Games Like Zoo Park

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: Management 27.2%, Simulation 19.3%, City Builder 10.5%, Building 8.8%, Economy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is the gold standard for modern zoo management, offering unparalleled animal detail and creative building tools.

Do you have what it takes to be a zoo tycoon? You are responsible for your very own and unique zoo. Choose from numerous types of enclosures, park buildings and plants to design an environment appropriate to each species. Take home a part of wilderness with Wildlife Park 3!

Why similar: Management 22.5%, Simulation 22.4%, Strategy 14.8%, City Builder 7.8%, Economy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same foundational DNA and classic management style as Zoo Park, focusing on animal welfare and park logistics.

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.

Why similar: Management 46.9%, Simulation 43.1%, Building 3.9%, Singleplayer 3.7%, Family Friendly 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A definitive classic that perfectly mirrors the core zoo-building experience with a wide variety of species.

Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?

Why similar: Management 24.5%, Simulation 16%, City Builder 14.6%, Economy 8.7%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines deep zoo management with a charming aesthetic and unique dinosaur care mechanics.

Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.

Why similar: Management 24.7%, Simulation 18.1%, God Game 11.8% ★, Strategy 11.7%, Economy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers high-fidelity building and complex animal management specifically tailored for extinct species.

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: Management 23.8%, Simulation 23.2%, City Builder 15.4%, Strategy 12.5%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a unique, management-heavy take on zoo building with deep genetic mechanics and moral choices.

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Management 27.2%, Simulation 22.5%, Building 11.3%, Economy 8.1%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the same management loop as Zoo Park but specializes in the intricate needs of aquatic life.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Why similar: Management 26.6%, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 11.7%, City Builder 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features high-stakes park management with a heavy focus on animal containment, safety, and infrastructure.

Now’s the chance to build the Zoo of your dreams! Just like in a real Zoo, your animals must receive complete care. Feed them, train them, cure them and even relocate them. Observe their realistic interactions with one another, the landscape, the play equipment and even Zoo visitors.

Why similar: Management 22.8%, Simulation 19.2%, Strategy 14.4%, Economy 11%, God Game 8.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: A direct predecessor that offers similar mechanics and gameplay depth for fans of the series.

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: Management 24.3%, Simulation 23.3%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the same level of creative building freedom and guest management found in modern zoo simulation games.

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Management 29%, Simulation 19.4%, Strategy 13.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same humorous, management-focused design philosophy and satisfying progression loops found in modern simulation games.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Management 23%, City Builder 20.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Nature 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A complex management sim that requires careful resource and environmental planning to sustain a thriving colony.

Build and manage your own wildlife compound, determine which animals to feature, how to manage the business while ensuring that all the animals are thriving. • Build a giant animal park from scratch and manage it well • Choose a variety of terrains with different climates and environmental sounds • 45 detailed, seamlessly animated and...

Why similar: Simulation 23.3%, Management 22.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Economy 10.6%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The original title that established the core mechanics and charm of the series.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 36.6%, Simulation 32.2%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 8.5%, City Builder 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on efficient facility management and staff optimization, mirroring the logistical challenges of running a zoo.

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: Management 27.6%, Simulation 18.4%, City Builder 17%, Strategy 11.9%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a granular management experience where every detail of the facility layout and staff efficiency matters.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Simulation 18.2%, Management 16.8%, Strategy 13.5%, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that emphasizes organic growth and management of resources and population.

The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!

Why similar: Management 23.6%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 13.4%, City Builder 9.5%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of indoor attractions with a building interface similar to classic park sims.

In Animal Shelter, your main target is to make your four-legged friends happy. Pet them, hand out treats, play with toys - and they will pay you back with great trust. Get to know the animals well enough to find them the best home! Don't wait any longer, open your animal shelter now!

Why similar: Simulation 27.8%, Management 26.5%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Building 8.9%, Singleplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a more intimate, hands-on approach to animal care, rescue, and rehabilitation.

A small zoo needs your help! As the new manager, it's your job to boost business. Design the zoo of your dreams. From wolves and polar bears all the way to prehistoric beasts – the further you progress in the game, the more exotic the animals you'll be able to keep in your zoo. Play now and save the zoo!

Why similar: Management 20.7%, Simulation 19.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Strategy 12.2%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, accessible take on the zoo management genre that is easy to pick up and play.

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

Why similar: Management 35.9%, Simulation 17.9%, Economy 15.2%, Capitalism 15.1%, Immersive Sim 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep economic simulation that challenges your ability to manage multiple business ventures from the ground up.

What would you do if you had the keys to the zoo? World of Zoo is the only life sim game that pushes you past the fences and into a world of your own zoo. Create and customize your zoo experience and develop hands on relationships to earn the trust and love of your animals.

Why similar: Simulation 75.6%, Family Friendly 12.9%, Singleplayer 6.6%, Cute 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A family-friendly, animal-focused simulation that prioritizes direct interaction and care.

