Planet Coaster 2aims to be the ultimate theme park management experience. Developers have refined gameplay by addressing issues from the original game while introducing a host of new features that simulate real-world dynamics and allow for boundless creativity in building your dream theme park.
This sequel doesn’t just bring quality-of-life improvements; it introduces groundbreaking new themes, effects, and challenges to elevate both your management skills and the parks you design. With these enhancements, Planet Coaster 2 invites you to craft even more immersive, strategic, and unique theme parks.
10New Park Themes
In Planet Coaster 2, the new themed sets add incredible variety to park design, giving players endless ways to craft vibrant, immersive worlds for guests. Each theme comes with unique decor, colors, and even characters, making it easy to create a signature experience.
Each theme transforms your park, providing the tools to build a memorable destination full of atmosphere and adventure.
9Individualized Guest Needs
In Planet Coaster 2, catering to the diverse dietary needs of your guests adds an extra layer of realism and management complexity. As your park grows, you’ll find that different guests have specific preferences and requirements, such as vegetarians needing plant-based options. This forces you to think strategically about your food stalls and restaurants, ensuring that you offer a variety of options to keep everyone satisfied.
By including a wide range of food and drink offerings, you not only maintain guest happiness but also maximize revenue. For example, having vegan food stalls or vegetarian-friendly meals can attract specific guest groups, and providing meat-heavy options can cater to those who want a more traditional park experience.
8New Ride Options
Planet Coaster 2 gives players a wealth of options with its brand-new, pre-built rides that come with thoughtfully balanced excitement, fear, and nausea stats. These rides offer an exciting starting point for any park, allowing you to create diverse and thrilling experiences for your guests. Each ride is uniquely themed and designed to fit various park atmospheres, from high-speed roller coasters to family-friendly attractions.
The Frontier Workshop lets you share and download ride designs between players.
Whether you choose to use these rides as-is, simply placing them in your park for immediate thrills, or modify them to add to your personal touch, the possibilities are endless. You can adjust track layouts, tweak features, and add extra theming to make each ride stand out and fit perfectly within your park’s vision.
7Scenery Brush Mode
In Planet Coaster 2, beautifying your park is now just a click away. Rather than manually placing each item, you can use a brush tool to quickly add large amounts of scenery, from trees to rocks and bushes, giving your park an appealing, natural look in seconds.
Along with the scenery brush tool, you’re able to also resize your scenery pieces.
The brush tool offers flexibility beyond simple placement, allowing you to adjust the brush’s intensity and size to control the density and distribution of your scenery. You can also easily delete or lock scenery in place, giving you a higher level of precision and control in creating the perfect landscape for your theme park.
6Fine-Tuned Tracks
One of the most thrilling parts of Planet Coaster 2 is the ability to design roller coasters entirely from scratch. The game’s expanded track-building features make this creative process even more exciting, adding options like drop, switch, and tilt tracks that open up new ways to surprise and delight your guests.
The drop track feature automatically adds in the breaks, simplifying your building experience.
With these updated track features, you can create truly unique and exhilarating roller coasters. The ability to change your coaster car’s path using switch tracks lets you design multi-route experiences, offering riders unexpected twists and turns. Tilt tracks allow you to add thrilling angled descents, intensifying the sensation of speed as riders zoom down hills. Plus, by allowing your coaster train to exit a section of track backwards, you can introduce surprise elements that increase the excitement and keep your guests on the edge of their seats.
5Increased Ride, Facility, And Shop Customization
Planet Coaster 2 brings unprecedented customization options, allowing you to shape nearly every element of your rides, attractions, and facilities. you’re able to choose from a wide range of pre made facades or assemble individual pieces to create custom structures and layouts that perfectly fit your park’s vision.
You can quickly strip existing facades from your buildings by selecting the building, navigate to Advance Settings, and clicking Split From Building.
Want to make your rides more immersive? You can attach scenery directly to the rides and even onto individual ride cars, giving guests an unforgettable (and sometimes unnervingly close) experience.For your shops and facilities, you can dismantle the standard buildings and start from scratch, building structures entirely your own. Once you’ve crafted the perfect design, the Blueprint feature lets you replicate it throughout the park, bringing your creative vision to life with efficiency and style.
4Weather Affects Your Business
The weather plays a big rolein Planet Coaster 2, much like it does in real-world theme parks. When the skies are clear and sunny, guests are at risk of sunburn, so you’ll need to provide plenty of shade and offer Guest Services booths stocked with sunscreen and umbrellas.
you’re able to also use the weather to your advantage: on particularly bright days, reducing shade and adding more sunscreen-selling booths can boost revenue as guests flock to buy sun protection.
On rainy days, planning ahead is key. Scatter both Guest Services booths and Body Driers throughout the park to keep your guests comfortable and dry. To maintain ride popularity, you can incorporate covered or indoor attractions, even designing custom frames to shelter some of your roller coasters.
3Improved Paths
In Planet Coaster, creating the perfect layout could be challenging, but Planet Coaster 2 hasrevamped the path-building toolsto make it smoother and more precise. Now you have a range of new tools for crafting paths:
If you preferred the original setup, theClassic Pathstool brings back the original options from Planet Coaster with some improvements, like fixed-length path building. This balance of new and classic tools gives you the best of both worlds in creating seamless park layouts.
2Join The Planet Coaster 2 Community In Franchise Mode
Planet Coaster 2 introduces Franchise Mode, a new multiplayer experience that allows you to collaborate with friends on building parks, exploring each other’s creations in first-person view, and competing in global challenges to climb the leaderboard.
The franchise codes generated by Planet Coaster 2 are made up ofPlanco words, the unique language of Planet Coaster.
In Franchise Mode, you and your collaborators can track each other’s progress through the mode’s dedicated menu. This feature not only displays what each player has contributed but also allows for note-sharing and version control, so you can see and revert to previous saves if needed. Even after a park is uploaded to the server, it’s not set in stone; you can continue refining and adding details over time, creating a truly dynamic and evolving theme park.
1Add Water Park Rides And Features
One of the most anticipated features in Planet Coaster 2 is itsnew pool and water slide features, allowing you to build the ultimate water-filled adventure. From a wide variety of slides to unique pool shapes and themed decor, there’s no shortage of ways to make a splash. Don’t forget to add changing rooms and water-themed gift shops to enhance the guest experience.
But unlike real-world water parks, where safety regulations dictate everything from pool depth to slide spacing, Planet Coaster 2 lets you ignore all those pesky rules. There’s no cap on the number of slides, the pool’s size, or even the sheer number of floats packed in, meaning you can build the chaotic, whimsical water park of your dreams without limitations.
