35 games · every one verified from its listing · updated Aug 12, 2026
RollerCoaster Tycoon taught a generation that a theme park is a machine — rides feed queues, queues feed shops, and one badly placed bathroom ruins everything. These are the park sims in our catalogue that keep the machine running: build the rides, price the gate, watch the guests vote with their feet. The cards show each game’s monetisation up front, in a genre that practically invented the coin doubler.
Closest match: Hello! My Cozy Inn (★4.6 from 63 ratings). No forced ads: Alley Restaurant Tycoon. Solo-built: Waterpark Kingdom Simulator.
Yes — RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic is a faithful paid port of the early games and the first thing to try. This list is for after it, or for builders that take the park in a different direction.
Build timers on rides and “guest happiness” sold as boosts. A park builder lives on cause and effect; every entry here keeps that loop intact.