Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa

хорошая игра про экосистему

the long distance jumps in the air speak well of the humble spring hare this african bunny may look rather funny but I think he's quite debonair

Even though this is an older game, it's still a lot of fun. It's similar to Zoo Tycoon, but with wildlife. It is very challenging, but still fun. Everything is different each time. You might play one time and have too many lions (decimating your zebra population) and then play another time and have no lions (causing your zebra population to starve due too many and not enough grass). This game would also be great for a kid just learning about the ecosystem, it really shows the cause and affect of having too many of certain kinds of animals and the balance needed.

crashes after 15 minutes every time

As a kid we had mac, so we couldn't run any Zoo Tycoon 2 expansions; my mom bought me this instead so I would feel better. Best gift I ever received, way better than a ZT2 expansion. Thank you SO much for putting it on steam so I can play it again <3 it holds up, all these years later.

I loved this game when I got it as a kid, and was thrilled when on a whim I searched for it on steam and it was there! Replaying it has been a blast, and I really enjoy how even though it's 15 years later, I still have to strategize my choices! I really enjoy how timeless it is in that regard -- I was six and maximized the fun of the game, and now I'm in my 20s being nostalgic and it's just as fun to play :) The set goals to finish each level of story mode while also having randomized jewel goals to unlock and progress feels like a fresh challenge each time you replay. Like other reviews, there are also some bugs that are probably never going to be addressed (when you adjust window dimensions in settings, the cursor might not calibrate correctly), but I feel like the gameplay itself has been uninterrupted.

This is a fun, simple little puzzle game/ animal tycoon game, the special thing about it being that instead of building a park or zoo like so many other titles, you're building an ecosystem where the animals roam free, and the food replenishes itself. I played this a long time ago when I was a kid and I was bored enough to go looking this one up. I've been pleasantly surprised. It's simplistic (No save feature? For shame.) in certain areas, especially the graphics, but the general flow of watching your map slowly come to life is just... *mwah* c'est magnifique, and it runs great. I haven't had any glitches or other issues. Currently I'm about halfway through the story on Easy, and you can quickly pick up how the fun scientific outer layer actually can require strategy and planning on your part. You'll start assessing maps before you spawn animals, spawn animals by themselves to momentarily give you a boost in your gems, which allow to place food sources and fill watering holes (That empty on hard mode over time, sounds [i]lovely[/i]) and using certain species' attributes to help you achieve your goal for the level. Or, after you beat the first level, you can play Free Mode, where there is no goal, you just let life, uh... find a way. Again, no save feature though. You have to complete a level in one sitting, and you can't retain any cool ecosystems you made in Free Mode. Pick this one up if you like animals, nature, and enjoy watching things play out after initially taking a big hand to set things up.

I loved this game as a kid and would play it for hours on end. I have spent the last few months scratching my head over what this game was called - all I could remember was watering holes and flamingoes, lol. For $2 you can’t really go wrong if you’re into older style tycoon games. I love it for the nostalgia purposes and I’m happy that it runs well on my Steam Deck.

A game I loved to play as a kid, despite how bad lil me was (and is) at managing resources. Throughout the years since I occasionally get the brain worm that reminds me of it's existence and have to reinstall and play it for a bit, though unfortunately through several moves I lost the CD. On a whim I decided to search for a copy and was thrilled to see it was on Steam. Made before the era of unreasonable feature creep, the game is very simple. Simply put, you need to manage an ecosystem. Complete side objectives to earn currency to spend on adding more food or filling water holes, properly manage the ecosystem and meet the goal of a certain number of animals alive on the map to complete a level. As you progress through levels, unlock different animals with different needs. It's an old game, and it certainly looks the part. My biggest issue with the game is missing audio/music and the minimap doesn't align with player/animal location, though this is pretty minor. Overall it still plays very well.