Parkitect

This is a fantastic theme park tycoon type game. The interface is a joy to use compared to most, and the campaign is incredibly fun and replayable. There is plenty of depth here, but not too much that you will get frustrated and annoyed. Nothing gets tedious, it just remains fun. The challenge comes with trying to sell x amount of tickets by a certain date while maintaining the overall quality of the park. These are obtainable once you figure out how many decorations to put around the park and rides, and then adjusting the default costs for rides and concessions. The default prices are VERY low, and you can charge 2-3 times more if your park is looking nice. Using blueprints is a great way to build the larger roller coasters. The only complaints I really have is the roller coaster designer: It's really not intuitive at all, having some pre-designed sections you can snap together would have been better than trying to build each rail section by itself. Also, building paths up and down is also not intuitive, either. I feel like the game should know what you're trying to do - other games have done this. It doesn't make sense why it just cant do A to B paths at different levels and figure it out for you. Outside of that, this game is just great. It looks really good and can play on most gaming PCs in 2026. Thumbs up! PS. Don't sleep on the mods, they have ones where you can ride everything etc.

It's fun, and I still enjoy playing it, but it is honestly frustrating how many bugs are still around after all these years and three DLCs. The grid being shown on top of water towers is a weird visual bug, Go Kart ratings only updating after the ride has actually run with guests is annoying, and I suspect something similar might be happening with other rides that have multiple laps. Then there are the UI glitches after loading, where it can get stuck showing 9,999 guests even when that obviously isn't the case. None of these bugs completely ruin the game, but after this much time, I would have expected the game to be a lot more polished.

Parkitect is a modern Roller Coaster Tycoon style game with better graphics. There's more focus on keeping the park pretty for the guests and hiding the backend stuff, like staff filling up your food/drink buildings. I'm not very creative, but there are tons of Steam Community builds you can easily download to use. Great game!