RollerCoaster Tycoon Demo

While psychologists argue that people enjoy roller coasters because of the vicarious thrill which allows them to experience intense fear without any actual risks to their lives, the designers who build these rides just want to see how quickly can they make the customers throw up. Despite that, amusement parks are always full and there’s always a queue for roller coaster tickets.

RollerCoaster Tycoon is a simulator that allows you to see whether your mind is capable of coming up with such contraptions, while also rewarding your creativity and giving you full control over every kind of tool you might need. Hence, even if you are not interested in following the main campaign and finishing the scenarios, you can still have tremendous amounts of fun with the design tools.

The campaign itself is comprised of around two dozen scenarios, all of which require you to achieve certain objectives to move to the next one. Hence, whether you have to attract a certain number of guests, or build a ride with the required excitement rating, the missions are pretty varied and you can certainly enjoy them, even if they are very restrictive.

Beside the classic rail-powered roller coasters, you can also try your hand at other kinds of thrilling attractions, such as bumper cars, log flumes and even ferris wheels, which are definitely fun to see in action. Building them is not difficult at all, especially since the isometric point of view makes it incredibly simple to see every piece of your design and put it together in any way you can imagine.

On the other hand, accidents can also be fun to watch once in a while, because there are no real victims and you can come up with some ingenious way to hurl people off the roller coaster tracks at top speed. Unfortunately, the primitive graphics do not handle detail very well and there is not much variety when it comes to the environment and the guests themselves.

When you add everything together, RollerCoaster Tycoon sums up to one thing: fun. There are many possibilities and you can try out all of them, even if there is no sandbox mode and you are stuck repeating the scenarios. Everything works as it should and your designs can be put into practice almost every time, regardless of how crazy they might sound in your head.