Amusement Factory

Amusement Factory is a theme park builder where you design an empty field into a park and watch a few hundred visitors make their own plans. You draw the paths, choose and place rides, shops and scenery, and manage the facilities and staff that keep the park running.

Build your park

Lay roads tile by tile and add one-way streets where crowds build up. Choose from a catalog of tens of pieces, including rides, shops, scenery and props, and rotate each piece to position it. Every ride has its own plot and queue, which you lay out yourself.

Operate the rides

The park includes roller coasters, ferris wheels, drop towers, pirate ships, teacups, carousels, sky rides, bumper cars and swings. Rides load guests, run their cycles and unload them; they also wear out and break down, costing money until a mechanic repairs them. You set ticket prices and how full a ride must be before it starts. You can also select “Ride it” to take the front seat for a full lap and look around while the ride runs.

Look after guests

Buses bring visitors to the gates, where they queue before entering and choosing how to spend their afternoon. Guests get tired, hungry, thirsty and need toilets. Their mood reflects their experiences in the park, including litter on the paths and broken rides. Provide food, places to sit and clean paths, and watch for pickpockets; cops can spot them and escort them out.

Shops and arcades

You can offer ice cream, coffee, noodles, burgers, hot dogs, popcorn, candy floss, balloons and souvenirs, as well as a sit-down cafe and vending machines for places that cannot fit a shop or stall. You set the prices, and guests give their opinions. Carpet an area for an arcade and fill it with coin-operated machines, including claw machines whose odds and teddy bear quality you control.

Lakes and boat routes

Use the water tool to dig a pond with a shore and bed. Draw a closed circuit across the water, and your boats run laps along it, passing mountains and going under bridges that guests cross above.

Campaign and free play

The campaign begins with a guided first park, followed by ten locations that you buy in order. Each has its own plot size, terrain, land price, starting grant, wage bill, difficulties and goals. Some offer a flat meadow and generous budget; others require you to design around a lake, pay to move rocks or meet a deadline. Free play instead gives you a random world and an enormous bank balance, with no goals to meet.

Park features

• Day and night, with ride bulbs, lanterns and string lights turning on after dark
• Seasons and weather, including rain that increases umbrella sales
• Cleaners, mechanics, medics, cops and firemen to hire, each paid every day
• Research across four tracks, funded at a rate you choose