

This all starts with the game’s coaster building, which has moved from the genre’s traditional grid-based structuring to a more freeform style of design. You build coasters, rides and themes, but in Planet Coaster everything is just a bit more in-depth, even more than you’d probably expect. What’ll get you started is pretty much what you’d expect if you’re coming back from either Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 or 3. Whether it’s in the game’s sandbox mode or during the game’s campaign, the penultimate goal remains the same.

The core of Planet Coaster is exactly as you’d expect: build a park to your liking, attract visitors and gain a profit.
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Having played around with all of the Alpha and Beta phases, and ultimately with the game’s full release, I’ve got a lot to say about the game, so I’ll try to cover most of it. Creating more open-ended and deep design and management mechanics, there’s a lot to explore under the hood of Planet Coaster. Coming out of its Alpha and releasing alongside Atari’s Rollercoaster Tycoon World is the spiritual successor to the franchise: Planet Coaster.ĭeveloped by Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and Elite Dangerous developer Frontier Developments, Planet Coaster is arguably aimed at a wide audience, ranging from casual players to advanced builders, who have gained quite the following in the communities of the genre in the past decade. With the Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise on hiatus and no competitors players relied on the active userbase that the older games brought with them, but this month the genre is in for a huge revival. For fans of the theme park simulation genre, it’s been painfully apparent that a few years the genre found itself in a state of hibernation.
