Although there will be no new Zoo Tycoon games, it’s considered one of the best zoo management games, as well as one of the best games of all time. Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is still available to play. Although the Zoo Tycoon series has officially (and sadly) ended, it’s not a series that should be forgotten. Frontier Developments, who made the 2013 version, moved on to make Planet Zoo. The Zoo Tycoon series has been considered retired.

This seemed like a lot to take care of, but fortunately, you would have facilities that would take care of those needs, providing you placed enough of them around your park. Guests would have 5 needs: happiness, hunger, thirst, restroom need, and energy. If your guests were unhappy, your park’s profits would founder, and as a result, your animals would suffer too. Visitors, or guests, were also one of your main priorities. It wasn’t just animals you had to take care of. Luckily, you could hire staff to help you look after the animals, such as keepers and vets and more.

This was a big responsibility, and if your park was full of lots of different animals to watch over, you’d have your hands full. You had a responsibility to take care of them keeping them fed and entertained, and if you failed, they would become bored, restless, and even stressed. You couldn’t just plonk animals in enclosures in your park.

The animals that you see in zoos in the real world you can place in your own park. It was the first game of its type that allowed you to design and run your own zoo, and you could place all kinds of exotic and interesting animals in your park, such as lions, elephants, tigers, rhinos, chimpanzees, penguins, pandas, giraffes, hippos, and lots more. The original Zoo Tycoon was a pioneer in zoo management games. (YouTube video by Game Trailer Preserve Project)

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