Planet Coaster 2

Bugs, glitches or broken systems come up in 34% of the longer reviews and in 39% of the negative ones. The reports are concrete: guests clumping into immobile crowds on wide paths or claiming they cannot find the exit (6% describe guest pathing problems), staff walking in circles, cable cars and transport rides freezing, rides stuck in testing, career objectives that do not tick off, prices and scenery ratings that misbehave, and go-karts nobody would ride. The share fell after launch but stayed substantial: bugs appear in 22% of the longer reviews written from July 2025 on, and in a third of the negative ones from that period.

The interface, menus or controls come up in 32% of the longer reviews, and 11% describe them as clunky, confusing or built for consoles. PC players list specific losses: right-click deletion of paths is gone, there is no edge scrolling, the mouse camera controls cannot be rebound, and full-screen menus replaced quick panels. "Everything require 20 clicks too much". Staff scheduling menus draw the same complaint. Some players make peace with it: "You have to spend about 10-15 hrs fighting the UI until it becomes muscle memory." This complaint shrank sharply, from 15% of the launch-era longer reviews to 4% of those written from July 2025 on.

DLC, paywalls or greed come up in 27% of the longer reviews. The anger peaked in December 2024, when reviewers say a ride pack of about five rides went on sale while the game was still badly bugged. They also point to basic rides such as the carousel arriving in paid packs, and to content from the first game being sold again. "The DLC dropping before the update is such a slap in the face." Deluxe editions and pre-orders come up in 5% of the longer reviews, often with regret. Pre-order buyers expected the first game's rides and found them missing, a Deluxe owner says the later Premium Edition shows the new ride pack was meant to be included, and one buyer's Deluxe DLC showed on Steam but did not load in the game. Later packs, especially the one with swing launches and switch tracks, drew more goodwill, but reviewers in 2026 still describe the base game as thin without them.

13% of the longer reviews say content is missing: themes, hotels, security, fireworks, custom music and images, animatronics, flat rides and coaster models that the first game had. "A themepark game without themes like western and space deserves a negative review to me." Reviewers say free updates restored much of this. Complaints about missing content fell from 20% of the negative launch-era longer reviews to 8% of the negative ones from July 2025 on. Players still ask for a spooky theme, hotels, blueprints for the returned themes and more flat rides.

Staff, mechanics, maintenance or scheduling come up in 17% of the longer reviews, and 5% complain about staff in detail: mechanics who only service rides when called, janitors who leave bins until they overflow, and staff menus that lag. "Mechanics won't service rides and I end up having to constantly manually call them which largely ruins the experience". Players also dislike hour-by-hour staff schedules and work zones that take many clicks to set up: "If I want to faff about with Staff Schedules, I'll go to work!" This complaint did not fade. Staff and maintenance come up in 24% of the negative longer reviews written from July 2025 on, behind only bugs and paths among the themes counted.

Performance, lag or stutter come up in 11% of the longer reviews and crashes in 9%. Launch-era reports centred on crashes when opening the research tab, staff menus or placing objects. Later reports name newer Nvidia cards with Global Illumination switched on, AMD driver versions and Linux setups. Large parks with thousands of guests run slowly even on strong CPUs. Players learned to save often: "Make sure you set that autosave to 1 min."

8% of the longer reviews discuss the workshop. Complaints cover the required Frontier account, frequent disconnections, weak search and filters, a download limit, and blueprints that need DLC the player does not own. "They have replaced the Steam workshop that used to work with one that doesn't, totally stupid". Players who use it are glad of the community buildings, and some say it fills the gaps in the base-game blueprints.

8% of the longer reviews mention the new power grid, generators and water filtration, more often as busywork than as added depth: "Managing power is not fun". A few ask for utilities to be optional outside sandbox, and one 2026 review says electrical management can now be turned off. Utilities come up in 16% of the negative longer reviews written from July 2025 on, up from 10% of the negative launch-era ones.

1.6% of the longer reviews say money flows too easily, even on the hardest settings: "Even on Hard difficulty, you just print money." Others note that the economy behaves strangely, with guests paying large sums for a flat ride and balking at a cheap, well-rated coaster.

2.5% of the longer reviews object to the guest cap (6,000 at launch, later raised to 12,000 according to reviewers) and to sandbox maps smaller than the first game's. "It feels like buying a fantastic new car only to have a 1 gallon gas tank."

2.2% of the longer reviews say they bought the game for co-op and found that only one player can edit a shared park at a time: "who tf wants co-op mode where you take turns building".

1.6% of the longer reviews complain that guests refuse rides that are even mildly intense and that sandbox mode lacks a switch to ignore fear and g-force limits: "guests are terrified of everything and won't go on a coaster that does anything other than go in a straight line at 5mph".

A small group (under 1%) lost parks to corrupted saves, a single shared autosave, or the "new park" button overwriting an old one: "Spent dozens of hours on a park only for the save to get corrupted."