Zookeeper World

Fun but few annoyances

Thank you for adding more levels, features and fixing bugs. Updated to 5 stars original review below. ---------- It's a well done matching puzzle game we all know how that works and it works well so I'll skip repeating all the pros that's mentioned on reviews for this and similar games. Instead I'll get right the couple annoying bits. 1. No restart level in the pause menu. This is really annoying if you're not going to beat the level you either have to finish a losing game or give up and go back to the main game and start the process all over of getting back to the same puzzle. If playing old levels to get the star this is a lot of extra actions to get back to that level. 2. When starting a level you get a screen with your objectives and a start button. After hitting the start button there is another screen over the puzzle for a few seconds that shows the objectives again and when starting the puzzle the objectives are on the side. We get it. Please remove the yellow objective screen after hitting start it really slows the game down.

I love this game!

I love this game so much!! I play every day in the evenings. It’s become my favorite way to unwind and relax. Like many others, I’m maxed out on levels and expansions because I enjoy playing so much, but I 100% don’t care…I’m happy to replay levels! I LOVE that this doesn’t have in-app purchases- it makes it so much more enjoyable to me because I know that on levels where I’m struggling, I’ll eventually make it past, whereas other games intentionally make levels you can’t pass without spending money. I love that you can spend gems on upgrades. I love the daily and weekly challenges where you can earn tickets and that you can buy swag and gems with them. I love the mix between puzzle games and zoo-building! I love that you can’t buy extra time on puzzles (that would make it too easy and take the fun out of it.) I love the little mini arcade games as a fun switch-up sometimes. To me, this game is perfect. ❤️

Love but…

I’m as crazy about this cute, addictive game as anyone. I especially love how fun it usually is, even when replaying a level for the zillionth time (sometimes after I’ve already beaten it!). As others have said though, I wish coins could be used to buy gems, because once you’re past a certain zoo level you run out of room and the coins are useless anyway. Whereas you will burn through gems to get buffs needed to replay & beat certain levels, even in the special Easter & Xmas events. I’m stuck on a boss level of both events (50 & 45 respectively) and until you add more levels to the main game, I’m sad that I can’t keep playing. I also wish I could move animals between habitats and more predictably move my little zookeeper. The perspective shifting is just silly. I’m playing on iPhone only and just read that fewer controls exist in this format :/

Very fun but a few suggestions

Hi! This game is the most funniest and most addictive game I’ve ever played! But I have some suggestions to improve the app. First of all, can you make the characters walk in the grass? The only way they can go on the grass is by going on the slide and going on the swings. For my second suggestion I want to earn things from the shop a little more faster. I’m now at level 255 and I have to complete 15 more levels just to get a reward to display in the Zoo. My final 3rd is to win the Ferris Wheel a little more faster. It is kinda impossible to get and hard to display. But I also have a concern… when I was at Rank 15 it let me use the go out feature but now it doesn’t anymore. If you can fix this then thanks a lot! I love playing the game and I’m not disappointed at all!

Still going strong

I have truly enjoyed this game, both the puzzles and the zoo building. I am very happy with all the regularly added content in both aspects of the game. Good job with keeping it fun. I have been playing for over a year and still am fascinated. I only have a couple of wishes: one that we could sell fully upgraded and baby animals AND always wishing for a greater number of items that can be displayed. I am at that point where I have to sell things to buy a thing. And of course wishing we could buy tiles to expand. Thank you so much for the weekly quests, new items, new puzzle levels, new features…love visiting the other zoos to see what others are doing. I thought it was time to write a review because you have done such a good job this year.

