Planet Zoo

Planet Zoo is impressive and at the core of this immersive gameplay lays the developers’ passion for wanting to make the animal kingdom a better place. The game does this by not only tackling important educational and conservation topics but by also pulling the player into this kind of gameplay too and making them feel like they could make a difference. Planet Zoo is arguably the best zoo management game to date with enough soul and purpose to shake a stick at.

Planet Zoo is a deep management sim featuring some beautiful animal recreations. It's a must-have for any animal lover.

A tremendous game that really pushes the boundaries. Both an excellent educational resource, and a superb time sink. This would be a perfect-scoring title if it wasn’t for a few too many bugs and stability issues, but I still recommend it incredibly highly.

Even with occasional design quirks and bugs holding it back, I adore this game as is. Similar to Planet Coaster, I think it’ll get better over time, and Frontier will surely flesh out the species list with DLC packs. But even if that doesn’t happen, I’ll be satisfied. Some of us have been waiting decades for a game like Planet Zoo to come along and scratch our Zoo Tycoon itch. Now that it’s here, I can’t get enough.

Planet Zoo is a worthy spiritual successor to Zoo Tycoon and makes improvements in virtually every area to bring the genre into a new generation.

When creating a business sim that attempts to capture the subject matter, a fine line needs to be walked. It can't get too deep in the weeds of minutia without offering real explanations, nor can it make those explanations boring. On the other hand, it can't make it too simple, as the subject matter is a huge draw to a specific audience. Planet Zoo pulls off the act and manages to be a great time for it. Plus, people will accidentally learn about the subject matter without ever feeling like they are playing a dreaded "educational" game. There are myriad technical issues that keep the title fro...

An excellent, fascinating and satisfying... job. Playing Planet Zoo is like going to work. You try not to get tired, then you get tired, and in the end you're happy with what you accomplished anyway.

Excellent, fascinating and satisfying… work. Playing Planet Zoo is like going to work. You don't feel like it, you get tired, but in the end you are satisfied with what you did.

Planet Zoo's beautiful animals are a real handful to manage in Frontier Developments' new sim.

Maybe I’m just the worst zoo owner on the face of the Earth, or maybe this is just as common an experience for other players as it seems to be for me in Planet Zoo. You’ve got so many people to keep happy that often you have to make the choice between putting guest needs on the backburner and focusing on animal welfare, or sacrificing one for the other in the opposite direction. Sometimes you simply can’t figure out where you’re going wrong. Of course, it would be nice to have everything work out in perfect unison, but such is almost never the case in this massive, sometimes punishing, constru...

Do not feed the animals.

Also, my zoo has a little train, where a handful of kids and adults can ride around the park seeing all the animals without having to peer through crowds. I was balancing saving endangered animals and making kids happy, which really feels like the aim of a well-run zoo.