Best Rides To Buy First In Planet Coaster 2

Key Takeaways

• Choose smaller rides early on in Career mode scenarios to optimize limited space and budget.
• Consider blueprints like Viking Sky Beam and Splintery for park success and visitor satisfaction.
• Incorporate diverse ride options like Minder and Resurgence to cater to varying visitor interests.

Whether you’re immediately jumping into Sandbox mode to build your own park from scratch or diving into the Career mode scenarios in Planet Coaster 2, you’re going to have limited options when it comes to what rides you can build early on.

You need to think about a few things when deciding what to build. Financial cost, how easy they are to build if you’re doing it manually, visitor ratings, and size all need to be kept in mind. Since your money and ground space is limited in Career mode, you need to make the most of your park and build the rides that make the most sense. You can’t be building coasters that cost $30,000 and take up half of your park’s space, so here are the rides you should build first.

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Viking Sky Beam

Flat Ride

Many of the objectives in the Planet Coaster 2 Career mode ask you to build three to five flat rides in your park, but the terrain design means you don’t have much space. Therefore, it’s smart to build smaller rides to complete the objectives quickly.

The Viking Sky Beam, or the standard Sky Beam if you want to build one without a theme, is a vertical ride that is exciting and doesn’t take up too much space. It’s quite expensive for a flat ride blueprint, but the 4.05 Fear rating is perfect for attracting large groups of visitors.

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Splintery

Coaster

Many of the reasons to choose certain flat rides apply to coasters too. Since coasters can be expensive and massive, you need to be very selective in the early Career mode scenarios.

Splintery is a Wooden coaster that is on the smaller side of the pre-designed blueprints. Therefore, you can still use it in parks that have limited space or when you can’t afford to purchase new expansions. Also, with 6.04 Excitement and 0.52 Nausea, you’re going to struggle to find a coaster that visitors enjoy more.

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Minder

Coaster

Minder is the other coaster blueprint that’s worth buying in the early hours of Planet Coaster 2. It’s also on the small side, so it is useful in Career mode, but it’s also cheaper than Splintery at $16,419. However, with a significantly lower excitement rating, it probably won’t be as popular or impact your Park Prestige as much as other options.

What you can do is attempt to have both Minder and Splintery in your park as soon as possible. Since all visitors have different tastes and needs, you can cater for most interests by having these two rides in your park.

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Synchronise

Flat Ride

Synchronise is another flat ride that doesn’t take up much space at all, so it can be placed in and around awkward terrain and existing coasters. It’s also on the cheaper side as a result.

It’s also a flat ride that should attract a lot of visitors. It’s not the wildest of rides, so it will attract families and riders who aren’t after anything overly thrilling. Once you get to building a more serious park, the Synchronise flat ride might be a bit basic for you, but it’s perfect for the early parks and scenarios.

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Resurgence

Flat Ride

Resurgence is an even more extreme option if you’re looking for something similar to the Sky Beam flat ride. It’s a vertical ride, sending riders up and down a tall structure, so it doesn’t take up much space on the ground. It’s easy to fit in around other attractions.

Of course, it’s let down a little by its attraction ratings, with none of Excitement, Fear, or Nausea being in the green, but none are bad enough to turn people away entirely. It’s also on the expensive side for flat rides in Planet Coaster 2, with a price over $5,000. Since you have to design it yourself, that price will also increase as you add scenery, entrances, and exits.

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Floorless

Coaster

If you’re looking to build your first coaster yourself, the Floorless base is the best to start with. Not only is it easier to build than others, but it’s also one that a lot of visitors enjoy. You can build a nice and simple ride that hits all the Excitement, Fear, and Nausea requirements, but it’s just as easy to build an impressive ride that only thrill seekers will want to go on.

In the early Career mode scenarios, you might struggle to find the space to make a ride that’s long and complex, but Floorless is at least a good one to pull up and experiment with.

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Nerodia

Water Coaster

Now, don’t be too scared of the price here. Yes, you’ll need a lot of funds for Nerodia, but it’s the first high-quality water coaster you get access to in Planet Coaster 2.

When building a water park, you’ll soon need to expand out of pools and flumes and offer your visitors something a little more impressive to boost your Park Prestige. For a long time, Nerodia is the only option you’ll be given. It has good Entertainment, Fear, and Nausea ratings, it’s simply a little expensive for some scenarios.

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Wild Blue

Flat Ride

Wild Blue is one of only a handful of flat rides in Planet Coaster 2 that has a green rating in more than one of Excitement, Fear, and Nausea. The rating of the latter factor is higher than you’d probably like, but guests will enjoy the other two ratings.

It’s another vertical ride that won’t take up much room. Also, at just $2,350 it’s one of the cheapest options for building early in the game. You’ll need to construct it yourself though, so don’t forget to add scenery to boost the ride’s rating.