Indoorlands

When I saw Josh from Lets Game It Out play it, I was like "Hell yeah." So when I bought the game, I was like "Hell yeah." Anyway, if an otaku or femboy comments on this I will ask my discord crush out, because I have to tell it to her before its too late.

There's an audience for this game. I just don't know who that audience is, given where this game stumbles. Those who are into amusement park creators (like Rollercoaster Tycoon) might be turned off by how limiting this game feels. You don't get a whole lot of say on how unique your attractions can be; when the options are there, you'll run into some jank and having to wrap your head around controls that make sense to the developers but aren't exactly explained, or intuitive, to the player. Those who are into management games (like SimCity) might be turned off by this game's bottleneck. Once you squeeze past it then your time maintaining your park hits that enjoyable stride... but, by that point, you've already burned a little too much time appeasing dev-imposed gatekeeping; your focus is, for too long, hitting metered KPIs and your park never really feels like it's [i]yours[/i]. Those who just want some space to decorate (like, I guess, The Sims) don't get enough space to do this and [i]must[/i] invest attention into other aspects of the game that they might not be into. All of these camps are going to notice that the control scheme is not consistent. At all. This sorta hints that some element of this game was the initial focus and everything else was wrapped around it to say there's a fully fledged game here. True, the controls for viewing/altering the park will not make sense as the controls for creating/altering a rollercoaster... but they'd work great while decorating the coaster's ride room. Somehow, this was completely missed or overlooked, and you have to work with an all-new set of controls that do not exactly work they way you'd like.

The controls for this game are not good, the functionality is terrible and the nail in the coffin for me was the coaster building mechanics.

a game i really wish i could say i love, i'd even take like but it ultimate feels like a take on the roller coaster tycoon franchise that just misses the point

My sincerest hope is that this game will one day have an EPCOT style expansion so that I disenfranchise all my beloved visitors and descend into complete and total tunnel-visioned madness

This is a VERY soft recommendation. I encountered a gamebreaking bug that [b]wiped my park[/b] and also for some reason converted it into a different style. I've been plagued with crashes, and going in and out of halls seems to randomly boost my money. There's more than a few fantastic theme park building games out there, and Indoorlands struggles to find a niche away from any of them. That being said... if you want more of that type of game and want to try something different, here's that something. The itch will be scratched, you'll have fun like I did pulling rollercoaster tracks about and adding scenery pieces, and I do like the [i]concept[/i] of it, even if the management part feels esoteric at times. Making your own flat ride is also a cool feature. Just don't expect anything more beyond an urge to go back to Rollercoaster Tycoon 2.

Native Linux version has some issues; wife had missing graphics on her laptop and I was unable to start the tutorial on the desktop, so we were forced to use the Windows version with Proton. All working well now, but the pace of the game is slow and unless I'm missing something, almost forces a linear gameplay experience. Despite that, the first play is fun enough.