Game Navigation

The best way to learn how to move around your theme park and use the in-game menus is to complete the Prologue in Career mode. The Prologue will give you all the information you need to create and manage your parks, all while showing it in action.

To view the specific controls for your chosen platform, check out our Controls Overview (including useful shortcuts).

Camera Modes

Exploring your park has never been simpler! There are a few different ways you can look around your theme park.

Switch between these camera modes to see every detail:

• Normal – moves and rotates the camera around a fixed point in front of it.
• Freelook – moves and rotates the camera around itself.
• 1st Person – moves the camera around at guest height, allowing you to experience your park from their point of view.
• Cinematic – positions the camera, changing the angles automatically, to follow guests, entertainers and even your rides to get the best view of the action.
• Guest – see through your guests’ eyes as they explore the park, jump on rides and slide down flumes. Switch to different viewpoints on rides by cycling through seats, rows and carriages.
• Interest – allows you to choose which camera angle you want to see most. Different attractions will have different options to choose from.
• Ride Cam – accessible via a ride's info panel, you can enjoy a ride yourself, choosing the train, car and seat to view from.

Keeping track of all your tasks as Park Manager is no small job!

At a glance, your bottom bar shows you the basic information you’ll need every day. You’ll also be able to view a selection of control shortcuts.

Quickly navigate the Browser to select blueprints or custom objects to build and develop your theme and water parks with. These include:

• Coasters
• Flat Rides
• Tracked Rides
• Flumes
• Pools
• Facilities
• Staff
• Scenery

You’ll also find building tools along the bottom bar.

• Pathing Tools
• Scenery Brush
• Terrain Tools
• Demolish
• Multi-Select

Along the top left-hand side, you’ll find the shortcuts to the Park Management menu, Park Expansion menu and Notifications menu and, in Career Mode, the Objectives menu. If you’re looking for a specific notification, you can separate them out by area.

As your park progresses, urgent notifications will appear for rides, paths and anything else that needs your immediate attention with shortcuts to take you to the issue. These buttons will glow red so don’t ignore them for long!

At the top of your screen, you’ll also find the Heatmaps button. To learn more about heatmaps, take a look at the Park Management guide.

Radial Menu

Moving through multiple menus is a breeze with the Radial Menu, which contains frequently used options and settings that change to suit different situations.

The Radial Menu is fully contextual and will always provide useful options for your current activity. Building a path? The Radial Menu will contain toggles for snapping and path extras. Editing a coaster? You’ll instead find options for deleting, smoothing or angling sections of track.

Game Speed

You won’t have a second to waste with all there is to do as Park Manager!

In the lower right-hand corner of your screen in the browser you’ll see the game speed controls. Here you can undo and redo actions, as well as pause, start and speed up game time.