Planet Zoo
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim, featuring authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them. Experience a globe-trotting campaign or let your imagination run wild in the freedom of Sandbox mode. Create unique habitats and vast landscapes, make big decisions and meaningful choices, and nurture your animals as you construct and manage the world’s wildest zoos. Meet a world of incredible animals. From playful lion cubs to mighty elephants, every animal in Planet Zoo is a thinking, feeling individual with a distinctive look and personality of their own. Craft detailed habitats to bring your animals’ natural environments home, research and manage each species to allow them to thrive, and help your animals raise families to pass their genes onto future generations. Manage an amazing living world that responds to every decision you make. Focus on the big picture or go hands-on and control the smallest details. Thrill visitors with iconic exhibits, develop your zoo with new research, and release new generations of your animals back into the wild. Your choices come alive in a world where animal welfare and conservation comes first.
Game Discussion
Steam User 244
I am a 75 year old senior who is basically a technical idiot so I have found it a little daunting to follow the training as I am not overly familiar with all the terms and guides, however I plug away with a little progress each time I play with trial and error in sandbox mode and I try to follow some of the internet samples. I will try one of the more advanced modes when I feel ready but for now I am finding it a great way to learn some of the game's quirks and enjoy the game at the same time.
Steam User 101
A very fun game overall. It is actually my most played game on Steam as of right now. I'm a kid and wanna be zoologist when I grow up. This has made me realize that even more! Thanks Frontier!
Steam User 172
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Steam User 78
When I first got this game in 2019 I was so disappointed. The micromanagement really put me off as It was so much more in depth than previous zoo games. My zoos kept failing and I stopped playing for at least a year. When I picked it up again I bought 4-5 dlcs that had been released and gave it another whirl.
After 1600 hours it's safe to say this is now my favourite game.
My tips would be:
-Do the career mode if you're a beginner
-Watch some of the amazing Youtubers, (ZSHPlays and Ladydesigner are brilliant).
-Slow down animal aging in franchise mode, it helps prevent overwhelm when trying to grow your zoo above 4 or 5 enclosures.
PROS:
10000s building pieces, you can get really creative
Beautiful graphics
Frequent updates by the developers
Franchise mode provides enough challenge for achievement driven people like myself (breeding gold shiny animals)
Educational and entertaining for my toddler
Developers Quick to fix bugs
Cons:
erm....I play it too much?
Steam User 62
Planet Zoo is really recommended for people who want relaxed gaming. If you are familiar with the franchise of Planet, then you know that you can enjoy playing for hours.
Here are some positives:
- hours of fun building, maintaining and ''walking'' through your zoo.
- The animals have natural behaviors.
- You can give the buildings any color you want.
- You can use your own images to create information boards in cages, along walkways, etc.
- It never gets boring
- Animals sometimes do nice and funny things
- Nice in-game rewards
- Albino animals can appear
Negative points:
- there could be some diversity in the appearance of visitors
- Computer can be slow when your zoo gets big
- some animals breed very fast so you can get negative visitors
- the animal exchange market can sometimes be expensive (other players offer animals for an absurdly high price)
Overall a game to definitely purchase and the DLCs are not expensive.
Steam User 69
the games amazing but to have every animal and dlc its more then 200 i feel like it should have the base game like 50$ and have all dlc already because 5 to 10 dollars for like 1 animal is overpriced
Steam User 96
Best spiritual successor to zoo tycoon. 10/10, absolutely dangerous if you have ADHD (will kill your concept of time)