Planet Coaster
Worth it · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $11.24.
- Length
- 28.1h
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, nVidia GTX 560 (2GB)/AMD Radeon 7850 (2GB), 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
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.
The value story
May 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $2.24. It has been discounted 94 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $11.24 at 75 percent off still sits 402 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 70 at list, 83 today.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Two Point Museum ($29.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Planet Zoo ($44.99, scores 73).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 4,114 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 28.1 hours; clearing it takes 80, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
Still 687 concurrent players, 10 years in.
The drop-off
98% 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
687 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
As a huge fan of the OG RCT game - THIS game is where that one would have went if it continued and got better with each edition. I love this game so much! It is one I can come back to over and over and it is fun every time. If there wasn't a workshop to get things from other players then I would say it needs more decor stuff (because I am no good at building my own scenery stuff) but thanks to the workshop - I can...
It's really scummy to have DLC coasters show up as research in sandbox for DLC you don't own. Not only are you harassing me to buy the DLC I don't particularly want, it's literally harming the gameplay
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.
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Planet Coaster scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/493340/planet-coasterThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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