Good game with a few bad points but worth a buy if you liked zoo tycoon 2 at all but let me do a pro and ♥♥♥

Pros

Realistic animals they actually climb the trees and use the enclosure to the potential offered they will even climb the fences if you use wrong type you have to put thought into closures unlike zoo tycoon games were tree were just a nice looking asset the animals In this game will sleep and play on them

Realistic needs animals cannot be ignored and some campaign scenarios are actually fun and challenging unfortunately I haven’t seem to make predators actually hunt prey yet and when they die they don’t get eaten by other animals so making a live reserve is not possible however the other animals will feed from grass and pick fruit from trees and insects from insect mounds making them fully self sustainable but meat eaters will starve to death rather than hunting prey

Plant needs you have to plant right things in right temp enclosures and zones and the right ground I liked this touch they visually die if you don’t meet there needs properly

Actually looks nice the game runs bad when you get a few animals but you overlook it when you watch a few of your animal actually fully interacting with environment and acting like living creatures

The economy in game is good you can lose money easily and go into red be banned from buying for a while making you need to balance income steadily for bigger builds

The production shops you place can produce a lot of products all you can individually price it’s very very good

The ♥♥♥♥

The guests EVERY guest is an annoying insert any curse word here they act like the animal don’t matter all they say is there is no where to shop here when u have 20 store literally 40 steps away or I want more decorative objects or plants it feels like a garden tour bus took a wrong turn and you have to deal with there need to see plants over animals to a unreal standard you will have 50 times more trees than animals in 1 area of your park

The map is smaller or at least feels it from zoo tycoon games with a nice selection of animals you won’t fit even a quarter in a well design park usually to the guests need for a shop and plant and decoration every 4 steps

The placement no matter how hard u try placing a perfect square enclosure will drive u Crazy they will always be slightly off

The breeding of certain animals is a bit to fast I ignored my zebra for around 45minutes why I was making a gorilla enclosure I had 8 zebra when I returned due to a few messages they were falling ill I found over 12

The patching of guests is bad they will gather up on paths for no reason they start complaining there are no restrooms plants decor and shops cos they refuse to walk past a corner this is fixed later in game when you have learnt to lay paths to never go around a enclosure fully near map walls but until you figure that out this is a big issue

The performance I sit around 30 FPS with a massively built up park and I have a very powerful computer i7 7700k and 16 g ddr4 ram with a 1080ti extreme edition I blame most of this on the bloody guests need for 50 plants per square foot

That’s about it I think overall the game is worth it at full price defiantly but if your going to buy it save your money till u can buy the DLC with the game not so much the Dino dlc unless your into that but the other dlcs add a lot of animal selections and shops and without the torch’s added I wouldn’t have been able to meet guest decor need so easily overall I rate the game

7/10 losing 3 points for performance issues , annoying guests wanting so many bloody plants and decor come to see the bloody animals it’s a zoo not a garden centre and finally last point for map size

Good game with a few bad points but worth a buy if you liked zoo tycoon 2 at all but let me do a pro and con Pros Realistic animals they actually climb the trees and use the enclosure to the potential offered they will even climb the fences if you use wrong type you have to put thought into closures unlike zoo tycoon games were tree were just a nice looking asset the animals In this game will sleep and play on them Realistic needs animals cannot be ignored and some campaign scenarios are actually fun and challenging unfortunately I haven’t seem to make predators actually hunt prey yet and when they die they don’t get eaten by other animals so making a live reserve is not possible however the other animals will feed from grass and pick fruit from trees and insects from insect mounds making them fully self sustainable but meat eaters will starve to death rather than hunting prey Plant needs you have to plant right things in right temp enclosures and zones and the right ground I liked this touch they visually die if you don’t meet there needs properly Actually looks nice the game runs bad when you get a few animals but you overlook it when you watch a few of your animal actually fully interacting with environment and acting like living creatures The economy in game is good you can lose money easily and go into red be banned from buying for a while making you need to balance income steadily for bigger builds The production shops you place can produce a lot of products all you can individually price it’s very very good The cons The guests EVERY guest is an annoying insert any curse word here they act like the animal don’t matter all they say is there is no where to shop here when u have 20 store literally 40 steps away or I want more decorative objects or plants it feels like a garden tour bus took a wrong turn and you have to deal with there need to see plants over animals to a unreal standard you will have 50 times more trees than animals in 1 area of your park The map is smaller or at least feels it from zoo tycoon games with a nice selection of animals you won’t fit even a quarter in a well design park usually to the guests need for a shop and plant and decoration every 4 steps The placement no matter how hard u try placing a perfect square enclosure will drive u Crazy they will always be slightly off The breeding of certain animals is a bit to fast I ignored my zebra for around 45minutes why I was making a gorilla enclosure I had 8 zebra when I returned due to a few messages they were falling ill I found over 12 The patching of guests is bad they will gather up on paths for no reason they start complaining there are no restrooms plants decor and shops cos they refuse to walk past a corner this is fixed later in game when you have learnt to lay paths to never go around a enclosure fully near map walls but until you figure that out this is a big issue The performance I sit around 30 FPS with a massively built up park and I have a very powerful computer i7 7700k and 16 g ddr4 ram with a 1080ti extreme edition I blame most of this on the bloody guests need for 50 plants per square foot That’s about it I think overall the game is worth it at full price defiantly but if your going to buy it save your money till u can buy the DLC with the game not so much the Dino dlc unless your into that but the other dlcs add a lot of animal selections and shops and without the torch’s added I wouldn’t have been able to meet guest decor need so easily overall I rate the game 7/10 losing 3 points for performance issues , annoying guests wanting so many bloody plants and decor come to see the bloody animals it’s a zoo not a garden centre and finally last point for map size