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Planet Zoo

Original title: Planet Zoo - November 5, 2019
Planet Zoo
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Studio:Frontier Developments
Stars:James Stant, Colin McFarlane, Dave Jones - Full View
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Steam
Game
Steam Award for Most Innovative Gameplay
Nominee
2019
Award
Game
British Academy Games Award for British Game
Nominee
2020

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Game Details
DeveloperIGDB
Frontier Developments
PublisherIGDB
Frontier Developments
Studio
Frontier Developments
Genres
Strategy, Simulation
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5
Release Date
November 5, 2019
Metacritic ScoreMetacritic
81
Game Engine
Cobra

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim, featuring authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them. Experience a globe-trotting campaign or let your imagination run wild in the freedom of Sandbox mode. Create unique habitats and vast landscapes, make big decisions and meaningful choices, and nurture your animals as you construct and manage the world’s wildest zoos. Meet a world of incredible animals. From playful lion cubs to mighty elephants, every animal in Planet Zoo is a thinking, feeling individual with a distinctive look and personality of their own. Craft detailed habitats to bring your animals’ natural environments home, research and manage each species to allow them to thrive, and help your animals raise families to pass their genes onto future generations. Manage an amazing living world that responds to every decision you make. Focus on the big picture or go hands-on and control the smallest details. Thrill visitors with iconic exhibits, develop your zoo with new research, and release new generations of your animals back into the wild. Your choices come alive in a world where animal welfare and conservation comes first. Planet Zoo’s powerful piece-by-piece construction tools let you effortlessly make your zoo unique. Every creative decision you make impacts the lives of your animals and the experience of your visitors. Let your imagination run wild as you dig lakes and rivers, raise hills and mountains, carve paths and caves, and build stunning zoos with a choice of unique themes and hundreds of building components. Join a connected community and share the world’s most creative habitats, scenery and even whole zoos on the Steam Workshop. See your own designs appear in zoos around the world, or discover fresh new content from the Planet Zoo community every day.

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Build a wilder world in Planet Zoo 2 – the sequel to the beloved zoo simulation game. Let your creativity soar by constructing and managing distinctive zoos around the world, full of awe-inspiring animals, including fully aquatic and flying species for the first time. Plus, take the next step in animal conservation and release your species into customisable, expansive Wildlife Reserves.

Discover a diverse roster of animal species, each with their own needs & behaviours. New faces join familiar favourites like the Lion and Western Chimpanzee to create iconic zoo rosters in jaw-dropping detail.

Construct beautiful habitats for your animals to thrive in as they interact with the world around them in authentic ways. From authentic herding behaviours to grazing on the vegetation you provide for them. Experience a generational leap of animal detail and immersion with incredible natural movements and expressive emotions that bring each animal to life like never before.

Prepare your diving suit! Fully aquatic species make a splash in their stunning debut! Build custom spectacular freshwater or saltwater aquariums to home an exciting line-up of delightful swimming animals. A new world beneath the water awaits, filled with colourful shoals of fish, Blacktip Reef Sharks, Hawksbill Turtles and so many more!

Soar to great heights with a diverse mix of bright & brilliant fully flying birds including the vibrant Toco Toucan and majestic Secretarybird. House your birds in fully customisable aviaries built from barriers, support poles and dynamic mesh covers, allowing them to fly freely and safely. Observe their dynamic behaviours on the ground and in the sky as they glide around unique habitats.

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Conservation goes beyond your zoo! Take on global conservation projects and meet specific requirements to release your animals into fully customisable, expansive Wildlife Reserves across the globe in living ecosystems created by you.

Build the zoo of your dreams across multiple globe-spanning biomes, with four brand-new scenery themes covering iconic architecture from around the world and five returning themes from the original Planet Zoo, providing you with an expansive library of scenery items to build/create with.

Effortlessly design your zoos using a range of ready-to-place blueprints or get creative with the Planet franchise’s iconic piece-by-piece construction tools to bring your own ideas to life.

Delve into every detail with scaling, flexi-colour & easy-to-use pathing systems, together with new foliage and terrain brushes to make grand changes to your zoos and Wildlife Reserves.

Construct perfect habitats for appealing animals to bring in guests, boosting your zoo’s rating and earning money to fund further expansion.

Manage day-to-day zoo life as you create immersive spaces for your guests packed with educational opportunities around every corner. Cater to their requirements with a variety of shops and amenities to curate the perfect day out.

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Join FEN (Fauna and Ecosystems Network) in a fun-filled adventure around the world in Career mode. Build a global network of zoos and Wildlife Reserves and trade animals with other players in Franchise mode or enjoy unlimited creativity in Sandbox mode.

Discover a world of community content in the Frontier Workshop. Freely explore and download player-created blueprints and creations from across platforms and subscribe to your favourites to place them in your zoos.

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Data aggregated from 5 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Steam, Wikidata, Metacritic
Last updated: 27.08.2026
Language Support
Language
AudioSubUI
Korean
Spanish (Spain)
Chinese (Simplified)
Portuguese (Brazil)
French
English
Italian
German
Japanese
Spanish - Spain
Portuguese - Brazil
Simplified Chinese
Spanish - Latin America
Dutch
Danish
Chinese (Traditional)
Polish
Thai
Russian
Czech
Traditional Chinese

Source: IGDB + Steam, store.steampowered.com

Content Rating
Crude Humor
Violence
Blood
ESRB Everyone 10+
ESRB T
ClassInd: 14
ESRB: E10
GMEDIA: 7
IGRS: 18
OFLC: PG
PEGI: 7
USK (DE): 16
USK: 0
Game Features
Single-player
Steam Achievements
Full controller support
Adjustable Text Size
Camera Comfort
Color Alternatives
Custom Volume Controls
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Playable without Timed Input
DualShock Controller Support
DualSense Controller Support
Save Anytime
Stereo Sound
Surround Sound
Steam Cloud
HDR available
Family Sharing
System Requirements
Minimum
OS:Windows 7 (SP1+)/8.1/10 64bit
CPU:Intel i5-2500 / AMD FX-6350
RAM:8 GB RAM
GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (2GB) / AMD Radeon R9 270X (2GB)
Storage:16 GB available space Minimum specifications may change during development
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Data aggregated from 5 sources: IGDB, RAWG, Steam, Wikidata, Metacritic
Last updated: 27.08.2026