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210 games like Zoo Tycoon

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01 The Sims Cover

2000 · Linux, Mac, PC

The Sims

73%

The Sims is a life-building simulation with emphasis on intimate details of individual characters rather than expansion of an entire society or civilization. You are in control of nearly every aspect of the lives of the individuals who make up your chosen popu...

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Zoo Tycoon

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

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02 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Cover
72%

Escape to a deserted island and create your own paradise as you explore, create, and customize in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Your island getaway has a wealth of natural resources that can be used to craft everything from tools to creature comforts. You can...

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Zoo Tycoon

72% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

03 Animal Crossing: New Leaf Cover
72%

The charming community-building franchise returns for with Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The Nintendo 3DS entry into this popular franchise introduces a number of options new to Animal Crossing, including the ability to become the head of the village and boost it...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

72% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

04 RollerCoaster Tycoon Cover

1999 · PC, XBOX

RollerCoaster Tycoon

69%

The premise of the game is to complete a series of preset scenarios by successfully building and maintaining amusement parks through business ownership as a theme park entrepreneur. The key to any park is building a large amount and diverse range of rides for...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

69% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

05 SimTower Cover

1994 · 3DO, Mac, PC

SimTower

62%

Welcome to the building simulation game SimTower, which offers the chance to build and manage all the complex, interconnected operations of a modern skycraper. You build your empire from nothing and become the engineer and general manager of your structure. Yo...

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Zoo Tycoon

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

06 Airline Tycoon 2 Cover

2011 · PC

Airline Tycoon 2

61%

A decade after the best-selling Airline Tycoon comes the long awaited sequel to the legendary tongue-in-cheek economic simulation that puts players in the role of CEO of an international airline! Airline Tycoon 2 will challenge players to run a modern airline,...

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Zoo Tycoon

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

07 Cities: Skylines Cover

2015 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Cities: Skylines

58%

Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and utilities, and balanc...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

08 The Sims 4 Cover

2014 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Sims 4

58%

Unleash your imagination and create a unique world of Sims that's an expression of you! Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes, and much more with The Sims 4. Life, and Sims, are yours to control. Customize your unique Sims, design their homes &...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

09 Fast Food Tycoon Cover

2000 · PC

Fast Food Tycoon

55%

Fast Food Tycoon was developed by Software 2000 as a economic simulation game. The player controls a pizza chain syndicate, and is able to manage many of the different aspects of running a pizza chain. The game spawned a sequel, and is generally regarded as an...

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Zoo Tycoon

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

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10 The Sims 3 Cover

2009 · Mac, PC

The Sims 3

53%

In The Sims 3, you can create Sims with unique personalities, fulfill their desires, and control their lives within a customizable living neighborhood. Unlock all-new Karma Powers and unleash them on your Sims: help your Sim get lucky with the power of "love c...

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Zoo Tycoon

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

11 The Sims 2 Cover

2004 · Mac, PC

The Sims 2

53%

In The Sims 2, your Sims will be more lifelike, more responsive, and more complex than ever before. You'll be able to control your Sims over their entire lifetimes, taking them from their first steps to their golden years. Guide them through "Life's Big Moment...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 Don't Starve Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Don't Starve

52%

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

13 Factorio Cover

2020 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Factorio

52%

You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, apply management skills to keep it work...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

14 Minecraft: Java Edition Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, PC

Minecraft: Java Edition

51%

Minecraft focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In addition to blocks, the environment features plants, mobs, and items. Some activities in the game include mining...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

51% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

15 Grand Theft Auto III Cover

2001 · Android, Mac, PC

Grand Theft Auto III

50%

Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart o...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

16 Fortnite Cover

2020 · Android, Mac, Switch

Fortnite

50%

Fortnite is a free-to-play online game where you and your friends can create, play and battle. Be the last player standing in Battle Royale and Zero Build, experience a concert or live event, or discover over a million creator-made games, including racing, par...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

17 Garry's Mod Cover

2004 · Linux, Mac, PC

Garry's Mod

50%

Garry's Mod is a physics-based sandbox game built on Valve's Source engine. In its base mode, there are no objectives. Players can spawn non-player characters, ragdolls, and props, then manipulate them using a physics gun that can pick up, rotate, and freeze o...

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Zoo Tycoon

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

18 Untitled Goose Game Cover

2019 · Mac, Switch, PC

Untitled Goose Game

50%

It's a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose. Untitled Goose Game is a slapstick-stealth-sandbox, where you are a goose let loose on an unsuspecting village. Make your way around town, from peoples' back gardens to the high street shops t...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

19 Don't Starve Together Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Don't Starve Together

50%

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve. Discover and explore a massive procedurally generated and biome-rich world with countless resources and threats. Wheth...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

20 Stardew Valley Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Stardew Valley

48%

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrow...

Your match for

Zoo Tycoon

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

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