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Planet Coaster cover art

Planet Coaster

Frontier Developments · 2016-11-17

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 17, 2020 (Mac), Nov 17, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Planet Coaster is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Simulation game released in 2016, priced at $44.99, with an estimated 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 72190 reviews).

359
playing now
91%
positive of 72k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
83/100
critic score (12 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (120 ratings)
25
Nexus mods (41k downloads)
84/100
opencritic · mighty · 91% recommend · from 58 critics
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$44.99
steam price (US)

359 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Planet Coaster is a business simulation video game developed and published by Frontier Developments for Windows. It was released worldwide on 17 November 2016. Frontier had previously worked in the amusement park construction and management simulation genre with RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, Thrillville, Thrillville: Off the Rails, and Zoo Tycoon. A version for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, known as Planet Coaster: Console Edition, was released worldwide on 10 November 2020. The PlayStation 5 version was released in North America and Australia on 12 November 2020 and in Europe on 19 November 2020. A macOS version, developed by Aspyr, was later released on 17 November 2020 on both Steam and Mac App Store.

Trailer

Planet Coaster trailer thumbnail

Planet Coaster - Launch Trailer

≈530,059 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 359 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,293 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~162/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8M–4.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 72,270 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

WinGameStore$8.99-80%
Gamesplanet$10.62-76%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.91 at GamersGate (2024-06-03) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $44.99 · on sale 204 of 244 observed days · $7.08 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.6k1.6k20182026Week of 2018-03-01: 274 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 253 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 288 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 391 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 680 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 725 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 772 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 222 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1,592 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1,389 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 943 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 670 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 774 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1,166 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 835 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 717 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 902 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 689 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 600 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 522 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 683 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 859 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 811 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 788 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 55 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 441 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 668 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 611 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 560 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 614 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 497 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 352 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 441 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 473 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 463 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 546 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 393 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 377 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 500 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 477 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 434 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 579 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 497 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 445 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 392 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 375 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 111 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 361 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 258 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 382 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 314 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 333 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 464 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 347 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 350 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 264 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 283 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 307 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 228 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 264 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 401 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1,039 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 196 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 794 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 634 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 410 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 344 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 321 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 580 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 116 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 522 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 219 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 262 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

