
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.
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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.
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Languages: English*, French*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Japanese*, Korean*, Portuguese - Brazil*, Simplified Chinese*, Traditional Chinese, Italian*, Czech, Danish +6 more
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very fleshed out
muy interesante, muchas mecanicas y un juego complejo pero interesante
The path system is so primitive that it destroys the entire game for me. What if I want to just place a perfect square path down to make a large standing area in my park? Nope, can't do that. It's just so awful it makes me want to drop kick every single plushie I see at the local city zoo I've visited. Try aligning an enclosure perfectly with a path, or even the other way around... Nope, not without a vast amount of time and eyeballing it and prayers. I'm sorry Frontier, what you have in PC2 should have been rushed into PZ1 at ambulatory speeds and not waited for Planet zoo 2 even if you wanted to make a DLC for it. The path system in both PC1 and Planet Zoo is pathetic and should have lost somebody their job for putting this into an otherwise beautiful game.
Comprei esse jogo com as DLC's em uma promoção uns anos atrás, achando que eu me divertiria um montão. Todo o conceito e designer do jogo era encantador, mas... Não foi bem assim, achei as mecânicas terrivelmente difíceis e não consegui nem sequer completar o tutorial. Joguei só umas quatro partidas mais ou menos.
best zoo game if you like zoo games play this one 5 stars
its mid, for the prize its good but the gameplay is goofy but i kinda liked the goofy part, Great cheap game
best game
I really enjoy this game and I'm addicted to it.
The building mechanics of this game is trash!!! i spent almost 15 hours just trying to make ONE exhibit and using anything in the workshop is just pointless. NOTHING wants to lay correctly or even lay at all. glad i got this on sale. DONT PAY FULL PRICE!!
ahhh, this game made me more tired than doing courses on most of Microsoft Office products. I mean, it has a great potential, but I don't want to play a game where the first 20 hours is a tutorial how to play the game (or I maybe more, I played 5 and it did cover almost nothing, considering how complex this game is). There are more complex games which allow you to enjoy the game without getting mad at it, because you don't get mechanics and the tutorial doesn't show you anything. 5 thousands filters, 5 thousand settings, but you cannot filter out thing you don't want to see - by that I mean, filter all and de-select 3-4 elements, there is only all, or you have to select manually everything and de-select what you don't want. At least I didn't figure it out and I played 2 tutorial scenarios. There is an encyclopedia which doesn't cover basic topics. Idk, maybe I am too impatient - like I said, there is a great potential there, but I don't want to spend 40 hours to just learn the game, it is very unintuitive, it tells you to locate a place, you locate the place, but you have to zoom in on it very close for the game to get it, and it turns out it is for nothing, because the action you are supposed to do is in another panel, which has nothing to do with the builidng you were supposed to zoom in on and the game doesn't highlight where it is. And it was supposed to be a tutorial. Another issue - planting plants - if you are planting something that is supposed to float on water, you have to select a setting that this supposed to be floating, otherwise you plant lillies at the bottom of the lake. Like, why on earth would it work like that. I am really disappointed, by how this game operates, I hoped this would be very complex tycoon, with various mechanics, but it's complexity is on an absolutely different level - there are tons of checkboxes, settings for a lot of things, which makes this game really unenjoyable at the first stages. I was hoping for a Civilization type of tycoon and I am just sad that I couldn't enjoy this game. And kudos for those who played this game for a longer time than I did.
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