You can choose to play in either scenario or freeform mode. If you put the lions in an arctic exhibit, they won’t be too pleased! Don’t forget to employ plenty of zookeepers, or else an animal might just get loose – and could kill a guest. To keep the animals happy you’ll need to carefully choose their habitat and terrain. While restaurants and shops help keep guests happy, you need both guest and animal happiness high to make money. The player can build everything from food stands to movie theatres – and of course, animal exhibits, for a wide choice of animals. In Zoo Tycoon, the player gets to experience all the excitement of running a business by becoming the titular zoo tycoon: building, running and expanding their very own zoo.
It’s a single player game, initially released to be played on a Microsoft PC or Apple Macintosh.
Zoo Tycoon is a simulation computer game developed by Blue Fang Games, and published by Microsoft in 2001.