Aircraft: 32 new flyable fighters and bombers, and four new AI aircraft!
- New Maps: Large new historical maps of the Kiev region; a map of Manchuria focusing on a border region between USSR, China and Japanese-occupied Korea; a large bonus Burma map; and an online Khalkin Gol / Nomonhan map.
- New Campaigns: Nine new campaigns with nearly 200 missions add incredible realism and attention to detail. There are detailed careers for fighter and bomber pilots, for the German, Soviet, and Japanese air forces, offering such varied objectives as flying jet bombers over occupied Europe, to intercepting American B-29 Super fortresses over Iwo Jima and Japanese home islands!
- Alternate History: Three of the nine campaigns are a departure into alternate history, focusing on hypothetical battles between the Soviet Union and Germany in the year 1946, while WWII still rages on.
- Nearly 1,000 new Paint schemes: The new planes, as well as many of the other ones in the series, come with a host of historical paint schemes, showing many of the individual aircraft or squadrons that served in WWII.
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IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 price history
Lowest tracked price: £1.17 (Jul 15, 2026) · current best: £1.36 across 8 stores.
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 player count & reviews
87% positive reviews all-time · 42 peak players in the last 30 days.
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 — frequently asked questions
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IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 peaked at 42 concurrent players on Steam in the last 30 days (highest on Jul 12, 2026). The player chart on this page updates daily.
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System requirements
Minimum
- OS *: Windows® XP/2000 (only)
- Processor: Pentium® III or AMD Athlon™ 1 GHz (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz recommended)
- Memory: 512 MB (1 GB recommended)
- Graphics: DirectX® 9 compliant with 64 MB RAM (128 recommended)(see supported list*)
- DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 or higher
- Sound: DirectX 9 compliant
- Hard Drive: 1.1+ GB
- Multiplay: Broadband Internet connection
- * Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: ATI® Radeon™ 7000/8000/9000/X families, NVIDIA® GeForce™ 256/2/3/4/FX/6 families, Matrox Parhelia™, Intel® GMA 925X/915P/915G chipsets
- (Laptop models of these cards not fully supported.)
These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. Additional chipsets may be supported after release. For an up-to-date list of supported chipsets, please visit the FAQ for this game on our support website at:
