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.
Steam User 520
---{ 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
---{ 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 343
this game has changed my life and I'm not exaggerating,
I am an autistic person and one of my biggest hyper-fixations my whole life has been zoo's, I used to play Minecraft mods with animals in them and make my own little zoos and I would play games like zoo tycoon for the Xbox and religiously watch Lego zoo speed builds. A fond memory of when I was little was when me and my family would go to Australia zoo, It's one of my favourite memories as a child, now that I'm older I am a big fan of simulator and sandbox type games.
This game is perfect for me because it brings me nostalgia from my childhood and it fits with my current interests, at first it was hard to work out but the tutorial mode helped me tons, the game is packed full of animals and it feels really realistic, my favourite part of this game is the enclosure making, I feel like I can express my creativity with how in depth the building is in the game, it reminds of the sims 4 in a way as it is incredibly beautiful, the animals are adorable and I love seeing them grow and taking care of them, I also love the humans silly designs.
the only negatives to the game is that you need a reasonable computer but it works on cheap ones and gaming laptops. Despite the small community in my country it is a beautiful and engaging game with consistent updates and a really full base-game, with cheap dlc too which is nice as I only get steam money on my birthday XD, I believe that if your a fan of simulator games this game is perfect for you, it is fully customisable and with franchise mode not being incredibly challenging and having challenge game modes it should keep u occupied and even become a hobby of yours!
Steam User 173
Cons:
- it barely explains the controls
- building can be a massive pain
- trying to set up work zones and keep employees happy requires an engineering degree or something
Pros:
- the animals are cute
- once you figure things out you can build some pretty impressive zoos
- you can make custom buildings to house your employee buildings, and save the blueprints for use in other zoos
- the career mods story line is kind of interesting
Def recommend playing career mode to learn the game, since it also unlocks decorations for you to use in other zoos (mostly animal statues, but they're kinda cute animal statues.) I didn't expect there to be a sort of story line with career mode when I started it, but there is and it's kind of interesting to follow along in! Some of the animals can be annoying with how quickly they breed, since their numbers cna very quickly get out of control. Peacocks especially are bad about that, if you're not careful you'll end up with more than your keepers can keep up with. Having to manage waste, power, guest happiness, employee happiness, and animal happiness is a fun challenge and feels like a big step up from the old zoo tycoon games. I got this a while ago looking for something similar to zoo tycoon, quit for awhile because I got frustrated with the controls, but picked it back up again recently and now that I'm figuring things out (and googling everything I can't figure out on my own) I'm having a lot more fun with it! If you're going to play, I'd recommend looking up guides and videos to watch and/or listen to while you start out!
Steam User 253
Its a fun game but its like the sims where buying all of the DLCs makes you go bankrupt.
Steam User 125
Welp after a few hundred hours its time for me to finally give this game a review.
Im gonna preface this that this game is one of my favorite games and my favorite creative game for multiple reasons.
Ofcourse i like animals, i am a zoo nerd, BUT i want to talk about none of that.
This game is imo arguably the best building game on the market, if you like animals or not and just the amount of freedom and pieces you get in the game is astonishing, completly breaking any caps making your creativity your limit.
Im somewhat competent of a builder by now aswell, but if you want to see how much you can push the limits of the game, go to the frontier forums and search for "Sallands Adventure Zoo" from the youtuber PS Vision Gaming. The zoo part in the name is imaginary, instead of building a zoo this guy built a whole modern town set in the neatherlands so if the fact that its a zoo game kept you from buying it (eventhough lets be honest if that was the case why would you even read this) this game still is a fantastic choice to just build whatever your heart desires.
But talking about honestly, this games main point of critic ive seen is the large amount of dlc, which is a fair critice to make, but none of them really sat right with me. Most people say its bad because content is locked behind them, which is simply not true. No major content in itself is locked behind a dlc and the main game is completly sufficent in giving you a great experience, but where the dlc really come in is to spice up the game and expand where the base game is lacking.
For my own quick suggestions, do not get any dlc at the start, unless you allready know enough about the game that you know you will enjoy it. When you play the game, learn the ropes which can allready take a litte as the building has quite the steep learning curve as anything about aesthetic has and for that time the base game and its 75 species and 6 distinct building themes are more then enough.
Once you got a bit more into it and enjoy the game, thats when i would buy dlcs one at the time regarding whatever your preferences are. Wanna built an australian area? Cool get the australia pack. South America? South America Pack! And so on and so for. There are 3 packs id recommend outside of this pattern, those being the europe, the wetlands and the grasslands pack.
The grass- and wetlands pack offer a good array of only(!) animals, each giving 7 normal animals and 1 terarrium animal for the wetlands and 5 different butterflys for the grassland pack. These packs combine fill the base games most lacking areas, increasing the amount of of south american habitat animals from 2 to 6, the australian from 1 to 4 with arguably the 2 most important ones in the emu and wallaby, add 2 more birds to go from 3 to 5 and filling out the list of asian animals which mostly are very big in the base game with some smaller creatures, including a cute otter! With these 2 packs you not only increase the amount of animals from 75 to 95, the most possible with any combination of 2 packs, it also expands most lacking areas to a degree that they become passable, even without their specific dlc.
The europe pack is here for another reason, as its by far the most important pack for building none zoo things, as it features 250+ new pieces, the most out of any dlc, focused on different european architecture, giving a great boon to building beautiful european styled buildings and while this pack is not neccessary for that it does expand the options by quite alot and makes it much easier.
Besides the dlcs, the game also has offerd a free update that came with each of them, featuring many new mechanics and just new things, sometimes larger and smaller, making sure to give everybody something whenever a new dlc rolls around if they buy it or not. Each update has a few new free plants, bug fixes and many other new things with the last update for example featuring 12 new plants, 4 new music tracks, an ingame video editor to make tours of your zoos, a camera mode, the ability to customise staff members uniform, adding a new behaviour to one base game and 2 dlc animals to make them more unique and overhauling a base game animals looks by adding multiple new colormorphs and mutations for it.
And this was arguably one of the lighter updates, as the 2 anniversary updates for example both have added a new animal to the game for free (the black and white ruffed lemure and the red deer).
So all in all if you like building games, animals or zoos this is the game for you. The animals are beautiful, the building fantastic and the options allmost limitless, only being limited by your creativity. Dont be scared of the dlcs, you wont need them and can buy them, if at all, over time when you need them and still have a more then enjoyable experiance that regulary gets updated with a few new toys.
Steam User 83
I don't know what happened. One minute I was ten years old casually enjoying zoo tycoon, now I am in my late twenties and planet zoo has stolen my life away. I am okay with this. I never want it back.
Steam User 465
God I'm so autistic.