Park Beyond

Does Park Beyond capture the magic of Theme Park World from the early 2000s? Not quite, but damn, it tries. It feels like a nice, happy medium between the complexity of Planet Coaster and the simplicity of Theme Park: stick to flat rides and prefab coasters if you want, but if you’re the more creative type, you’ll get a huge kick out of the freedom Park Beyond’s coaster building and design tools g...

Park Beyond delivers a fun and addictive theme park builder and management sim experience, and elevates it with its delightful impossification mechanics. Some technical issues and console-specific problems do hold the experience back somewhat, but this is still an easy game to recommend for fans of the genre.

Park Beyond is a vibrant timesink of a game that'll have you pushing the limits of your creativity in building rollercoasters and managing the theme parks that they reside within.

Park Beyond is a hugely enjoyable park builder that thrives on accessibility, personality and creativity.

Are you in the mood for some classic theme park management fun? Well, Park Beyond is a lovely game that'll put a smile on your face.

Park Beyond adds new dimensions to the theme park builder genre.

Despite its veneer of limitless design possibilities, players are ultimately constrained in the types of attractions they can create and pursue during the campaign. While Sandbox mode is your best bet for getting creative with all the bells and whistles Park Beyond has to offer, it too is not immune to the myriad of glitches and technical issues present throughout the game. Although you can spend ...

Despite making an excellent first impression, Park Beyond ends in a downward spiral that's exciting in a coaster, but lethal in an economy.

More creative and cartoony than managerial, thus a bit of a treat for people less boring than me.

Parking up the wrong tree.

At its heart, Park Beyond evokes memories of the Theme Park games from a couple of decades ago, and it's perhaps due to our nostalgia for those titles that we enjoyed our time with this as much as we did. There's something to be said for the simplified theme park builder, in which you don't need to worry about navigating a dozen overwhelming menus or whether your rollercoasters adhere to the laws ...

Many elements of Park Beyond's gameplay might feel familiar to Planet Coaster players, with the game taking a similar approach to modernizing the experience found in classics like the RollerCoaster Tycoon series. Mapping out and building up a park is typically intuitive in a similar way, and the cartoony 3D graphics achieve comparable effects. The principal difference lies in what each game expect...