I would be careful using a PC flight sim to train for the PPL. It's just different enough that it might cause negative learning.

Those devices can be useful for instrument training, for practicing IFR procedures in IMC conditions by reference solely to instruments.

But for maneuvers and landings, it's just too different from the seat-of-the-pants and visual references in the real airplane. Simulators that provide that kind of fidelity cost millions, and they still are not quite realistic.