Games like Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection
If Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is your kind of game, the closest matches are Planet Zoo, Tropico 6 and Desynced — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection: 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.
Players who liked Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection also play
Steam players who put hours into Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Top pick for Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
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.
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Desynced
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
Anno 117: Pax Romana
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Anno 1800
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Spacebase Startopia
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
Planet Coaster 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
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Ranked #8 for Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection
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Marine Park Empire
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Reviewers of Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Get ready to jump in the water as you run the most exciting and wild marine park ever in the latest and greatest sea-life simulation!
Planet Coaster
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
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.
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
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.
Safari Cannon
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Explore the wilds of the African Safari and discover all the wild beasts of the savannah. From elephants to monkeys, you'll encounter a host of creatures who will try to stop you. It's a fun game for the whole family - so come on, join the adventure!
PC Tycoon 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Manage your computer company and develop your PC components, create your own laptop, monitor, develop an interactive operating system or build your PC. Research new technologies, improve your office and your factory, hire the best employees, buy other companies and build your computer empire!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~50% under Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
FTL: Faster Than Light
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~85% under Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Don't Starve
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Priced ~50% under Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Rec Room
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
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More from Frontier Developments
Other recommendable Steam games by Frontier Developments, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
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.
Planet Coaster
WHY THIS
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
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.
Jurassic World Evolution
WHY THIS
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
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.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
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.
Planet Coaster 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
Jurassic World Evolution 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
F1® Manager 2022
WHY THIS
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Shares Simulation with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
Make your mark on Formula 1® in the officially licensed F1® Manager 2022. Be the boss of your chosen constructor and pick from a roster of 2022 drivers and staff.
Frequently asked about Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection
- Does Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection work on Steam Deck?
- Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection cost?
- Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection are Planet Zoo, Tropico 6, Desynced.
- Who developed Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection?
- Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection was developed by Frontier Developments, Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection.
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