Planet Coaster 2
NEMESIS
Planet Coaster 2
is a resolutely pleasant experience, arguably to a fault. Frontier discourages the darker arts of virtual theme park design, namely building the most nauseating, lethal coaster your horrible mind can imagine. Foregoing the ’90s nostalgia of
Rollercoaster Tycoon,
which permitted such deathtraps,
Planet Coaster 2
requires you to test every machine to ensure it’s safe, refusing to let you open the ride if it strays beyond reasonable safety margins. This is understandable, and building safe yet thrilling coasters is an interesting challenge. But given the game’s intense metric tracking, it would be fascinating to see a mode where the emphasis was reversed. Perhaps there’s potential for a spinoff – one in which you build the theme park from hell.
Developer/publisher
Frontier Developments
Format
PC (tested), PS5, Xbox Series
Release
Out now
Conundrums mostly stem from grappling with the physics of your coasters and flumes, twiddling with tracks and tubes
Gaze in awe, puny mortal, upon the Bifröst.
In Norse mythology, the celestial rainbow bridge connected the realms of Asgard and Midgard, linking humanity to the domain of the gods.