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Planet Zoo

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Planet Zoo
Planet Zoo cover
Developers
Frontier Developments
Engines
Cobra
Release dates
Windows November 5, 2019
Reception
Metacritic 81
OpenCritic 81
IGDB 77
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Building, Simulation
Art styles Cartoon, Realistic
Themes Contemporary
Planet Zoo on HowLongToBeat
Planet Zoo on IGDB
Planet Zoo on MobyGames
Planet Zoo on Wikipedia

Planet Zoo is a singleplayer bird's-eye view building and simulation game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GamersGate
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Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
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Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Humble Store
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Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
Steam
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Deluxe Edition also available.
Windows
All versions require Steam and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

Monetization

Type Notes
DLC The game's DLC include new animals, items, building materials and scenarios.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Deluxe Upgrade Pack
Windows
Arctic Pack
Windows
South America Pack
Windows
Australia Pack
Windows
Aquatic Pack
Windows
Southeast Asia Animal Pack
Windows
Africa Pack
Windows
North America Animal Pack
Windows
Europe Pack
Windows
Wetlands Animal Pack
Windows
Conservation Pack
Windows
Twilight Pack
Windows
Grasslands Animal Pack
Windows
Tropical Pack
Windows
Arid Animal Pack
Windows
Oceania Pack
Windows
Eurasia Animal Pack
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Remove video files
  1. Navigate to <path-to-game>\Movies and delete all the files.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Planet Zoo\<user-id>\Config
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Frontier Developments\Planet Zoo
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/703080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Planet Zoo\<user-id>\Saves
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/703080/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Can select which monitor displays the game but not both at once.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Main menu is locked to 60fps but the in-game FPS is unlimited.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Most keys can be remapped but some cannot.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse sensitivity controls the camera speed.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Hardcoded on when characters are talking.
Mute on focus lost
Music goes quiet when opening the steam overlay but does not mute completely when not in focus.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish

Issues fixed

Unable to change refresh rate

Frame rate settings are currently locked to 30 Hz even on monitors that are higher refresh rate when not using exclusive fullscreen mode.
Use exclusive fullscreen[citation needed]
  1. Go to the Settings window and navigate to the Video settings page.
  2. Change the setting from Borderless Window or Windowed to Full Screen
  3. Change your Refresh Rate to the desired setting.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Wwise
Interface Scaleform

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 SP1, 8.1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-2500
AMD FX-6350
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 16 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
AMD Radeon R9 270X
2 GB of VRAM
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/703080/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (703080) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References