
However, prop sizes are sadly restricted, stopping you from making small rocks big and big rocks small. Every scenery prop allows you to change its size and rotation, allowing for variations as you clutter up areas with crates, shrubbery and more. Some of these restrictions are due to the limitations in the ways you can manipulate individual props. Nevertheless, there is enough here to make a branching, varied theme park, but an actual themed park is difficult to map without intense repetition. There are certainly limitations as with all park sims on launch, there are only a handful of themes to choose from and a rather sparse selection of props for each. You’ll also have to make sure you have enough mechanics, janitors, entertainers and more, and the space to let them rest.Īs your park expands, you’ll increase your appeal, unlocking new rides, shops, scenery props and more. While you build, you’ll have to keep a keen eye on your funds, micromanaging the price of tickets and individual food items to keep everything profitable without annoying guests.

Straight off the bat, Limbic Entertainment wants you to know that the impossible is possible, but only when it allows you to.Ĭlick to enlarge Every ride has a Ride Cam mode, allowing you to view your park from your guests' point of view One day, your mind-bending coaster design is discovered by the thrill-seeking Blaize Megatronic who tasks you with building a fully functioning rollercoaster through a bustling city.

In the campaign mode, you play as a “Visioneer”, Park Beyond’s version of Disneyland’s Imagineers. On the other hand, the game’s campaign mode offers a basic, albeit cinematic, extended tutorial to get park managers acquainted with the basics of running their own theme park. The latter mode is what you’d expect of every theme park tycoon game - you’re given an empty plot and tasked with building the world’s greatest theme park. Park Beyond is a game of two halves: campaign and sandbox.

Nevertheless, Limbic’s first jab at the momentously imposing park tycoon subgenre is still a joy to experience. And while there is enough space to create the rides of your dreams, not everything your brain can imagine can be achieved. However, while the new theme park simulator does dabble in exploring the impossible, you, the player, are still tethered to practicality.

The Tropico developer’s spiritual successor to Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 does away with the restrictions of physics to provide a mind-bending, Tomorrowland-like experience to your bustling theme park of thousands of guests. Limbic Entertainment’s Park Beyond wants you to do the impossible.
