RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic Reviews

Everything is too small

Alifreeman

Didn’t even try to play the game. The buttons and controls and text on an iPhone 7 are so small that they are basically illegible.

The buttons are tiny, and there is no tutorial or any help of any sort. I guess if you want a trip down nostalgia lane it’s great, but if you are coming to this game for the first time be prepared for intense frustration. I just spent hours trying to figure out how to place an entrance and exit to my ride, and I still can’t get it work. I’ll give it one more shot and then it’s getting deleted.

Would've SEEMED great then, but in hindsight, RCT was never really any good.

Dreamcatcher Leader

I remember playing this game all the way from 4 years old and beyond, all the way up to the present day. But looking back, I could actually wonder if I should've ever even touched the series in the first place (apart from RCT3, which WAS something truly noteworthy, I'll give Chris Sawyer and Atari that). First, I will point out the good just to keep my cool and stay positive: The game(s) were obviously very innovative and revolutionary for their time, being much fuller theme park and coaster simulators than the ones that came before it such as Theme Park, and the game was written in assembly, meaning rarely if ever any lag with a lot of stuff going on at once. And those are already huge bonuses to the first game and beyond themselves. There's also a lot of variety with what you can do with coasters and other rides, and being able to manage your theme park exactly the way you want it is truly exhilarating. Sadly though, at least for me personally, all of this is more than completely offset by the bad: When I mentioned a lot of variety with coasters and other rides, that's AT LEAST when things worked out exactly, but sadly, that was not very often in hindsight. You see, I wanted to innovate on coasters in this game by providing new layouts and ingenious ways of using certain operating modes, but sadly, I soon found out that all this was severely limited by the stats system and how the operating modes worked exactly. In fact, also as an example, my last straw with this game came from building a LIM Launched Coaster with block sections to try this new mode out and build an innovative coaster with it, but I continued to run into intensity ratings of above 10, and by the time it actually went below 10, the acceptable level, I couldn't even enjoy the coaster anymore at least not that much because I had to strip away so much just to get an acceptable intensity rating, and even that was in the upper 9's - another in-line twist on this thing would've probably been enough to bring the rating above 10. This really frustrated me, because it meant that ultimately, I couldn't even do much with certain ride types that interested me or probably any ride type, for that matter. This was the point where I've decided I've had enough of this game; I've uninstalled the iOS app on my phone about an hour earlier, and haven't touched it since then and don't really ever plan on touching it again. There were other problems such as how punishing the scenarios were - not difficult, punishing - among other things, that combined to ultimately make me decide I have had enough of this game. It's isn't a bad series looking back by any stretch, but apart from RCT3, it never really was any good either, and the games after RCT3 have only served to tarnish that already-rough reputation even more. At this point, it's a pretty long road to recovery for RCT at best, but at least we know it'll certainly never go beyond saving if Atari and their respective partners with RCT do things correctly and get themselves together. Don't consider this the end of the road, RCT. It's only the end if Atari and others CHOOSE to be it so. It's their decision at this point, of course.

Far too small - rip off on a phone

ComeOn*^*^\€|£

The menus on this game are so small that it is basically pointless to play it on a phone. I feel like a total chump for paying $5.99 for this and am incredibly disappointed. What a rip off.

Like the pc version

NotCheapTV

It is my favorite game on mobile. If your gonna get it do it. It’s worth it. It’s is exactly like the pc version. You can import parks and export parks too. BEST GAME EVER. Edit: the game deleted all my purchases and parks. Don’t buy. Don’t import things.i can’t restore my purchases either. Please help!!!

Great game minor problems

Ducks he

It is exactly like how it used to be on the computer. On the iPhone X a good bit of the display is cut off making it hard to use the save and load functions. Also some changes should be made to the process of placing rides and the ability to change the entry cost. Other than that this game is perfect and has no other hidden costs in it

Give me my money back

NatePark15896

You can’t change any of the park entrance fees, like in the original rct2 that the game is based on. It really messes up the entire game so if this bug isn’t fix I won’t my money back. Yes the bug is that bad. This is for all the people telling me that you can’t change the entrance fee in the original you’re wrong. I went back on my old computer and put in the disc for rct2 and it let me change the entrance fee for every park. So fix this bug.

GREAT GAME!

stacaae

I have no idea why there would be anything less than 5 stars. This game was my whole childhood & it is identical to the original. The only difference is you can’t charge a fee to get into the park. It’s so so much fun & it’s definitely time consuming. THANK YOU FOR BLESSING US WITH THIS APP. I’d like to see Zoo Tycoon in the near future. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE GOD MAKE A ZOO TYCOON FOR MOBILE. I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH. ID PAY DOUBLE FOR IT ???

Rct1

Jarrett! :]

Highly recommended — satisfies the itch to play this game

Deserves 6 stars of nostalgia

SSdeG7

QUICK ASK: Needs update for iPad Pro’s screen size, it looks way more pixelated on new devices (you can compare iPad Pro vs iPad Air and it looks way better on the Air). Will update review if updated (no one answers support or forum) This is possibly the best game ever, I've been waiting for RCT 1&2 since I bought my first iPad many years ago. You really made my Christmas with this, I couldn't expect anything better. RCT is one of my all time favorites and this game is perfect, it has all the fun from the original games, perfect gameplay and graphics. I just can't even describe how happy I feel and how many good memories this game brings me. Just one more thing to say: THANKS!!!

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