$44.99Planet Zoo Every animal has a story
Design habitats, care for your animals and run a zoo that visitors love, at whatever pace suits you.
Is Planet Zoo worth it?
Planet Zoo is worth it if…
- you like watching animals and tweaking their homes until everyone thrives
- you like slow management with budgets, staff, research and breeding
- you like building piece by piece and detailing landscapes
- you want a relaxed sandbox zoo or a goal-led campaign
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Animals that think and feel
Every animal has its own look and personality, from playful lion cubs to mighty elephants. They explore, rest, play, mate, grow old, and raise families that inherit genes from their parents.
So you do more than place them in a pen. You research each species, match its social needs, climate, plants and enrichment, and adjust until it thrives. Get it wrong and stress shows in how they act. Get it right and you can watch a cub grow up, then send its offspring back into the wild for conservation.
Running the whole living zoo
Your choices ripple through the park. Set ticket prices, hire keepers, vets and mechanics, fund research, open shops and exhibits, and decide what to expand next.
You can stay on the big picture — budgets, staffing, conservation credits — or go hands-on with feeding, health, breeding and habitat details. Thrill visitors with iconic exhibits while keeping welfare first. A happy tiger pays the bills, but only if its pond, shade and quiet are sorted.
Building every hill and hiding spot
The piece-by-piece tools give you hundreds of components and themed sets to shape a zoo that looks like yours. Dig lakes and rivers for swimmers, raise hills and mountains, carve paths and caves, then dress it with rocks, foliage and shelters.
Start with a square paddock if you like. Finish with a Cambodian temple wrapped around a climbing frame, or a savanna where guests ride through on a scheduled tour. The visitors will stroll past your four-hour waterfall in six seconds.
Campaign, Sandbox and shared zoos
Play a globe-trotting campaign of zoos with specific goals, run a zoo with fewer limits in Sandbox mode, or trade animals with other players in Franchise mode and its live market.
Drop a ready-made reptile house into your park, or upload your own perfect penguin cove and spot it turning up in zoos around the world.
Good to know before you build?
How much building control do I get?
A lot. You shape terrain, water, paths, barriers, shelters and decor piece by piece, with themed sets and hundreds of parts. You can make sky walks, caves, multi-species safari areas, petting zoos and exhibit rooms for smaller animals like frogs, spiders and scorpions. Freedom is the point, so simple rectangles are easy and elaborate landscapes take practice.
What do I actually do with the animals?
You learn what each species needs — space, climate, plants, group size, enrichment — then research, feed, treat illness, manage breeding and genetics, and raise young that carry their parents' traits. Healthy populations can be released back into the wild to support conservation. It is care work as much as management.
Is there a story campaign or just free building?
Both. The campaign takes you to zoos around the world with set challenges to fix and complete. Sandbox removes the limits so you can build freely. Franchise mode adds a shared animal market where you buy and sell with other players to stock your zoo.
Will my zoo feel alive?
Yes, when the balance is right. Animals wander, bathe, climb, nap in the sun and react to crowding or noise. Visitors stop to watch, take photos, buy burgers and souvenirs, complain about toilets and crowd the popular exhibits. Keep welfare high and the whole place hums.
