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The Dark Souls of zoo tycoon sims. Start slower than you'd like to, YouTube yet another tutorial, then watch Planet Zoo blossom before your eyes. This is a slow, mindful, niche of a sim that demands more patience and learning than you'd expect.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Planet Zoo is a zoo management simulation game developed and published by Frontier. Similarly to the way Planet Coaster is a spiritual successor to Rollercoaster Tycoon, Planet Zoo is a spiritual successor to the Zoo Tycoon games first released in the early 2000s. Bringing together gameplay elements from both franchises, Planet Zoo offers players a complex simulation game with plenty of depth. Players must build and manage everything in their zoo themselves; tasks range from building enclosur...
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Despite my soft heart bankrupting just about every zoo I touched because I refused to fire the Michelin Starred-chefs making three meals a day for my snow leopards, I had a great time with Planet Zoo. The environments look great and you’re given tons of tools to make them look better. The animals that inhabit them are lively and lifelike, and each presents a satisfying set of factors to balance if you want to max out their welfare. And while some of the online stuff feels half-baked, most of the modes are well-balanced and enjoyable – especially with the addition...
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I see and understand some of the frustrations from other players, but this game is just too good and has too much to offer to just be tossed aside this early in the game’s life. If you a fan of the simulation genre then I fully recommend Planet Zoo.
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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...
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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.
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Planet Zoo is a deep management sim featuring some beautiful animal recreations. It's a must-have for any animal lover.
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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.
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There’s terrifying about seeing a huge blank field from which you’re meant to build a zoo. This staggering fear of the potential is made even worse after you’ve spent a few hours learning the ropes in some of the already sprawling tutorial zoos. But despite this, turning an open field into an Attenborough inspired wildlife preserve is a fantastic experience.
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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.
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Planet Zoo is a complex, deep simulation game with too much to give, if you can get past the minimalist tutorials.
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Planet Zoo's beautiful animals are a real handful to manage in Frontier Developments' new sim.
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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.
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Frontier delivers a richly detailed and visually glorious zoo creation sim for genre fans, newbies, and animal lovers alike, bloated only a little by a few clumsy interfacing points.
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