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Build and run a zoo by placing ready-made habitats, caring for animals, managing visitors, and completing scenarios around the world.
Released 14 Sep 2018
Place Ready-Made Habitats
Feed Zoo Animals
Transfer Animals Between Zoos
The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Build, manage, and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players.
Developed by Frontier Developments, Asobo Studio · Published by Xbox Game Studios
You take charge of a zoo, choosing animals and building its layout with exhibits, buildings, paths, and decorations. Habitats use preset designs rather than fully custom shapes.
Keep animals cared for and visitors satisfied by providing habitat necessities, assigning staff, and managing the zoo. You can also explore the grounds and interact with some animals directly, including feeding them.
Play campaign scenarios, take on specialized challenge zoos, or build in a more open-ended mode. Challenge progression includes collecting species and transferring animals between zoos, and the game supports cooperative play for up to four people.
The supplied reviews are mixed. Players who enjoy the game often describe it as a relaxing, approachable way to build a zoo, watch animals, and interact with them; some also like the challenge modes and moving animals between zoos. Many critical reviews focus on the preset habitats and limited design freedom, often comparing the game unfavorably with earlier Zoo Tycoon games. Other recurring complaints include repetitive tasks, a perceived lack of depth or animal variety, and performance or startup problems.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 59 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
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