Planet Coaster

Finally, a new amusement park tycoon king appeared. Playability is a brilliant game that lets you try every corner of your imagination. [Issue#277]

This is a game focused on the positivity that amusement parks can bring, one that fosters even the smallest spark of imagination and creativity. Planet Coaster's scenario-based maps are a delightful challenge, the included assets are full of character, and its Steam Workshop community is a stupefying bounty of creative talent and inexhaustible content. It's a game that occupies your thoughts when you're not playing it, and it's thoroughly captivating when you are.

Frontier have created one of the best games in the genre, and judging by their support of Elite Dangerous post-launch, it seems that there’s still more to come from the developers.

Although Planet Coaster belongs to a niche genre, it is a well-crafted product that we hope will keep being polished. Despite imperfections that certainly affect the experience, its achievements and potential are worthy of admiration and it is a game worth playing.

Planet Coaster doesn’t invent the rollercoaster wheel, but it does deliver a polished, deep experience, and it gives you every tool you could possibly need to make the magical ride of your dreams.

Planet Coaster has been great to play. It’s been too long since there was a decent theme park sim and I think Frontier has nailed it. The only criticism I have is that it’s quite hard to fail at making a working park, even in hard mode, and hardcore sim fans may find the finance management a little lacking. That doesn’t take away from the enjoyment of creating park though, and difficulty is almost secondary here. Once you’ve played it for a while you just want to be creative.

You’ll rarely face a situation where you have an idea that the game wouldn’t let you expand on. Planet Coaster is just the most complete theme-park simulation game available.

Best simulation game ever. I hope Planco 2 will be released soon! There is so much potential for these types of games. I think a lot of fans can't wait.

Coasters - 1/2 Managment - 2/2 Customization - 1/2 Ease of use - 2/2 Price - 1/2 Overall - 7/10 Planet Coaster 2 got 6/10

really good sim game that could have more content like waterparks and shtuff, but otherwise great

This game is alright and the visuals are stunning, but I don’t play anymore because I gave up trying to move my mouse around the park. It’s way too hard to play this game on a computer and they should make an touch-screen version, like rct3.

Not optimized. My computer is pretty solid and has never has given me trouble on any games (i5, 16GB RAM 750Ti) Once my park got to a medium size I couldn't get over 5 FPS on the LOWEST settings. If you don't have a $1,000+ rig then dont bother with this game. Hope they can find a way to optimize it better.