Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Build, manage, and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is a simulation, management and sandbox game developed by Frontier Developments and Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Released on September 14th 2018 is available only on Windows in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Portuguese - Portugal.

It has received 1,911 reviews of which 1,227 were positive and 684 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.54€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection into these genres:

Simulation Management Sandbox Multiplayer Singleplayer Family Friendly Building City Builder

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Window 7 or higher 64-Bit
Processor: Intel Core i3-3210 @ 3.2 GHz || AMD FX-4150 @ 4 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GT GTX 650 || AMD R7 260
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 10 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2026

Zoo Tycoon is an older game that still holds up well - its related to Zoo Tycoon 2 (which i played extensively previously and really enjoyed the Safari / Aquarium / Dinosaur and topological ability to arrange your zoo as per the environmental layer aspects, unfotunately none of which are in this game). Despite the lack, this game is still pretty fun to play and worth the time and as I got it on sale, the price was pretty neglible

Nov. 2025

If you're coming into this game thinking it'll be like all the other Zoo Tycoon games, you're in for a shock. They change the formula, making it so all animal exhibits are pre-built, and there's no chance of an animal escaping to wreak havoc on your zoo patrons. Don't let that stop you, though. Even with pre-built assets, it's still a fun game where you have to manage the happiness of your animals with the happiness of your patrons. It's easier to reach goals than any of the previous games, and once you hit a certain benchmark, you no longer need to worry about anything. But that's why this game adds a second level that makes it feel more like a puzzle game than a sim: once you're done with one zoo, you need to move a specific animal that is only obtained there to a sort of community pool, then start the next zoo, which requires the animal from the previous zoo to be showcased in order to complete it. If you're looking to build and manage the intricacies of a zoo in the vein of the early Tycoon games, get Planet Zoo. But if you're looking for a casual game with low stakes that feels more like a puzzle than a simulation, get this game.

Nov. 2025

This game is mediocre. Don't purchase it expecting to be entrenched in wonder. All aspects of this game have no depth, when playing this game you may find some parts of it to be slightly deep, do not be fooled, after 5 minutes you will have seen all of that feature. But, if you aren't seeking much and just want to fill an afternoon with a game that is relaxing and won't push back, this is a good choice. There is a remarkable amount of animals in this game, they are all pretty similar but still vaguely different. When I play this game I am either bored out of my mind or having a good time, however if you play too long and think about what it could've been you will slowly fall into frustration.

Oct. 2025

For what it is, it's okay. Personally, I enjoy this version of Zoo Tycoon, for a few of the features it offers. First off, the graphics are pretty good. The animals look cute and it doesn't take a NASA computer to run it. It is on the older side so, on my higher end gaming system, I can sometimes see the rigs of the animals themselves. The game play is pretty basic, no real lore or any actual storyline to it. You get in, kind of customize your character, and you build a zoo. The enclosures are presets, small/medium/large, I like this for simplicity reasons. I'm not much of a builder, so having it prebuilt for me is nice. Downside is, the large can only hold 10 animals, and the whole zoo itself has a limit as to how much you can build so you aren't always able to get every single animal in one zoo. One downside is if I set the settings to fullscreen, I have to exit the game entirely and restart it if I decide to change it to window mode. I don't feel I should have to fully restart the game just switching from fullscreen to window. I like that you can play as the character you create, run around the zoo as them and even drive little buggies around. Achievements are fairly easy to earn. There's not any real challenge to this game, it's quite simple imo. It's not a large game, only around 9gb in size. While this is a "Zoo Tycoon" named game, it is not quite like the originals we grew up loving. Besides the graphics the gameplay just kind of feels like... cheap. I can't compare this to Planet Zoo, because Planet Zoo is top tier zoo gaming, while this... is average. If you're on the fence about buying it, wait until it's on sale. For what it offers, I feel it's a solid game. It could have more, but I guess I can just hope for the future installment in the Zoo Tycoon namesake. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☑ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

June 2025

This brought back so many childhood memories, at first I was a disappointed because you can´t decorate freely the exhibits like we used to do and dinosaurs, whales and other animals aren't available, but it´s still a great cozy game to play, have fun, and relax.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 16.79€ on Steam.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection received 1,227 positive votes out of a total of 1,911 achieving a rating of 6.27.

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Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection was developed by Frontier Developments and Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is not playable on MacOS.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is not playable on Linux.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection does not currently offer any DLC.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection does not support Steam Remote Play.

Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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