Theme Park Simulator Brings The Fun Of The Fair To Switch This Week

This looks better then Rollercoaster Tycoon but looks like it takes the sim parts out and is strictly all about the rides which sounds like the fun won't last long.

''The game includes eleven different rides''

Hard pass.

Is it an actual business sim of running a theme park though or just a way to look at the rides because if there is no actual challenge to the game or goals it will get boring fast unless you really like building rollacoasters.

@Spoony_Tech - Basically Universal Studios: Theme Park Adventures, but for Switch!

Seriously though, that Tycoon game was a damn travesty. Just port the PS2 one and call it a day, I'd buy it.

Is there a 45 minute loading time for the popular rides?

bring back the original theme park from bullfrog, first game i fell i love with

Theme Park, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 are all excellent games. An update of any of these would be worth having.

I would love a Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 port. I remember when the original game came out. This was at the height of my love for roller coasters. I stayed up for three days straight playing. Good times! I remember my heart breaking after discovering how broken part 3 was after it’s initial release. By the time a patch came my excitement had greatly diminished. That was my first experience playing a broken game at released and having to wait for a patch.

Seems more like you plop rides down rather than build. I'm open to trying it out.

@jockmahon You can ask Two-Point Studios to make a spiritual successor to Theme Park. That studio is founded by the staff of Bullfrog Productions.

@LaytonPuzzle27 That would be great

No one is mentioning Roller Coaster 3 so I’ll do it... shoutout to Roller Coaster 3! Bring that one back!

God this just dissappointed me. I saw the news and was hoping for a tycoon game :/. Not saying this is bad or anything, it's just very much not what i hoped for when i saw the news.

11 rides seems like one will get bored of this really quickly.

RCT2 is a classic for me and I'd buy anything similar for the Switch in a heartbeat, but this isn't it

@jockmahon
Did you play SimCoaster? It was from the same team, it was marvelous.

Fifteen dollars for a good-looking game? That's awesome! But of course, there's always something wrong with it when you buy it.

Coaster Planet is what it's all about these days but that's a PC game. I would love to see a Switch version though, they made it work with Cities Skylines and Two Point Hospital so I am sure they could figure out how to make it work on Switch.

@Zenszulu Yeah it's not a tycoon or park building game. You just get to ride the rides and control how they work.

This article is kinda deceptive on that front.

My gf loves these types of games but could identify this game sucks based on its eShop trailer.

You don't get to build anything. It's not even as impressive as some of the FPS modes in her tycoon games.

@Rubbercookie yeah I had to do some research and I looked at the e-shop listing and if it's correct this "game" can't even be played in docked mode.

@Zenszulu A lot of people like simulators, no need to gatekeep them being games. (though where this one is concerned, maybe I agree. haven't tried it)

More worrying is this article is misleading people into thinking it's a very different kind of game.
It's not a rival to Rollercoaster Tycoon (not a tycoon game) and it does not let you run a park (you operate rides).

I really wish the original roller coaster tycoon would come to the switch...it is on the iPhone so it could work on the switch too