Little Kitty, Big City
Little Kitty, Big City
Game
Game2008
Ride! Carnival Tycoon
Developer Gabriel Entertainment
Are you ready to build the Greatest Midway on Earth? Summer nights, flashing lights, stomach churning rides, girls and guys all combine to make the perfect carnival. Attract them, thrill them, feed them, frighten them, and leave them yearning for more! Run your own traveling carnival. From the Steam store page
35 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Apr 19, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
43
Mixed
15 positive · 20 negative
95% range 28–59%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
22 of 50 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
35 of 35 · most liked first2.3/10 - A Low-End Tycoon Game I hope my Sims had more fun at the carnival than I did! This game simulates running a carnival. You can choose state fair, parking lot or backyard... Woohoo! There is also a finite amount of items you can place and no development creativity of your carnival except for placement. For this reason I can't recommend this game. It's really boring, and way overpriced. You can typically find this game in simulator bundles for cheap to nothing. Worth $0.30 or so.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A horrid tycoon, please save your money on this one 1/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are looking for a game to mircomanage resources, but with low quality graphics, this game could be for you. It wasn't what I considered a Tycoon game. It has potiential though, I wouldn't recommend it yet though.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awful game. Doesn't even come close the similar titles in the genre. I can't even remember what made me buy this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty fun smaller kind of game, nothing on the scale of Rollercoaster Tycoon or anything though, have an assortment of small maps, make a carnival by placing attractions such as ring tossing or duck shooting, place small rides. food and drink stores, power generators to run the carnival, benches, bins, etc.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's easy to tell why this is bad - the publisher is ValuSoft - notorious for shovelware. This is no exception! Obviously it wants to be Roller Coaster Tycoon/Theme Park but without the ability for the player to design custom roller coasters. Off to a great start! It gets worse. There's only about 30 objects you can place, and it doesn't really matter where you put them. You don't need to worry about paths and things, guests just sort of wander in and bounce around. At best, the game is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to play this game for such a long time but all through, I really can't recommend this game. This game has very poor graphics just to be honest, the lights will flicker. The cannies don't care or repair the rides nor there's staff other than them. RCT 3 is much more better than this piece of crap and that's how I see it compared to this. 1/10 - for awful carnival tycoon game!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not buy this, please. It is pure garbage. Is anyone here old enough to remember those games we used to get on these 500 games cd roms that came on magazines? This game is like those games. Only worse
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the worst games I have ever played, the worst camera follow and movement. Silly rides and people that swarm the place. Don't get told what to do you just figure it out. For each individual bench you have to go to the menu and pres the down button several times to choose it, as scroll does not work and then place 1 bench and then do the thing again to place again. Bad game!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you ever wanted to control a carnival then this is the game for you! Its entertaining and you use strategy and placement of things to succed in the game. Not a must have but a burn a couple mins here and there type of game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is hit and miss but this game is not as bad as people think it to be. Let me begin by saying I've played this game in short intervals depending on my time from basically 2007 to now. I ended up buying the game cheap from a Babbages back in the day at a mall, and I played it on my XP, so I've got a lot of experience in this game and how it works. - The design is simple. That is why I play it. - When I was a kid, I didn't want to play Rollercoaster Tycoon and instead prefered '3D games',…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of my favourite game when i was 10 ^^
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Easy for the grandkids to use.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i want my monny back
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well worth it on sale, not for full price, though.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like a cheep game that is the cheep version of Roller coster Tycoon this game is for you. Bottom line game sucks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rip off of theme park with no soul
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good old game if you like controling your own little carnival then this game is great for it :) 4/5
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would recommend this if, like me, you have nostalgic memories of trolling NPCs in sandbox mode with only a ticket booth, a generator, and a soda shop. (Despite their anger, they will still pay!) Otherwise, there are much better management games out there. This one just happened to be my introduction to Greed 101 and now I perfectly understand how U.S. real estate developers think.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dont know if its good or bad but its fun its basicily planet coaster but worse graphics and very VERY few rides but it has good parts i would recomend it if you want a cheap game overall rating 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is f*cking stupid. Firstly the UI is awful. You can't mouse-scroll down the pages, having the single click on everything. Every. Single. Time. Once you place something, you can't move/rotate it. So you gotta delete it, go back through the tedious menu to find it and place it back. There's also no copy/paste. Want 20 benches? That'll cost you valuable time clicking. Second, WHY do the patrons spawn INSIDE the f*cking park and not from the outside where all my TOLL BOOTHS ARE!?…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →yes it's not the best tycoon game but its a better than rct 1 and 2 to me because you can at least ride the rides
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is not Planet Coaster or Roller Coaster Tycoon but for a small old retro carnival game it is something similar and relaxing. It was kinda fun if you watch my YouTube Channel your welcome to give the two videos a look. I believe I got this in a bundle if I remember? It was so long ago I forgot but the game has been sitting in my library for so long I thought ♥♥♥♥ it why not give it a try just to see what it is about. If your looking for something different that is fun and easy going…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here is a game I am also glad to have again. It was always my second favorite amusement park tycoon game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very limited as far as rides and utilities go. Not like the usual tycoon games, this on is not as detailed and doesn't let you really create anything new or add fences, flowers, sidewalks, etc. It's too basic for me I guess... cute for kids though I guess. I will say that the ride simulators look and feel like the real thing... just like being on a ride at a carnival - so that's a plus on that
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't waste your time & money...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crap , pure unadulterated crap A.I and U.I are horrid, to the point like you cant tell the "carnies" (the people who would repair a ride) where to go, and cant put broken rides on the list. After a while all my rides were broken , and I hired 40 carnies (I had like 6 rides among other stuff) just to see if any of them would fix any of the rides, 2 in game days passed, and nope , they just roamed arround . I wish I could get a refund =(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tags: Tycoon&Simulator&Sim&City Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Shovelware quality. Manage building decay. Manage budgets. Grind upgrades. Feels rehashed and formulaeic. Review: This is a tycoon game in which you must manage building degradation, and gradually roll out additional buildings to attract, please, and make cash off customers. Having to manage employees, attraction repair electricity. The game is audiovisually disappointing, there is not a whole…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty much what everyone else is saying. . .not worth the money you pay. I liked the idea of taking on the carnival/fair idea vs. the theme park. I thought maybe it might be a eurotrucker meld with rollercoaster tycoon....but nope...its just a stripped down version of a bad roller coaster tycoon. Fun for a minute and then I wanted my money back. Bummer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rubbish. No tutorial. Horrible controls (can't even turn objects around???). Bland, bland game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very good graphics and sounds
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is fun to play, until all the rides start to break down. the game definiteley could have been one of the great tycoon games if it wasn't so diffucult.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ya never would have bought this one, but it came for free with the package, its so badly coded even a kid could do better, sorry programmer, but go back to school plz or find another job.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Those people are upside down. Why are they upside down??
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rollercoaster Tycoon ripoff
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