Planet Zoo

Really like Planet Zoo for their animal models plus variety of species, the building options, and freedom. But the game doesn't pose much challenge once you get through the campaign and timed modes, and even then the difficulties in those modes are limited to money, animal welfare, guest needs, timing, and staff management. I know there could be more features and realism added to make things better for those who want to face hardship in the game. Hopefully PZ2 will have harder challenges. Currently if my lion pride escapes, it doesn't affect the zoo much once they are rounded up. But in reality if a zoo has a public animal escape, that zoo is dragged in the news for months sometimes. Or if there is an attack on a keeper or guest, that zoo deals with the aftereffects for years. Could also add where staff quit or can't work for reasons besides being unhappy with salary or workload, such as moving out of the area or maternity leave. Just more random events to make it feel more real would help. Also, seriously disapprove of the animal aging for some species. Like wolves are not reaching sexual maturity and starting to look like adults at age 4 like the game claims, as one of the more studied species, we know they can breed as young as a year old but typically start looking for mates closer to 2 years old in many cases. There are multiple species I don't understand the inaccuracies of aging, like wolves at least tolerate their adult offspring. For example, bears such as brown bears and polar bears don't tolerate their offspring by 2 or 3 years old and should be separated, but the game allows them to live together for 6-7 years and the young bear stays looking like a cub the whole time, but in the real world after just 2 years they're physically big enough to live alone, even if they don't reach breeding age until about 6 years old. And even more inaccurate, the boar bear can be kept with the cubs up to 6 years. Please at least make the physical maturity and sexual maturity happen separately for these species. The African wild dog and coyote have a lot more appropriate of aging for a canid, and the sloth bear has appropriate age for physical maturity for a bear. Praying that they fix the inaccuracies in PZ2, or that modding can at least fix it. Lately the community made challenge to follow AZA guidelines for the animals has made things a bit more interesting, but if you aren't creative and have hours to play, it's not so fun. I've seen that PZ2 will make the building side of things easier even for people with limited time or creativity. But after so many hours of just managing the basics and having a huge income to the point fines aren't an issue and education reaches close to 5 stars, there isn't much else and often you just start to lag from the guest numbers. I love this game and have fun most of the time, but I really hope PZ2 is better in terms of realism.