Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 12:41 am
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic – Strategy Game Review
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic is a Strategy/Entertainment/Simulation game from Atari, Interactive, first launched in 20th December 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,182+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic Stand Out
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic is a new RCT experience, combining the best features from two of the most successful and beloved RCT games in the series’ history – RollerCoaster Tycoon® and RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2.
Create and run amazing parks complete with the most outrageous rides imaginable. RCT Classic includes a mixture of authentic playability, depth of gameplay and unique graphical style of Chris Sawyer’s original best-selling RollerCoaster Tycoon® PC Games, now enhanced for handheld devices.
Packed with content, players can enjoy designing and building roller coasters and rides, landscaping parks and managing the staff and finances to keep their guests happy and the money flowing in.
Can you become the next RollerCoaster Tycoon?
PLEASE NOTE: Additional content for RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic is available via In-App Purchase, specifically the three expansion packs: Wacky Worlds, Time Twister and Toolkit. The expansion packs are the ONLY content that require an In-App Purchase and In-App Purchases are not used anywhere else in the game.
Key Features:
•The Original RollerCoaster Sim: Experience all the fun from the original RollerCoaster Tycoon® and RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2 games, with a new app that combines the best elements of both classic titles.
•Coaster Construction: Create incredible roller coasters – Quickly build a pre-made design or use the intuitive piece-by-piece building tools to design and theme your own unique rides.
•Park Designer: Keep your guests happy by building gentle or wild rides, food and drink stalls, water rides, and even transport rides to take them around the park; Customize your park by building scenery, fine-tuning the landscape, and routing the footpaths.
•Park Management: Run your park’s marketing and finances to make a profit while attracting more guests; Organize your staff to keep the park running well and looking its best.
•Exciting Environments: Build the ultimate theme park in a variety of challenging environments, from the tranquility of Forest Frontiers to the bustling commerce of Megaworld Park.
•Park Scenarios: Progress through 95 classic park scenarios from RollerCoaster Tycoon® and RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2.
• Authentic Gameplay: Classic-style characterful isometric graphics and original amusement park music and sound effects.
• Packed with Content: Includes hundreds of types of roller coasters and rides, and dozens of different shops, stalls, and facilities.
Additional Content Available with In-App Purchases:
1)Wacky Worlds Expansion Pack:
Find your passport and pack your bags! Wacky Worlds takes players on the ultimate trip around the globe in 17 new park scenarios! Includes exotic rides, profitable concessions and the most famous landmarks known to man including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Statue of Liberty, Great Wall of China and more! Each location is packed with opportunities for success, fun and unique challenges.
2)Time Twister Expansion Pack:
Travel through time with 14 new park scenarios based on historical and fantasy time-themes and build a park that is truly a blast from the past (or future if you like). Play in a Prehistoric amusement park decorated with huge animated T-Rex’s and coasters such as the Raptor Ride, or choose from Mythological times, the Dark Ages, the Rock & Roll crazed ‘50s, the Future or the Roaring Twenties.
3)Toolkit:
Park Scenario Editor: Design and build your own amazing parks – Make them as easy or as challenging as you want, using your choice of scenery and rides! Includes a number of Six Flags parks to get you started.
Ride Designer: Build, test, fine-tune and theme your own awesome roller coaster designs in the Ride Designer before saving them for use while playing!
Import and Export: Share your saved parks, park scenarios and ride designs with friends, and try out their creations too! (Includes the ability to import most saved parks and scenarios created with the original RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 PC game).
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th June 2025
Recent improvements include:
Fixed an issue that could cause freezing on loading and saving screens.
Fixed graphics stretching on some devices.
Fixed some cut off UI in certain scenes on specific aspect ratios.
Various other minor bug fixes and improvements.
Download & Availability
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic 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:
Im so happy they made this for iPad. MY LIFE HAS CHANGED SIGNIFICANTLY.
Its exactly like the original but even easier to use because of the touch screen. One of the only games Ive paid to play. Im not disappointed.
