The lack of any to-do list may be a turn off, but there’s no denying the appeal of madness without method. Every last animatronic and scenic package included with the price of admission. Like it says on the tin, the sky’s the limit. Image: Jeremy HerbertĪnyone who just wants to build the park of their dreams or most recent vacation can unleash in Sandbox mode. The result has inspired endless forum posts on how not to go broke within a month. The game shipped with three difficulties - Easy, Medium, Hard - but patched in a Harder option not long after. Gremlins in the gears of every roller coaster. Pickier guests less vulnerable to ad campaigns. Less capital to start with and fewer attractions to spend it on. Without the usual objectives, the only rule is profit and every possible variable can be tweaked to make it as fleeting as possible. The other two modes of Planet Coaster split that difference.Īnyone hellbent on becoming a captain of industry can start with a blank slate or existing scenario in Challenge mode. Add that to the occasional glitch that prevents a gold medal from unlocking properly and it can be enough to take refuge in simpler theme park simulators. But sometimes that brand-new B&M hypercoaster goes unridden simply because it’s on the far side of the park and, despite simultaneous marketing blitzes to all possible demographics, nobody feels like walking to it. Rides degrade with age and, eventually, improve with nostalgia. No amount of early hardship will help much with Cavernous Coaster, though, a jaw-dropping location that inevitably ends in a whimper, reducing park guests to capitalist agents of chaos. There’s a clever way to earn more petty cash, hidden right there in the scenario description, but that only evens the odds so far.
Players should expect to teeter on the edge of insolvency until, or rather unless, the crowds really click. Pirate Cove, the end of the tropical first chapter, offers a tantalizingly wide footprint in a crumbling Spanish fortress, but the trick is a tight checkbook. The few missteps in Career mode only stumble because of the game’s economics. Festive Funlands, the only arctic scenario of the bunch, proves beguiling enough to make up for that oversight. Night Encounters is a heavily wooded parcel of government land that may or may not contain evidence of extraterrestrials and may or may not evoke the wistful suspense of Amblin movies. The Great Tree offers a fantastical plain in the shade of its towering natural centerpiece.
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