It allows for greater control over what you’re doing as you can choose the precise camber of the turns on the ride as opposed to having preset ones. Building rides, which is probably the main reason you buy this kind of game, is a treat. The controls are very natural and are reminiscent of the RCT games but they feel more modern, polished and smoother. However, with the exception of Thrillville, these games don’t really have a set story, it’s down to the player to come up with what they want to do. So I suppose you could argue that this gaming is lacking story wise. You do have the option of taking out a maximum of two loans at a time which can help if you want to build a bigger coaster to lure guests in but this can lead to severe financial problems if you take out too big a loan early on in the game. Instead, it’s essentially like a sandbox mode, you choose the size of the park or you can select from a handful of pre-made ones, but you do have limited funds which presents a bit of a challenge as the parks typically run at a loss at the start. (Don’t judge me, I know you used to drop guests in the water on the old RCT games too!)Ĭurrently, Parkitect doesn’t have any challenges like the original RCT games did but this is due to the fact that it is in Early Access. It only crashed once and that’s because I decided to flood one of my parks with water whilst there were 1000 guests and many operating rides.
Thirdly, the game runs so well on my PC, which is a gaming PC but it isn’t the most powerful thing in the world, and based on its minimum system requirements, should run on most modern computers without any hiccups.
It’s also open to mods which means there’s plenty of free content to download, Planet Coaster also has this feature but it also has paid-DLC too which Parkitect may eventually have but it doesn’t currently. It’s only £15.49 which is almost half the price of Planet Coaster and this game is still in development so more features are being regularly added. Secondly, Parkitect is amazing value and it’s only going to get better. It is an isometric game which I actually prefer for these sort of games because I think it helps you to build rides. Firstly, WOW! I adore Parkitect, this is the perfect blend of a modern reimagination of the first two RCT games mixed in with some of the features found within RCT3.