Indoorlands

Contracts, upgrades, unlocking, visitors complaining, and price/quality adjustments give the illusion of a more complex game but once you watch what visitors do you find that the ones who complain usually just pick other things to do (often walking a distance with each choice instead of nearby options). There is no campaign, just three visibly slightly different locations and a sandbox mode where you can turn off individual aspects of the game. Distant parts of the park are rarely visited, particularly the last 25% of the total area. There is a delay before staff will fix/clean (maybe to advantage manual intervention) and range is not based on path distance. Buildings repair only 25-30% unless broken down (then 100%) so busy ride halls break down easily. The progress window really wants to always be open or it will blink at you annoyingly. Visitors don't have an explicit budget, although there are some disadvantages to high prices or low quality. Free top quality buildings aren't that much more popular than expensive lower quality buildings. The tag system is interesting but it need some work. Decorations (except 11 path decorations) are done inside individual halls involving slow loading screens unless you choose a provided or saved design and don't need to select a ride. You can then see them all from the main view. No grid but fairly strict path vs decoration area distinction (hall paths are fixed location) and awkward controls. Coaster design is fairly basic but not trivial. I didn't try creating round rides yet. Windows 1.1.3f1 still crashes and has other major and minor bugs. Frequent updates so far, except the Linux version has not received updates. I like the graphical style better than Parkitect and like visually focused sims (less challenge, more decoration), however Parkitect and the Roller Coaster Tycoon games are much better overall. It looks odd in this one that visitors pop on and off mid ride (in the main view; hall view is different).

Pros: - A top-notch tutorial helps you get started. - You can ride the rides, even the ones you make - Career mode or sandbox options - Build a flat ride from scratch, you can also build roller coasters like most games but this one has a new option for non-roller coaster rides - Clever use of research to allow for varied park progression - Very deep decoration options, almost everything can be modified (walls, floor, corridors, RIDES, etc) - Space bar to pause (as it should be) - Bug free in my playing Cons: - No undo, but it's easy to use your saves as a way to recover if you care to - No tutorial for building a flat ride from scratch. It has no helper popups either, so it's either trial and error or watch a video (I mostly figured out by trial and error but still don't fully understand the motors, I'll have to watch a video LOL) - While you can ride the rides once they're put down, you CAN'T ride flat rides AS YOU'RE MAKING THEM, but it does have multiple cameras and you can pan around - If the park gets dirty it tells you, but I can't see where it's dirty, so I clean everything with their magic cleaning wand (it's a good time filler anyway, and while the sound isn't that good, the bubbles are soothing) It's a keeper for me, thanks for putting it on GoG

One of my favorite smulation games, it's always a good time to run it for a little bit and mess around with decorating a hall or building a new coaster.

great game can crate ride :DDDD thx you game dev putting alots of love and hard work on this game :D