Planet Coaster

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Surprise, delight and thrill crowds as you build the theme park of your dreams. Build and design incredible coaster parks with unparalleled attention to detail and manage your park in a truly living world.

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Developer:
Frontier Developments
Engine:
Cobra
Release date:
17 November 2016
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (186)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (31191)

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Description

Surprise, delight and thrill crowds as you build the theme park of your dreams. Build and design incredible coaster parks with unparalleled attention to detail and manage your park in a truly living world.

Piece-by-Piece Construction: Planet Coaster makes a designer out of everyone. Lay paths, build scenery, customize rides and make everything in your park unique with piece-by-piece construction and over a thousand unique building components.

Landscape Sculpting: Play with nature and reshape the land beneath your feet. Sculpt the landscape to raise mountains, form lakes, dig caverns and even build islands in the sky, then weave coasters through your park above ground and below.

Total Authenticity: Recreate your favorite rides or leave the real world at the door. However you love to play, the most realistic rides and most realistic reactions from your guests make Planet Coaster the most authentic simulation ever.

Simulation Evolved: The deepest park simulation in gaming history rewards your skills and makes management fun. Control every aspect of your guests’ experience and watch as Planet Coaster’s world reacts to your choices in an instant.

A Living World: Every park guest is an expressive individual who thinks, feels and explores your park with their own interests and desires. Together Planet Coaster’s guests will tell you at a glance just how well your park is run.

Park Management: You’re the boss with accessible controls that make management fun. Test your skills in a campaign of creative scenarios, or just build for fun and tweak your parks to surprise, delight and thrill your guests.

Communal Creation: Planet Coaster links coaster fanatics and creators around the world with the Steam Workshop community hub. Trade scenery, rollercoasters and even entire parks with other players, and add the world’s wildest creations to your own park.

Be Inspired: Discover new content from the world’s best coaster park creators every day. Browse and download content from your favorite creators, or choose from the latest designs selected by the Planet Coaster dev team.

Share Your Creativity: Whether it’s a magnificent ice cream shop or the world’s most thrilling coaster, build it, name it and share it with the planet. Join a community of creators and see your designs appear in parks around the world.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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

User reviews

Antares
Not recommended | 16 Jul 2026
153h played

Frontier made a good game, somewhat limited by the fact you can't scale scenery pieces, the pathing tool is very rectangular and coaster smoothing is not very functional, but I enjoyed it and put over 500 hours into the

Helpful: 0
Kc-Me
Not recommended | 17 Jul 2026
37.8h played

I really wanted to like this game, tried to get my kids into it but in the end, the lack of different rides and limiting thematic styles kinda made the experience really lacklustre. Should have just included the DLC

Helpful: 0
Eggnogg
Recommended | 17 Jul 2026
235h played

I love the customizability of this game. It's just a shame that you can go into so much detail that it will take months to complete a ride, so I kind of lost my steam with it. That's not to say it's a bad thing, it's

Helpful: 0
TinyCookie2012
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
36.0h played

Planet Coaster is honestly one of the best theme‑park games ever. You can build huge roller coasters, design crazy rides, and make your park look super cool. I personally like to torture random people by hitting them

Helpful: 0
QueenLuckyshot
Recommended | 19 Jul 2026
35.0h played

Planet Coaster is one of the best theme park simulation games ever made. It offers unlimited creative freedom, and you can also download content created by others via the Workshop. Unfortunately, there are so many DLCs

Helpful: 0
Sir Boop Snoot
Recommended | 08 Jul 2026
14.5h played

Not a bad management game, but the campaign scenarios are a bit restrictive. There are like the same <5 rides you can build; even if you research everything, it's still like the same 10 rides every scenario. Even if the

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