Planet Zoo

Very good and fun game, if you like to build and creat this game is perfect for it, and also a great game for animal lovers, its also educational as you get to prepear habitats and peopls needs, is enjoyable and relaxing to play while watching a movie or being with friends, this in multiplayer would be amazing but i highly recommend it!

This game genuinely sparked my interest in zoology and nature. Fun and educational.

Very relaxing and quite addictive game. Love the graphics and the creativity the games has.

Love this game, taught me so much about world building, animals, animal care, and flora.

Super fun game you can be creative with all animals and have a fun time experimenting with terrain.

Love this game, hope they continue to add more animals. Also wish they would revamp the base game animal models though!

---{ 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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Lovely game with beautiful graphics, cute animals, fun management simulation and endless creative freedom.
(also very much enjoyable without DLCs)
10/10 would recommend. One of my favorite cozy/creative games of all time.

It is quite pricey, although when I got it and all the DLC's for a discount, I never put it down. Very good for a specific kind of person, although I did enjoy it very much. Would recommend.

What else can I say other than just... the pinnacle of zoo tycoon style games. Frontier hit it out of the park with this one!

I really like this game, I hate the paths though. It's so bad I would actually pay money for them to make them better. But the animals are cute so I stay.

If you like games like the The Sims 4, Cities: Skylines, Jurassic World Evolution, Prison Architect, etc; You'll likely enjoy this game as well. The biggest hit or miss aspect would be the amount of customization this game allows. It's important to know that things are NOT gridlocked. There are options that let you use a grid system in certain instances, but ultimately the default and only option for most of what you're working with is that it can be completely freely placed. You can place things floating in the sky if you want. You can legit build and make things however you want in your zoo. This is great if you love customizing and working on tiny details. It can get annoying if you want things to look pretty but don't want to put in the effort. You can make the most beautiful and creative zoos, but you need to put in the effort to achieve that. As someone who would probably want less customization for the sake of making it easier to build nice and pretty zoos, I'd still definitely recommend the game. DLC sales seem to happen pretty often btw, but they're pretty cheap regardless; I'm just broke.

Me build home for animals, me happy. :)

Cooked my laptop and bored me with a slow tutorial.

I have a gaming laptop, and this ran my GPU temp up to 76C in about 15 minutes of playing. I had to quit because the temps kept rising even after turning the graphics settings down to "lowest", and now my keyboard is uncomfortably hot.
I also couldn't figure out how to rotate the camera, even after looking through the controls menu. I have left and right click buttons separately on my trackpad, but not a middle mouse button. I can two-finger scroll on my trackpad to move the camera closer and farther away, but that's also what the q and r keys do (when I would expect q/r to rotate).

I also hated that I couldn't speed up dialogue during the tutorial level that I played half of. I know how this genre of game works, I just need to learn the UI. Please let me skip the dialogue and then go back and listen to it (or just read it) if I need something from it.

I really wanted to like this. I've been nostalgic for zoo tycoon and wanted something with even more management/simulation crunchiness, and I think that Planet Zoo has that capacity. Unfortunately, my laptop couldn't keep up with the cooling needed to run it, and the tutorial levels are paced like I'm an eight year old who has never played a tycoon game before.

Probably a great game if you have a desktop or a laptop with a better cooling solution than mine, as long as you can tolerate a slow tutorial.

Very good game, I can kill animals without commiting animal abuse

A really fun sandbox game where you get to do anything that you want, if it involves animals.

Planet Zoo is a amazing a creative game, which represents to be organized with both your zoo, workers, and welfare of the animals you purchase within the game. Work Zones, categorizing sections of your zoo, and overall choosing the aesthetic and appearance of your zoo really bring out the creativity to both the mind, and a eye pleasing experience.

So easy to sink dozens of hours into this game. The animal variety is fantastic, extremely immersive. Graphics are beautiful, and I'm able to run them fine on my Dell g3 thats 5 years old.

Building is a bit of a learning curve but just watch a Youtube video and you'll get the hang of it quick enough. There's some incredible creators in this community, be sure to checkout the workshop to subscribe to some builds to make your first few zoos easier.

Only real complaint is the same as everyone else, the pathing system can be challenging to utilize.

