Planet Coaster 2

Your attractions and facilities will need maintenance to keep them run

Research Points can be used to acquire new coasters, rides and more!

By assigning a Mechanic to a Mechanic Workshop, you'll generate Research Points as long as they're there. The Research tree can be accessed by opening the Research sub-menu of the Park Management menu.

When playing Campaign, your research options are limited depending on the chapter that you’re currently on – however, anything you research will be shared across all over levels.

Keeping track of all your tasks as Park Manager is no small job!

At a glance, your bottom bar shows you the basic information you’ll need every day. You’ll also be able to view a selection of control shortcuts.

Quickly navigate the Browser to select objects to build and develop your theme and water parks with. These include:

• Coasters
• Flat Rides
• Tracked Rides
• Flumes
• Pools
• Facilities
• Staff
• Scenery

You’ll also find building tools along the bottom bar.

The best way to learn how to move around your theme park and use the in-game menus is to complete the Prologue in Career mode. The Prologue will give you all the information you need to create and manage your parks, all while showing it in action.

To view the specific controls for your chosen platform, check out our Controls Overview.

Camera Modes

Exploring your park has never been simpler! There are a few different ways you can look around your theme park.

What’s a theme park without the people?

Both Guests and Staff will require some wrangling to keep happy and working well.

Guests

Guests are looking for your theme parks and water parks to give them the best day out ever, so there’s a lot you need to do to help keep them happy.

You can find an overview of how effectively you’re satisfying your guests’ needs in the Guests sub-menu of the Park Management menu.

Park Rating is an overall measure of how amazing your park is. A higher Park Rating will increase the number of guests coming to your park.

Great Attractions, Scenery, and Park Reputation are all required for a high Park Rating. Focusing on the lowest scoring of those is the best way to improve your Park Rating.

Money makes the world go round and your theme park is no exception!

Make sure your profits stay in the green and you’ll be delighting guests for years, slip into the red for too long and you’ll struggle to keep the gates open.

Across your park you’ll have a variety of sources for income and costs.

Planet Coaster 2 features management tools that provide insight and valuable information on how your park is performing, including areas which could benefit from your attention.

Park Management Menu

Chief among these tools is the Park Management menu, which includes an overview page and dedicated sub-menus.

Overview

The first page of the Management Menu gives you a quick overview of how your park is performing and the biggest issues you are facing:

Keeping your rides running and your guests happy is no easy task!

In addition to thrilling rides and soaking flumes, your park needs a network of talented people and support buildings if you want it to stay open. You’ll also need to keep your guests fed, stocked with souvenirs and more if you want them to spend any real amount of time in your park!

New to Planet Coaster 2, create a splash with pools and flumes in your ultimate water park.

Flumes can be placed like any other attraction and pools are created using similar tools to paths.

Learn more about creating a water park to remember in our Pools & Flumes Building Guide.