
The main meat of Planet Coaster is within the Career Mode, which helps you get to grips with its various mechanics.

Upon booting up the game, you'll have the option to delve into three different game modes, which are Career Mode, Sandbox Mode, and Challenge Mode. Along with the expected control tweaks, the Console Edition has made many changes to the experience across the board, but are these for the better? Planet Coaster now has its sights set on the console market and has opened up its doors to a whole new audience of players. The sim has built a passionate community of creatives over the past four years, and it has expanded with several content packs - some of which are in collaboration with major franchises such as Ghostbusters and Back to the Future. Planet Coaster: Console Edition comes to the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S this holiday season.Launching in 2016, Frontier's Planet Coaster arrived as a modern-day successor to the RollerCoaster Tycoon series, which appeared to fall off the face of the earth after its third main instalment. Players can expect to learn the physics behind building coasters, as well as how values such as excitement, fear, and nausea factor into their creation.Ĭheck out the full dev diary in the video linked below: They’ll most notably walk players through how to build, run, and maintain their park. According to Programmer Philippa Moore, the tutorials are new to Planet Coaster: Console Edition.

It begins by teasing the Career Mode, noting that players will first be tasked with completing the main tutorial. In addition to detailing all of the above, the crew at Frontier Developments shared a new developer diary.

(The same principle applies to the disc-less Xbox Series S.) Thus, owners of the PS5’s disc-less SKU can only get the free upgrade if they own a digital copy of Planet Coaster: Console Edition.

What’s not possible is buying a boxed version on PS4 and playing the upgrade on a PS5 Digital Edition.
