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Build and run a customizable zoo: design habitats, care for wildlife, manage staff and visitors, and breed animals for conservation.
Released 05 Nov 2019
Design Animal Habitats
Sculpt Zoo Landscapes
Breed New Generations
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
Developed by Frontier Developments · Published by Frontier Developments
You build and operate a zoo, balancing the needs of its animals with visitor satisfaction, staff, and finances. Career scenarios set objectives, while other modes let you develop a zoo with fewer constraints.
Create habitats and buildings piece by piece, shape terrain with hills, caves, lakes, and paths, and arrange facilities for guests and staff. Animal species have individual habitat and care requirements that guide how you design their enclosures.
Research animals and zoo improvements, manage breeding and animal genetics, and use conservation systems to trade animals or release generations into the wild. You can also share and download zoo creations through the Steam Workshop.
Players often praise the freedom to design detailed zoos, the animals’ appearance and behavior, and the layered work of caring for animals while managing a business. Some describe the game as absorbing once its systems click, while others find the learning curve, construction tools, and especially path placement frustrating or tiring.
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.
Planet Zoo’s powerful piece-by-piece construction tools let you effortlessly make your zoo unique. Every creative decision you make impacts the lives of your animals and the experience of your visitors. Let your imagination run wild as you dig lakes and rivers, raise hills and mountains, carve paths and caves, and build stunning zoos with a choice of unique themes and hundreds of building components.
Join a connected community and share the world’s most creative habitats, scenery and even whole zoos on the Steam Workshop. See your own designs appear in zoos around the world, or discover fresh new content from the Planet Zoo community every day.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 38 |
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| Players | 1 |
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| Multiplayer | Planet Zoo is primarily a single-player zoo management game. The provided information indicates indirect online features through Franchise mode, including an always-online animal trading market, community interaction, and community goals. No direct cooperative or competitive play is described. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop support is confirmed for sharing habitats, scenery, and whole zoos. The provided information does not state that mods add direct multiplayer or alter multiplayer functionality. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 22 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 81/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
