
At its most stressful, Planet Zoo is more like Frostpunk or Prison Architect.

In fact, forget that I just compared it to Planet Coaster. Planet Zoo isn't just a management sim, it's a survival game. I couldn't even keep an ugly bug that eats dead leaves happy, and I instantly felt terrible about it. It was because my giant burrowing cockroach's glass box was slightly too humid for its liking. At one point I saw protesters carrying picket signs in my park. They can kill each other if you put the wrong animals together in the same habitat. They can feel fear and stress and lack of privacy and the effects of isolation.

They can contract diseases or get injured by fighting one another for alpha status. My elephants, giraffes, orangutans, panda bears, and dozens of other beautiful creatures can starve to death or die of dehydration if I'm not careful.

Planet Zoo has several official modes-Career, Challenge, Sandbox, and Franchise-but its two actual modes are Things Seem Fine and Oh God What Have I Done.
