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Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
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About Planet Coaster
About this game
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.
Game Details
- Platform:
- steam
- Release Date:
- November 17, 2016
- Developer:
- Frontier Developments
- Publisher:
- Frontier Developments
- Supported Languages:
- English
- Franchise:
- Planet Coaster
- Link:
- Features:
- Steam Achievements
Steam Trading Cards
Steam Workshop
Steam Cloud
Singleplayer
Product Requirements
Steam account is required for game activation and installation.
Windows Requirements
Minimum:
- 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:
- 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
Mac OS Requirements
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
Recommended:
Product Requirements
Steam account is required for game activation and installation.
Windows Requirements
Minimum:
- 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:
- 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
Mac OS Requirements
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
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Critic Reviews
84
Based on 57 Critics
Planet Coaster Statistics
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~12 Hours
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~20 Hours
12.9%
~40 Hours
12.9%
~60 Hours
19.35%
>= 80 Hours
41.94%
Achievement Hunter?
41.94% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!
41.94% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!
Difficulty Statistics
Difficulty Rating
Simple
4.62%
Easy
29.23%
Just Right
50.77%
Tough
12.31%
Unforgiving
3.08%
Relax & enjoy! 50.77% of players consider this game to be Just Right
Completion Statistics
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Play Behaviour
Tried It
13.33%
Played It
38.67%
Halfway
16%
Beat It
21.33%
Conquered It
10.67%
Completionist! 10.67% of players have Conquered It
Planet Coaster User Reviews
All our customer reviews are open and honest. We publish all reviews that are relevant and follow our guidelines.
1 - 7 of 10 Reviews
Mike
Verified purchase
Great game, but has no tutorial so you have to learn everything on the road. Endless hours and fun.
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Clyon
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Planet Coaster has been a lot of fun and I have had very few complaints. My biggest complaint is the way the camera works. I lose the sense of where I am and it can be difficult to control especially when you zoom in. My second complaint is that learning to use the paths is... Tedious. It can be difficult to really get the path that you picture in your head and I can't even fully explain why. I think I might just need practice though. Overall though I've been enjoying the game. I've been a rollercoaster tycoon fan since I was a kid, and this is just a more indepth version of that.
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Fanatical User
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Yes, there is a new RCT game, and they have rereleased stuff to try and cash in on the classic games (without adding any content or achievements I might add... lazy greedy devs). However, THIS is the game you want, if you're trying to scratch that theme park itch. It's incredibly well done. There's also a lot more creativity to throw into the mix, with how you can set up decorations. Lots of great ways to create modular buildings and stuff to make your park entirely unique.
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MrMaximus97
Verified purchase
The game in short, is a very fantastic sandbox but is very hard to enjoy if you have never delved into management games or learned a bit about world building in software. I am definitely new to both so this game is still challenging to me as I was expecting more of a simulator and not a game engine tool. I still have fun and its not as technical as a full on software engine but it definitely requires a lot of knowledge. I wish there was a tutorial that could at least teach you the basics for each kind of building/management, as there are many factors to consider than just is the ride exhilarating. All the DLCs seem cool but I'm going to wait to have a better grip on my skills before purchasing them.
Planet Coaster appealed to me at first because I had always wanted to ride roller coasters and most of my family didn't like them. I started becoming invested in VR news but saw how pricey it was, and recently found out about PlanCo. This fills my void while I wait to get a VR headset and then I could combine them with some good headphones and a fan for an amazing at-home experience. For now I stick to YouTube and this game keeping me fulfilled =)
This game is a unique sandbox because it allows many people who cannot afford to go to theme parks to realize their dreams online, and with community submitted content it makes so many more experiences that wouldn't be available anywhere else. The several atmospheres, musical sceneries, special FX, and colorful details make this game stand out from any other themed party game. It is a Low 4/5, losing points because it is very difficult for the casual audience to understand quickly.
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Griller
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Got this one on sale, pretty good/fun. Fun challenge trying to get your dummy visitors to not get clogged up at choke points, and get them to visit your awesome but maybe a little difficult to get to rides.
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Fanatical User
Verified purchase
Lets face it this is the best current theme park builder game out there. think rollercoaster tycoon but 1000x better.
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gamer9sam
Verified purchase
This is a great fun game, however there can be a bit too much in it. If you enjoy micro-managing your games in detail this can be for you. Sometimes i'm into that, but mostly i'm not. However if you just want to make a simple rollercoaster then you still can! You also can create not just the track, but every colour, angle, shapes, pretty much anything you can imagine. Sometimes this is necessary, but you can just take it easy which I like.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Available DLCs for Planet Coaster include Magnificent Rides Collection, Adventure Pack, Vintage Pack, and Classic Rides Collection
Somewhere in the middle. 34% of GameFAQs users said Planet Coaster is Simple or Easy. 51% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right. 15% of GameFAQs users said Planet Coaster is Tough or Unforgiving.
Yes, Planet Coaster is not fully Steam Deck Verified but the publisher says it is "Playable" on Steam Deck. Valve’s testing indicates that Planet Coaster is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.
- All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
- This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
- This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
- Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
- This game has minor audio issues on Steam Deck
Steam account is required for game activation and installation.
Windows Requirements
Minimum:
- 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:
- 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
Mac OS Requirements
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
Recommended:
The average playtime for GameFAQs users is 58 hours. 74% of users played Planet Coaster for over 40 hours.
Yes, Planet Coaster has broad critical consensus. 98% of critics on Metacritic recommend Planet Coaster. The Metascore is 84 out of 100.
85% of Fanatical users recommend Planet Coaster. The average review score is 4.7/5
Yes, 85% of Fanatical users and 98% of critics on Metacritic recommend Planet Coaster.
Planet Coaster was released on November 17, 2016
Yes, Planet Coaster supports MacOS.
Planet Coaster is published by Frontier Developments
Planet Coaster was developed by Frontier Developments
Fanatical users tagged Planet Coaster as Simulation, Building, City Builder, and Strategy
Fanatical users tagged Planet Coaster as Management, Family Friendly, Economy, and Relaxing
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Planet Coaster as having Singleplayer
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Planet Coaster as having Multiplayer
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Planet Coaster as Simulation
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Planet Coaster as Building
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Planet Coaster as City Builder
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