IL-2 Series 2026 Roadmap Revealed, Including Korea DLC and Ongoing Great Battles Support
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2026 9:07 pm
IL-2 Series 2026 Roadmap Revealed, Including Korea DLC and Ongoing Great Battles Support
Korea. IL-2 Series, which is now live on Steam, is getting major DLC before the year ends.
March 3, 2026 — 1C Game Studios has presented their 2026 roadmap, teasing the post-launch support for Korea. IL-2 series and also sharing the surprise reveal of ongoing support for the Great Battles series. The year’s key event will be the launch of Korea, ushering in the next generation for flight combat simulators, as well as the reveal that the first DLC for Korea is scheduled for the end of the year.
Daniil Tuseev, producer of IL-2 series:
“I am confident that 2026 will be remembered by the community as a very eventful year and a landmark one. We are working on two big releases: Korea, a next-generation flight simulator, as well as a DLC for it. At the same time, the team continues to develop IL-2: Great Battles series, which is dedicated to the Second World War. At the end of 2026, we are planning to release one of the most anticipated DLCs, which will give our fans an opportunity to fly bombers.”
Where we're going, we may not need roads... but we still appreciate a roadmap.
The Steam page is live now (link), giving users a chance to look at the game’s main features and add the title to their wishlists. Pre-orders, which will include early access to the game, are available only on the IL-2 series’ official website. Korea. IL-2 Series will launch at $99.99 on full release, and 1C has established a dynamic discount to reward early adopters: the current preorder price is discounted to $79.99 and increases to $89.99 at Early Access launch. The Founders Edition ($139.99) includes all preorder content plus Year 1 DLC access, featuring five additional aircraft and new gameplay features to be revealed in the future.
Korea. IL-2 Series is a generational leap that honors the dramatic transition from propeller-driven aircraft to jet fighters in the 1950s. Built on an entirely new engine featuring enhanced damage and flight modeling, Korea delivers incredible immersion while maintaining the franchise's signature balance of authentic simulation and accessibility.
Eight meticulously recreated player-controllable aircraft will form the core of Korea’s roster, each constructed from real schematics, historical photographs, pilot manuals, and museum documentation. Every gauge functions. Every gunsight operates as it did in the hands of the pilots who flew them.
Flyable Aircraft:
F-86A-5 Sabre
MiG-15bis
F-51D Mustang
IL-10
Yak-9P
F-80C-10 Shooting Star
La-11
F-84E Thunderjet
Korea's obsessive attention to detail extends far beyond the aircraft themselves. Dozens of AI-controlled planes — including B-29 bombers — vehicles, trains, and ships populate the battlefield with an exceedingly high level of detail, rarely achieved in flight combat simulation titles today.
Players will pilot these legendary aircraft across a 75,000+ square mile/200,000 square km) map, the largest in the IL-2 franchise’s history. It is not a modern Korea, either — the team at 1C Game Studios referenced historical maps and documents to painstakingly reconstruct the landscape as it existed in the early 1950s, even accounting for dramatic changes like filled straits and altered coastlines that transformed the region over seven decades.
For more information and to preorder Korea. IL2 Series, visit il2-korea.com. Keep up with news by joining the Discord channel or following the official Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook channels.
About 1C Game Studios
1C Game Studios is a development and publishing studio founded in December 2012. In 10 years, its staff grew from 20 to 240 people. In 2014, 1CGS's first project, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, was released. Almost ten years later, more than 30 expansions and modules have been released in the IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles franchise.
In January 2015, the studio began developing Caliber, an online tactical shooter. In December 2019, open beta testing was launched. Caliber was officially released in December 2024. In 2025 1CGS released Deathless. The Hero Quest, a roguelite deckbuilder based on the universe created by the well-known illustrator and writer Roman Papsuev. 1CGS is currently working on Korea. IL-2 Series, anticipated to release into Early Access and 1.0 in 2026.
For more information about 1C Game Studios, visit https://1cgs.net/en.
Korea. IL-2 Series, which is now live on Steam, is getting major DLC before the year ends.
March 3, 2026 — 1C Game Studios has presented their 2026 roadmap, teasing the post-launch support for Korea. IL-2 series and also sharing the surprise reveal of ongoing support for the Great Battles series. The year’s key event will be the launch of Korea, ushering in the next generation for flight combat simulators, as well as the reveal that the first DLC for Korea is scheduled for the end of the year.
Daniil Tuseev, producer of IL-2 series:
“I am confident that 2026 will be remembered by the community as a very eventful year and a landmark one. We are working on two big releases: Korea, a next-generation flight simulator, as well as a DLC for it. At the same time, the team continues to develop IL-2: Great Battles series, which is dedicated to the Second World War. At the end of 2026, we are planning to release one of the most anticipated DLCs, which will give our fans an opportunity to fly bombers.”
Where we're going, we may not need roads... but we still appreciate a roadmap.
The Steam page is live now (link), giving users a chance to look at the game’s main features and add the title to their wishlists. Pre-orders, which will include early access to the game, are available only on the IL-2 series’ official website. Korea. IL-2 Series will launch at $99.99 on full release, and 1C has established a dynamic discount to reward early adopters: the current preorder price is discounted to $79.99 and increases to $89.99 at Early Access launch. The Founders Edition ($139.99) includes all preorder content plus Year 1 DLC access, featuring five additional aircraft and new gameplay features to be revealed in the future.
Korea. IL-2 Series is a generational leap that honors the dramatic transition from propeller-driven aircraft to jet fighters in the 1950s. Built on an entirely new engine featuring enhanced damage and flight modeling, Korea delivers incredible immersion while maintaining the franchise's signature balance of authentic simulation and accessibility.
Eight meticulously recreated player-controllable aircraft will form the core of Korea’s roster, each constructed from real schematics, historical photographs, pilot manuals, and museum documentation. Every gauge functions. Every gunsight operates as it did in the hands of the pilots who flew them.
Flyable Aircraft:
F-86A-5 Sabre
MiG-15bis
F-51D Mustang
IL-10
Yak-9P
F-80C-10 Shooting Star
La-11
F-84E Thunderjet
Korea's obsessive attention to detail extends far beyond the aircraft themselves. Dozens of AI-controlled planes — including B-29 bombers — vehicles, trains, and ships populate the battlefield with an exceedingly high level of detail, rarely achieved in flight combat simulation titles today.
Players will pilot these legendary aircraft across a 75,000+ square mile/200,000 square km) map, the largest in the IL-2 franchise’s history. It is not a modern Korea, either — the team at 1C Game Studios referenced historical maps and documents to painstakingly reconstruct the landscape as it existed in the early 1950s, even accounting for dramatic changes like filled straits and altered coastlines that transformed the region over seven decades.
For more information and to preorder Korea. IL2 Series, visit il2-korea.com. Keep up with news by joining the Discord channel or following the official Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook channels.
About 1C Game Studios
1C Game Studios is a development and publishing studio founded in December 2012. In 10 years, its staff grew from 20 to 240 people. In 2014, 1CGS's first project, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, was released. Almost ten years later, more than 30 expansions and modules have been released in the IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles franchise.
In January 2015, the studio began developing Caliber, an online tactical shooter. In December 2019, open beta testing was launched. Caliber was officially released in December 2024. In 2025 1CGS released Deathless. The Hero Quest, a roguelite deckbuilder based on the universe created by the well-known illustrator and writer Roman Papsuev. 1CGS is currently working on Korea. IL-2 Series, anticipated to release into Early Access and 1.0 in 2026.
For more information about 1C Game Studios, visit https://1cgs.net/en.