Hello everyone from Hive Gaming! It's a pleasure to be here an write for you guys, this is my first post in this community. I already have friends who post here and i like pretty much when they appear in my feeds. In my willing to join in this community i have chose a game that i have played for the first time!
The game is Planet Zoo!
I'm a huge fan of simulators game, currently i like to play cities skyline, patron, and another "city builders". I like the aspect of build and management and how those games can bring a real good and relaxing time.
I have chose Planet Zoo because he remember me of good old classics that i have played in my childhood, such as Zoo Tycon 1 and Rollercoaster Tycon 1.
Also when i opened my steam yesterday i got the news about a sale on similar title by Frontier Publisher, i was looking for this games enter in sale and i have decided that was a good time to buy at least one of them, the planet zoo had the cost of US$5,32.
Planet Zoo is a Zoo simulator by the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon, the game was released at year of 2019 and has pretty decent graphics. He is not so intuitive and you need to do the tutorial if you want to make the most of your Zoo. The game allow you to expand your creativity build habitats but also demands to you to build adequate places for each animal.
Building a Avatar: The game first starts telling you to build you avatar in order to you have a profille, the game is connected with you friends and you can be a guest in their zoo and also they are guests in your zoo, i think this is a good idea and i have 2 friend who play the game, unfortunately they don't have shared pictures, it would be funny to see their collections.
Choosing your Avatar's home: After you build your avatar the game will say to you chose your location, i didn't see any impact on the game according the chosen region, but i think this is to you see also your friend location, as i said i have 2 friend who played the game and i was able to see their avatar in the same region as me, this was a good felling haha.
my avatar & my steam friends locations
Carrer: In career mode you have Career Scenarios, in the Career Scenarios we have the tutorials which in my opinion you had to do because the game has a lot of features and the animals are exigent in relation to they habitat and needs also you will learn about management and staff. In resume in this mode you will have missions to accomplish.
Timed: Same as the Career Scenarios, but different maps and tasks you will need some experience in order to complete those task before the time runs out, i haven't played in this mode yet but surely i will give a try.
i am currently playing the career scenario tutorials, as i said the game has a lot of features to learn.
Franchise: Franchise looks like one of the most interesting game modes, seems to be a online mode where you can run for community challenges, trade animal between another zoo managers and interact in on-line features. You chose a place around the world to build your zoo and you have a currency specific for this on-line game mode.
Challenge: is kind of a free-to-play mode, where you can start a new scenario from 0, choosing the location of your zoo(country) and the biome which is a characteristic of each location. In this mode you still have money limitations and little tasks which can be skipped to get new ones in order to help you raise money. It's a real challenge where your need to sustain and manage your zoo by your experience.
Sandbox: is the 4FUN play mode where you can build without money limitations, and will you not be stuck by tasks and missions. Here you can explore you imagination and creativity, i fell kind lost in those modes and i do prefer to play in the challenge after complete all the tutorials.
I am playing the Career mode to learn by the tutorial missions, it gives a pretty good understanding about the game. The animals has a complex needs and you have to understand how to deal with this and also how to build a proper habitat in order to increase the overall happiness of your animals.
You need to build a habitat by the needs that every single animal has, they need proper soil, they need that the temperature be as they like, some of them need more animals in the cage to fell more social, they like specific kind of plants and they actually have toys to interact, it's a lot of stuff to be atent.
In this first scenario you learn is how to enter in the animal view, so i will share some animals that came in this first scenario.
A Running Warthog & this begar tiger shits.
As i said previously, you need to build proper "cages" in order to supply your animals needs and for that the game has a lot of constructions and types of things to please and also contain each animal.
In BARRIER section we have the fences, walls, glasses all of them required to surround the recreational area of the animal and still being able to the visitors to see them. Some animal need taller walls then another, you won't have a tiger jumping a small fence.
In HABITAT you will buy things to make the animal more comfortable and also to supply their needs whether with feeding containers, climate changers or toys.
In NATURE section you have trees and plants that some animals want to be more comfortable and feels a little taste of home, so this is also a feature to increase the overall happines.
FACILITIES is more like buildings for your staff, you need some buildings in order to the zoo works, like places to prepare the food, places for vet and workers, also trading centers and many other things.
So far, the only way i saw to buy Animals to my zoo is trough the Animal market, but i'm pretty sure that you can trade animals with another zoo even in off-line mode.
In the overview section are the management aspect, where you can set a lot of important things such as prices and staff salary and also keep a look at the progress of your activities and the things that are happening at your zoo.
I will stop by here because this post is getting longer than i tought, so i will appreciate you guys feedback about my first time here ate Hive Gaming.
I'm willing to play more of this game, finish all tutorials and finally challenge myself to build a Zoo from the 0, if you guys like about this game i will try to make another post and until there i will probably have started my own Zoo.
That's it ! Have a nice week to everyone! Cya
