The following review is of my own personal opinion which may cause people who enjoy this game rage...viewer discretion is advised.

I'm sure I'll get some hate over my opinion but here we go any ways...the TLDR will be at the bottom.


This game is as bad as paradox and EA games. You need to purchase the DLC to "truly" enjoy the full game. Yet once again another game company says, "Oh, so you don't want to purchase DLC at $15 a pop? Well how about we just offer you a nice subscription fee of $5 a month! Isn't that so generous of us?!" So you're slowly trickling money for DLC or you hemorrhage out money all at once. Regardless it's kind of silly either way.

Well sure...it is only a mere $5 a month, but let's do the math. In 3 months that is 1 DLC you could have "owned". Then after a year that is 4 DLC you would have owned by "renting them" via subscription. If they did a sale you would "own" even more so. With that being said most companies now days pull the whole "you're just a licensed player and you don't own the game / DLC but we LET you play it...aren't we generous?"


Honestly here's what you should do if you like theme park games. Search Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and see that it is just an awesome game, yes it's older, and that there isn't 100 DLCs to buy, rent or sell a kidney for. Then you'll look up OpenRCT. It's a great fan based mod that adjusts the game to work on higher resolutions, work on more up to date operating systems and adds in more adjustments for the game that makes it fun.

You'll thank me and your wallet later. You won't feel like a fool for being suckered out of another $5 a month when you could just get Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 for the price of a few months of "Planet Coaster DLC Rent".
You'll actually be able to play it in offline mode, online and any time without worrying about " X low payments of $4.99 plus humiliation and wallet fund handling". Rollercoaster Tycoon is a better option by far even with the more "outdated graphics". It's a timeless classic in my opinion.


I found this game lackluster for it's release time. Yes it has more "up to date graphics" but it's still not that great looking for its time. Is it "bad" per say? No not really but it isn't phenomenal either. It's just...lackluster in my humble opinion. It just doesn't have the fire that it should have...especially price wise...the only fire it has is torching your wallet by DLC rent or DLC purchase.

Then they have this Ghostbuster's DLC (until September 6, 2024 I believe) due to licensing issues I'm guessing? So they said "HEY GOOD NEWS! WHOEVER IS RENTING THE DLC ON OR PAST THIS DATE WILL OWN IT FOREVERMORE! YOU'LL GET TO KEEP IT! CONGRATULATIONS!" They didn't do a sale on the base DLC itself though if you wanted to just buy it and not do a subscription. Granted you can "Rent the DLC" (subscription) for $4.99 instead of buying it for $14.99 (I think was the price) so it's like 33% off anyways. You had better hope you remember to immediately cancel the subscription or you're losing your vending machine candy bar money though!

There are some decent options in the game for what it's worth but it's still nothing in comparison to the simplicity and replay value of Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. With Planet Coaster it's just not there for me. You might like this game and want to "rent the DLCs" / buy them and do that but it's not worth it in the slightest to me. I don't see the value in it myself when I have more fun for cheaper on a different theme park game.

The biggest turn off to me is the "rent a DLC" (subscription) "feature" and how I feel a lot of things SHOULD have been in the base game. Yet we see that is common practice now in other games such as Sims 4, Paradox Interactive games (stellaris and others) and other companies now too. We keep just feeding them our money and the only thing they do is keep getting bigger, hungrier, greedier and wanting more from us. You've fed the companies and now they want to take our lunch money for monthly DLC payments.


It has been a while since I read the Planet Coaster EULA / TOS so I don't recall all of the ins and outs of THEIR guidelines, rules, agreements and such. What I am saying here is generally speaking about companies who do the things I am going to mention. It's all a travesty regardless.

The worst part is how most companies now days just "give you a license" to play what you "buy" when you are "giving them money for a product" and you don't even get to actually own the game / product. They give you a license to play it and can revoke it at any time especially if you agree to their EULA / TOS. Then on top of that more companies are doing arbitration agreements so good luck if you have some sort of legal issue or problem with the company. It seems to me that we just sit here, smile and keep handing out money to be played like fools.

I brought all of that up to remind you my fellow gamers to please be smart. Please put money into something you can at least own and keep. Don't just throw money at things that will make the future worse for gaming and other gamers to come in the future. We get to have our fun time now but let's make sure others will get to have their fun time later on too. So don't support horrible companies with poor business practices that merely care about the money and not the customer.


The base game does not have tons of content. You'll need the DLC that you can "rent" (subscription) each month, or pay big buckaroos to "own" and then you may have a more fun time. If you don't mind playing older graphic style games that have just as much content and replay value (in my opinion) then I would suggest looking up Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. You can get that game and download OpenRCT for free and have a blast with it! It's a lot more fun and you can play it in offline mode, online and any time (providing your PC works and it's installed *crazy smile*). This game left a sour taste in my mouth when I saw how a lot of things in the DLC should have been, could have been, base game and it seems more like a DLC cash grab than a fun game that is for the players.

Vote with your wallet and for the sake of future gamers. Purchase games that are by the players for the players. It's way past time we vote with our wallets and say no to these "rent a DLC" gimmicks and overpriced DLC addons in games. There was a time when games would be COMPLETE upon release and then expansions would be a DLC with a lot more play value, content and it would not cost you $15 x 10 or more. We need to go back to our gaming roots. Greed has destroyed the gamer's soul and it's time we take it back.

Its not ad but its super glitchy

Fun game which hooks you in immediately but the building functions in this game are really bad and a challenge which kind of takes away from the fun. I would give it a 5/10 just cause of the building and path placing issues