Desert Oasis

Rolling sand dunes, a ring of palms and the only sweet water for a day’s ride. Turn the old caravan stop into the coolest place in the desert.

Desert sun: most summer days are heat waves, and guests get thirsty fast. Drinks, shade and water rides keep them going; the dunes need levelling or stairs.

For three hundred years the caravans stopped at Wadi Zahra, the only sweet water for a day’s ride in any direction. The camels are gone, but the palms still stand round the oasis and the tour buses still need somewhere to stop. Build a park on the sand: paths over the dunes, boats on the water, and plenty to drink. In high summer the sand reaches forty degrees, and a thirsty guest is a gone guest.

Desert Oasis is a map of rolling dunes, with flat sand between them and a palm-ringed lake in the north. The dunes have a gentle side and a steep side: level a way through or build stairs and walkways over them. The goal asks for a path out to the oasis and a big crowd with a good rating.

The climate is desert sun: heat waves on most summer days and almost no rain. Guests get thirsty fast in the heat, so the goal also asks for guests 80% happy at 3 pm on a heat-wave day with 400 or more in the park. Drinks, drinking fountains, shade and water rides are how you get there. The kit has Swan Boats for the oasis, Bumper Boats, the Splash Pad, Go-Karts, the Mine Train and the Jungle Adventure theme.

Desert Oasis is a 72 × 72 tile map of sand dunes round a palm-ringed oasis, played on the Standard setting, with the weather desert sun: heat waves most of the summer, almost no rain. You start with $15,000 in cash and a loan of $12,000 at 16% interest, and the bank lends up to $38,000. Its water is protected: it can’t be filled in. Research starts with a budget of $300. It comes with Founding Baron.