OpenRCT2
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Dec 3, 2025first mention
May 30, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I'd much rather someone drop https://openrct2.io/ into emscripten with open-source graphics.”
“it looks like the devs beat me to it with a JS/TS plugin system”
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“The spirit of this game lives on now in OpenRCT2”
Caveats and dissent
“it is both unethical and unlawful”
From the makers not counted in the ranking
Threads where it came up
- Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024) 4 mentions
- We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 mentions
- OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7 1 mention
- The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 mention
- IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder 1 mention
Data: openrct2.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
On the website, their joke has some formatting: “we recommend you upgrade <strikethrough>to play OpenRCT2</strikethrough> for security reasons!”
“I will need to give OpenRCT a try some time”
“I'd much rather someone drop https://openrct2.io/ into emscripten with open-source graphics.”
“it looks like the devs beat me to it with a JS/TS plugin system”
“OpenRCT2 was a direct derivative of RCT2 at first”
“it is both unethical and unlawful”
“Beware that you still need a copy of the original RCT2 game in order to play OpenRCT2.”
“The spirit of this game lives on now in OpenRCT2”