This is where a ruthless streak is useful, as there is an optimum point at which baby animals attract their best sale price, so if you're desperate for cash, you'll need to have no qualms about separating Dumbo from his mum. The Wild! objectives are far more taxing though, requiring animal husbandry and shameless exploitation of fauna to generate income streams. The Soaked! scenarios are incredibly easy: build a pool here, add a water slide there. In a year as exhausting as 2020, itll be nice to chill out with a comfy, familiar, cathartic theme park management sim game like RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. To suggest that you're ever under pressure may be pushing it a bit in a game this sedate, but things do get challenging when the terrain of a park is uneven and space at a premium, or when severe financial constraints force you into difficult decisions. The goals you're set mainly require you to increase the value of your park and hit monthly targets for attendances, park ratings and ride-generated income. In between you're provided with a contrasting range of environments in which to complete objectives that escalate from Apprentice level up to Entrepreneur and finally, Tycoon.
The core game's campaign begins with the tastily-named Vanilla Hills, and ends 18 scenarios later on Paradise Island. Whatever you want to create, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 gives you the tools and freedom to build the amusement park of your dreams. Including its brace of expansions – Soaked! and Wild! – RCT3 provides 39 scenarios and a deeply immersive sandbox mode that's like the best Meccano set you never had.