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: Management 23.4%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 12.6%, City Builder 11.9%, Economy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the economic and logistical side of building a successful enterprise in a competitive market.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Simulation 28.7%, Management 21%, Strategy 19.2%, Economy 7.7%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming management sim focused on production lines, efficiency, and worker satisfaction.

It's a zoo out there, and you're in charge! Go wild with your imagination running the most exotic, fun and exciting zoo ever.

Why similar: Simulation 58.1%, Strategy 41.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management title that focuses heavily on the business and financial side of running a zoo.

A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, become the king, and lead the United Penguin Kingdom.

Why similar: Management 22.5%, Strategy 15.8%, City Builder 15.5%, Simulation 11.1%, Economy 11%

Why You'll Like It: A specialized city-builder that requires managing resources and infrastructure in a harsh, cold environment.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Simulation 50.9%, Building 25.3%, Singleplayer 13.9%, Cute 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes survival and management in a nature-focused, historical setting.

Well, what are you waiting for? Build a top-ranking zoo, set social media ablaze, and show the world your wild side!

Why similar: Simulation 24.4%, Strategy 18.2%, City Builder 15.5%, Management 13.4%, Nature 11%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art management game that captures the essence of zoo building in a compact, satisfying format.

Manage a care center for adorable monsters in Monster Care Simulator! Treat clients' creatures, hatch eggs, raise your own companions, and keep them happy with fun activities. Hire staff, expand your facilities, and customize your space to build the ultimate monster sanctuary!

Why similar: Management 30.9%, Simulation 25.2%, Economy 13.9%, Immersive Sim 9.6%, Nature 9%

Why You'll Like It: A modern take on creature management with a focus on economy, care, and online collaboration.

Save fantasy creatures and protect them until releasing them into their natural habitat. Build your shelter, explore the neighboring region, and encounter a series of events.

Why similar: Simulation 28.6%, City Builder 20.8%, Management 14.9%, Building 8.9%, Nature 5%

Why You'll Like It: A management sim focused on the rescue, protection, and habitat creation for mythical creatures.

Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!

Why similar: Simulation 30.7%, Strategy 22.4%, City Builder 21.1%, Management 10.1%, Building 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management sim where you build and maintain a town to attract and support various adventurers.

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: Simulation 21.1%, Management 17.3%, City Builder 14.1%, Strategy 14.1%, Building 9.5%

In Zoo Simulator, your main task is to run and manage your own zoo. Renew it and take care of all the animals' needs, ensuring them a peaceful life! Will you attract crowds of visitors? Create your own zoo!

Why similar: Simulation 25.5%, Management 21.5%, Economy 10.5%, Strategy 9%, Immersive Sim 7.4%

The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version. In Zoo Simulator: Prologue, your main task is to run and manage your own zoo. Renew it and take care of all the animals' needs, ensuring them a peaceful life! Will you attract crowds of visitors? Create your own zoo!

Why similar: Management 25.2%, Simulation 23%, Strategy 12.6%, Nature 11.3%, Building 8.2%

Become a Zoo Keeper, manage and build the zoo of your childhood dreams! Take care of the animals and create ideal conditions for them. Grow your zoo, add extraordinary species and prepare amazing attractions for visitors.

Why similar: Management 19.7%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 11.6%, Economy 8.7%, Immersive Sim 7.7%

Zoo 2: Animal Park – Take care of wild and tame zoo animals in this animal game!

Why similar: Management 22.3%, Simulation 18.2%, City Builder 16.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Building 10.6%

Manage your own bunny park! Give snacks and toys to your bunnies. Improve and decorate your park to increase its popularity and collect all the bunnies!

Why similar: Simulation 25.6%, Management 19.9%, City Builder 13.1%, Building 12.1%, Nature 7.3%

Exotica 2: Pet Shop Simulator is a cozy management game where you design and run your own exotic pet shop. Care for over 70 animals, raise babies, breed rare color variants, customize your store, and manage customers and staff.

Why similar: Simulation 32.3%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Economy 12.8%, Building 10.9%, Nature 9%

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Why similar: Management 20.1%, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 15.9%, City Builder 15.2%, Economy 8.6%

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Management 27.9%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 14.3%, Building 13.3%, City Builder 8.6%

The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Manage and develop your animal training center, create a safe and happy place for them! Train different types of animals, and give them a lot of attention and they will surely become calmer with their owners.

Why similar: Management 27.4%, Simulation 25.9%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Economy 9%, Building 8%

In Animal Shelter Prologue, your main target is to make your four-legged friends happy. Pet them, hand out treats, play with toys - and they will pay you back with great trust. Get to know the animals well enough to find them the best home! Don't wait any longer, open your animal shelter now!

Why similar: Simulation 34%, Strategy 23.4%, Management 14%, Economy 8.2%, Building 7.7%

The Zoo is expanding! More than 30 new types of animals and plants have moved in at the zoo. Favorite species such as the Wolf, the Arctic Fox, the Giant Kangaroo and the Meerkat are the new Stars in your zoo! Improve the park with the blossoms of sunflowers and rare orchids and plant exotic trees such as bamboo and eucalyptus.

