$24.99Zoochosis Night Shift at the Wrong Zoo
Care for the animals, spot the infected ones and decide who leaves the zoo alive.
Is Zoochosis worth it?
Zoochosis is worth it if…
- you enjoy job sims with a dark turn, the kind where feeding animals slowly stops feeling safe
- you like short runs and branching endings, and want a game built around replaying your choices
- you want horror that leans on atmosphere and body horror rather than constant chases
- you would rather work alone on a night shift than share the scares with a co-op partner
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The job comes first
Before anything goes wrong, there is a zoo to run. You pick a meal for each animal, prepare it, restock the enclosure and clean up after its residents. You check them over: temperature, weight, blood samples, the less glamorous end of the work too. It is a proper zookeeper routine, done in first person through a bodycam lens that makes every task feel like found footage. The rhythm of the work is the point: quiet, methodical, a little tedious on purpose. Then one of the animals stops behaving like an animal, and the same enclosure you just cleaned becomes the most interesting place in the zoo.
Diagnose, vaccinate, decide
The sick animals can be saved. You gather samples, study what you find and work out what the infection actually is, then mix a vaccine from the chemicals you have on hand. When the mutant finally shows itself, the choice is yours: cure it or put it down, and craft the right tool for whichever you pick. A dart gun settles the argument either way, and a missed shot sends you back to your last checkpoint. Who you save, who you sacrifice and whether you walk out at dawn all feed into the ending. There are more than twenty of them, and the game is built to be played through again with different calls.
What should you know before playing?
Is it actually scary?
It has a genuinely creepy atmosphere, strong mutant designs and a few good jumps, but it is less relentless than pure survival horror. The zookeeper work takes up most of the playtime, and the danger is real but not constant. Come for the tense, unsettling mood and the mystery, not for a game that hunts you from start to finish.
Can you play it solo?
Yes, it is a singleplayer game from start to finish. You are the only keeper on the night shift, which suits the bodycam framing: everything you see comes through your own camera, and every decision about the animals is yours alone to make.
How rough is it at the edges?
The loop can feel repetitive after a few enclosures, and the tutorial leaves some mechanics for you to figure out by trial and error. The developers have been shipping fixes at a steady clip since launch, so expect a game with a strong concept that is still being polished around it.
