Build a world for wildlife with Planet Zoo: Console Edition. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon, the ultimate zoo simulator is arriving on console. Planet Zoo brings controller support that puts powerful creative tools at your fingertips and includes years’ worth of features, content, and animals from the celebrated PC video game’s free updates.
Planet Zoo: Console Edition features an incredible array of authentic animals who think, feel, and explore the world you design around them. Create unique habitats and vast landscapes, and make meaningful choices to nurture animals as you construct and manage the world’s wildest zoos using intuitive console controls. Pick up and play across four engaging game modes: embark on a globe-trotting campaign in career mode, build a network of connected zoos in Franchise mode, put your skills to the test in Challenge mode, or let your imagination run wild in the freedom of Sandbox mode.
Build a world for wildlife with Planet Zoo: Console Edition. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon, the ultimate zoo simulator is arriving on console. Planet Zoo brings controller support that puts powerful creative tools at your fingertips and includes years’ worth of features, content, and animals from the celebrated PC video game’s free updates.
Paths
Paths form the lifeline that connects all of the zoo's facilities together. Without paths, staff and guests cannot navigate around the zoo. Paths can be created by accessing the 'paths' menu.
To build paths:
Habitats & Exhibits
There are two kinds of animal homes in Planet Zoo:
Terrain Controls
The landscape upon which your zoo is built is completely customisable, with terrain sculpting and painting tools that allow you to modify the zoo to your heart’s content.
Terrain Sculpting
Terrain sculpting allows you to modify the elevation and shape of the landscape within your zoo to craft hills, flatten areas and create scenic vistas to build exhibits and attractions. Some modes will allow you to either start with a flat area to build or an already sculpted area to edit.
Navigating Your Zoo
The controls of Planet Zoo have been built from the ground up to be accessible and intuitive – including on gamepads.
The best way to learn how to move around your zoo and navigate the various in-game menus is to complete the tutorial as part of Career Mode. This tutorial has been designed to equip you with all the tools you need to get started with Planet Zoo and will introduce you to Bernie Goodwin as you help complete renovations of the beloved zoo, Goodwin House.
Zoo Location
Along with difficulty, when selecting Franchise, Challenge or Sandbox modes, the location of your zoo is also chosen when a zoo is first opened. In Career mode, the location of the zoo is set by the narrative.
A zoo's location is defined by the continent and biome it is set in, with the location presenting different modifications to the gameplay.
The choice of continent and biome will impact the following:
Difficulty Settings
Once you select your chosen game mode, you’ll be presented with a few settings, including the difficulty.
Planet Zoo features three difficulty settings allowing you to control the challenge and alter how difficult the game is, choosing between easy, medium or hard.
These difficulty settings are available in all game modes and the difficulty is set before a new scenario or zoo is started. Don’t worry though, if you’re finding it too much of a challenge, the difficulty can also be changed mid-game through the settings menu.
Game Modes
In Planet Zoo you can create, manage, research and develop the zoo of your dreams across four different game modes.
Career Mode
Embark on a globe-trotting campaign mode and progress through a career in zoo management. If you’re new to Planet Zoo, we recommend starting with Career Mode to help you learn the basics.
Controls & Controller Maps
North America & Europe Bundle
Welcome thirteen amazing new animals to your zoo with the Planet Zoo: North America & Europe bundle! From the towering moose to, to the fire salamander, you can enthral your guests with a range of fascinating wildlife from around the world.