VIPER 11 is a fighter jet game made by one person, and it runs in your browser. You fly from the cockpit, through a lens that makes it look like footage from a camera strapped in the jet, and everything you need is one click away: the takeoff, the fight, the landing.
- F-16CViper
- F-35CLightning II
- F/A-18ESuper Hornet
Three jets
The F-16C Viper is the agile one, the jet the game started with. The F-35C is the Navy’s stealth fighter, heavier and steadier. The F/A-18E Super Hornet is the carrier workhorse with folding wings. Each has its own cockpit, its own numbers (weights, thrust, rotation speeds) and its own feel in the turn.
Things to do
- Missions. A 12-mission campaign: intercepts, a night strike, flying low through SAM rings, a four-ship furball, defending a carrier, stopping a bomber stream, and a last fight with one missile left.
- Dogfights. One against one with an AI pilot at three skill levels, from a head-on merge, from behind or with one on your six. Guns, AIM-9X missiles and flares. See online dogfights.
- Multiplayer. A shared sky with everyone else flying, private rooms for friends, and 1v1 ranked fights with seasons and rewards.
- The carrier. A catapult launch off an aircraft carrier at sea. See the carrier.
- The night strike. Find a truck through an infrared targeting pod, lase it and drop a laser-guided bomb.
Fun first, real underneath
The flight model is a real six-degree-of-freedom simulation with the F-16’s fly-by-wire control laws, so the jets climb, turn and bleed speed like jets. But it’s a game. You don’t need to know a checklist to take off, and in a free dogfight your missiles, rounds and flares reload as you fight. A crash ends in a fireball you can watch, and you can pull the ejection handle on the way down.
Rewards
Every mission pays XP, badges and credits the first time you clear it, with more for each star. Credits unlock paint schemes for your jets. Ranked seasons give Gold, Emerald, Master and Marshal players their own skins and badges.
Plays anywhere
It runs in Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox on a computer, and on phones and tablets with touch controls. Keyboard and mouse work out of the box. Xbox and PlayStation pads show their own button glyphs and rumble, and a flight stick and throttle plug straight in.