If you love the building of the sims and miss the old school roller coaster style games you will love this. Goes on sale often so I highly recommend picking it up!

good zoo game, u need mods 4 it to be more tolerable to build tbh

Fun, but construction is a pain and there's 20 DLCs just to add animals/themes when most of them should be part of the base game.

Good game but why does inbreeding exist in it? My animals are constantly having babies with their own PARENTS!?!? What the hell?! Nevermind........the game is cool and I recommend it!

This has to be one of my favorite games. From the design to the management aspect of the game, I truly enjoy every part of it. I have spent hours here in franchise mode, building custom zoos, managing parks and falling in love with the cute, little animals. I truly recommend it for anyone into city builder or management type of games. It can go from cozy to 'oh heck' in a matter of moments. The user created content adds another layer of enjoy-ability to the game if you like building and customizing. The voice acting and story-lines during the main quests were so darn cute. This game will always have a little place in my heart.

Hundreds of dollars of DLC. Poorly optimized. Lacking premade structures. I don’t want to design down to a vine hanging from a barrel and I don’t want to use community created content. I want you the devs to create premade and intentional and thematic structures. Planet Zoo and Planet Coaster have been the same story. A negative in my book.

Super fun map/sim builder, if you grew up loving zoo tycoon this will be a must and a fun upgrade! One critique I have is I struggle with the terrain terra-forming as flattening terrain for buildings/paths is a little challenging/hard to know if its flat enough. Could be a beginner/learning the game thing but just wanted to share it in case it can be updated in future! Otherwise I love the game and excited for more updates/dlcs to explore!

OMG what a amazing game so peaceful and chill and so much freedom. i love it

it is a great game for young arctechs and if you buy packs it judt keeps geting better this game lets people to exspres there creativitive hope all of you like this game like idid.

It's so fun! I really enjoy playing the sandbox mode and all the animals are so cute

Fix your game ffs I can't even resume my zoo... PC fully freezes I have to power off completely to fix my pc lol

This game is the masterclass of Tycoon style games. It's surprisingly deep for what it offers and seems to have endless play time. I've spent 9 of these 12 hours just building my customized food stands, restaurants and staff buildings. Maybe one day I'll build my first exhibit lol

Too many DLCs if you ask me - base game is already 45€, provided you don't want to wait until there's a sale. Fortunately, you do not need said DLCs to enjoy the game. It is very fun.

What an amazing game. Perfect for those who love the management side and just building the zoo of their dreams. This is the ultimate game and it's so relaxing, i never want to stop playing.

I love a LOT about this game. It hits the itch of zoo tycoon like game without being too hands hold-y. The builds and scenarios are fun, and the story isn’t bad in getting you through.

There are a few grips that I will point out.
1. There’s a big learning curve with crafting things if you’re new to this franchise. I had to do a decent amount of research and testing to figure out why the animals weren’t liking each other or the custom designs not working as intended.
2. The UI could be a bit better in creation mode. There’s a lot of back and forth you have to do sometimes, especially with filters.
3. Some tutorials could use some additional details. The game doesn’t explain how to setup certain things like the signs, how to build tracks/stations, or how to figure out interspecies options.

Overall, wonderful game. I’ll keep playing it but hope there’s some updates to make it easier for newcomers.

This game is difficult to learn. Despite that, once you understand how everything works it is VERY rewarding. Planet Zoo is basically a city builder that never gets old. The game has well reviewed DLC that comes out often. The DLC's are great, and they all go on sale about 6 times a year. Each one makes the game feel new again.

Frontier makes great games when they're not launched too early *cough* planet coaster 2.. *cough* but I had a great time doing the campaign levels once I got the hang of the mechanics of the game.

As an avid fan of Zoo Tycoon back in the day, Planet Zoo was a game that I thought could scratch my desire to play such a game again. Instead, what I got was a game with a lot of frustrating controls and features. There's a point where a game has TOO much freedom and customization for the average player and Planet Zoo crosses that line so far that it can't even see the line anymore.

Good on those players who can make these amazing exhibits and buildings with all the creativity this game provides, but as an average joe who struggles with the controls every moment I play, it's just too much for me and ends up frustrating me to the point of rage quitting. The fact that the ability to make simple straight paths is so convoluted is annoying enough as it is, but then I can't even make it so that barriers for my habitat walls snap to these paths, I have to try and fit them, which becomes a struggle in of itself.

