Comparison

Clue vs RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Clue

Engage in a classic murder mystery board game. Investigate a crime scene, gather clues, and deduce the killer, weapon, and location. Play solo, with friends online, or locally with this digital adaptation.

Highlights
  • Classic murder mystery gameplay
  • Virtual Cluesheet companion
  • Single-player AI challenges
  • Online multiplayer with friends
  • Local multiplayer options
  • 10 premium themed boards
Features
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Clue is now on Apple Arcade! THE ORIGINAL HASBRO BOARD GAME - It’s the classic murder mystery! Who did it? With what weapon? In which room? There’s a high-risk party at the mansion and every guest is a suspect. Roll the dice, become a detective and let Clue begin! • A BRAIN TEASER - Test your detective skills. At the start of each game, Clue will take one suspect, one weapon, and one room card from the deck, and deal the rest to the players. Be the detective and work out what cards are missing! If you ask: “Was it Colonel Mustard with the Rope in the Drawing Room?”, a player holding the Colonel, the Rope or the Drawing Room must show you their card. Enter every room in search of answers! • CLUESHEET & HINT SYSTEM - Who committed murder?! Don’t risk letting the criminal escape! Use your virtual Cluesheet companion to make a note of the suspects, weapons and rooms you can eliminate. The ideal companion for every detective: Cluesheet helps you make your deductions, perfect your strategy and solve the mystery. • FAMILY FRIENDLY - It’s the original family board game by Hasbro, suitable for players 8 years and over. It’s multiplayer fun for kids and adults. With the board game on your mobile and tablet you can take Clue wherever you go! Roll the dice and solve the mystery! • SINGLE PLAYER - Put your brain to the test against a list of AI murder suspects, online or offline! Choose your character, choose your opponents and let no criminal escape the mansion! • ONLINE MULTIPLAYER - Play Clue with your friends and find out who’s guilty on mobile, PC or Nintendo Switch! Don’t let distance stop your board game night. Play on the go, or curl up in an armchair and settle down for a night of crime and detective work, wherever you are! • LOCAL MULTIPLAYER - Play a game of Clue with people from all over the world or create a private multiplayer game to play with your friends and family. • 10 PREMIUM THEMES - Explore ten different themed boards. Listed under our exclusive original themes are hand crafted by our studio artists. o Tudor Mansion: The guests at this party have turned into a lethal combination! o Vampire Castle: In a household where every suspect is a monster, who committed the crime? o Egyptian Adventure: Search for clues, from the dark tombs of the pharaohs, to the crumbling pyramids! o Hollywood: In a land where all of life is an act, can you find the truth in the fairytale? o Murder Express: Challenge your friends to solve a mystery based on a classic Agatha Christie novel! o Sherlock: Become the great detective and solve a crime on the dark streets of London! o Snowy Peaks: Old friends have been reunited. Tensions are running high, but who’s grudge ran deep enough for murder? o Tropical Mystery: Someone has rocked this boat in a big way! It’s a luxury race to the answer! o Venetian Masquerade: Historic Venice is beautiful, but a criminal lurks beneath the colorful masks! o Wild West: From the jailhouse to the saloon, the story of Dr. Black’s end will spread far and wide. Only you can discover the truth!

About

RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+

Design, build, and manage your dream theme park with a vast array of rides, shops, and scenery. Experience classic gameplay enhanced for handheld devices, featuring hundreds of roller coaster and ride types across numerous scenarios.

