The game is overflowing with options and items, from themed toilet blocks to different varieties of trash cans, and that’s before you realise that in addition to loads of pre-designed buildings, the game also includes countless objects and textures to cobble together your own stuff.
Where the other game styles available are about fulfilling certain strict mission criteria, usually dabbling around the edges of someone else’s park design, sandbox drops you on an open plain and just lets you get to work.
The heart of Planet Coaster, the thing that’s going to define it in the months and years going forwards, is its sandbox mode. While this is a management game as far as back-of-the-box genre-labelling goes, being that it’s full of stuff like income, expenditure, staff rosters and bank loans, that stuff’s for nerds, along with anyone worrying their way through the game’s career and challenge modes, which despite occupying the same amount of space on Project Coaster’s main menu, are very much peripheral experiences. The second is that Planet Coaster knows that the real fun here is in building, not management. The aspirational theme song, which would normally drive me to murder in any other circumstance, brings a smile within the confines of this experience.Įven the menus are bright and breezy. Like TP and RT, Planet Coaster knows that this is a fun game about people having fun, and so joy is at the heart of everything here. What makes Planet Coaster so good, though, and what sets it apart from even those genre heavyweights, is its excellence in two areas. You build a theme park, you design some roller coasters, you hire janitors, you watch people puke. No twists, no bold new ideas, it’s simply a 2016 take on classics like Theme Park or Roller Coaster Tycoon.
Planet Coaster is a theme park management game.
It won’t unelect anyone, bring anyone back from the dead or uncook the planet, but it will, for brief shining moments of time, make you forget everything else except the fact you feel very, very good while playing it.
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