Best Video Games for flying mechanics

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Safest pick

Dragon Ball FighterZ

4.4 feature score

Balances feature score, supporting reviews, and overall product strength.

Most evidence

Doom: The Dark Ages

8 supporting reviews

Has the broadest review evidence for this feature.

Best overall product

Donkey Kong Bananza

4.3 overall score

Strongest overall product among items with scored evidence for this feature.

#1 Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
4.4
3 reviews

Gliding and aerial traversal are repeatedly highlighted as fun and easy to use, supporting both open-world travel and the Batman fantasy.

Pros: voice acting, performance optimization

Cons: multiplayer design, monetization fairness

#2 Dragon Ball FighterZ
4.4
1 review

Flying mechanics are part of the combat movement toolkit, with reviewers discussing homing flight and air movement as easy-to-trigger match options.

Pros: animation quality, frame rate stability

Cons: cross-play support, load times

#3 Donkey Kong Bananza
4.3
1 review

Flying mechanics are supported through Ostrich Bananza, which reviewers describe as a useful flight or glide-based transformation.

Pros: load times, movement feel

Cons: enemy variety, platforming precision

#4 Invincible VS
4.3
2 reviews

Flying and aerial mechanics are supported through hover, airborne attacks, and characters that can linger in the sky, giving aerial specialists meaningful spacing options.

Pros: world interactivity, visual effects quality

Cons: age appropriateness, family friendliness

#5 007 First Light
4.1
3 reviews

Aircraft interaction appears as a cinematic set-piece mechanic where Bond banks or tilts the plane to affect enemies and cargo.

Pros: soundtrack quality, atmosphere

Cons: AI behavior, camera behavior

#6 Mario Kart World Review
4.0
1 review

Flying and gliding mechanics are described as smoother and more natural, though not a dominant focus of most reviews.

Pros: load times, crash stability

Cons: narrative quality, value for money

#7 Crimson Desert
4.0
5 reviews

Flying, gliding, grappling, and aerial traversal are generally praised as exciting mobility tools, with some control caveats.

Pros: visual effects quality, soundtrack quality

Cons: stealth mechanics, save system reliability

#8 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
3.2
1 review

Reviewer evidence is mixed, with support including “chaining boost pads to stay airborne.”

Pros: crash stability, soundtrack quality

Cons: AI behavior, platform-specific feature support

#9 Doom: The Dark Ages
3.0
8 reviews

Dragon flight is the most mixed vehicle-related element, praised by a few for smooth controls but often criticized as shallow, rigid, or repetitive.

Pros: load times, originality

Cons: multiplayer design, co-op experience

#10 Split Fiction
2.8
1 review

Flying is exciting in some sections, but at least one reviewer found dragon flight floaty and less precise than other mechanics.

Pros: cross-play support, platforming precision

Cons: side character depth, matchmaking quality

#11 Elden Ring Nightreign
2.0
1 review

The flight/glide opening has limited agency, since the previewer noted players cannot control the landing point.

Pros: emotional impact, animation quality

Cons: cross-play support, flying mechanics