#Planet zoo expansion install
#Planet zoo expansion plus

But honestly, it's just a bit dull in there without all the worries. Seeing babies appear, even if they're spider babies-even if they're far more spider babies than you were expecting-feels goodДЄt times all this stress and guilt and micromanagement makes me feel like I should just play in Sandbox mode, and I've tried. There are always incestuous spiders and unhappy tortoises to sort out. This is also the reason the sign I'm building at the entrance of Zoo Bisou currently only consists of a Z. Everything needs constant attention all the time-not only keeping your animals healthy but your staff happy, managing your budget and zoo's reputation, and dealing with day-to-day concerns like preventing guests from vandalizing park benches (by hiring a security guard and installing cameras) and making sure habitat walls don't get so dilapidated they crumble and allow a tiger to terrorize the park (the guests won't get mauled, but they do leave the zoo in a hurry). With the exception of Sandbox mode where you have a bottomless wallet and the ability to turn off things like animal sickness, injury, and death, Planet Zoo is an extremely busy an occasionally exhausting sim. Taking the time to solve one problem gave literally everything else in the zoo time to develop their own problems.Д®verything falls apart, so keep your mechanics hopping (Image credit: Frontier Developments) Animal kingdom Plus, one of my zookeepers is complaining that he can't find his way to the staff room, which I discover is because he's somehow fallen through the map and is wandering around underground. I also now have roughly 20 tarantulas (not only did my original pair give birth but their offspring have matured and reproduced incestuously), three more snakes, a new wolf cub, a new bear cub, and some protestors picketing because my turtle is sad that it doesn't have any toys.

#Planet zoo expansion install

I install a water purifier and the disease risk notification vanishes, but Planet Zoo didn't make it clear that the water was the problem, and it should have.ДЄnd in the time it took to figure that out, I now have nine giant lizards instead of two, because one gave birth to a huge litter-so I have an overcrowding problem in that habitat. After several frustrating minutes I finally make a guess that the issue might be the small river running through the back of the bear's habitat-even though the water looks fine ('Water View' mode doesn't show any alarming red danger zones). I've been getting notifications for a while now that my bear's habitat is a disease risk because it's not clean, but repeatedly sending one of my zookeepers over to vacuum up enormous bear turds hasn't made the notification go away.

#Planet zoo expansion plus

It's still small with only a few habitats-two bears, two wolves, two nile monitors (giant lizards), one Galapagos tortoise, plus enclosed glass exhibits featuring two tarantulas and two snakes. Take my current zoo, which I've named Zoo Bisou. (Image credit: Frontier Developments) Gibbon Architect But some of the stress of Planet Zoo is due to parts of the game not working that well. This is mostly a good thing-stressful experiences can be a weird sort of fun, and heart-wrenching guilt should be a feature in more games. None of the lives you're in charge of actually want to be there, and making a mistake puts those lives in danger.

At its most stressful, Planet Zoo is more like Frostpunk or Prison Architect. In fact, forget that I just compared it to Planet Coaster. Planet Zoo isn't just a management sim, it's a survival game. I couldn't even keep an ugly bug that eats dead leaves happy, and I instantly felt terrible about it. It was because my giant burrowing cockroach's glass box was slightly too humid for its liking. At one point I saw protesters carrying picket signs in my park. They can kill each other if you put the wrong animals together in the same habitat. They can feel fear and stress and lack of privacy and the effects of isolation.

They can contract diseases or get injured by fighting one another for alpha status. My elephants, giraffes, orangutans, panda bears, and dozens of other beautiful creatures can starve to death or die of dehydration if I'm not careful.

Planet Zoo has several official modes-Career, Challenge, Sandbox, and Franchise-but its two actual modes are Things Seem Fine and Oh God What Have I Done.