Let's be clear: This game should be in early access, because that's basically what the current experience feels like.
While I like there being a bit more on the staff and facility side in this game than the first one, it just doesn't run well right now. Instead of constantly decreasing condition and the mechanics then restoring that, this game has maintenance badges that keep the condition stable until they expire.
However no matter how many mechanics I keep around my different zones (which is all a pain to manage right now, the menus are awful), I constantly get notifications about rides and generators being in poor condition. While I don't want the entire game to play itself (which it actually pretty much does in a lot of areas), this is just tedious to keep up with and to order repairs all the time.
This results in constant notification spam, which is made worse by getting these when not having a research facility (I shut it down after having already unlocked everything) and urgent ones for a ride not having enough energy (it was shut down as I was still working on it).


The new pathing tools are a massive upgrade over the first game's system, but too often it's still a lot of work trying to get things to do what you want. The devs apparently also broke a tool recently that would allow to draw path outlines with either curves or straights. Used to be able to combine both, but right now it's just not the case anymore.

Also the rounding tool works inconsitently. I tried making a welcome desk at my waterpark with the rounded wall pieces as sides. If I leave everything around the wall as path, the peds will just walk through it. Trying to round the path to the table only worked on one side, despite everything being laid out symmetrical the other side just constantly drew a wider curve, which looked awful.


Ride tickets have options for automatic pricing, for some reason visitors will prefer "bargain" over custom pricing, even if the custom one was 5 times cheaper.
Ride attendants now are people as well instead of part of the ride. It's again a good idea in principle, but a lot of micromanagement even in a small zone. I have one zone with 3 rides and either 4 or 5 ride attendants that all have staggered break times and short paths between each other and the break room. I still end up with unattended rides all the time, sometimes those employees are just walking around in completely different areas.

The build mode is just more (or in terms of material options actually less) of the same from the first game. At this point I wish they simplified the building elements by separating the shapes from the textures. Like in the first game it's a massive list of all the different walls, arches, door frames, windows, pillars, roofs, etc in all the different materials (but often with certain combinations missing). Instead of this stupidly long list with the filter options would be much easier to navigate if we could choose the shape of a part separately from its material, and just get all material options for all shapes.

To make things worse there's a lot of decorations that, despite being part of the same building I just constructed, don't adhere to the same grid. There are workarounds to get them into place, but it shouldn't be a problem to begin with. The long promised glass items are also falling into this problem. I was holding off on an indoor swimming area because I wanted actual glass windows and roof elements (instead of the fully opaque stuff), and all we got were a few panels that also don't allign to the grid.

The coasters got a few new tools, which is neat, but again the implementation has problems. I wanted to split my station so people would exit first and then new ones would board. For some reason there needs to be regular track between both stations, in case of my water ride it was a minimum of 12m, so I had to redesign the entire station. In addition to that, no matter how long I make the exit platform, people will only ever get off at the very end.

Adding other rides like gondolas allows to move visitors between different areas of the park, but with these gondolas I found another weird restriction: When you want a second station along the cable line the game will force you to build a straight cable section before that. This makes it really hard to position the station and if you start from that end you can go straight into an in/decline, but you will then have the same problem on the other end.


At least the devs are making updates to improve things and overall it's not as bad as certain other builder sims from the past few years, but the current experience has a lot of points of friction and shouldn't be sold as a finished product for 50 bucks.

This is just a different version of the Planet Coaster 1. The water park attractions could have been a DLC for Planet Coaster 1. Now all the previous DLCs are a recharge for Planet Coaster 2.

this game is good if you have creativity or to develop i have played this game for a while and still have plenty of ideas