Planet Zoo

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  • Summary: 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 inBuild 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.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 51 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 55
  3. Negative: 0 out of 55
  1. Cubed3
    Dec 5, 2019
    90
    Nearly flawless, Planet Zoo is a masterpiece of tycoon simulation, and is one of the most relaxing, engaging, and fantastical pieces of entertainment of 2019. It's a showcase of fun mechanics, and it really draws from the wealth of experience in Frontier Developments as a developer. It's impossible not to recommend this to anyone who has even a passing notion about the genre. Get this!
  2. Worth Playing
    Dec 16, 2019
    87
    I suspect that many players will have an uneven time with Planet Zoo. At times, it's pretty straightforward and provides the player with plenty of feedback so they can improve their zoo. Other times, the game has you digging around in areas that are unnecessarily tough to figure out, with tutorials that barely touch on the feature (if at all). The thing with Planet Zoo is that it is so charming and appealing that the fun parts outweigh the frustrating ones. It's not a perfect game in the genre, but it is one of the best ones you can play right now.
  3. Game Debate
    Nov 25, 2019
    85
    In the here and now, Planet Zoo is the best zoo management game around and it’s not even close. It also features far stronger management systems than Frontier has ever achieved before, culminating in a fantastic package for tycoon and animal fans alike. There’s a lot to love here, even if the scope for creativity can’t hope to match Planet Coaster.
  4. The Games Machine
    Nov 11, 2019
    80
    Planet Zoo has turned out to be a complete, satisfying product, capable of entertaining a wide audience, thanks to its intuitive interface, accompanied by intriguing graphics and a complete localization in Italian.
  5. Games.cz
    Nov 25, 2019
    80
    Planet Zoo will first make you remember Zoo Tycoon and then happily forget it when you realize you’ve got yourself a new game, as good as its ancient predecessor.
  6. Impulsegamer
    Nov 19, 2019
    80
    Planet Zoo is an excellent zoo management sim with an impressive campaign and terrific graphics.
  7. God is a Geek
    Nov 28, 2019
    60
    Hardcore management sim fans may enjoy Planet Zoo, but others may find it overly complex and packed with an overwhelming amount of management options.

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  1. Positive: 18 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 32
  3. Negative: 10 out of 32
  1. Nieogolony
    Nov 5, 2019
    10
    Okay so what to begin with... Oh man this game is so great. I was playing with my gf during beta and i thought that the game had so largeOkay so what to begin with... Oh man this game is so great. I was playing with my gf during beta and i thought that the game had so large content already and yet they managed to give much more content for the premiere. I wont spoiler anything and I suggest not to look up any lists of animals because you will discover them alone and wont be dissapointed. Cheers from Poland… Expand
  2. DonRoger
    Nov 5, 2019
    10
    Good geme, there are some big bus but other than that is a great game, 10 of 10.
  4. bjar5232
    Mar 9, 2022
    9
    I have been playing this game for almost 2 years now and this is probably my favorite tycoon game ever, just watching your zoo grow and seeingI have been playing this game for almost 2 years now and this is probably my favorite tycoon game ever, just watching your zoo grow and seeing your animals thrive is incredibly entertaining, there isn't a whole lot to talk about when it comes to negatives, the only things i could really say are bad is the franchise mode mostly because the online economy is absolutely busted, but other than that it's a great game!… Expand
  5. Adriarro
    Nov 7, 2021
    8
    That game has everything it should have. I don't know what else should be added. Only new animals and buildings are in my mind.
  6. aberro
    Mar 22, 2021
    5
    A game for one or two evenings, after that it's only like simplified wiki and tons of micromanagement. Despite being related to tycoon games,A game for one or two evenings, after that it's only like simplified wiki and tons of micromanagement. Despite being related to tycoon games, this is not a tycoon, because it lacks any challenge at all. You don't have enough money? Loan. You don't have enough visitors? Expand. Your visitors don't like facilities? Drop any random stuff around. Employees are almost always either happy, or overloaded to the point of absurd when they don't have time for almost anything, guests say when tickets are over or underpriced, research and stuff levelling is just one click. There's a tons of features each and every one of which is shallow as splash. And all management here is worst kind: micromanagement. Unpause for a few seconds, pause, check all habitats, separate young adults (sell/release/move), rinse and repeat.
    This is not a tycoon, it's more like some kind of sandbox where you could set unlimited money and build zoo as you want it.
    And I've played it at max difficulty, but it's really boring, repetitive and not challenging at all.

    Though, it may be okayish for casual players, who get used to repetitive actions, kinda "cute" graphics, lack of challenge and complexity (but, yet again, this game has too much game mechanics quantitatively for casual gamers).
    But if you're old gamer who get used to play really hard tycoons and simulators like me, then this game is not for you.    … Expand
  7. KaBob
    Nov 16, 2022
    3
    It's a decent looking game, it just sucks that the gameplay itself is inferior in every way to the 20 year old Zoo Tycoon. DLC is ridiculouslyIt's a decent looking game, it just sucks that the gameplay itself is inferior in every way to the 20 year old Zoo Tycoon. DLC is ridiculously overpriced and simple tasks like placing paths or prebuilt exhibits are a huge chore.

    When I play a zoo game, I want to make as many different animal exhibits as possible. Not spend an hour fighting terrain elevation issues and etc just to make one basic exhibit. Grid based placement systems might be very limiting but they are preferable to this game.    … Expand
  8. chickenboh
    Nov 26, 2019
    0
    game is unplayable at this point, it crashes literally everywhere, career mode is not working at all, save states break, i don't recommend itgame is unplayable at this point, it crashes literally everywhere, career mode is not working at all, save states break, i don't recommend it as for now, I myself actually had to ask for refund.… Expand

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