Planet Coaster

I hate how realistic this game is. I put trash cans every 5 inches, and I still find trash right next to them. I hate my guests.

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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☐ You forget what reality is
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☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe
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llll Very good
☐ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t
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llll Eargasm
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☐ Earrape
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☐ Check if you can run paint
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☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
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☐ Just press ‚A‘
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llll Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
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☐ Dark Souls
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☐ 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
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☐ Story?
☐ Text or Audio floating around
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☐ Good
☐ Lovely
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☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
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☐ If u have some spare money left
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☐ You could also just burn your money
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☐ Never heard of
llll Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
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☐ Good
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☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
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☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
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☐ Adults
☑ All
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☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
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☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
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☐ Just press 'W'
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☐ Dark Souls
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☐ Too much grind
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☐ Good
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☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
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☐ Never heard of
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☐ Can get annoying
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Closest we are getting to any theme park this year.

On one hand i absolutely adore this game. It's almost everything i & others wanted in a theme park builder after having to wait so long after RCT3 & avoiding the rubbish from that other company. It's gorgeous, full of content, can be challenging if you choose, full of nice details to create a realistic park etc.
However i can't not mention it's glaring faults;
1. They made the totally wrong decision to build on DX11 & not DX12. They've said themselves that's the reason for the poor performance once the park gets a little bigger & with more guests. It's so frustrating to have a game this good but unable to do anything decent with it. No matter what your specs. It's bottle-necked due to DX11 & the way it uses the CPU.
2. The management aspect isn't on the level it should be for a game like this. It needed more depth. Something they corrected mostly with Planet Zoo.
3. Due to the performance limitations (i think), the campaign parks they built all feel underwhelming, sparse & unrealistic.
4. Not as important but the water tech used could've been better (DX11 performance limitation decisions i imagine). It's better then nothing but it's not dynamic or fluid. Doesn't react to anything unless it's baked in. It would've been nice to use the great terrain tools to create realistic waterfalls/flowing rivers etc.
Don't get me wrong, i love this game. But every time i go back to it, i feel a little disappointed & frustrated knowing it could've easily been far better then it is.
I'm not holding my breath but i truly hope they make a second one sometime & correct these issue's. What a game that would be.

it's fun u can kill people