Just like the classic and so much fun. Great job. Now they just need to add the animal and water park packs to RCT3 and that will also be as great as this one.
We are absolutely in love with this game of the child, but it says that this app has an app purchasers to buy expansion packs. We cant figure out how to do that. We want the expansion because it has a bunch of this parks that are locked and we cant get to him. We only have maybe one then we still need to win we have up to Ruby unlocked completely unlocked but that fire and onward we dont how do we get those? Do we have to buy an expansion pack for that and if do how theres nowhere on them for us to do in app purchases help we want more. We dont want this to be the end.
You just made our year by making this computer game mobile. Besides lemmings coming out with its own game. This has to be the best thing ever! Ive missed this game so much! Thank you.
We have gotten all the maps done like 77 times and it is so much easier than any other game idk why though.
This is what games should be. No pay wall and no time based upgrades. From the second you open the game you have access to all of the features as if you just plugged in the CD. Of course, you have to progress through the game so that you learn the fundamentals before unlocking more advanced gameplay dynamics but its a well designed, timeless game. If there were more games like this in the App Store the world would be a better place. Hopefully Zoo Tycoon Classic becomes available someday.
Absolute nostalgia. Well designed and easy to use on iPhone. We havent run into a single issue since downloading and playing. THANK YOU DEVELOPER(S).
As soon as we started playing this, we knew that we were gonna have a blast from the past the charming pixel art, the awesome music, it was tickling all our senses. This game truly helped us fight our fungal infection.
We got this game because we were bored and it looked fun, got this game at like 8:00pm and played it until 1:00 am, we got addicted to trying not to go bankrupt because we hired a lot of people and made bad decisions on ride costs, its a real fun game so five star.
Ok so this game is great but we've noticed that there are no kids and normally there are kids at parks so we would really like a new update with kids that cry scream and take pictures with the mascots. And another one you guys should totally make a photo booth. But this game is so time consuming and relaxing. 5 STARS.
They did a GREAT job making this game feel just like the original. We only wish (a) we could charge park admission fees, and (b) REALLY wish there was a sandbox option where everything was unlocked/unlimited money. That would mean MANY more hours of fun/creative gameplay.
There seems to be no new game option or reset option thats the only big down side about this game! Other wise great just like back in the day.
Since we have adhd and autism and your are not allowed to add bankruptcy.
New update and all the sound stopped working for this game on all our iPads.
Sooo we love this game so much it has been so much fun going down memory lane. We think we have completed all of the levels before gold and silver but we cant scroll down. Now they are left locked and we have completed all that we can click on. HELP.
We love this game so much we purchased all of the dlc including the one where you can import and export coasters. Down side is importing coasters does not work no matter what we do. Doesnt matter if its thru email, download folder, browser or whatever. App will launch if we click an import file but no importing happens. Can we get some help or a fix for this.
It seems like since the last update the app now crashes while playing a scenario we created. We can load the park but it last 5-10 seconds and thin crashes, the app quits.
Its CRAZY we cannot charge an entree fee to our parks please patch it for us.
Since the release of the Apple Arcade version, the game has been experiencing frequent freezing issues. As someone who has purchased both the game and additional content, we feel it is unfair to long-time players that these problems have not been addressed. We respectfully request that these issues be prioritized and resolved to ensure a fair experience for all players.
BEST GAME EVER!!!!! IF YOU WANT TO PLAY A GOOD GAME, GET THIS GAME!! RollerCoaster tycoon.
The first update in seven years, fixing bugs and glitches and adding sync capability across. All devices is amazing.
Its just the old games, exactly like you remember them. So wonderful to play them again. All of the nostalgia is here for you to relive. Im here for it.
Thank you for releasing this game for for the iPhone.
Finally we can play again because the app was updated and not the buttons dont go off the screen. But why do we need a zoom button on screen when we can pinch and zoom? It gets in the way when trying to rotate the camera and we accidentally hit it, and it doesnt even match the UI.
