There are ten in total, each probably taking around five minutes or less and they walk you through everything from building exhibits and adopting animals, to more advanced techniques like encouraging breeding and eventually releasing animals into the wild. New players will want to jump into the tutorials first, in order to get to know the gameplay mechanics and see a general overview of how to manage their zoos. Fear not, those of you who enjoyed the slower pace of the original PC games, because you can still play the same way you did before concentrating on the building and management of the zoo. This new game, an enhanced version of 2013’s Zoo Tycoon, aims to add a little more variety and challenge to it by giving you objectives and time limits that keep you on your toes. If you’ve never heard of Zoo Tycoon before, it’s a series that began on PC in 2001 and it tasked you with building and maintaining a zoo, similar to games like Theme Park and the earlier Tycoon game, Rollercoaster Tycoon.

And what kind of unfeeling monster doesn’t like zoos? Too often these park-building games focus on the management overview, forgetting that sometimes players might want to take in their creations from ground level. In fact, the mere ability to run around your zoo as you created zookeeper is probably the smartest decision developer Blue Fang Games could have made when making a game like this.

It’s hard not to smile while feeding or playing with the animals in this game.

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