Manage like a tycoon and make your way to the top

The aim of the game here is a simple one: create amusement parks that please visiting hordes of peeps and make you a ton of sweet moolah so you can keep expanding, adding facilities and building monstrous rollercoasters that strike a balance between being terrifying enough to thrill but not so dangerous that punters end up covered in their lunch or buried headfirst in the surrounding terrain. There’s a generous career mode included, with the base game providing eighteen themed scenarios for you to undertake, from creating and maintaining a good old-fashioned American theme park to building wild rides all over Area 51. Death end re;Quest Switch NSP

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Each level tasks you with fulfilling various objectives at novice, entrepreneur and tycoon difficulty, becoming increasingly more complex as they go – however, thankfully, just hitting those novice targets is enough to unlock the next campaign scenario, so you shouldn’t get bogged down or stuck at any point. This complete edition also comes with the game’s two excellent DLC offerings, “Soaked” and “Wild”, which add a further twenty-one scenarios to the action between them. Getting to grips with Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition can be a little daunting starting out; there’s certainly plenty to get your head around being in charge of your very own theme park.

Get ready to get ‘Soaked!’ and venture into the ‘Wild!’

The game does an excellent job of slowly immersing you in its various mechanics and there’s an extensive tutorial section available to jump into at any time to get the low-down on any aspect of proceedings you may be having trouble with. Before long, you’ll be tracking and monitoring ride popularity and gate numbers, raising and lowering prices as you go, hiring and firing staff, sticking bins and benches everywhere you can fit them and saving up your coins to build the rollercoaster of your dreams – that one big bad that’ll bring all the peeps to your yard. Death end re;Quest 2 Switch NSP

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Although Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 does allow you to simply purchase pre-made coasters – among the plethora of other amusement types available – and these are something you should probably consider availing of in the early days of your career, the real meat here, the thing that keeps us coming back for more, is the surprisingly deep and endlessly fun construction elements. Building your own rides in this game is as involving and time-consuming as you want it to be, with lots of variables to take into account as you go. Besides monetary restrictions – something you can side-line as you learn by jumping into the game’s sandbox mode and building as big and wild as you like at zero cost – you’ll need to consider and juggle all-manner of safety and psychological aspects before jumping aboard and testing out your creations from a first-person perspective.

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It’s at this exact point, with a cold steel track stretched ominously ahead of you, that you’ll begin to question whether you’ve added enough chain track to pull your carriage to the top of the ludicrously steep hill you’ve included, and whether or not there’s enough straight track after the enormous speeding drop on the other side to enable you to take that steep looping corner without plummeting to the ground below. It takes a while to get to grips with the ins and out of things; we found ourselves re-running tests several times to get our creations safe for public use, but in no time you’ll be banging out bad-boys that send the pulses of your peeps into overdrive and get those all-important gate receipts rolling in. Death Park 2 Switch NSP

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Of course, being the minister of your very own church of cool coasters also involves tending to more mundane aspects of daily life, and you’ll need to keep an eye on how visiting peeps regard your park – by simply clicking on any one of thousands milling around and reading their thoughts – and making adjustments to keep them placated. Are their enough toilets? Do you have the requisite number of janitors and engineers to keep things ship-shape and are they happy with their wages? Have you taken out a newspaper advert or put discount vouchers in the latest issue of the local college magazine? Should you fire that one lazy popcorn vendor?

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