Games like Planet Zoo
If Planet Zoo is your kind of game, the closest matches are Jurassic World Evolution 2, Planet Coaster 2 and Planet Zoo 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and immersive. 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 →Planet Zoo is a 2019 strategy and simulation game from Frontier Developments that tasks players with constructing and managing their own zoo. The experience centers on animal-management and building-systems, with a modular design approach that supports creative sandbox gameplay alongside community challenges. Players construct detailed habitats and manage the economic aspects of running a zoo while working with authentic living animals who interact with the environments created. Players describe the game as both immersive and relaxing, and reviewers highlight that the graphics are far better than any other tycoon-type game, with players noting that tactical positioning matters when designing enclosures and managing guest flow. The game holds a 91% positive rating from over 41,000 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Planet Zoo: 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.
Players who liked Planet Zoo also play
Steam players who put hours into Planet Zoo 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.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Top pick for Planet Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
Shares a relaxing mood with Planet Zoo.
Second-strongest match for Planet Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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?
Planet Zoo 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Planet Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
Build a wilder world in Planet Zoo 2. Create distinctive zoos around the globe filled with awe-inspiring animals, including fully aquatic and flying species, before taking your experience beyond the zoo to release your animals into expansive Wildlife Reserves.
Planet Coaster
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Ranked #4 for Planet Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Ranked #5 for Planet Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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 3
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Ranked #6 for Planet Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Planet Zoo.
Ranked #7 for Planet Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Planet Zoo fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Planet Zoo
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Jurassic World Evolution 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Reviewers of Planet Zoo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Reviewers of Planet Zoo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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.
Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Planet Zoo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Planet Zoo.
Reviewers of Planet Zoo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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 overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Timberborn
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Planet Zoo.
Reviewers of Planet Zoo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Planet Zoo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Planet Zoo.
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.
Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Planet Zoo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Planet Zoo.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
Prehistoric Kingdom
WHY THIS
Shares animal management and an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Reviewers of Planet Zoo cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Planet Zoo at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Planet Zoo on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Planet Zoo.
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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Planet Zoo.
Priced ~67% under Planet Zoo on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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 overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Planet Zoo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Planet Zoo.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
BeamNG.drive
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Planet Zoo on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Planet Zoo.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Planet Zoo on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Planet Zoo on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Planet Zoo.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Planet Zoo on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Planet Zoo.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Planet Zoo on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Planet Zoo.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Planet Zoo.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Planet Zoo.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Planet Zoo.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Planet Zoo.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Planet Zoo.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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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
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Planet Zoo. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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 Coaster
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Planet Zoo. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Planet Zoo. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Planet Zoo. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
Shares a relaxing mood with Planet Zoo.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Planet Zoo. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Planet Zoo. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Planet Zoo. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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.
F1® Manager 2024
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Another title from Frontier Developments, the studio behind Planet Zoo. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
Lead your team to glory in F1® Manager 2024. A new Formula 1® season has arrived, and with it, the most comprehensive F1® management experience to date. Build a legacy with one of 10 official F1® constructors or create your own team for the very first time.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Jurassic World Evolution 2
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
Shares a relaxing mood with Planet Zoo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Planet Zoo.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
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.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Planet Zoo.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Frequently asked about Planet Zoo
- Does Planet Zoo run on Steam Deck?
- Planet Zoo is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Planet Zoo cost?
- Planet Zoo is listed on Steam at 44.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Planet Zoo?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Planet Zoo are Jurassic World Evolution 2, Planet Coaster 2, Planet Zoo 2.
- Who developed Planet Zoo?
- Planet Zoo was developed by Frontier Developments.
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