This is probably the best game to kill some time, like if you need to wait 2 hours for an airplane flight to take off. The only downside is it can get very stressful towards the end, or you could spend 3 hours doing the scenario and end up losing last second. But still great.
This is absolutely great! But not being able to charge admission is annoying.
It feels just like the pc version, with a modern touch.our only complaint is theres no option to change the park entrance fee.Please fix this, other than this issue, its stable and fun, just like the original.
We love that this made it to iPad. We lost many hours as a teen playing it on PC. The port was done very well UI is great. Works very well with the touch screen interface. Our only issue so far is a bug. When using The Park scenario editor you cant get construction rights to build over paths outside of the park. While doing the edit it looks like you get them but it goes away as soon as you move off the landscape editor. We remember this same bug on the PC version but a fix was released. Guess this is based off the original version without the bug fix.
For some reason the since the update, the scenery in the build mode is deleting its self. Please fix.
The most recent update messed up the aspect ratio of the park when zoomed out and added a zoom in icon with no option to remove it while it serves no real purpose. Loved the game before the update, but the update was not the move.
We love playing the roller coaster games but we just hate that we cant place the ride exactly where we want to cause we can touch and pint our finger on our screen where we want to place the ride instead of dragging our finger and placing the ride where we want to its hard and on the diamond height park the value is super high yall need to make that park value cheaper than 300,000 we just got on our cd of the game the the value was 20,000 park value to get to pass the park if this is the classic game why aint it the same like it was when the game came out so please update the game so it can be earlier to play the game for everyone.
Im having fun. But the save button glitches. We hit save and it immediately exits out the app and doesnt save.
We really enjoyed playing the game. However there are some things we wish they would update. We also had reached out and asked how do we restart the overall game, and they never resolved that issue.
There have been lots of bugs since we first downloaded this years ago, but still fun. Since this new update, every time we zoom out while playing our screen is skewed.
We LOVE THIS GAME. We had a save file we were working on for HOURS and this morning with the new update our entire save was lost and the new ratio looks terrible on an iPhone. Before, it filled the screen. Now, its blocky and looks bad. Im very upset.
When we delete a coaster it leaves behind railing that floats in air. We are unable to build over that area due to this.
Who ever rates this below a 5 is an idiot. This is the same RTC we played as kids.
We spend hours on this app every day since we got it. There were a few significant bugs that had gone unfixed for 7 years, so we were hesitant to leave a positive review. But they finally released an update that fixes all/most of these bugs. There are still a few minor new bugs with the UI change, but the dev team seems very responsive and they seem to be working diligently to fix them.
Love this game, we thought the update would never come.
Thank you so much for updating!!!! Can you please add more expert scenarios/expansion packs? We have completed everything.
Iv been waiting for this day for so long. We can finally play on our iPhone after years of waiting. Screen is scaled correctly doesnt look super blurry. Its a good day.
Great to have an update again! Look forward to starting back up.
With the new update to add the game to Apple Arcade, the notes claimed the game was optimized for modern devices. And while the game doesn't interfere with the notch on our phone anymore, it's clear the parks graphics were just "squished" rather than be properly scaled. All the buildings and elements look wrong and the animations are off-putting. The UI windows and other elements were scaled correctly, but not the main gameplay graphics. Please address this.
Nothing else to say but thank you for brining this to mobile.
Played this 4 hours straight last night. Loved how they simplified controls and gameplay.
This is the magnum opus of RCT. It runs smoother than it did on our childhood pc and we look forward to spending more decades of vomit inducing bliss.
Sound will work on occasion, Ive done everything on our part that we know of to try and fix and still no difference.
Very fun and addicting game! We just wish it was a little cheaper like 2.99 instead but it is worth it imo.
Please make a part two the exact same one roller coaster tycoon three is not it! Love this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.435
- Size: 373.66 MB
- iOS: 13 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Atari, Interactive
Last updated: 30th June 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Entertainment | Developer: Atari, Interactive