Yes, worth buying.
At $29.99. It has been as low as $20.99.
- Graphics: 41 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Optimization: 23 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 20 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 28 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 27 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 7k player reviews · updated 5 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The models, animations, SFX and etc are all amazing and the visuals are gorgeous!
But if you say that all of that doesn't turn you away from the game and that you can look beyond it, then do keep in mind that this game is also very badly optimized.
While development is still ongoing, the mechanical foundation and scientific rigor already feel incredibly solid and mature, making the gameplay experience a masterpiece with great potential for the future of zoo management games.
The recent addition of combat is also very good, it is still early access and WIP but so far the combat is very good, unique and actually feels realistic and animal like.
The dialogue itself is also fun and shares some very interesting fun facts about what you place down and the animals themselves.
It would be nice to have a campaign of sorts with ramping difficulty to get people to learn the mechanics in earlier levels and provide a challenge in the later ones.
Theme by theme
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Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $29.99. The lowest we've tracked is $20.99.
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