Let's Build a Zoo

good game but it gives me anxiety like all tycoon games. but that's a skill issue and personal problem

Let's Build a Zoo is a simple, accessible zoo management game with an immense amount of creative liberty given to its zookeepers (you). This game includes selective breeding of animals, research programs (zoo perks), finance management, a diverse and plentiful range of animals from across the world, autonomy, and TONS of decor. Although it sounds like a lot, your zoo employees handle everything pretty well by themselves, ensuring that you get to spend your time wherever you'd like to. I have to pry myself off this game—it's probably the only game I can dump 5 hours non-stop into and still want more. I have both DLCs and have only briefly explored them, but they grant you two new zoos: an aquarium and a dinosaur enclosure. You just manage additional zoos that are separated from one another, with new species corresponding to zoo type. It doesn't seem that compelling to me so far—I kind of wish that the main zoo had its area expanded and we could incorporate the dinosaurs and marine life in a centralized location.

This is a very fun and relaxing rpg game. There are many things to do and almost infinite ways to customise your experience. This game is amazing. For a small fee of 10 dollars, you can experience happiness and learn to build a Zoo.

Great game overall, but have a big performance issue when when your zoo have too many visitors and animals

An intense zoo-builder game [list] [*] Be as ethical or unethical as you want [*] Grow your zoo [*] Trade with other zoos to get new animals [*] Change their diets [*] Clean their pens [*] Make attractions and decorate [*] Make your zoo as efficient as possible. [*] Take your time to perfect it and change everything at any time [/list] This game is a bit repetitive but if you don't mind it, its more than fun you can even combine animals and make all sorts of unnatural abominations.

I decided to start playing the game on the Friday of a long weekend, and so far the 9 hours that I've played it have absolutely flown by. The graphics are well-done, the music is entertaining without being distracting, and the game's sense of humor is fantastic. Gameplay-wise I've been finding the pacing to be extremely well-balanced: I haven't had to be in "hurry up and wait" mode - for either research points or cash - particularly often, and in the moments when I have been, being able to kick the simulation speed up to 3x goes a long way towards making it not feel like a grind. On the entire opposite side of the time-step scale, the ability to pause the simulation while still being able to work on your zoo is a welcome change compared to a lot of these sorts of games that I've played. When a bunch of stuff hits the fan all at once - and it will, occasionally - pausing the simulation and dealing with things one by one helps prevent an otherwise-relaxing game from turning into a stress-fest. My only gripes are rather minor, and all pertain to the UI: - If I've popped out either the Animal Events or Zoo Events panels on the left, my expectation is that pressing Escape would collapse them, but instead it just brings up the the actual in-game pause menu. It's as if they don't "count" towards the menu stack depth. - I haven't been able to work out how to either delete or move enrichment objects within an enclosure. Aside from those two rather minor things, even the UI/UX of the game deserves praise. When I found out that I'd put my hyenas into the wrong kind of enclosure (Concrete instead of Savannah), I was concerned that I would have to move the hyenas into another enclosure, destroy the current enclosure, and re-build it. Instead, there's a "Change Type" button that automatically switches over the entire enclosure to the selected type, and simply charges the user in bulk for whatever it would have cost to build an enclosure of the selected type and size. The "Heat Map" views that the player can call up are also great: Being able to see overall water and recycling/garbage-bin coverage is convenient, per-sector lighting and decoration values help players who want to be able to min-max bonuses and such, but one of the most convenient ones is the "collision" view. In a game with 3/4-perspective graphics like Lets' Build a Zoo, it's not always clear if one or more lines of tiles, obscured behind a building, can be traversed, or if there's a hidden object in the way. Being able to overlay the collision map helps players design their zoos to be as customer-friendly as possible. Overall, I'm looking forward to pouring even more of my weekend into this gem!

Such a lovely and fun game. A lot of detail and thought went in to it.

A super casual game to just sit down and play, when I don't know what to play. A cute pixel style zoo tycoon game

It's a bit of a stretch with the breeding of different animals together, but you can play with just the regular animals and there's so many! It's not very challenging, there's not much to it in regards to planning and earning money, but there's a lot to do and you'll get many hours of fun from it!

