Theme Park Jam

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Theme Park Jam is a Puzzle game released on mobile devices and Nintendo Switch in 2024. In this game, players must select passengers waiting in a crowd to let onto a waiting roller coaster cart, with passengers of the same color being let on and those of different colors going to a waiting area until a cart matching their color arrives.

The presentation here is pretty bland. While the game’s simple 3D cel-shaded visuals are colorful, they have no personality to them, a problem that’s made worse by the game’s terrible mobile-style cartoony sound effects and complete lack of music.

The gameplay itself does at least have some merit to it, with players needing to be careful about the order of passengers they select to ensure that they clear a path to the passengers they need to get to without clogging up the waiting area. And the game adds new elements as you continue on, not only adding more colors and necessitating the enlarging of the waiting area, but also adding new mechanics like awning blocking the view of waiting passengers until other passengers bearing umbrellas are cleared.

Unfortunately, this game is dreadfully dull, as players can only select passengers using a slow-moving cursor (or touchscreen in handheld mode), and the game is finicky about where you press to select a passenger. Add in the lifeless presentation and what should be a fun and exciting Puzzle game in a theme park is a dreary affair.

In the end, Theme Park Jam works, and is a functional Puzzle game that even tries to keep things interesting by adding in new elements as you progress, but the clunky interface and poor presentation make for a game that’s completely joyless, far from the fun a trip to the amusement park should be evoking. Even at $1, I can’t recommend this game.

tl;dr – Theme Park Jam is a Puzzle game about sorting color-coded passengers into roller coaster carts, and while it works as a functional Puzzle game, it is bereft of any joy or fun thanks to a poor presentation and a frustrating interface. Even at $1 I don’t think this game is worth bothering with.

Grade: D

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