Though Planet Coaster guests visit in groups, Zac was a loser who was visiting my park alone. This old, trusted classic was therefore an obvious choice for my first Planet Coaster murder. You can even delete a populated path suspended over a river, plunging a whole crowd into a lake and creating a minigame of picking out as many as possible before they disappear beneath the surface.

Choose a candidate, pick them up by their tiny arms with arcade machine pincers and hurl them into the water. In Planet Coaster’s spiritual predecessor RollerCoaster Tycoon, drowning is by far the easiest way to dispatch of your guests. The latest offering in this genre, Planet Coaster, released last week, and it only seemed appropriate to baptise it in virtual blood and fire. One of the unintended joys of playing amusement park simulators is operating the park in such a way that the only person it brings amusement to is you - the omnipotent force to whose whims guests and roller coaster tracks must bend. This story originally appeared in November 2016.

So, upon completing several challenges in Planet Coaster, I decided to reward myself with a nice, traditional drowning. Because it’s so tailored that they must have done something, right? Psychological and physical torment, in one convenient package. Individual tragedy lets you enjoy the subtleties of suffering, and forces your subject to wonder what they did to deserve it. I like to mete out my fury in teaspoons, slipped to my guests one by one. Too much indiscriminate death and destruction. Contrary to how most people play RollerCoaster Tycoon, crashes aren’t my first preference.

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