Zoo Park

This is a fun game, but it's old and simple. (How old? It lists Windows [i]XP[/i] as the minimum spec.) This is not a game about constant micromanagement, but rather, is a game dedicated mostly to having fun expanding. Depending on your desires, this could be a good thing or a bad thing. As long as you halfway manage your money, this will generally be a very easy experience focused mostly on building out with more and more exhibits. Once you research keeping an animal healthy (which goes much faster than researching the animal itself), you don't have to deal with much illness, which is the main "random event" needing micromanaging. The game itself uses an interesting "alternative currency" where you don't actually deal in money, but rather in what is essentially reputation. This is what justifies every customer need (including the bathrooms) generating "income", as well as each individual animal generating income based on how much exposure it gets. Weirdly, though, visitors apparently grade you on your floral displays, as they will eventually get fed up and leave (apparently via teleportation) if you don't have enough decoration, even if they're walking right between two wide open animal exhibits. Care of the animals is taken care of well by the zookeepers you hire, who generally need no micromanaging, especially if you keep enough of them employed. With your rate of income each day, it's generally better to err on the side of redundant and idle keepers than to have too few, especially since dirty pens breed disease. So overall, this is a fairly relaxing game. It doesn't have the depth of one of the Tycoon games, but for $5, what can you really expect? It's some solid fun for at least a few hours, and especially if you dislike other simulators forcing you to constantly micromanage everything and bombard you with random events, this is a nice, slow breath of fresh air.

[h1] Рецензія на гру [/h1] Гра з простенькою графікою, але з досить цікавими ігровими механіками, які за час гри не дадуть тобі наскучити. Наприклад різні хвороби у тварин, які тобі треба вилікувати поки твій улюбленець не помер, слідкувати за харчуванням своїх звірів, чистотою у клітках, створювати комфортні для них умови. Також у грі присутня велика кількість звірів від маленьких кроликів до гігантських слонів. Наповнити бар'єр можна чим завгодно. [b]Увага! Наповнювати бар'єр треба тим, що підходить даному типу тварини і його місцю життя! Якщо пінгвіну поставити пальму - він буде не дуже задоволений![/b] Я можу рекомендувати гру, гра на це заслуговує. Із мінусів - це відсутність української мови, що більш ускладнювало гру

A simulator game where you get to build your own zoo. The graphics are outdated and there is no easy way to keep track of your animals health (and they do get ill a lot) but it was good enough to keep me entertained for a few hours.

If I remember correctly, it was just not good.

PROS: * The inclusion of conservation efforts is a nice touch, though it could have been more detailed. CONS: * Seriously outdated and clunky. There’s no reason to buy this game when there are far more detailed and modern zoo management games available. * No option to turn off trees, making it frustrating to find and heal sick animals hiding in bushes. * Crashes occasionally when the zoo grows too big due to the number of visitors.

I made a zoo.

Since I can't find the original Zoo Tycoon, I was hoping this would scratch the same itch, but it's far from it. It's not intuitive, yet is somehow also incredibly bland. Thankfully I got it on sale and only wasted less than $2 on it.