What's more, the Career mode, which sort of acts like this game's tutorial, is very frustrating, as it asks you to do stuff in prebuilts zoos that are very lavishly designed and, as someone with no talent in matching the creativity of these prebuilt zoos, the new exhibits that I built just look... plain and boring, and makes me disheartened to play further.

This game is amazing, immersive, addicting and overall relaxing and has made me realize the importance of conservation efforts and their importance in today's society!

Fun game! The campaign is enjoyable, and though there is DLC, the core gameplay doesn't feel barebones and no DLC is needed for 100% completion -- including all achievements. I wish there were ways to interact directly with the animals i.e. dolphin training in zoo tycoon, and the unskippable dialogue in campaign levels can be grating, but overall I enjoyed my experience and felt fulfilled in both my franchise zoos and throughout the campaign. I got 80 hours of genuine fun out of this game, so I consider it mostly worth the price, though I wouldn't begrudge anyone for waiting on a sale.

This game is amazing. Graphics, realism, whatever you want. But don't be fooled, the game is best played AFTER playing the tutorial. it's complicated asf, but when you got the hang of it, it's fun! Enjoy!

Good use of your brain and management skills, love it

It is perfect for any animal lovers or if you just like simulations. super clear and you can very easily get help for anything and it is amazing how good the animals look super details

This is the hands down best zoo game of all time. Sure Zoo Tycoon my have done zoo sim better, and Zoo Tycoon 2's building was more intuitive and approachable, but once you get the hang of it, no other game can come close to the things you are able to create in Planet Zoo. The only thing that can ultimately limit you in this game is your creativity.

It has its odd creative decisions and quirks and if those are too much for you, sandbox is the way to go (that's what I do anyways). And yes, birds and aquatics are sorely missing from the roster.

The one large negative for me is to get the best out of this game, you will need all the DLCs imo. That is a significant monetary investment so whether or not that's worth it is up to you.

aminals are goob :)

But for real, it may be overwhelming to learn at first but once you get the hang of it, it's really fun! I'm also a big fan of the creativity options available, even with just the base game. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do the tutorial by the way!!! It will help you a ton.

On one hand, this game finally filled the hole in my head for a super customizable, highly detailed zoo-creation game that I could use to make any zoo I desire, and its pretty easy to mod. On the other hand, trying to build a habitat with underwater section does make me want to implode without fail each time.

But all around, if you want a Zoo Maker game, its very worth it.

I sadly have to give this a thumbs down, it's too broken and/or convoluted.
The mechanics around construction sucks. And because of this, the tutorials are affected. I had to reload like 8 times between 3 tutorials and also search for a solution that more people were asking actually

Few examples:
1) Put a "Just a momento" facility in the square. Simple right? NO, it does not recognize it
2) Put a zookeeper hut inside one decoration. Well, although the path was clearly there and connected, it was not recognized.

Seriously, the game is super nice, the animals are cute and all that. But the frustration beats any enjoyment I could have.

This game is a riot! The animals are amazingly realistic. It can be as complex as you want it to be regarding constructing your own buildings or animal areas. I found it helpful to look at zoos other people built. You can opt to buy a variety of animal packages also which can create a very diverse zoo. This is a great game.

A very fun game creating your own zoo and seeing what you can do with it every time you can go back in and the fun you can have with it even more with the dlc too allows the zoo to grow even more

Very good game. Good graphics and realistic simulation. It's great how you can make it as challenging as you want. If you want to grind Franchise mode is available. But if your looking for a more casual style, sandbox is great fun. It would be great if they could add multilayer capabilities. Bit overall great. (DLCs also at reasonable price).

I never played a game for 100 hrs and still be bad at it but want to play it more and more and more. Frontier if you do a Planet Zoo 2 just for the love of Bernie Goodwin don't do what you did to fans of Planet Coaster.

This game have good bones. It is good enough as it is. it feels like you need some more decoration options that you have to pay a fortune for in dlc.

If you're just looking to freely build without stress, this is not the game for you. I've never felt so frustrated and overwhelmed even during tutorials. I understand they tried to make the game more realistic, but it's so complex and difficult to understand. When I first played this game, I spent hours just in the tutorial without actually playing the game and I quit. Recently, I tried to pick the game back up again after looking beginner guides on youtube and tiktok, but I still don't understand it. I really tried to take my time to understand all the controls, functions, and rules, but it's too overwhelming and stressed me out. I give up playing it.