Guided through Early Access thanks to an army of loyal fans and a responsive development team, Planet Coaster matches its creative tools with a gorgeous aesthetic and some really fun career levels. After completing a custom avatar and placing it on a large globe, the game opens up with its main menu, boasting a wealth of options including a Career Mode, Challenges, the ever-popular Sandbox mode and a slew of tutorial videos to help with the basics of playing. Still, there’s an incredible amount of customization here that truly lets you go wild and create the theme park of your dreams. Planet Coaster is an accessible and creative title but also relatively basic when it comes to its management sim elements. With many titles since Rollercoaster Tycoon failing to strike the right balance between creativity and theme park management, Frontier’s newest addition to the sim line-up is probably as close to a natural step forward for this genre of games as we’re likely to get.

At the end of the 90’s, Frontier released one of the best theme park titles of all time in Rollercoaster Tycoon, a game that felt like a natural successor to what Bullfrog had produced in 1994’s Theme Park.

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