Ride! Carnival Tycoon

It's easy to tell why this is bad - the publisher is ValuSoft - notorious for shovelware. This is no exception! Obviously it wants to be Roller Coaster Tycoon/Theme Park but without the ability for the player to design custom roller coasters. Off to a great start! It gets worse. There's only about 30 objects you can place, and it doesn't really matter where you put them. You don't need to worry about paths and things, guests just sort of wander in and bounce around. At best, the game is whackamole as you click through the awful interface to try get your carnies to fix everything. The buildings are all managed the same way, so there's basically zero differentiation. Gameplay is overall terrible. Graphics - ho hum, awful, even for the time. Technical problems - it doesn't run in full screen even if you choose that option, it's always in a window. Unfortunately, this doesn't prevent you from playing the game. Impossible to recommend - there's so many better games in the genre.

I wanted to play this game for such a long time but all through, I really can't recommend this game. This game has very poor graphics just to be honest, the lights will flicker. The cannies don't care or repair the rides nor there's staff other than them. RCT 3 is much more better than this piece of crap and that's how I see it compared to this. 1/10 - for awful carnival tycoon game!

Do not buy this, please. It is pure garbage. Is anyone here old enough to remember those games we used to get on these 500 games cd roms that came on magazines? This game is like those games. Only worse

One of the worst games I have ever played, the worst camera follow and movement. Silly rides and people that swarm the place. Don't get told what to do you just figure it out. For each individual bench you have to go to the menu and pres the down button several times to choose it, as scroll does not work and then place 1 bench and then do the thing again to place again. Bad game!

One of my favourite game when i was 10 ^^

This is hit and miss but this game is not as bad as people think it to be. Let me begin by saying I've played this game in short intervals depending on my time from basically 2007 to now. I ended up buying the game cheap from a Babbages back in the day at a mall, and I played it on my XP, so I've got a lot of experience in this game and how it works. - The design is simple. That is why I play it. - When I was a kid, I didn't want to play Rollercoaster Tycoon and instead prefered '3D games', but I couldn't afford the newest RC when it came out, so I got this instead. It's fun enough for £1 in the steam sale, surely. I can recommend to begin on a big-ish lot and work your way up. Basically, you begin with however big of a budget you need (starts at 10k, I believe), then you select your advertising preferences, ticket prices, and if you give away free tickets. You don't have to do these things, and can play without. These are limited choices, but it's easy for kids to understand. (And people like me, who just kinda wanna play a bit without actual commitment.) If you play in sandbox mode, which is what I usually do, the game starts you in your empty lot, if you start with 10k, make it simple at first by choosing a cheap-mid range ride, ticket stand, a generator, a sitting area, bin, two food stalls - either food & drink and a ball game. Theres quite a few to choose from, I usually have one of each, starting with a regular soda stand and a burger one, then advancing onwards towards like Ice cream stand and BBQ chicken etc. This can be your starting first day to make money. Before you begin your day, go to the menu and click maintence to make sure you have a janitor/repair man. He does everything, I usually get two in my first day. turn your speed to 1/2, close stuff, then repair all the items in your grounds before you start. This is a part of the game that is tedious and annoying, but it's fast enough and takes only a minute. Once you do that, make sure things are open (small stuff like tables and bins open automatically but rides you need to do manually) you can begin your day. Days end around 10pm and you can start again the next day at 1/2 speed, adding more rides, food stalls, or whatever you need. I usually start with my basics listed above, and then add onwards. Sometimes if my queue is too long for a ride on the first day, I'll buy another ride to fit in. Just watch your budget. This is a really simple game and it's enjoyable enough for it's time. Definately recommended for kids to get them into management games, but theres better ones out there nowadays. For the price though, it works well on steam and its good enough.

Awful!