RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack

Worth buying? What 299 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 299 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 89%Very Positive · 89%2014

$9.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago · Lowest we’ve seen since Oct 20, 2026: $2.49

The verdict

A timeless, relaxing park-building classic with deep coaster design, best played with the free OpenRCT2 mod. Skip it if you want a trouble-free vanilla Steam launch on Windows 10/11.

Great for

Nostalgic fans and creative builders who enjoy relaxed park management and will install OpenRCT2

Main risk

Vanilla version crashes, won't launch or can't save on modern Windows, so you need a mod

What players love

Nostalgic timeless classic

Mentioned in ~3 in 5 positive reviews

“It ain't nostalgia it's just perfect.”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗

“Nostalgia overload, and it's just as good as you remember it.”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗

“I spent more than a hundred hours on this game as a kid, it's a masterpiece!”
Steam review · translated · 0.1 h played ↗

OpenRCT2 makes it much better

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“it makes this game 100x better and it was obviously great already.”
Steam review · 9.8 h played ↗

“With OpenRCT2 the game becomes a real treat”
Steam review · translated · 41.8 h played ↗

“Luckily a mod exists, Open RCT2, that adds those much needed features like allowing you to adjust the resolution better and giving you a speed up function.”
Steam review · 2.3 h played ↗

Creative, deep park and coaster building

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“It really lets you get creative and build your own dream theme park.”
Steam review · 24.4 h played ↗

“The game also has the potential for truly unlimited creativity with its own sandbox mode”
Steam review · 136.8 h played ↗

Relaxing, addictive gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“it's a great way to be a little zen for a while.”
Steam review · 63 h played ↗

“A great game for low stress optimizing and creating.”
Steam review · 15.9 h played ↗

Dark humor and sandbox mischief

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“It's fun to build death traps and endless cycles to torture guests.”
Steam review · 34 h played ↗

“Gotta love locking your mascot in jail and launching guests into the moon.”
Steam review · 19.6 h played ↗

Runs on almost any hardware

Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews

“it runs smoothly even with 50 roller coasters and 1k guests in the park”
Steam review · 12.7 h played ↗

“Great music, runs well on any sort of hardware”
Steam review · 6.2 h played ↗

What players complain about

Crashes, especially when saving

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“It crashes more often than not, and if you don't save your work every few seconds then you're screwed.”
Steam review · 213.5 h played ↗

“Crashes constantly. Love the game, but you need to be saving every 5 minutes, even prompting a save will crash 50% of the time.”
Steam review · 9.1 h played ↗

“Game frequently crashes and you loose all your progress (no auto save feature)”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗

Won't launch or run on modern Windows

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“This game just will NOT work on Windows 11 normally. It refuses to run”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“The game literally won't run on Steam.”
Steam review · 4.8 h played ↗

“Every time I try to run it, it crashes the moment I click on anything.”
Steam review · 3.8 h played ↗

Graphics init and CD/DirectPlay errors

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Game does not run, Getting error on start up "unable to initialize graphics system"”
Steam review · 4.6 h played ↗

“After installing it asks you to insert a CD.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“Game doesn't work on modern operating systems due to a dependency on a legacy software plug-in called DirectPlay.”
Steam review · 8.1 h played ↗

Needs third-party OpenRCT2 to work

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“So you need to install this fan made extension to make the game run at all.”
Steam review · 4.8 h played ↗

“If you have buy this game on steam and then go download a different launcher to play it”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

Crashes on alt-tab or minimize

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews

“Game crashes the second you tab out. Useless..”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

“If you play music or a video in the background and try to tab out to do, anything really, the game will force quit.”
Steam review · 1.8 h played ↗

Clunky, dated and slow scenarios

Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews

“the tutorial is lucrative and barebones, the park building is way too difficult to understand and the camera controls are so irritating”
Steam review · 11 h played ↗

“after you've finished the main objective of a scenario you still usually have to wait for the timer on it to run out anyway”
Steam review · 13.9 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows XP or Windows Vista

Processor1.8 GHz Processor

Memory512 MB RAM

Graphics3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7

Storage2 GB available space

OSWindows XP or Windows Vista

Processor1.8 GHz Processor

Memory512 MB RAM

Graphics3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7

Storage2 GB available space

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