Why similar: Simulation 25%, Strategy 21.4%, Management 17.8%, God Game 9.1% ★, City Builder 8%

Horsesimulation with 16 breeds of horses and varied missions.

Why similar: Simulation 27.4%, Strategy 19%, Management 14.8%, Building 10.1%, Economy 8.7%

To The Rescue! is a charming dog shelter simulator. Take care of unique dogs and find the right homes for as many of them as you can. Upgrade your shelter, control disease outbreaks, learn each dog's preferences, and make tough decisions, all while helping support real-world animal shelters!

Why similar: Management 32.9%, Simulation 18.6%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 5.9%

Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.

Why similar: Simulation 45.5%, God Game 19.4% ★, Nature 11.6%, Management 10.2%, Singleplayer 7.8%

Park Beyond is a theme park simulation game that gives you the freedom to create and manage the Parks of your Dreams! Whether you love to manage finances and visitor experience, or just create fun and cozy parks, the game has something in store just for you!

Why similar: Management 29.8%, Simulation 24.9%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Resource Management 7.7%

It’s a sensation: A real t-rex has just hatched from an egg – in YOUR dino zoo game! Create a fantastic animal world teeming with prehistoric creatures and wow your visitors. In this dino game, you’re the proud owner of a dino zoo with numerous attractions.

Why similar: Simulation 37%, Nature 18.2%, City Builder 17.2%, Singleplayer 9.1%, Cute 5.4%

Welcome back to the heartwarming world of Animal Shelter 2! Provide a loving home for every four-legged friend in need – play with them, pet them, even dress them up! Get to know them and find them a loving family. Play with your friends and manage your shelter together in co-op!

Why similar: Simulation 37.2%, Management 33.5%, Family Friendly 8.8%, Cute 7.5%, Immersive Sim 5.8%

Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!

Why similar: Simulation 39.1%, Strategy 26%, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 6.9%, Building 5.9%

Build your own capybara spa in this relaxing point and click simulation game! Grow fruits, craft soaps and clean towels to pamper the capybaras during their visit. Furnish the mountain with gardens, baths and decorations to design the best capybara spa!

Why similar: Simulation 33.9%, Management 29.9%, Building 9.6%, Nature 6.6%, Cute 6%

Protect the environment, and save it from harm! Give commands to the animals, observe their rituals and help them survive. Face different disasters, react to human presence and help the animal kingdom flourish in this unique, environmental experience!

Why similar: Management 23.7%, God Game 22.5% ★, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 15.2%, Nature 9.8%

Welcome back to the heartwarming world of Animal Shelter 2: Prologue! Provide a loving home for every four-legged friend in need – play with them, pet them, even dress them up! Get to know them and find them a loving family. Play with your friends and manage your shelter together in co-op!

Why similar: Simulation 33.4%, Management 27.1%, Immersive Sim 11%, Family Friendly 7.8%, Economy 7.5%

Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create a perfect symbiosis to your liking.

Why similar: Management 19.2%, God Game 13.5% ★, Simulation 12.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Strategy 10.6%

Run your own pet shop in Pet Shop Simulator! Find new homes for pets, thus fulfilling the dreams of your customers. Take care of the needs of animals by selling the right items and get involved in matters related to the pets' home life!

Why similar: Management 31%, Simulation 27.2%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Building 7.9%, Family Friendly 6.5%

A relaxing sandbox casual simulation game where you perform various, even strange, aquarium-related tasks on very diverse levels. As an Aquarist you must create and manage a home to amazing fish🐟, sea turtles🐢, sharks🦈, octopuses🐙, and more🐬. Aquarium is their world and life. Make it worth...

Why similar: Management 32.5%, Simulation 24.9%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Building 10.8%, Resource Management 7.2%

Travel to the sleepy village of Caterwaul Way and rebuild your grandmother's cat cafe. Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines!

Why similar: Management 32.5%, Simulation 24.6%, Strategy 18.6%, Building 11.3%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management

Why similar: Management 25.6%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 12.3%, Building 9.2%, God Game 7.1% ★

Exciting and thrilling dinosaur-extension for the Wildlife Park univers with 11 different dinosaurs in 9 new missions.

Why similar: Simulation 40.9%, Strategy 26.2%, God Game 15.6% ★, Building 11.1%, Resource Management 4.4%

Take care of forgotten nature's treasure. Build, craft, feed, clean and manage your forest in Forest Ranger Simulator. Ensure its long-lasting beauty and become a flawless Forest Ranger!

Why similar: Simulation 29.5%, Economy 17.3%, Immersive Sim 16%, Building 13.3%, Nature 12.8%

Lead hundreds of "wise" little animals to pay tribute to the Cat God!! 7 animal families, 100+ animals, 10+ Cat Gods, 100+ items, and various animal combinations waiting for you to explore!

Why similar: Management 43.2%, Simulation 30.1%, Strategy 16.4%, Resource Management 10.4%