Planet Coaster aims to breathe new life in to this forgotton and overlooked genre of sim park management. It is striving to do for this genre what Cities: Skylines has done for City Management sim games.

Firstly, looking at the aesthetics of the game. The graphics are stunning and the game just looks beautiful. The UI is sleek and simplistic, and the sounds are great. This is a wonderful modern retelling of the great days gonebye sitting in front of your computer starting at your carefully designed isometric park.

The building systems in Planet Coaster are intuitive and one of the games major strong points. You are given many tools and basic building blocks to allow you to design and create all sorts of fantastic items. Unlike most theme park simulation games, this is not limited to the rides. You can also spend time designing unique and original shops, atms, kiosks etc. You could spend many hours creating the perfect kiosk and surrounding scenery and are possibly only limited by your own creativity and imagination.

The only weak area of the game in its current state is the park management. Its currently very shallow and not very engaging. It lacks the basic management tools required to make this game a proper tycoon game. Build 2 or 3 rides, add in some scenery and place down the most basic of amenities and your guests are always happy and the profits begin to pour in. It lacks a challenging tycoon aspect and it feels almost impossible to do badly in the game.

Overall in its current state, it’s all about the sandbox building experience, but for now that is ok as there is a lot of fun to be found just doing that. Hopefully over the coming months Frontier will build on the management aspect and create a solid all round games, that with any luck will reignite the Tycoon Genre.

Planet Coaster aims to breathe new life in to this forgotton and overlooked genre of sim park management. It is striving to do for this genre what Cities: Skylines has done for City Management sim games. Firstly, looking at the aesthetics of the game. The graphics are stunning and the game just looks beautiful. The UI is sleek and simplistic, and the sounds are great. This is a wonderful modern retelling of the great days gonebye sitting in front of your computer starting at your carefully designed isometric park. The building systems in Planet Coaster are intuitive and one of the games major strong points. You are given many tools and basic building blocks to allow you to design and create all sorts of fantastic items. Unlike most theme park simulation games, this is not limited to the rides. You can also spend time designing unique and original shops, atms, kiosks etc. You could spend many hours creating the perfect kiosk and surrounding scenery and are possibly only limited by your own creativity and imagination. The only weak area of the game in its current state is the park management. Its currently very shallow and not very engaging. It lacks the basic management tools required to make this game a proper tycoon game. Build 2 or 3 rides, add in some scenery and place down the most basic of amenities and your guests are always happy and the profits begin to pour in. It lacks a challenging tycoon aspect and it feels almost impossible to do badly in the game. Overall in its current state, it’s all about the sandbox building experience, but for now that is ok as there is a lot of fun to be found just doing that. Hopefully over the coming months Frontier will build on the management aspect and create a solid all round games, that with any luck will reignite the Tycoon Genre.