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Planet Coaster for PC is an amusement park construction and management simulation game which is the spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 About the Game The graphics style is charmingly cartoonish which adds to the fun, and the 3D gameplay is great for when you test out your own, newly created, rollercoaster rides. But do not let the cheerful and childlike animations fool you: the spreadsheets on the management side are tight, well-plotted and concise, allowing you to see exactly whe...

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Developer:

Frontier Developments, Aspyr (Mac),

Publisher:

Frontier Developments, Aspyr (Mac),

Release date:

16 November 2016

Genre:

Action, Adventure, Simulation, Strategy,

Recent Steam reviews:

Very positive (260)

All Steam reviews:

Very positive (57376)

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Description

Planet Coaster for PC is an amusement park construction and management simulation game which is the spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

About the Game

The graphics style is charmingly cartoonish which adds to the fun, and the 3D gameplay is great for when you test out your own, newly created, rollercoaster rides. But do not let the cheerful and childlike animations fool you: the spreadsheets on the management side are tight, well-plotted and concise, allowing you to see exactly where your money is going and, more importantly, where it is coming from so you can make even more!

Within the game you have a lot of control, even in the more challenging modes when resources are restricted. You can even pick the font that is used on your park signs, so you really can plan out and place your amusement park exactly the way you want it.

Manage Everything!

The management part of the game is fairly intense and while it starts out easy – paying one mechanic and one janitor to fix one ride and clean the small park is a doddle. When you have so many employees that you start to lose track of them all, then it becomes a little more hair-raising.

Rides must be maintained to prevent queues and customer dissatisfaction, janitors must sweep and clean (and you have to provide a good number of bins around the park to keep them happy!), research and development must be ongoing so customers keep coming back, and you also have to keep an eye on your profits, balancing your desire for fat bank accounts with good staff morale and happy customers to keep the lucre rolling in!

Three Ways to Play

Sandbox: This is the creative bit, where you have unlimited resources and access to all the surrounding land. You can design the most sumptuous and exciting rides for others to enjoy, and you can enjoy them yourself – all in the name of testing only, of course! Some players much prefer this mode of play, taking their time and using the best possible materials to make enthralling and exciting rides – or recreating real life ones that they have seen for themselves

Challenge: Perhaps the most exciting way to play. You start off with a small amount of land and money, and must invest all your ingenuity and skill into turning that into profit to buy more land and build more rides. As you go along, you will be issued with challenges, the successful completion of which will bring you rewards, such as resources, cash or pieces on land on which you can build even more rides, facilities and features

Career: In this mode the goal is for you to make as much money as possible, maximising the use of your existing funds to build rides that will bring in the customers and keep them in the park, happily spending their money for as long as possible. You must balance your profits against the needs of the park and customers, fighting to keep everyone happy and pouring their currency into your pocket, while paying staff and maintaining the park well

In all three modes, you are able to use auto-finish on rides, which means that instead of agonising over angles and speeds and precise measurements, you can plot in your exciting twists and turns, your beginning and your end, and then let the computer plot the bits of track in between, presenting you with a fully completed and functioning ride.

Planet Coaster for PC is available for purchase on Instant Gaming for a fraction of its retail price. You will receive an official key and be able to play the game in seconds. Play smart. Pay less.

Configurations

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MacOS

minimum*

OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+)/8.1/10 64bit
Processor: Intel i5-2300/AMD FX-4300
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia GTX 560 (2GB)/AMD Radeon 7850 (2GB)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 8 GB available space

recommended*

OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+)/8.1/10 64bit
Processor: Intel i7-4770/AMD FX-8350
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia GTX 980 (4GB)/AMD R9 380 (4GB)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 8 GB available space

minimum*

OS: 10.14 (Mojave) or later
Processor: Intel Core i5 (4 cores)
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: Video Card (AMD): Radeon R9 M290 | Video Card (NVIDIA): GeForce GTX 775M
Storage: 15 GB available space

Planet Coaster franchise

Planet Coaster 2 (PC)

Release date: 2024

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90 comments

quick and easy

11 days ago

i like planet coaster

A month ago

crazy service!

8 months ago

thanks!

8 months ago

Insanely great prices for quality games

A year ago

Amazing

A year ago

Reviews

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Game review score based on 157 reviews, all languages included

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Best reviews

it is a nice game!

11th November 2024

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Recent reviews

very good game, but :

great game
good firework system
can use other's construction
All dlc version is alway out of stock
A lot of things are with DLC
no system to remove the DLC objects and all of them so it can be without DLC needed cause it takes long to remove them

9th April 2025

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I know this game has been out for a really long time, but I finally got into it. I was always a huge roller Tycoon player and I love playing the games when I was younger. I decided I wanted to get back into something like that and I found a planet coaster. I started watching videos and I couldn’t stop so I ended up getting the game and I have no regrets about it. Paths and building is a little difficult to begin with, but once you get the hang of it, you can do anything you could possibly imagine.

11th October 2024

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This game is amazing! Lots of options, different things to do, and it has auto save which saved my progress several times.

graphics
gameplay
little peeps happy most of the time
hard to maneuver and build

25th July 2024

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Thx everthing as expected :)

10th June 2024

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Amazing game, as a fan of planet zoo, this game is pretty good. does vary a bit, but easy to get used to. Sometime you would want more freedom and removal of limitations on the roller coaster tracks to make a ride perfect, bit then again adds to realism

Sandbox
Fun vibe
Limitations

24th February 2023

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best rollercoaster game i have ever played! if you want look out for a realistic rollercoaster game, take this one. i play it active and i never get bored. it is also sooo cheap compared to the original price

physics
graphics
price
controll

24th November 2022

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Planet coaster is a very nice way to chill and it is dirt cheap. The game has good grapichs and nice relaxing music. The game has a lot of diffrent thing to offer, which i really like to see. I would like if the implemented a mulitplayer function :)

Really nice chill game.

22nd June 2022

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Amazing game, I'm rubbish at building good parks but the creativity to make whatever you want is bar none, to come up with a crazy idea in your head and recreate that is incredible. IG are amazing and I've never had any problems having bought multiple products before, would recommend to anyone!

Great game
Save a lot of money here
I'm not very good at the game

1st June 2022

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This game is so much fun to play and so enjoyable. For those who wants to buy it, if you liked Rollercoaster Tycoon, this game is so much better then! If you are not familiar with IG, this site is LEGIT! I never had any issues with the games I bought or gifted to others!

14th October 2021

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Literally the best version of rollercoaster tycoon.
It's a spiritual successor that has almost everything you could ask for.
Many levels, coasters and rides with a much deeper mechanic then previous RCT titles.

Endless Possibilities
Updated Nostalgia
Designed with the RCT fan in mind
Deep Mechanics
UI Design
Could use better optimization

31st December 2020

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It's alright.

This game is one of those games you play when you get bored. The career mode is pretty fun and there are a lot of ways to play. You can build roller coasters, theme parks, and manage your own park. You can also download other people's parks from the Steam workshop. Overall, I think this game is pretty good for the price you can get it for on Instant Gaming. If this is something you've wanted to try, I think it's worth the ten bucks.

Realistic roller coaster simulation with detailed statistics.
Repetative gameplay.

6th April 2020

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This is an extremely fun game. There is so much to do and so many rides and scenery options that you will never stop having fun. I've only played this game for a week, and I already can't stop playing it.

8th February 2020

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i have been wanting this game for ages. i have delayed buying it for awhile now i am so glad i took the plunge and bought it what an outstanding game so much fun and it looks incredible. i would recommend this to anyone

so much fun
should of bought sooner
dlc is overpriced

14th January 2018

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