RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe
BANGER · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99.
- Length
- 15.4h
- Value
- $0.39/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
One of the best games from acclaimed Tycoon series, with well designed gameplay mechanics, appealing graphics, and really high re-playability value. There’s no limit to what you can create so design and build the most thrilling roller coaster the world has ever seen!
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.19. That was November 2024. 64 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack ($9.99, scores 62) and SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition ($19.99, scores 64).
Of the 526 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 874 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 15.4 hours. Doing everything runs 199, 13 times as long.
Players
236 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
RollerCoaster Tycoon is one of those timeless classics that never lose their charm. I remember playing it when I was around ten years old, and it was one of the first video games I ever played. Even today, it's incredibly addictive: you always tell yourself you'll build just one more ride, and before you know it, hours have gone by. I'm still amazed that the game was programmed almost entirely in assembly language...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/285310/rollercoaster-tycoon-deluxeThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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