7762992026-09-15 11:00 — 392 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 456 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 324 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 521 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 708 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 409 players2026-09-23 09:00 — 370 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 546 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 379 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 570 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 607 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 382 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 377 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 636 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 518 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 379 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 529 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 441 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 314 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 589 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 686 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 357 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 387 players2026-10-15 02:00 — 359 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
5.5k1Aug 2016Aug 2026Aug 2016 — avg 1 · peak 9Dec 2016 — avg 5,329 · peak 11,373Apr 2017 — avg 2,607 · peak 7,177Aug 2017 — avg 1,956 · peak 3,685Dec 2017 — avg 2,837 · peak 7,013Apr 2018 — avg 2,198 · peak 5,793Aug 2018 — avg 1,942 · peak 3,427Dec 2018 — avg 1,825 · peak 4,176Apr 2019 — avg 1,967 · peak 4,166Aug 2019 — avg 2,046 · peak 3,971Dec 2019 — avg 2,173 · peak 4,182Apr 2020 — avg 3,243 · peak 7,823Aug 2020 — avg 2,007 · peak 4,810Dec 2020 — avg 2,061 · peak 4,720Apr 2021 — avg 1,937 · peak 4,417Aug 2021 — avg 1,863 · peak 3,183Dec 2021 — avg 1,521 · peak 2,787Apr 2022 — avg 1,712 · peak 3,427Aug 2022 — avg 1,898 · peak 3,294Dec 2022 — avg 1,311 · peak 2,223Apr 2023 — avg 1,561 · peak 3,059Aug 2023 — avg 1,543 · peak 2,605Dec 2023 — avg 1,048 · peak 1,912Apr 2024 — avg 1,543 · peak 3,347Aug 2024 — avg 1,927 · peak 3,414Dec 2024 — avg 1,962 · peak 6,308Apr 2025 — avg 891 · peak 1,725Aug 2025 — avg 810 · peak 1,424Dec 2025 — avg 543 · peak 944Apr 2026 — avg 991 · peak 2,532Aug 2026 — avg 570 · peak 972
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
992026-09-212026-10-142026-09-21: 6 new positive2026-09-21: 1 new negative2026-09-22: 5 new positive2026-09-22: 1 new negative2026-09-23: 3 new positive2026-09-23: 2 new negative2026-09-24: 1 new negative2026-09-25: 2 new positive2026-09-26: 3 new positive2026-09-26: 1 new negative2026-09-27: 3 new positive2026-09-28: 4 new positive2026-09-29: 2 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new negative2026-09-30: 3 new positive2026-10-01: 3 new positive2026-10-02: 5 new positive2026-10-04: 3 new positive2026-10-05: 9 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 3 new positive2026-10-09: 2 new positive2026-10-10: 7 new positive2026-10-10: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 1 new negative2026-10-12: 1 new negative2026-10-14: 5 new positive2026-10-14: 1 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$44.99$2.252016-11-182026-10-152016-11-18 — best price $44.992018-07-05 — best price $44.992019-06-13 — best price $17.992020-03-01 — best price $34.492020-06-04 — best price $40.392020-08-28 — best price $36.612020-11-20 — best price $40.362021-01-16 — best price $44.992021-03-25 — best price $40.392021-05-30 — best price $44.992021-08-11 — best price $36.612021-10-17 — best price $20.242021-12-22 — best price $8.992022-03-21 — best price $34.492022-06-10 — best price $8.992022-08-16 — best price $36.612022-11-04 — best price $44.992023-01-17 — best price $11.242023-04-15 — best price $36.612023-07-14 — best price $37.792023-09-26 — best price $29.992023-12-02 — best price $38.122024-02-26 — best price $37.792024-05-02 — best price $9.562024-07-08 — best price $9.562024-09-01 — best price $44.992024-12-05 — best price $44.992025-02-01 — best price $11.252025-04-01 — best price $11.242025-06-03 — best price $11.242025-08-05 — best price $11.242025-11-03 — best price $10.122026-01-16 — best price $7.102026-03-27 — best price $9.562026-06-02 — best price $38.132026-08-11 — best price $11.242026-10-07 — best price $8.492026-10-15 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

205822026-05-27 — 116 pageviews2026-05-31 — 181 pageviews2026-06-04 — 125 pageviews2026-06-08 — 108 pageviews2026-06-12 — 102 pageviews2026-06-16 — 115 pageviews2026-06-20 — 184 pageviews2026-06-24 — 112 pageviews2026-06-28 — 169 pageviews2026-07-02 — 135 pageviews2026-07-06 — 110 pageviews2026-07-10 — 126 pageviews2026-07-14 — 120 pageviews2026-07-18 — 118 pageviews2026-07-22 — 118 pageviews2026-07-26 — 119 pageviews2026-07-30 — 101 pageviews2026-08-03 — 98 pageviews2026-08-07 — 96 pageviews2026-08-11 — 92 pageviews2026-08-15 — 94 pageviews2026-08-19 — 105 pageviews2026-08-23 — 113 pageviews2026-08-27 — 107 pageviews2026-08-31 — 101 pageviews2026-09-04 — 105 pageviews2026-09-08 — 117 pageviews2026-09-12 — 95 pageviews2026-09-16 — 119 pageviews2026-09-20 — 116 pageviews2026-09-24 — 101 pageviews2026-09-28 — 82 pageviews2026-10-02 — 85 pageviews2026-10-06 — 89 pageviews2026-10-10 — 94 pageviews2026-10-12 — 129 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1.2k02026-10-01 05:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-01 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 02:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-03 11:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-03 20:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-04 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-04 23:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-05 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 17:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-06 02:34 — 7 viewers2026-10-06 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 05:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-07 14:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-07 23:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-08 08:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-08 17:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-09 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 11:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-09 20:35 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 14:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-15 02:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-15 04:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
97.5%
earned "Welcome to Planet Coaster."
16.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing11 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese

Post-launch support: 11 DLC released, first 2017-07-21, latest 2019-06-04 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)62,9181%32
PS5 (PlayStation)17,1597%39
PS4 (PlayStation)6,2794%39

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FunnyEconomySandboxBuildingColorfulRelaxingStrategyRealisticManagementSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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