Planet Coaster 2 is officially revealed, now including water parks

The theme park simulation sequel Planet Coaster 2 has officially been announced, adding water park rides into the experience this fall. You’ll be running your own theme park once again when it releases for the PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC sometime this fall.

Water parks will cool down your guests

New to the series with this entry are water parks. Planet Coaster 2 lets you make a perfect water park with various rides, including lazy rivers, flumes, wave pools, and water coasters. You’ll also have to provide changing rooms, sunbeds, lifeguards, and other essentials to help your business stay afloat.

You’ll also need to monitor the guests as you attempt to keep the pools clean, ensure the rides are working properly, and add new facilities.

Planet Coaster 2 features plenty of improvements

Traditional theme parks aren’t being excluded from the sequel either. The game is adding enhanced building and pathing tools to help you create the theme park of your dreams. You can now customize each ride in Planet Coaster 2 as well. Additionally, an improved event sequencer tool adds animatronics, smoke, water jets, sounds, and other visual wonders into the ride creation process.

Planet Coaster 2 features a bevvy of modes to hopefully keep you entertained in this simulation game. It will have a Career Mode, a franchise mode which has you make a connecting series of theme parks similar to Disney or Universal, and a Sandbox mode. The Frontier Workshop also provides blueprints and full parks across the console and PC versions of the game, in case you need some help with the theme park creation process.

A full gameplay reveal is already set for July 31, and Frontier Developments promises to have new reveals on the last Wednesday of each month up to the game’s launch during its Frontier Unlocked live streams.

Planet Coaster has been received well

The original Planet Coaster received a lot of fans after Rollercoaster Tycoon failed to meet expectations in recent entries. It currently has a Very Positive 91% Steam user review rating.

Hopefully, the sequel will be more challenging than its predecessor. “The entertainment value in Planet Coaster doesn’t come from management, so if that’s the type of coaster sim you’re after, you’re better off waiting for something else,” said our 2016 review for the first game. “After the initial hurdles of starting a park in Challenge Mode, it’s pretty smooth sailing.”

While you wait for Planet Coaster 2, you may want to check out Planet Zoo on consoles. Those ports launched earlier this year in March.