Planet Coaster 2
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Length
- 23h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 84% over the last 30 days against 74% all-time.
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($29.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 55% ($22.49)
- Last discount ended
- 37 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $19.99. That was August 2026. It has been discounted 15 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Planet Coaster ($11.24, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Ancient Cities ($29.99, scores 11).
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Players rate it 74 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 84 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. 24 of the 699 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 501 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 34 percent of the 1,280 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
23 hours to finish it, 63 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
80% start to 22% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
2,611 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 16:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is almost certainly being review botted to make it look better. PC2 is a joke compared to the first, and for anything it does better, it does 5 other things worse. Frontier are greedy, scum sucking, awful turds of a publisher. Absolutely not recommended over the first, or pretty much any game in the roller coaster tycoon series.
Not great. Too much micromanagement - water? Power? The AI is horrible. Staff don't cover breaks. They wander aimlessly. You can't manually assign a person to a ride. They have to decide to work it. Schedules - you have to assign employees schedules in order for them to cover breaks. Terrible UI makes it very distasteful. UI - terrible. Placing paths - if you mis-click the path will overwrite another path and...
Its there best Planet game so far IMO, better than Jurassic Evo 3 too. My only issue with these Frontier games is they all continue just to be park designers and have no real challenge or goals that seem to matter. They almost always get boring once money starts to flow. I think the original planet zoo had a very small step in the right direction with the animal market that had the advanced currency you earned doing...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Planet Coaster 2 scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2688950/planet-coaster-2Reviews 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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