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To truly succeed in the eyes of both you, its creator, and the visitors that come through its gates, this theme park needs to be remarkable.

It needs to be the kind of place that brings smiles to the faces of every single cartoon customer that walks through its gates: wonder-filled child, skeptical teen, and cynical adult alike.

It is a truly engrossing experience, one that hides all of its complexityand trust me when I say that Planet Coaster truly is complexunderneath a vibrant veneer of bold colour, charming characters, and ingenious details.

More than anything, it feels like just what 2016, the most miserable year on record, truly needs.

Over my 17-hours playing Planet Coaster, its made me smile more than perhaps any other game Ive played this year.

The Sims, Theme Park World, Rollercoaster Tycoon; the rise of consoles into the mainstream saw these kinds of PC exclusive games slide into the fringes, despite their popularity.

Therefore, its no surprise at the response Planet Coaster received when it entered beta, and people saw just how deep its raft of different tools made it.

This is something that Frontier Developments has capitalised on so smartly with its persistent space sim, Elite Dangerous, and uses the same approach here.

Planet Coaster is surprisingly user-friendly considering how deep you can go, but there is something of a learning curve while you get to grips with how things work.

While its tempting to head straight into the Career mode, this, sadly, is where Planet Coaster is the least compelling.

Career places you in one of several different pre-made parks, and gives you some basic objectives to complete.

The first, for example, is a surprisingly enticing looking pirate themed park where you have to attract a certain number of guests through the gates, and build some more rides to entertain them.

The former is just a case of having enough rides to entice more visitors through the gates.

As you progress the objectives get incrementally tougher, but they dont ever become particularly meaningful or interesting.

The main takeaway is that paths and walkways are everything to the success of your park.

Visitors will only go where there are pathways, which means that every shop, toilet, and ride must be connected properly, or it wont make any money.

At first, this can be confusing: many of Planet Coaster s build-and-create mechanics are well designed, but pathways can be fiddly, frustrating beasts when they want to be.

Id find that paths wouldnt quite connect how I wanted, and I still find it odd that there seems to be no ability to create open spaces for people to congregate, like town squares where you can create hubs of activity that then splinter off in different directions.

Terraforming terrain can be tricky, particularly to get things to look natural, but I soon found that I could quickly fix any errors I made, using the smoothing and roughening paintbrushes to make hills look like hills, and valleys look like valleys.

Each of the biomes you choose at the main menu has a basic theme, so you decide whether you want your park set somewhere hot and tropical, or crisp and alpine, but you can then paint surfaces depending on what you want to create.

Beaches, rocky plateaus, and meadowy stretches of grass require a subtle touch to get them looking organic and not artificial, but practice truly makes perfect.

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