Very solid game. I really like that for the different shops and things, when you set the price and stuff you can choose a healthy or a less healthy option. The whole good vs bad choices and pathing in the game and research tree is fun. If you like zoo tycoon you should like this game. There is also farming in the game, to feed your animals, which can be overwhelming at first, but once you assign the employees you will be good. For me, the main problem I had was the subway system. I placed a lot of them around and it seems to work, but sometimes it is hard to get guests to go to newer areas that are far away from the entrance. I also got the dinosaur DLC, and it felt worth it to me. Would recommend.

This is a super fun game! It has great customization and game mechanics. Though some of it isn't well documented or hard to find what you are doing if you are trying to max out morality or using certain buildings. Sometimes it can feel like its dragging trying to get research points and money too.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Perfect ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Okay ☐ Bad ☐ Very stylized ☐ They're what they should be for what the game is ☐ MS Paint could make something better ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Fantastic ☑ Excellent ☐ Perfect ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Bad, but playable ☐ Just go watch paint dry ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Amazing ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not to bad ☐ Alright ☐ Bad ☐ My ears are bleeding ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Babies ☑ Young kids ☑ Young teens ☑ Older teens ☑ Adults ☑ Old people ☑ Anyone with a decent maturity level ☑ Anyone with a lack of maturity ☑ Anyone that is alive ☑ No one, not even your dog ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Just average ☐ A little better than average ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Better than good ☐ Fancy Pants Rich Boy ☐ NASA ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Can choose your difficulty setting ☐ No difficulty needed ☐ Just press 'W" ☐ Easy ☐ Medium ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Hard ☑ Verry Difficult ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if you like to collect things ☑ Only if you care about steam achievements ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Only if you care about rankings/placements/leaderboards/etc. ☐ Average grind level ☐ A little grindy ☐ Too much grind ☑ You‘ll need a second life, maybe some macros, & a will to live for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ Story? What story? ☐ No Story ☐ Twilight was a better love story than this ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ 1-2 Hours ☐ 2-5 Hours ☐ 5-10 Hours ☐ 10-20 Hours ☐ 20-50 Hours ☑ 50+ Hours ☐ 100+ Hours ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Replayablity }--- ☐ You won't even finish it the first time ☐ None, once was enough ☐ Not that kind of game ☐ You don't stop playing this kinda game, ever ☐ Maybe once or twice, to try something new ☑ You'll want to get every single possible ending & secret there is ☐ You'll pick it up every few years, but never finish a whole playthrough ☐ A lot, just to romance everyone, pick new options. try new classes, etc ---{ Price }--- ☐ It’s free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If you have some money to blow ☐ Wait for it to go on sale for the 100th time ☐ Ask someone to gift it to you instead ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Circumstantial (PC specs, internet, save/install location, etc.) ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Very low ☑ Low ☐ Average ☐ High ☐ Too much ---{ Worth It }--- ☐ Hell no! ☐ If you have a lot of cash ☐ Worth it! ☑ Get it now! ☐ Life is not complete without this game! ---{ TEXT }--- It's a pretty cute and interesting game, but managing this zoo is pretty hard, it has a lot of difficulty in that regard, I still haven't figured out the interface for feeding the animals, I'm not saying the game isn't good, but its interface requires you to put your mind to it. It's worth playing if you understand the mechanics of the game! ---{ 7 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

I love lest build a zoo there is nothing i cant do on here i play for hours and hours at a time i dont even know why i would ever stop playing unless i cant use my hands

Giving this a yes, in hopes I change my mind! I blindly purchased this, and wish I did a little more research on it beforehand. It’s so chaotic! I’m hoping after I take a break and try it again… i’ll enjoy it more.

Evil zoo tycoon, even if you pick the good path.

I can't stop clicking, i think i'm addicted...

i accidentally left ts on and now i cant refund it :(

I've never played this game. But my girlfriend loves it clearly.

i like this game i have 122.3 morality

W game

yay i love cute animals !!!!!!!

can force animals to have sex

Love it~

i lioke gaem

excellent

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