Planet Coaster

Its fun to do especailly if you're forced to stay home.

I have no one to blame but myself for getting my hopes up; but, this is definitely not Roller Coaster Tycoon, it's not even really a "tycoon" game.
The store page quite clearly states this is a simulation, and simulation it is. You build a theme park and simulate some rides, but it's very much the sandbox without the game portion. Yes there is endless, potentially 100's of hours of messing around and building things just to watch it all flow like a fishbowl in front of you.
I can't slam the game for successfully doing what it claims to do, this is a very in depth and dare I say amazing simulation of a theme park. Unfortunately for me I was looking for more of a tycoon/management game so I'm a little disappointed; but that's not the games fault.
So, if you want a theme park simulation that let's you build roller coasters, I don't know of any that I could recommend that are better than this. But it is very much a simulation/builder.
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I waste hundreds of hours on this game. So entertaining. Would recomend for anyone looking so somethimg fun.

---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
llll Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe
---{Gameplay}---
llll Very good
☐ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t
---{Audio}---
llll Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape
---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
llll Teens
llll Adults
☐ Human
☐ Lizards
---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
llll Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press ‚A‘
☐ Easy
llll Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{Grind}---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
llll Isnt necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding
---{Story}---
☐ Story?
☐ Text or Audio floating around
llll Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life
---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
llll To infinity and beyond
---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
llll Worth the price
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
llll Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

I've been playing this game non-stop for over two years now. I have always loved RCT and have been playing all the roller coaster tycoon games since the first one came out in 1999. While there are some aspects that can't be replicated from the "classic" games, this is the truest form of a sequel I could have ever imagined or asked for, and I feel so blessed to be apart of watching the game grow as it has. Writing this in 2020, I know most of Frontier's focus is in Planet Zoo right now, but the game has so much room to grow and I am excited for the future of Planet Coaster.

---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{Gameplay}---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☑ All
---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
--{Grind}---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isnt necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding
---{Story}---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life
---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{?/10}---
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☐2
☐3
☐4
☐5
☐6
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☐10

If you are trying to decide between this and Parkitect, be aware that they are two entirely different games with only a few similarities. Both are sims set in amusement park worlds and both use the Workshop to greatly enhance the play experience (although Planet Coaster goes well beyond that, which I talk about below). That's pretty much all that's shared between these two games which seem, on the surface, to be virtually identical. I play both of them and prefer Planet Coaster, although I have nearly 120 hours played in Parkitect as well (at time of update). Parkitect is a much more streamlined and slimmed down simulation and management game, whereas Planet Coaster is something that can go as far and deep as you want. PlanCo also runs on a powerful engine, so it looks amazing, but you will need to have at least a relatively modern GPU/PC that can handle the latest shaders and Direct X extensions and features. Planet Coaster goes big in the graphics department as well as the customization department, including a ridiculously huge Steam Workshop with nearly a quarter million blueprints available as I write this, but Frontier went even further than that...
As I mentioned before, PlanCo also offers the completely free Theme Maker's Toolkit, which allows you to import 3D objects that you download or create directly into the game and become usable game assets in the game library (as well as being a shareable blueprint for the Workshop), all automatically done by PlanCo's web app. Yes, you can literally create anything you want in this game as long as it meets some size and scope requirements. That is the End Game of micro-management sims, in my opinion. However, it does take time and skill to create objects with Blender (free) and GIMP (free), but there are millions of free, compatible and completely ready-to-submit object renders out there, free to download. Not everyone has the time or desire to learn 3D object modeling for a Steam game, but someone out there has probably already made whatever it is you are thinking of (free or otherwise).
If you want to go down the rabbit hole of amusement park creation and simulation and want Challenge modes, Career modes, and micro-customization abilities in even a normal Sandbox environment, this is the game you want. If you don't want to spend so much time learning a game and handling the tiny details, but want to run an amusement park, look into Parkitect.