It's a boring game. definitely lower than my expectation. Not too much element to play with. interface is hard to navigate.

Game is alright, trying to learn it and having some fun. Down-voting though because the only thing that's bugging me (A LOT) is the amount of pop-ups on the screen.

Why, every single day of the game, is there MULTIPLE pop ups for MULTIPLE quests and news articles that I have to actively click out of in order to continue to play the game ???? Who thought that was a good idea ?? It's so damn annoying omg. I literally stopped playing the game right now to write this review because I'm so annoyed at the amount of pop-ups I've had to click out while mid-decorating or trying to donate some animals.

Fun ideas, you can be an evil zoo keeper that turns animals into bacon, steals electricity from the public lights and adds chemicals in the food sold to visitors.
But the experience gets annoying after a few hours. Too much micromanagement of about everything which is not helped by the poor user interface. Also some of my employees got stuck not doing anything sometimes, while the animals were starving with poop all over the place (I checked for pathing issue, evertyhing was fine they were just stupid).

Game just became unplayable and no one has make any patches to fix the issues, sadly it was a good game until the creator stop caring for his own creation.

i don't really post reviews, but im so tilted i just need to let you know about it. so this is a pretty fun game right? but every two seconds a stupid window pops up for whatever reason it is this time, the news paper saying some ♥♥♥♥, the day ending, there are so damn many! and it stops the whole damn game until you press the X button..... now the first hour of this, didnt really bother me.... but 7 hours in and im about to smash my head open on my wall, its like those adds on phone games..... but without rewards! who came up with this idea and let me turn the damn things off so i can play the game! ♥♥♥♥ it im going back to 2001 zoo tycoon.

In many aspects I really enjoy the game, with much of the core loop being fun. My issues come from a lack of information, issues with the UI, and weird design choices.

The lack of information is an issue. Why are farms and farm processors different buildings and technologies, and why do you need both in order to make farms function at a basic level? You need 3 buildings (and fields) for farming to work and this is not explained in game. Farmers can only plant crops, crop pickers will only harvest, and the warehouse is needed to carry goods around. I spent months with just farmers, thinking they could also harvest, to find I had just been growing crops to tear out and regrow them. There is a lot of situations like that in game, so many things are just not explained and its hard to find any sort of guides to explain.

The UI leaves much to be desired and pertinent information is commonly left out or missing in many screens. Likewise having more than a few zoo keepers or farmers to zone means you will be scrolling through a long and narrow list, rather than a page where you can see all employees of a type. This situation is weird, because the UI for the wildlife release building is likely the best, giving many options and information to make informed decisions, while the breeder's hut won't even let you change which animals will be bred. Also, farm fields cannot be edited to change their size, but you can with animal enclosures? You have to destroy the field and rebuild it, unless I was missing something.

This leads to the last part, weird design choices. This game has an optimal build that effects zoo rating, but the optimal building is neither explained nor easily understood. Two food/drink buildings in a zone? Non-optimized. Too many trashcans/benches? Non-optimized. Instead of building a zoo that looks and feels like a real zoo, you commonly find people making there weird square grid zoos where everything is connected to subways and nothing else really. It looks neat, but I was trying to make a zoo that looked like a zoo and not fancy art with 10 lights per 25x25 square. You also cannot have multiple entrances nor adjust the road in front of the zoo to make traffic jams less of an issue. Why can't the subway connect to the outside world?

I want to recommend this game but I can't with many of the issues. If there were guides on steam/on the internet or some in-game tutorials, then I would be more forgiving. I don't want to feel like I am stumbling in the dark when I just want to build a zoo, it shouldn't feel like a Paradox game

this game is just a waste of your time. you need to set up each of your employees what their job need them do. if not do so, they just receive salary and doing nothing.
annimal die every day and rubbish everywhere just because animal keeper and cleaner do not want work, if you do not point out the problem they should deal with

I'd honestly give this game a 7/10, minus points for a number of quality of life issues, and the morality system. But im in late game now, im realizing how deep the veganism is, in a game about caring for animals, SOME OF WHICH ARE OBLIGATE CARNIVORES- Meaning there are nutrients they NEED from meat, that is not found in plants. Vegan diets work with humans because we're omnivores. 4/10

The game has a cutesy art style, and i love the variety of colors, patterns, and shapes or styles to the animals. There was one hippo variant where, upon seeing it, i had a delightful 'OH LAWD HE COMIN'' moment. The fact that enrichment and decoration items work for all animals are both a curse and blessing, as it's amusing to see that very same hippo stand on a high beam, something in other zoo-based games would only be for monkeys and lemurs, but it also makes decorating the enclosures feel a little meaningless.

