Planet Coaster: Console Edition Review - 6 Ups & 2 Downs

2 - It's A Smooth Experience

Accommodating an entire theme park along with thousands of individually thinking guests on a single system is no easy task. It’s a feat achieved by previous titles in the genre, but none of them look as good as Planet Coaster: Console Edition. With that in mind, even a high-end PC can struggle with a fully detailed, fully populated park up against it, and the idea of it running on what would be usually lower-end hardware in comparison made for mild concern.

However, Planet Coaster: Console Edition runs incredibly smoothly on PS4 and Xbox One (and will most likely run smoother for longer on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S). The game will even warn you when your console is starting to struggle, as the ‘Oswald-Eugene Counter’ will show up, giving you a rating out of 100 of just how strenuous your park is on the system. No consoles will be catching fire or dropping mad frames if you’re paying attention! Hitting 60fps on a park sim as complex as this is a huge achievement for Frontier, and it goes to show just how capable the Cobra engine is.