RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 20.5h
- Value
- $0.98/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256mb Graphics Memory/Intel HD 4000, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in November 2024. 56 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Planet Coaster ($11.24, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Park Beyond ($29.99, scores 12).
Of the 630 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 427 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 20.5 hours. Doing everything runs 190, 9.3 times as long.
Players
154 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 21:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game was my favorite game when I was a kid, and even now I still think it's insanely good honestly, I might even like it more than the later games in the series "Planet Coaster" It was basically my whole childhood. I'd even randomly draw little park layouts and roller coaster ideas at school, although they were honestly super messy lmao. But being able to spend hours every day just completely lost in my own...
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Cite this score
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1368820/rollercoaster-tycoon-3-complete-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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