Fun game but…

It’s a really fun game, it’s whimsical and entertaining. I like that’s it has a different take on this style of puzzle game compared to the competitors. The mini games are challenging and fun too, but I notice a couple flaws that’s stand out to me that turn me relaxing into stressed out. 1. While walking around my zoo and people have coins above their head it takes way to many tries to tap the coin, I know I’m tapping it but have to chase the visitor down while vigorously tapping. 2. While playing the game and I get the star power move I can’t continue to play while It’s flying out of the animal on the bottom and it wont let me play any moves until its set onto the board. That becomes annoying in a level that is timed. I’m not sure if the time pauses or not but when I’m in the mind set that I need to be fast I don’t like waiting for something that should be helping me. 3. I’m not sure if this is a mini game or not, but their should be a “Relaxing” version that is unlimited moves, and not timed. Just like collecting a score every 24 hours or something, maybe we can choose the time frame of each game. Like if I wanna play for 15 mins I could set it. (Just an idea) But about the coin glitch - For the developers, I use an iPad Pro ** OVER ALL FUN GAME and ill keep playing

Loving the updates

One of the have I play every day, making sure to collect every star, finish every special event 100%, and stay in the pineapple league. Very fun time waster while waiting on kids/wife to do a thing and I need to do nothing else. The only real cons are: - Lately, some puzzles feel like you need to use items in order to get a star - At least 1/3 to 1/2 of the time, when I fill the specific animal meter and earn a rainbow star, I can predict where it will land, and it’s usually the place I don’t want it to go. Either I’m psychic for the dumbest thing ever or it’s not truly random - I have no idea how folks are doing it, but I suspect the fruit league players at the top are cheating, and that stinks. For example, at the time of this writing, a new round started and still has 2 days to go, and the top player has 2691 fruits. More than twice the number 2 player. I hung around once for the start of a new round, playing very aggressively. I had the top spot for the first 15 minutes, then out of nowhere someone jumped way past me and got to close to 1000. The fact that you can’t spend real money to buy items and you can’t pick which stage you want to stack fruits (513 would be one good example) is what puzzles me. Please try and fix this.

Staying Power

I first started playing Zookeeper World over three years ago and at first, I wasn’t sure how much I liked it and then I was sure I liked it but figured I’d get bored… I’ve left this game for flash year games a couple of times but I keep coming back. It’s incredibly relaxing, and has enough variety with the different contests and games on the weekends to keep me thoroughly entertained. And like the others, I particularly love that I’m not playing with a corporation that’s constantly trying to steal my money and entice me into different gambling schemes and make me watch ads for other games that I’ve seen 100 times already! Thank you, Apple Arcade, for offering an affordable and stable game platform that isn’t constantly trying to rip us off.

Cute, fun game

I adore this game! I have beaten all the levels and earned stars for each. It took a minute to earn the stars, but there are endless do over’s available. Yes, some of the puzzles are ‘luck’ but for each level, it is achievable to earn a star. There are no ‘in game purchases’, which is refreshing. I do agree with others that it is hard to move my zookeeper fellow, but I feel that could be a quick fix in a future update. If I had a wish list, I would like to able to add grass tiles that allow my habitats to be more customized. It is a little tricky with the standard habitat sizes when one has exhausted all of their game space. Other than that, great work developers! Can’t wait for the new update!

Started Fun

Honestly. Those who play to the later levels recognize a pattern. There feels like a predetermined quota of fails you have to just deal with before a win is possible. The board is either set up to be/feel impossible until a miraculous pass 10 or so tries later, or feels like the board could be actually programmed to drop misaligned tiles for a period of time until it starts dropping lucky tiles. It does feel reminiscent of shady pay to clear games. And when you recognize your wins aren’t due to your own strategy but wonder if they’re meant to keep you “putting in your time”, you feel pretty frustrated and done with the game, and annoyed with the time. Perhaps that’s why so few high level parks seem to pop on the visitor options despite the game being out for a while. And those high level parks never seem to change…. like they are dead parks.

Apple on Tuesday announced match-3 game "Zookeeper World" will arrive on Apple Arcade this Friday, with "Thumper: Pocket Edition+" soon to...

AppleInsider Fri Oct 01 2021

Solve puzzles, earn coins and create your dream zoo in this puzzle game from Kiteretsu.

CNET Sat Oct 02 2021

Apple on Tuesday announced match-3 game "Zookeeper World" will arrive on Apple Arcade this Friday, with "Thumper: Pocket Edition+" soon to...

AppleInsider Tue Oct 05 2021