The morality system is main reason why my review would have been 7/10- Because it's very rigid, even though in reality, morality is shades of grey, not black and white. Like, i could absolutely be the type of person to treat my animals extremely well and have a big focus on rescuing and conservation, but the employers get minimum wages, and visitors get the worst quality for food. But, that's fine, it's kind of normal for games to forget the monochrome in favor of being one-or-the-other, but... Why is animal processing bad, and farming good, only? The game excuses farming as a way of reducing carbon by transportation of food. Im actually getting a farm because it save money, which is absolutely not ideal limited only to good people. This is the first sign of the veganism tint, and it gets a bit more transparent with animal processing. Now, i get the killing of animals being evil, but using animals that died of old age is still evil, apparently. Even though it not only would be saving on cost of buying carcasses, but ALSO. Save on carbon. Sounds pretty similar, wonder why. Not like i mentioned it a moment ago. And that's not even mentioning the MORAL alternative is literally BURNING the corpses. Which would then produce CARBON.

Now, i'm at end game. In order to get a full 200 morality, i WILL need to make improbable meat, which makes the veganism agenda very, very transparent. Especially when the very research tile that unlocks the lab to turn beets into beef, even MENTIONS feeding lions the VEGETABLE based product. Now, yes, this is a game. But this is a game where diet has been a major thing, where if you're animals aren't on a very good diet, you'll get at least one newspaper, making you out to be a bad guy. So, even the mere idea of feeding a animal that requires at least 70% of their diet as meat, should be immoral. I wouldn't mind if there was a alternative option, to, say, make lab grown meat instead. in theory, lab grown meat in no different then real meat, except it doesn't requiring killing an animal, ignoring the whole, burning corpses which should be making carbon, instead of turning it to a good use.

I'd like to add that i don't generally have a problem with vegans, or veganism. But when they try to force other people to conform to their ideals, i have a issue. And the whole, can't even use a elderly animal that died to feed the hyenas, but burning the corpse is okay, and farming is thing only GOOD people do, and the improbably lab; All these things very clearly paints the image that they believe vegans are morally better, and are REQUIRED to interact with and do, if you want the highest amount of moral points. Remember; Farmers churn up ground-dwelling animals, in order and in the process to ready their fields, so even crops are murder.

I had fun with the game, but it has serious design issues that become apparent the more you play and that eventually led to me stopping dead in my tracks. I'm glad I played the game and it is totally worth snagging at a discount, but only at a discount.

The gameplay is pretty straightforward with you simply building various things, including the enclosures for the animals, all with the intent of generating traffic to your zoo and maximizing profit. It is quite shallow and a lot of the work around your animals devolves into generating these very cookie cutter designs due to absurd requirements for various resources. And it becomes more troubling with the pathing issues your animal keepers have. Animals can traverse terrain your keepers cannot, which leads to them literally crapping in unreachable places that necessitates you constantly editing the enclosures to allow keepers in. It's a baffling design decision. And honestly, the game feels like an idle game more than a game you play actively. There’s so much downtime while you wait for the right animal to be bred to trade to another zoo just to get a different animal where you can repeat the process endlessly. The game really isn’t about the zoo itself, but creature breeding and collecting.

Most of the time you spend in the game will be fighting a UI that simply does not work well for the kind of game this is. There are so many menus you have to access to do simple things. And things are needlessly obfuscated or simply not represented well at all. It just makes it more and more unfun as your zoo gets bigger and there’s more and more things to manage that really shouldn’t require so much attention.

It is a very appealing game visually, but there's a distinct lack of animations for the characters and animals. So while it is pretty to look at with a lot of visual variety, it feels very still in a lot of ways. I definitely think they could have given more attention to the animations of everything, but it is a cheap game. And the music is nice, but forgettable.


The research system is well and truly just garbage. It is an erratic mess where you have no clue of what you're researching towards. It is just a haphazard collection of squares with no rhyme or reason to unlocking them. On top of that, research is agonizingly slow. Combine that with the mystery box approach to research and it forms an extremely tedious system that just feels like drudgery.

The game can be pretty engaging at first, but the sheen just wears off eventually and you realize that there isn’t really all that much to the game. It lacks depth and the execution is quite lacking in a lot of regards. For a lower price, it is worth a dalliance.

Meh at best.