Highlights
  • Combine best features from RCT 1 & 2
  • Design and build custom roller coasters
  • Create diverse rides, shops, and scenery
  • Manage park finances and staff
  • Play through 95 classic park scenarios
  • Includes Wacky Worlds and Time Twister expansions
Features
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Now on Apple Arcade, RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+ is a fresh RCT experience, combining the best features from two of the most successful and beloved RCT games in the series’ history – RollerCoaster Tycoon® and RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2. Create and run amazing parks complete with the most outrageous rides imaginable. RCT Classic+ includes a mixture of authentic playability, depth of gameplay and unique graphical style of Chris Sawyer’s original best-selling RollerCoaster Tycoon® PC Games, now enhanced for handheld devices. Packed with content, players can enjoy designing and building roller coasters and rides, landscaping parks and managing the staff and finances to keep their guests happy and the money flowing in. Can you become the next RollerCoaster Tycoon? The three expansion packs: Wacky Worlds, Time Twister and Toolkit are all included in this Apple Arcade version! Key Features: • The Original RollerCoaster Sim: Experience all the fun from the original RollerCoaster Tycoon® and RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2 games, with a new app that combines the best elements of both classic titles. • Coaster Construction: Create incredible roller coasters – Quickly build a pre-made design or use the intuitive piece-by-piece building tools to design and theme your own unique rides. • Park Designer: Keep your guests happy by building gentle or wild rides, food and drink stalls, water rides, and even transport rides to take them around the park; Customize your park by building scenery, fine-tuning the landscape, and routing the footpaths. • Park Management: Run your park’s marketing and finances to make a profit while attracting more guests; organize your staff to keep the park running well and looking its best. • Exciting Environments: Build the ultimate theme park in a variety of challenging environments, from the tranquility of Forest Frontiers to the bustling commerce of Megaworld Park. • Park Scenarios: Progress through 95 classic park scenarios from RollerCoaster Tycoon® and RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2. • Authentic Gameplay: Classic-style characterful isometric graphics and original amusement park music and sound effects. • Packed with Content: Includes hundreds of types of roller coasters and rides, and dozens of different shops, stalls, and facilities. Wacky Worlds: Find your passport and pack your bags! Wacky Worlds takes players on the ultimate trip around the globe in 17 new park scenarios! Includes exotic rides, profitable concessions and the most famous landmarks known to man including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Statue of Liberty, Great Wall of China and more! Each location is packed with opportunities for success, fun and unique challenges. Time Twister: Travel through time with 14 new park scenarios based on historical and fantasy time-themes and build a park that is truly a blast from the past (or future if you like). Play in a Prehistoric amusement park decorated with huge animated T-Rex’s and coasters such as the Raptor Ride, or choose from Mythological times, the Dark Ages, the Rock & Roll crazed ‘50s, the Future or the Roaring Twenties. Toolkit: Park Scenario Editor: Design and build your own amazing parks – Make them as easy or as challenging as you want, using your choice of scenery and rides! Includes a number of Six Flags parks to get you started. Ride Designer: Build, test, fine-tune and theme your own awesome roller coaster designs in the Ride Designer before saving them for use while playing! Import and Export: Share your saved parks, park scenarios and ride designs with friends, and try out their creations too! (Includes the ability to import most saved parks and scenarios created with the original RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 PC game).

Screenshots

Clue4 screens
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Clue at 4.8 against RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+'s 4.0. Clue also leads on ratings volume (20K vs 416) and review sentiment (69% vs 57%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clue holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clue has 20K ratings behind it against 416, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Clue's written reviews are positive against 57% of RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Clue versus RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClueRollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (20K ratings) — better4.0 (416 ratings)
Positive reviews69.4% of reviews — better56.8% of reviews
Number of ratings20K — better416
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.013
Further details — not scored
Size837 MB373 MB
Age rating12++4
DeveloperMarmalade Game Studio LimitedAtari

Customer experience

Clue

All ratings19,775 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews294 reviews
Positive69.4%
Neutral10.2%
Negative20.4%

RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+

All ratings400 ratings
Positive72.0%
Neutral9.3%
Negative18.8%
Written reviews384 reviews
Positive56.8%
Neutral14.1%
Negative29.2%

User reviews

Clue

From 20K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎮 Great game play
  • 🕹️ Fun and engaging
  • 🎨 Customizable characters and boards
  • 🧠 Challenging AI
  • 🤝 Enjoyable online play

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
  • ⏱️ Long wait times between turns
  • 🔍 Confusing note-taking system
  • 🌐 Multiplayer issues and bugs
  • 🔍 Difficulty tracking owned cards

RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+

From 416 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎉 Nostalgic game experience
  • 👍 Faithful port of the classic PC game
  • 🚀 Runs well on modern hardware

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Tiny UI elements and text on macOS
  • 🤔 Lack of UI scaling options on macOS

Bugs and requests

Clue

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Game freezes and crashes on launch
  • Online games stall and become unresponsive
  • Dynamic Island blocks important UI elements
  • Inconsistent behavior when players are eliminated
  • Inability to continue games after a player disconnects

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add difficulty settings for single player
  • Implement time limits for player turns
  • Allow note-taking on owned cards
  • Improve online game stability and responsiveness
  • Add more themes, characters, and locations

RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Cursor not visible on macOS
  • Unresponsive UI on macOS

Requested features

3 requests
  • Support for Vision app and gamepad
  • Apple TV app
  • Language localization options

In-app purchases

None

Clue

No in-app purchases

None

RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clue free?
Clue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+ free?
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clue or RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+?
Clue is rated higher. Clue averages 4.8 out of 5 from 20K ratings, while RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+ averages 4.0 from 416 ratings.
Do Clue or RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+ have ads?
Neither Clue nor RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clue or RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+?
Clue ships an update every 5 weeks, and RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+ every 5 weeks. Most recently, Clue was updated on November 1, 2026 and RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic+ on October 23, 2026.

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