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RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3 – Strategy Game Review
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3 is a Strategy/Simulation game from Atari, Interactive, first launched in 12th August 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,678+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3 Stand Out
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3 (RCT3) is the classic bestselling PC strategy simulation that now brings the fun of a roller coaster park right to your iPhone or iPad!
With a new mobile-friendly UI, the creativity, depth and sophistication of the classic PC game is all here – with NO in-app purchases.
· Create your ultimate theme park in stunning 3D!
· Let your imagination run free in Sandbox mode.
· Play through all 18 scenarios from the original PC game.
· Watch your guests react to your park as you try to make them happy.
· Happy guests earn you more in-game money to build out your parks even more.
· Design your parks using 5 fun themes: Generic, Spooky, Western, Adventure and Sci-fi.
· See every spine tingling detail with fully controllable cameras.
· Grab a front seat for the ride of your life with the jaw-dropping Coaster Cam.
· Cope with challenging objectives, changing weather patterns and enjoy beautiful vistas, sunsets, moonlight, and more.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd March 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Fix for crash when running on iOS 9.3.
Download & Availability
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3 on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We downloaded this a couple days ago and we love it! Youre able to try out some of your rides, and Ive been playing Sandbox mode, so we have unlimited money! We have 700+ people (peeps) in our park! Only thing, wish you could pay coins to hav more space! Please read.
So we have been playing this game for awhile now both the PC/Laptop Platinum Version And the Original on the Mobile Version And Want to Point out That we dont get the Park is Full Thingy in the Mobile Version the Whole Idea Behind Sandbox Mode on the PC Titles was un restricting Access To Building to Your hearts Content So please Fix that Two or Second Problem When you have created a Brand New Park that you Are Proud Of And Want to Keep it Forever why Does the Game After you have reached the park is full Status And you exit the game via the circle dot on your we phone button and afterwards when you want to check to see if the park is still there does it kick you out of the game completely and forces you to delete the app reinstall it and go from new again so please fix that as well thank You Very Much.
Every time we go back to change something on the latch coster it kicks us out of the game.
We have been playing this game for a year now its a great game, very fun and relaxing. But one problem when youre in sandbox mode its limited due the building has been disabled notification we wanted to expand more but we cant because of the notification. We have to keep making new parks, so we dont know if this is a bug or something, please fix this, thank you.
Bad idea you should have copied the same game as Planet coaster.
Can you add something where you can anouce anything to your coustumures pleaseee so yeah we really want that.
Like on PC you should add the DLCs for one the soaked DLC should add soaked and wild DLC.
So Ive been trying to make Mickey and Minnies runaway railway Type of ride but we cant make roofs and if we put a roof on a building That we make it just puts itself on the floor.
What more could you want! We still play this game on PC and honestly that's the best place to play it, but if you're not home or don't have a PC this is the second best place! It's def worth the price! Edit: we still play this! Please update it for the newer phones and add 120fps, or at least 60! The 30 fps is terrible in 2024.
Roller coaster tycoon three is so good.
There needs to be more rides and roller coasters to play with. There needs to be more shops & stalls. Everything looks good. We want all the rides you can think of, Frontier! Add as many rides as possible to the game.
Add the omnimovers aka doom buggys from haunted Mansion and also more rollar coasters and animatronics and add soak packs and Dino pack and Africa pack.
Would also like to see more ports from this series, like zoo tycoon.
We deleted this app on our iPad because we did not have enough storage. When we got a new iPad we had a lot more storage and we got bored so we downloaded it again it is 100% worth it. We would pay A LOT of money to get a game like this with no ads or anything.
It actually says "designed for IPad. Not verified for macOS." if you want it for your Mac. BUY THE MAC VERSION WHICH WORKS JUST FINE.
At 2023 29 sat we played this game we thought this game should have a water park and we were bored PLEASE put a water park to the game.
We are so happy this is available on our iPhone!! Please add soaked and wild to this then it would be sweet! Also please fix the bugs! Thank you.
Our cousins and we used to play this during winter when it was way to cold to go outside.
This is a good game if you want to make coasters! (And rides).
This is probably the best game we have ever played. The only thing we dont like are the graphics, but the graphics are still really good. If the graphics were planet coaster graphics it would be even more fun! But this is the best game we have ever played.
Its fun plane old vanilla RCT3. The originals dlc would have been nice but as it stands this game is a lot of fun.
The games is 100% fun but the part when it way the park is full is the part we dislike and hope the the rollersCoasters gets a better update soon so we need to makeRoller coaster tycoon4 we hope the make it to the point u can walk around with aCharacter after or even while u building the park and make it only like so your friends can join and go to your parks to ride the ride but we hope they make a option that u can make a player so u have a freedom to walk around the park and go on ride and the play the games.
