14 Games Like Zoo Tycoon
Our collection of games like Zoo Tycoon brings you other business management games with a focus on animal themed alternatives.
Zoo Tycoon is a long running series of video games that combines tycoon and business simulation together by providing players control over a zoo. Starting in 2001 the series has grown to many base games and expansion packs that have all seen varying levels of success across their available platforms. As is standard for the genre the Zoo Tycoon franchise allows players to play through a number of scenarios or chase their dreams of the ultimate park in the free form modes.
As the name of this franchise suggests the focus in all these challenges is building a profitable zoo using the available tools. While these tools have evolved with new releases they allow players to design their own habitats to make their animals feel at home and profitable stalls to extract maximum value from each visitor. By combining the hundreds of animal options players strive to create a balanced zoo experience that has both happy animals and guests which in turn leads to financial success and expansion.
The games like Zoo Tycoon here offer other simulation and tycoon experiences with a focus on titles that let you design zoos, parks, pet shops and other animal related businesses.
My Sunny Resort
Create your dream resort complete with sun, sand and palm trees in My Sunny Resort, a browser based management game from the Upjers team who are well known for their browser based experiences with a host of titles across genres and settings. My Sunny Resort is also available on Windows, Linux through Upjers Home or through Steam (Windows only). Taking the popular and successful formula from their other management games such as My Fantastic Park and My Free Zoo Upjers has changed up the setting w...[Read Review]
Wauies – The Pet Shop Game
For those gamers that love to care for animals Wauies – The Pet Shop Game allows you to do just that with a range of cats, dogs and other animals to fill your very own pet shop. Taking over all elements of the pet shop from the financial management to layout design and stocking of your favourite pets to sell to customers, the pet shop is entirely in your control. Wauies – The Pet Shop Game is a “from the ground up” experience with players starting from the bottom with a fairly small ...[Read Review]
My Free Zoo
My Free Zoo has a similar feel to Upjers other popular tycoon management game My Fantastic Park with your ultimate goal to attract guests for profit to reinvest in your attractions. Focused on animals this free to play game is available across computer and mobile platforms providing a wealth of content that will take hours and hours to create the ultimate zoo. In My Free Zoo players will be approached by the director Welmington as he begs you to help save the zoo from financial disaster. The zoo...[Read Review]
Zoo 2: Animal Park
Build out a fantastic and visually impressive zoo with Upjers Zoo 2: Animal Park with the help of your granddad by your side. Building on the formula used in My Free Zoo Upjers has revived its zoo tycoon inspired franchise with a sequel that greatly expands the visual design of the game while also offering a larger range of animals. Like any good tycoon franchise you’ll be building from the ground up as you meet with your granddad to restore the basic zoo infrastructure already in place. W...[Read Review]
Rail Nation
Rail Nation is a free to play transportation MMO that puts you at the head of your own rail empire. The game comes from Travian Games who publish other popular games such as Travian and Miramagia so you know that you are in good hands. At the heart of the game you’ll find a strategy experience that offers more depth than you might expect. You’ll focus on growing your own railway company from zero to industry leader with plenty of opportunity to achieve this by yourself or team up with a group of...[Read Review]
RollerCoaster Tycoon
The original RollerCoaster Tycoon (RCT) title launched in 1999 offers one of the early construction and simulation games where players are charged with operating their own profitable amusement park. Launched before the turn of the century RCT launched to critical success and eventually expanded to the original Xbox along with a number of additional expansion packs and sequels. Like many management titles RollerCoaster Tycoon is split into a large selection of predefined scenarios that each have ...[Read Review]
Wildlife Park 2
Wildlife Park 2 is the second game in the popular business simulation game series and has a number of similarities to the Zoo Tycoon series although flips the script slightly towards a large park with your own selection of rare and unique animals. Originally released in 2006 Wildlife Park 2 was later expanded with four expansion packs (Crazy Zoo, Marine World, Fantasy and Dino World) that expanded on the number of animals and attractions while going even beyond the real world. Like similar video...[Read Review]
Wildlife Camp
Start your own Wildlife Camp adventure with nearly a dozen different animals to interact with, care for and train within your own camp. Available for Windows and released back in 2010 Wildlife Camp offers a range of mechanics, cut animals and an expansive list of items for you to collect and use in this animal management game. Revolving around the player discovering various animal species and nursing them back to health from their injuries or other illness Wildlife Camp is a game that slowly bui...[Read Review]
Railroad Tycoon II
Railroad Tycoon II is the second game in the series of railroad building simulation games and expands on the successful gameplay of the original game. Focusing on the refinement and improvements of the core gameplay along with graphical uplifting you’ll find a familiar overall experience to the first Railroad Tycoon. A single expansion pack (The Second Century) was released a year after the original release which was included in a Platinum game edition alongside a large number of community...[Read Review]
OpenTTD
OpenTTD remakes the popular Transport Tycoon Deluxe title, with various improvements this open source recreation of the franchise is ideal for fans of the original or tycoon gamers in general. Introducing a host of additional map sizes, new languages, refreshed UI, custom AI and multiplayer OpenTTD has a list of features to entice any player of the original title. OpenTTD also has the benefit of being playable on more modern systems as the original release in 1994 does not have the same flexibil...[Read Review]
Theme Hospital
Theme Hospital is another gaming classic developed by Bullfrog Productions and puts you at the head of controlling your own hospital with a twist of humour. The game originally launched in 1997 for Windows and Mac eventually making its way to the PlayStation, it is still available through the PlayStation Store for PS3, PSP and PS Vita. Theme Hospital takes place within a hospital that players build themselves using a variety of room types and objects. Once you’ve setup your hospital you will att...[Read Review]
Monopoly Tycoon
Monopoly Tycoon aims to combine the popular world known board game of Monopoly with the tycoon video game genre. Monopoly Tycoon represents a nice change of pace from all the other Monopoly based video games on the market which historically have focused solely on transforming the board game into a video game without changes. For the most part Monopoly Tycoon achieves its objectives in offering something new and alternative as far as Monopoly video games go although that doesn’t mean it wil...[Read Review]
Dream Builder: Amusement Park
Dream Builder: Amusement Park puts you in the CEO chair of your own park. You’ll have to choose the hottest rides, the right concession stands and a range of decorations to make the most popular and profitable theme park possible. The game is in the same vein as other tycoon games and with a handful of levels and the dozens of rides it has enough variety to keep you engaged for countless hours. Dream Builder: Amusement Park also packs in quite the challenge which will require you to carefully ba...[Read Review]
Sid Meier’s Railroads
Sid Meier’s Railroads lets players take control of the railways in a addicting and fun business simulation environment that encourages you to become the railroad tycoon you’ve always dreamed to be. The game is the successor to Railroad Tycoon 3 with a similar feature set and was developed by Sid Meier for Windows (2006) with a Mac release being published several years later (2012). From the surface Sid Meier’s Railroads is a 3D business simulation/tycoon game but also incorporates a health...[Read Review]