CRITICAL WARNING FOR NEW PLAYERS: MISLEADING DLC & UNAVAILABLE CONTENT!
Please be aware that this game continuously advertises a 'Bonus Rides Collection' DLC within the game itself, constantly prompting you to purchase it from the store. However, as of today, July 8, 2025, Frontier Developments has explicitly confirmed that this 'Bonus Rides Collection' DLC will NEVER be released or made available to new players. This means you will constantly be shown prompts for content you can never acquire, leading to a frustrating and incomplete experience. Do not expect to ever get this content. This is a significant deceptive practice that negatively impacts the game's value for anyone purchasing it now.
As a relatively new player who purchased Planet Coaster 2 after the pre-order period, I'm left with a mixed impression. While the core gameplay and creative possibilities are strong, the overall experience feels significantly incomplete.
A major point of frustration is the "Bonus Rides Collection" (including the Outamax Water Coaster, FD Vision, The Cube) that the game frequently prompts me to "buy," only to find it's a pre-order exclusive and not available for purchase. This is highly misleading and frustrating, as it implies content is missing that I simply cannot acquire.
This situation also negatively impacts the community. Downloading fantastic user-created parks from the Workshop often results in broken or unusable content because a significant portion of players (those who didn't pre-order) simply lack access to these specific rides. It fragments the community and hinders the sharing experience that is so crucial to Planet Coaster.
It's disappointing to buy what I expected to be a complete game (especially a "premium" edition) only to discover core content is locked behind a pre-order wall with no clear path to acquisition. I truly hope Frontier reconsiders this approach and makes this content available in the near future, as the current situation makes the game feel unnecessarily incomplete and frustrating for me and many players.