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Let's Build a Zoo

Image: Steam / Springloaded

  • Management
  • Tycoon
  • Animals

A retro pixel-art zoo management sim: you build enclosures, breed, trade and rescue animals, hire staff and splice DNA to create hybrids. Whether your choices are ethical or shady changes what you can research.

Why play it now

When you want a tycoon with no set ending that you can pause and learn at your own pace, even if the hours slip away.

Who it's for

For anyone who enjoys management with a dark sense of humour and wants to collect animal variants and combine them.

When not to pick it

If you want something easy to pick up: the tutorial is thin, the text is small and expanding gets pricey.

What it offers

  • Managing: 90 out of 100
  • Building: 70 out of 100
  • Relaxing: 60 out of 100
  • Creating: 60 out of 100
  • Thinking: 55 out of 100

Our own editorial classification, not Steam data.

Details

Controller
Controller support
Disk space
700 MB (minimum)
Steam Deck
Playable
Steam reviews
89% positive (4,126)
Metacritic
78/100
Developer
Springloaded
Release date
5 NOV 2021
Steam genres
Simulation, Strategy

Based on what the game states on Steam.

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