You have a zoo – now what?
Games about managing a zoo or similar animal park.
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Animazoo
Who will manage to create the most successful zoo? To do so, you need to know how to choose and feed your animals by collecting points. Players take turns to either take two “food” cards or take one “animal” card. However, to take one “animal” card you need to have the necessary number of “food” […]
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New York Zoo
Puzzling and animal breeding: Designer Uwe Rosenberg is at his best! In New York Zoo, you are constructing an animal park. Build animal enclosures, introduce new animals and raise their offspring. The game play is straight forward as you have only two turn options: Puzzle a new enclosure tile into your zoo area or gain […]
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Ark Nova
In Ark Nova, you will plan and design a modern, scientifically managed zoo. With the ultimate goal of owning the most successful zoological establishment, you will build enclosures, accommodate animals, and support conservation projects all over the world. Specialists and unique buildings will help you in achieving this goal. Each player has a set of […]
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Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game
Have you ever dreamed of building and managing your own zoo? Well now you can with Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game! Build a zoo that focuses on marquee animals like Lions, Gorillas, or Elephants to attract and thrill guests. Or develop partnerships with National Parks on conservation and re-introduce endangered species back into the wild. […]
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Zooloretto
In Zooloretto, each player uses small, large, wild, and exotic animals and their young to try to attract as many visitors as possible to their zoo – but be careful! The zoo must be carefully planned as before you know it, you might have too many animals and no more room for them. That brings […]
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Zookeepers
Welcome to Zookeepers! A game where you can save threatened species and score points, using resources generated by your keepers. Accomplish objectives to upgrade them and receive more resources as they evolve. Zookeepers is a turn based game where you win by scoring the most points after a player saves 9 species. During your turn […]
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Zoople
Zoople is a tense dexterity game where you carefully build your zoo UPWARD! Score points as you balance animals one atop the other in any way you want. Topple the zoo and you lose! —description from the publisher
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Aqua Garden
In Aqua Garden, you’re the owner of an aquarium and want to stock its six tanks with a variety of sea life, but you have a limited amount of funds and only one employee on hand to place the fish in the tanks. Do your best to outshine the other aquariums in town! A game […]
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Bärenpark
Up to two thousand pounds in weight and over ten feet tall, the bear is considered the biggest and heaviest terrestrial carnivore in the world. Of course, there is not just “one bear;” on the contrary, there are plenty of subspecies that differ from each other in various aspects. For instance, only the Kodiak bear […]
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Dinosaur Island
In Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species, and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. Dino cooking! All players will compete to build the most thrilling park each season, and then work to attract (and […]
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Dinosaur World
The triumph of science that led to dinosaurs returning to the world once more has become public knowledge. New parks spring up regularly, often beginning operations even before everything has been finalized. There is no shortage of patrons eager to be entertained by these returned species in new and exciting ways. However, as with any […]
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Draftosaurus
Your goal in Draftosaurus is to have the dino park most likely to attract visitors. To do so, you have to draft dino meeples and place them in pens that have some placement restrictions. Each turn, one of the players roll a die and this adds a constraint to which pens any other player can […]
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Animix Park
In Animix, try to score the most points by keeping the right mix of animals. The animals you keep score points based on the other animals that are played in the center of the table. Each type of animal scores points differently, so plan ahead to make sure the cards you keep and the cards […]
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Caldera Park
Welcome to the wilderness of North America! Breathtaking mountain views and spectacular geysers await you. Vast forests and prairie provide habitats for native animals. Your task is to group animals of the same species together in families as large as possible. But large families are only half the battle: to score a lot of points, […]
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Duelosaur Island
Duelosaur Island is built around a clever hand-management mechanism. Each card in the game serves three potential purposes. They contain the DNA sequences for dinosaurs you could create, the blueprints for attractions you can build, and certain actions that you can take by discarding them. Do you create the dinosaur on the top of the […]
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Habitats
In Habitats, each player builds a big wildlife park without cages or fences. The animals in your park need their natural habitats: grassland, bush, rocks or lakes. The zebra needs a big area of grass and some water adjacent, for example, while a bat needs rocks and bush and water, a hart needs bush and […]
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Savannah Park
In Savannah Park, you each run your own wildlife park, and your goal is to group animals with their own kind — but everyone takes turns deciding what to move, so you might not be able to shuffle animals into the right spaces. Each player starts the game with the same set of 33 unique […]
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Welcome to Dino World
Description from the designer: Build and manage your own dinosaur park in this strategic roll and write game for 1 or more players. Roll dice, draw pens and try not to let any dinosaurs escape! Each turn players share an expanding dice pool to work through three phases: add dinosaurs and buildings to the park, […]
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Zuuli
The fierce and friendly pick and pass card game. Collect enclosures, rescue animals and install upgrades over 3 years and build the highest scoring wildlife park you can in this fast paced card game. Don’t let the cutesy looks fool you into thinking this is going to be easy though! Can you keep the Lions […]
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Wildtastic Five
Yawning emptiness in the wildlife parks? But not for long! Grab the dice and let’s go! With attractive offers and clever barter deals, you can quickly let the right animals move in with you. Who is wildtastic enough and fills their wildlife park the fastest? Gameplay: Choose a die and perform an action: 1) draw […]