Bought PZ when it first came out in 2019 and own all DLC for it. This is a huge upgrade on PZ. Everything is streamlined to make building and creating simpler. Paths no longer seem like a gigantic chore and I love the Nature Brush tool. As someone who was very detailed with habitats I was sceptical about how it'd work and if it'd be realistic but its exceeded my expectations and is very good. Nature reserves are amazing. I used to build huge habitats in PZ to make it as natural for an animal as possible so seeing this in the game is great for someone like me who dislikes seeing small habitats. Animal behaviour so far is perfect and far more varied. In the reserves, young animals stick close together and run to catch up if left behind while playing together, and when approached too quickly, it can spook some animals and cause them to flee as a group so I love the realism here. There are some bugs which I'm sure will be ironed out in the next few weeks but so far this is a 10/10. I don't usually buy games at full price but this is definitely worth it
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Planet Zoo 2
72%Mostly Positive
of all 2,094 reviews on Steam72%about the same
recommend the game, last 7 days1,672First week
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| 13 October, last 7 days | 501 | 190 | 73% |
| 14 October, last 7 days | 704 | 277 | 72% |
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Nearly 10 hours in, and I feel like an unpaid beta tester. I wanted to love this game so much, but launching a sequel in this state after 3 years in development is honestly inexcusable. Planet Zoo 1 was amazing, but Planet Zoo 2 feels like a massive step backward in terms of basic polish and usability. Let’s talk about the bugs. I am running this on the highest settings, and yet the engine is so broken that ALL the flowers I place completely lose their flower heads. They are literally just ugly, poorly rendered stalks and leaves because the game's asset rendering is panicking under the hood. The animal pathing is totally busted too—primates are constantly clipping straight through trees and climbing structures. Worse than the bugs is the new UI. It is terrible compared to the first game. The menus feel like they were lazily copied from a console interface. The asset icons in the foliage and build menus are so tiny, washed out, and low-res that you can barely even tell what item you are looking at until you place it on the ground. Frontier clearly rushed this out the door to meet a corporate deadline, splitting their focus to launch on PC and consoles at the same time. The result is a game that feels completely unpolished. For a full-price sequel from an established studio, we shouldn't have to wait months for patches just to make flowers render and menus readable. As it is right now after launching I would not recommend it and say Don't buy it yet even as an avid planet zoo fan. Wait 6 months for them to actually finish making the game and have it be worth the full price.
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| Language | Reviews | Share | Players recommending the gameThe line marks all languages together, 72%. The chip shows how far each language is above or below it. |
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| English | 1,196 | 56% | 70%−2 |
| Simplified Chinese | 267 | 13% | 62%−10 |
| German | 186 | 9% | 82%+10 |
| French | 89 | 4% | 91%+19 |
| Korean | 51 | 2% | 59%−13 |
| Spanish | 47 | 2% | 83%+11 |
| Dutch | 35 | 2% | 86%+14 |
| Portuguese - Brazil | 32 | 2% | 91%+19 |
| Other languages | 214 | 10% |
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