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City or park builder in particular, but any good sim is fine. What is the best city builder? Best theme park game? Any great Sims on the humble sale?

Planet coaster worth it?

Railroad Tycoon II 4 Lyfe

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Shotgunnova posted...

Railroad Tycoon II 4 Lyfe

Too old :( I'd love a good updated take on it

Oh my god Software Inc is amazing

Cities: Skylines is pretty sweet.
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Best City Builder is Cities: Skylines.

Best Theme Park builder is Planet Coaster; the devs just released Planet Zoo, too if you want a Zoo tycoon-style game.


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ok I remembered there was some controversy between Planet Coaster and another coaster game, couldn't remember which was the good one lol

Change: Homeless Survival Simulator
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OctilIery posted...

ok I remembered there was some controversy between Planet Coaster and another coaster game, couldn't remember which was the good one lol

There are three big ones now.

Planet Coaster is arguably the best, with features including... park scenery ratings, security staff and camera equipment and pickpockets, hotels, restaurants, staff training and fatigue, and a few other features. Though you can play it pretty straightforward it does have a huge emphasis on creating things. It does integrate with the Steam Workshop so you can download new blueprints too, if you're like me and just want to build and manage the park without micromanaging every single piece of fence.

Then there's Parkitect. It's got that isometric perspective like the classic Rollercoaster Tycoon games (though with more ride options and cleaner graphics). It's also a really solid choice, just not as expansive as the fully 3D Planet Coaster for various reasons. I do like that they add supply/stock as a mechanic - you have to set up distribution between your warehouse and your stalls and stuff like that.

The one to avoid is Rollercoaster Tycoon World. It was garbage at launch, it took a year for them to add certain save features, building a rollercoaster caused the game to crash half the time, it had a fraction of the prop options that Planet Coaster or Parkitect have (and when they *did* add props it was literally like five things for Halloween... embarrassing). Plus it just looks like garbage.

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Hexenherz posted...

OctilIery posted...

ok I remembered there was some controversy between Planet Coaster and another coaster game, couldn't remember which was the good one lol

There are three big ones now.

Planet Coaster is arguably the best, with features including... park scenery ratings, security staff and camera equipment and pickpockets, hotels, restaurants, staff training and fatigue, and a few other features. Though you can play it pretty straightforward it does have a huge emphasis on creating things. It does integrate with the Steam Workshop so you can download new blueprints too, if you're like me and just want to build and manage the park without micromanaging every single piece of fence.

Then there's Parkitect. It's got that isometric perspective like the classic Rollercoaster Tycoon games (though with more ride options and cleaner graphics). It's also a really solid choice, just not as expansive as the fully 3D Planet Coaster for various reasons. I do like that they add supply/stock as a mechanic - you have to set up distribution between your warehouse and your stalls and stuff like that.

The one to avoid is Rollercoaster Tycoon World. It was garbage at launch, it took a year for them to add certain save features, building a rollercoaster caused the game to crash half the time, it had a fraction of the prop options that Planet Coaster or Parkitect have (and when they *did* add props it was literally like five things for Halloween... embarrassing). Plus it just looks like garbage.

Thank's for that! I really like Planet Coaster and am strongly considering it. I'm playing Software Inc right now, which is a spreadsheet heavy corporate software development sim. I'm amazed so far, especially since what I'm playing is just early access.