Nintendo Switch User Reviews

Honestly, this is probably the worst build-and-manage game I've played. First of all, it's boring, and it doesn't immerse you in the experience. The animal breeding and building systems feel odd, even for a 2D pixel game.

This game is good. It's a good Sims-like experience. I enjoyed it and was very addicted to it for a week or two, but the only issue I faced, was the game being fairly repetitive after the 3rd month or so.

All very cute, but equally shallow. There's no challenge to it, and the splicing gimmick doesn't have much practical impact, so it's a lot of just letting the game play itself. It's also strangely lacking in data.

Clearly a love letter to classic simulation titles like Theme Park and Zoo Tycoon, Let's Build a Zoo blends a charmingly simple presentation with impressively in-depth gameplay. The variety of being able to splice any two animals together, paired with impactful morality-based decision making, make no two playthroughs of Let's Build a Zoo quite the same. Highly recommended.

Spliced so many animals together and was really surprised at how long it kept me playing. So much fun!

This is so much fun! Its a shame that it's so hard to see everything - I can't play it on my switch, it needs to be docked into a screen.

While largely positive, I do have some mixed feelings about this game. It's a beautifully designed game that kept me engaged for a 100 hours, and I loved all the animal and decoration sprites, the game's subtle sense of humour, and most of the gameplay. But the game is lacking in some ways. It really needed a more elaborate tutorial, for one. The smallness of the sprites were a serious eye strain. When I was trying to look at my animals in my breeding centers, or trying to decide which animals to sell to the black market dealer, I struggled so much to tell those miniscule sprites apart, especially when the breed's variants were barely different. And the frustrating thing is that it didn't have to be like that — they could have made them bigger in those menus. The sprites do appear bigger at other times, like when a birth is announced. I literally got headaches playing this game. The skill tree design was another sore point for me — it's chaotic and difficult to use. And the nail in the coffin came when my game stopped saving. I would play a whole day and then the game simply wouldn't save, just get stuck at my zoo's closing time while my workers endlessly and aimlessly wandered around. So I couldn't continue playing with my zoo that I had just sunk a 100 hours into, and couldn't finish my objectives. I think I will return to this title at some point in the future, when I forget about my grievances, because I did have a lot of fun.

created 100,000+ hybrid animals, love the pixel art style, but things get a little repetitive later. overall a good game!

Overwhelming. I'm a full grown adult and nothing about this cute game felt intuitive enough. I was just having a hard time keeping track of all the different systems and combined with the simplistic graphics, i couldn't. The art style and graphics are amazing but have a huge draw back of being hard to read, hard to see even when playing docked. When the park starts getting more full is when things get harder and harder to distinguish and keep track of because the art just sorta meshes too much together. It feels really fast paced with the day to day too. There is a pause mechanic of course but to see if things work or not you get a small window of opportunity to make corrections and with all the systems running it just sorta made me feel incredibly anxious. This is not a relaxing game at all and not for those who may get even a small amount of anxiety because this will bring it out. The lack of intuitive systems also makes this really not a pick up and play game. You absolutely can not step away for a few days and just pick this up for a fun time. It requires a lot of memorizing of the important systems and playing a minimum of a few hours to work through particular goals. Anyone with even a small amount of ADD might find this to be a struggle. I found it to be too much to handle and avoid this game like the plague now. Its very in depth game that may work for some people, but to me, it felt like a job that I should be getting paid to manage this much stuff that is hard to see. At certain points the pacing also just feels off. Its a weird combination of too much waiting and micromanaging a mess in between a lot of waiting and hoping your waiting pays off and results in profit. Ugh.

Bought this game with low expectations and damn, its soooo much fun. Its way more in depth than i thought, kudos to the devs, buy this game guys if you like this sort of game.

Seems great, but the “big” font size is WAYYY too small in handheld, which is how I play games. Wait for a size update or you’ll hurt your eyes trying to read everything. For the developer: I don’t care if I have to scroll text more to fit it all on screen, we need much larger text options. I’m only in my early 30’s and never have problems reading tiny writing, but this hurts.