Planet Coaster on Mac

About Planet Coaster

Surprise, delight and thrill crowds as you build the theme park of your dreams. Build and design incredible coaster parks with unparalleled attention to detail and manage your park in a truly living world.
Piece-by-Piece Construction: Planet Coaster makes a designer out of everyone. Lay paths, build scenery, customize rides and make everything in your park unique with piece-by-piece construction and over a thousand unique building components. Landscape Sculpting: Play with nature and reshape the land beneath your feet. Sculpt the landscape to raise mountains, form lakes, dig caverns and even build islands in the sky, then weave coasters through your park above ground and below.
Total Authenticity: Recreate your favorite rides or leave the real world at the door. However you love to play, the most realistic rides and most realistic reactions from your guests make Planet Coaster the most authentic simulation ever.
Simulation Evolved: The deepest park simulation in gaming history rewards your skills and makes management fun. Control every aspect of your guests’ experience and watch as Planet Coaster’s world reacts to your choices in an instant.
A Living World: Every park guest is an expressive individual who thinks, feels and explores your park with their own interests and desires. Together Planet Coaster’s guests will tell you at a glance just how well your park is run.
Park Management: You’re the boss with accessible controls that make management fun. Test your skills in a campaign of creative scenarios, or just build for fun and tweak your parks to surprise, delight and thrill your guests. Communal Creation: Planet Coaster links coaster fanatics and creators around the world with the Steam Workshop community hub. Trade scenery, rollercoasters and even entire parks with other players, and add the world’s wildest creations to your own park.
Be Inspired: Discover new content from the world’s best coaster park creators every day. Browse and download content from your favorite creators, or choose from the latest designs selected by the Planet Coaster dev team.
Share Your Creativity: Whether it’s a magnificent ice cream shop or the world’s most thrilling coaster, build it, name it and share it with the planet. Join a community of creators and see your designs appear in parks around the world.

How to Run Planet Coaster on Mac

Mac Version Available

Option 1: Use Parallels

Parallels is the fastest, easiest, and most powerful option to run Windows on your Mac. Data can be shared between Mac and Windows and switching between the two is as simple as switching screens. Run it On Mac recommends Parallels as the #1 best way to run Planet Coaster on your Mac desktop or laptop.

Pros: Very Cost-Effective; Easily transfer files; Easily switch between Windows & Mac.

Cons: May see a slight decrease in performance; Cost varies from $50-80 for a personal license.

Option 2: Use Bootcamp

Boot Camp is a boot utility included with most Apple desktop and laptop products that allows users to install a Windows operating system alongside the native macOS/OS X operating system. Using Bootcamp is a relatively technical process and should probably only be undertaken by someone who understands the process.

Pros: Free; Good option if you need high performance or are using an older machine.

Cons: Switching between operating systems requires a restart; difficult, technical installation process.

Planet Coaster System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 7 SP1 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (64 Bit)
    • Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core 3.2 GHz / AMD Athlon II X4 3.1 GHz
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 240 / nVidia GeForce GT 740
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 10 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Any sound card compatible with DirectX
    • Additional Notes: WARNING!!! Correct program operation on laptops and on computers with integrated video cards is not guaranteed! Recommended system requirements for the Oculus Rift & HTC Vive are determined by the equipment manufacturer.
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 7 SP1 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (64 Bit)
    • Processor: Intel Core i3 3.2 GHz / AMD FX 4xxx 3.6 GHz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: AMD Radeon R7 250X / nVidia GeForce GTX 750
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 10 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Any sound card compatible with DirectX
    • Additional Notes: WARNING!!! Correct program operation on laptops and on computers with integrated video cards is not guaranteed! Recommended system requirements for the Oculus Rift & HTC Vive are determined by the equipment manufacturer.

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