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IGDB / 139608

Zoo Economy

Indie Puzzle Simulator

Zoo Economy is a strategy-puzzle game where you exchange animals. Complete historic based story missions or play in sandbox. Get animals, breed them, attract visitors, sponsor expeditions for unique animals, upgrade zoo and much more.

World design Open World StructureSandbox GameplayPuzzles

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Story & context
Have you ever wondered how zoos get their animals? It's simple - via exchange. You need a Koala while the London Zoo needs a Brown Bear. What a coincidence you have a Brown Bear and the London Zoo has Koala. You shake hands and exchange animals. But what if you don't have a Brown Bear... You're the zoo manager and head of the Zoo's exchange program. For various reasons you need animals and there are zoos which also want to exchange some of their animals. Find exchange chains, where you exchange with several other zoos only to exchange for animals you wanted in a first place. Animals are your currency. Build good relations with other zoos to exchange more animals or to exchange animals on your terms. Upgrade your zoo to increase capacity or to unlock new types of animals. Breed your unique animals to exchange them later and compete for the title of #1 zoo. Play through historic campaign Show full description

Have you ever wondered how zoos get their animals? It's simple - via exchange. You need a Koala while the London Zoo needs a Brown Bear. What a coincidence you have a Brown Bear and the London Zoo has Koala. You shake hands and exchange animals. But what if you don't have a Brown Bear... You're the zoo manager and head of the Zoo's exchange program. For various reasons you need animals and there are zoos which also want to exchange some of their animals. Find exchange chains, where you exchange with several other zoos only to exchange for animals you wanted in a first place. Animals are your currency. Build good relations with other zoos to exchange more animals or to exchange animals on your terms. Upgrade your zoo to increase capacity or to unlock new types of animals. Breed your unique animals to exchange them later and compete for the title of #1 zoo. Play through historic campaigns based on real zoos and their stories. In each mission you will play as a specific zoo with a predetermined number of tasks. Learn history as you save animals in Berlin Zoo after World War II, take part in a breeding program to restore the Kiwi population in New Zealand, or lead an expedition to find the first giraffe in the wild and bring him to Schönbrunn Zoo.

StructureSandbox GameplayPuzzles GenreIndie GenrePuzzle GenreSimulator GenreStrategy GenreTactical ThemeBusiness ThemeHistorical ThemeSandbox Trait2d Traitbuilding Traitcute Traiteconomy Traitfamily friendly Traitgrand strategy Traitmanagement Traitnature Traitresource management Traittime management Traittrading Traitzoo

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Studio & publishing

Developer
Curious Foxes
Publisher
Crytivo, Curious Foxes
Franchise
Standalone
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Spielprofil

Modi
Single player
Perspective
Text
Themes
Business, Historical, Sandbox
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Platform releases

  • PC (Microsoft Windows) TBD

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