Ultimate Coaster vs Roller Coaster Simulator HD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ultimate Coaster
Design, build, and ride your own custom roller coasters. This creative sandbox allows you to bring your wildest coaster ideas to life, from initial track design to the final paint job. Explore pre-built coasters or start from scratch and perfect your creations.
- Create roller coasters from scratch
- Ride your custom coasters
- Paint tracks any color
- Save and load custom tracks
- Real-time coaster model generation
- Pre-loaded coaster examples
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Create your own roller coasters from scratch. Ride them. Paint them. Perfect them. This is your playground - let your imagination run free! Features: - Simple, intuitive controls - Roller coaster models generated real-time - The ability to save and load tracks - Options to paint your track any color - Comes pre-loaded with some coasters to get you started!
Roller Coaster Simulator HD
Experience the thrill of a realistic roller coaster ride. Build and customize your dream coaster, from simple themes to fully functional parks, with intuitive controls and exciting challenges.
- Realistic roller coaster simulation
- Build and customize theme parks
- Unique coaster design
- Smooth tilt controls
- Awesome challenges and levels
- New tracks and GUI
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Roller Coaster Simulator HD is the latest realistic simulation game that is high-adrenaline-pushing and a fun coaster ride to enjoy. Take control and start your real ride to have the most fun. Feel the live excitement of riding on a roller coaster only on Roller Coaster Simulator HD. The main objective is to build and enjoy the rides, with a particular focus on realistic roller coaster rides. Build your dream ride with fully customizable upgrades of your choice. Start with a simple theme and make it a fully functional roller coaster theme park. These intensely built themes, such as the park theme, water theme, and park theme, have all the fun waiting for you to just enjoy, which just waits for you to ensure an amazing, realistic roller coaster ride. Now, just by titling, it’s much easier to turn your coaster. How cool does that sound? With updated game controls, it's really fun to have better control over your own roller coaster. With this kind of realistic coaster move, it perfectly guarantees you all the fun waiting for you. All levels are uniquely designed to match your excitement level, and once you start, you will be hooked for hours. Roller Coaster Simulator HD gives you the best experience of a real-life roller coaster ride. Features Unique Coaster Design Build your own favourite themes Smooth tilt controls Amazing start-and-finish stations Awesome challenges and levels New tracks and GUI
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Roller Coaster Simulator HD at 100% against Ultimate Coaster's 54%. Roller Coaster Simulator HD also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6). Ultimate Coaster's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 4). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Ultimate Coaster sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Roller Coaster Simulator HD sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Roller Coaster Simulator HD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Coaster has 1.3K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Ultimate Coaster's written reviews are positive against 100% of Roller Coaster Simulator HD's.
Ultimate Coaster ships an update every 6 weeks, Roller Coaster Simulator HD every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ultimate Coaster | Roller Coaster Simulator HD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (1.3K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Hu | 7Seas Entertainment Limited |
Customer experience
Ultimate Coaster
Roller Coaster Simulator HD
Bugs and requests
Ultimate Coaster
Reported bugs
4 issues- Coasters disappearing after saving
- Incorrect track placements after exiting
- Freezing when trying to name a coaster
- Inconsistent controls and camera behavior
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to add scenery and theming
- More track types (e.g. wooden, winged, launch)
- Multi-train support
- Terrain editing tools
- Sharing/exporting coaster designs
Roller Coaster Simulator HD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ultimate Coaster
- Box-Spined Inverted Coaster$2.99
- Tube-spined Coaster$2.99
- Tube-spined Inverted Coaster$2.99
Roller Coaster Simulator HD
- No Ads Pack$9.99
- Big Coins Pack$12.99
- Mine Coins Pack$14.99
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- Unlock All Levels$14.99
- Unlock All Coasters$14.99
- Mega Coin Pack$19.99
Questions
Is Ultimate Coaster free?
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Do Ultimate Coaster or Roller Coaster Simulator HD have ads?
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