RollerCoaster Tycoon World™
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 25% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 460 or AMD equivalent, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features along with incredible new advancements!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was November 2019. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Planet Zoo ($44.99, scores 73) and Planet Coaster ($11.24, scores 83) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Critics scored it 43, but players land 18 points lower at 25 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Of the 677 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 679 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 14 percent of the 859 reviews written there were positive, against 25 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/282560/rollercoaster-tycoon-worldThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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