We really have no problems with this we just wish theyd add the water park stuff cause thats rlly awesome too! Ill buy it if u make it we will anyways u should down load worth the money.
Please make another one. We love this game. Brings us right back to the originals.
Can the expansion packs be made available for animals and water park.
Its a great game but it should have an advanced editor like Roblox theme park tycoon where are you can angle any roller coaster move out the track and free build it instead of the regular where you push a button and it does what you dont want to do.
So it wont allow us to start a roller coaster.
It Has Everything! This Is The Best Roller Coaster Game Ive Played! Planet Coaster Is Better But This Came Out Before Planet Coaster. It Is A Great Game! PLAY IT.
Need bugs fixed and Updates for complete edition.
We Aways Wanted To play this Game for a super long time. Frontier Please Add Soaked and Wild to The Game and Add custom Scenery and Rides.
Game is amazing but their are a few issues the game hasnt been updated to fit all the latest iPhones; In addition to that it hasnt been updated in 5 Years. The game is amazing but it can get laggy at times, so performance needs to be updated. But looking past the down sides of this game the game is absolutely fun, and a good game to pass time with. But in 2021 this game is starting to show its age with its last update 5 Years Ago, and the fact its not cropped to newer iPhone Models.
Do a new update with soaked and wild and also make it to android as a free app please.
We still want more rides, and there are still a few bugs but overall we would say this game has been a life changing experience! We enjoy that we can be creative with our builds and dont get us started on the animations. We really enjoyed ur game.
Such a good game. We love it!!!! Much better than Thrillville. We honestly could play this all day and build LOTS of coaster, rides and Shops. But the only 2 things that bother us is, the game lags when you put TIO many rides and attractions in. And second the Full park is annoying we want to create as many coasters and rides as possible. At least you dont have to worry about a power limit unlike Thrillville.
We are really impressed that a PC game that required decent specs was able to be ported on an iPad and that it actually works really well. It really goes to show how far the mobile platform has come and the potential that it has similarly to games like CoD Mobile. There are a few changes though we would recommend adding in future updates: A: Add the 2 DLC packs (Soaked and Wild). Even if it costs extra to get those packs Id be willing to pay for those updates to make this already great port even better B: Allow support for 120hz screens. Although we could understand if it doesnt have support right now for a game this demanding it would be nice to have especially for doing POVs of rides. C: Add keyboard and mouse support (like the Magic Keyboard): The touch controls are good, but as someone who liked the PC version it would be nice to use keyboard/mouse for this as it would be more comfortable. Outside of those things its a great port and it really flexes the power of the iPad Pro. Looking forward to those things being added.
We need an update for this game please.
Roller coaster tycoon is great for kids like us and adults.However it takes a long time to build mountains and landscape.But overall it is a great game.
The graphic looks really good, but building is a bit challenging and slow with using touch. We found out that MacOS is also available after finishing the scenarios, so we bought it for $20. Therere VIP visitors on the MacOS/PC version. You also get WET and WILD expansion.
Its a great game but it keeps skippin after Im on it fue awhile can we get an app update for bug fixes.
Can we get the roller coaster tycoon complete edition like on Mac apple but great game.
We lost our park, Everytime we save like 2 or 3 Times, we lose our Park, Please Frontier, Fix This.
First of all, we love this game. However, we do really wish that it had the Soaked! And Wild! Expansion packs from the pc game as either in app purchases or included in the game from the start. Also, there are actually a few things from the original that were not expansions that arent in the mobile version. But seriously, we love this game.
This game is amazing. Reminds us a lot of Planet Coaster. This game has similar things to planet coaster except more details to rides and missing manufacturers. U guys are missing the Wing coaster one of our favorite types of rides. Other than that it is a great game the best behind planet coaster.
We loveeeee this game seriously but we feel like pc graphics should come to mobile graphics because not everyone has pc so p,ease just do us a favor.
Well, there are no ads! Thanks for not putting ads in the game. About 6 months ago, we were Thinking About playing planet coaster, but we played this instead.
Please provide an update! Thank you.
This game is super cool and there is so much to do. And the graphics are just incredible! You can do so much! And the rates are only 3.9. Why? We think this game is incredible we have been playing it for years! And yes we would planet coaster for pc is way better! But for Mobil… This game is just wow we this game like crazy.
This game is the best! Like, who would deny this game? 10/10.
When will u add the expansion packs like the pools and zoos.
Can you guys add more thrill rides like six flags rides thank you.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.4
- Size: 671.96 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Atari, Interactive]()
Last updated: 23rd March 2016 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Atari, Interactive