[PC][2010-2016] Zoo Simulator Game with African Buffalo for Tutorial and Panda Icon
(I posted this on r/tipofmyjoystick like, months ago)
Platform(s): PC, DvD I bought and downloaded
Genre: Top-down Zoo Simulator game, but like a 3/4ths angle?
Estimated year of release: 2010-2016
Graphics/art style: The UI had a blue background, and the animals, People, and plants were fairly realistic, if not simplified since you never really had to see them up close. Typical cheap 3D Graphics for the time. There wasn't a lot of Shading on objects, the colors were fairly flat. Animations were a very distinct loop.
Notable characters: I believe the tutorial was told to you by a woman in a ponytail, either blonde or brunette. Her name might start with the letter K, like Karen or something like that. She loved animals and cared for them. She had two male Coworkers, one a young man with short black hair and glasses, who was a scientist (Name might be Mike or Michael), and an old man with grey hair and a beard, I feel like he could be a grandpa/uncle of one of the characters, but thats just guessing. All three wore khaki zookeeper outfits.
Notable gameplay mechanics: It was a Zoo Simulator, and you would play each day out, with a dark 'dusk' period before you would open for the day and you would use that extra time to take care of animals and build things without people in the way, though you could still do that even during the day. You could pay for advertisements on Newspaper, Television, and Radio to get more visitors the next day. You weren't able to "unenclose" an enclosure, nor would the fences break over time. You would have to check the animals health, because they would get sick. The Tutorial would always start with you Building an enclosure for an African Buffalo. Sometimes you were given an animal from the wild who was sick and you would have a few days to take care of them before they were sent back to the wild, Or you kept them and the time limit was just to make sure you had a habitat ready for them. Also they would be super sick when they arrived and wouldn't be happy.
Every animal was seperated into the continents, Antartica/Artic, African, Asian, North America, South America. I think you had to research each continent to be able to house these animals? Each continent had a focus animal that was a statue you could decorate your zoo with, Lion, Panda, Moose, Penguin(?), Lemur(?)(Maybe a gorilla).
Employees had a building you could build, with either 4 Employee spots or 10 Slots if you upgrade it. They would be assigned a specific job, like feeding a habitat or cleaning it out(The habitats would be full of animal shit). There were employees that took care of trash, and
Other details: The App Icon was a panda, just like a model of the whole body in the Top-down 3/4ths perspective. When I got the game, it came in a box set with other Simulator game discs. One of them was a forest ranger game, which was 1st person pov, and there were no other humans and it creeped me out, walking in the woods with no real map or anything. There were a total of 5 other games that came with, but the zoo was the only one I really played, and I only remember the forest one because it scared me. I believe one of them was a Carnival sim, and another was a Farm sim. The title of the game starts with 'My' or 'Your' like 'My/Your Zoo World' or 'My/Your Zoo Simulator'. I remember the animals getting sick all the time, and I'd have to check my animals every two hours in game time. you were able to see how far the food/water/restroom/gift stalls were able to reach, like their zone of effectiveness. You could click on a person and they would have a name and you could see their thoughts about whatever they were looking at. There were research centers for discovering animals and a research center to "level up" your animals, to make them less likely to get sick/more fertile to help with endagered animals
It isn't Zoo Tycoon, Empires, Paradise, My Free Zoo, Zoo World, or Zoo Planet, I've already looked at them and they aren't it.
