When you begin a new game in Challenge mode, you’ll be given some objectives – or challenges – to hit. That leaves Challenge, which strikes the right balance in providing a genuine sense of control while being realistic with the bottom line, i.e. Despite its allure and freedom, it’s also not the best way to come to grips with the game, as being handed the keys to the entire kingdom can be daunting when you’ve no idea how to proceed. If you’re looking to be challenged, Sandbox can feel sluggish and confusing, more so for newcomers. Sandbox, the second of the three available options, offers exactly what its name suggests – a completely free open-world for the payer to explore, with an unlimited budget to boot, and no limitation on what you can build, or when you can build it. If anything, it’s the best example of how not to design tutorials. There is an actual tutorial section as well, but all it does is open a browser window in-game and point to Planet Coaster’s YouTube channel.
The demands tend to be pretty basic, and with the park half-built, there’s never enough freedom for you to explore on your own. Career levels serve as a nice tutorial to the game, but not much else. You can continue expanding any of the parks once your objectives are complete. The more objectives you can tick off, the faster you get access to advanced campaigns. These include growing the park’s audience to a certain level, raking in a specific profit, or constructing more rides. In all the Career mode scenarios, you’re given a half-finished park and three sets of objectives of varying difficulty.
Career involves a pre-determined set of existing parks that unlock as your in-game level rises – the first available theme is Pirate, and then moves onto Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and “Planet Coaster” in further locked levels. There are three ways to play in Planet Coaster – Career, Sandbox, and Challenge. This has been available since the game’s beta days, and hence provides way more content than Planet Coaster itself ships with. You can then look at parks and worlds created by other people in the Steam Workshop community, and they can look at what you're making. The first thing you do in the game involves creating an avatar, and placing them anywhere on the globe. Planet Coaster is a cheery game – with cartoony animations, bright colours, and a pop instrumental soundtrack that is a nice mix of happy-go-lucky and inspiring. Unfortunately that also means sticking to some design decisions around micromanagement that started more than a decade ago, and seem out of place today. The game shares much of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3’s DNA, which is not surprising considering that game has sold over 10 million copies since launch. If you’ve spent any amount of time with 2004's RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, you’ll feel right at home with Planet Coaster – a new theme park construction and management game released last week – built by the same people, Frontier Developments.
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