Safaris, then, are a game of “press your luck.” Will you keep the three items from the first stop and go home happy? Or push on to the next and risk getting a flat and losing out on your newfound riches? Maybe it’ll be gold, or experience, or a collectible item – or even the animal you’re looking for! Sometimes, though, it’ll be a flat tire that’ll put a crimp in your adventuring ways. Safaris are made up of four stops, and on each stop, you’ll discover three new things. Well – it can be if you’re willing to spend premium currency, but what’s the fun in that? Instead, players can spend coins to go on a safari in search of a mate. Of course, finding a mate isn’t always as easy as just visiting the shop. Each level of animal not only has a cooler look to it (common’s look normal, while champions ends up with things like floral prints and wild colors) but a much higher cash value when it comes time to collect. Two rares together produce a “very rare,” and two of those produce a champion. Shortly after baby comes, it’s time to kick mom and dad to the curb and make way for a mate of their own. Pair that up with a common mate of the same species, and you’ll end up with a “rare” baby. Each new animal you place starts with a “common” rating. And in Dream Zoo, that fantasy becomes a reality – at least for the animals. Parents always hope that their kids will grow up to be bigger, stronger, and smarter than they are. The most noticeable change is that, rather than breeding for the sake of breeding, breeding in Dream Zoo is all about trading up to a better generation of animal. While we enjoy seeing little tweaks that Zynga has learned from previous games being applied to new releases, what really gets us excited are the bigger changes to the genre. For example, you know how in CityVille you can place decorations near buildings to increase their fiscal output? The same mechanics are in play here, but apply to the cash you’ll earn from each habitat. Using this familiar set up as a starting point, Zynga takes Dream Zoo in a number of directions – some brand new, others familiar, but still fresh in the world of zoo play. It’s here, though, that the similarities to other zoo games come to a grinding halt. Players will get a pair of animals together, have them do the night time grown-up dance, and out pops a new baby to add to their habitat. Better late than never though, because Dream Zoo might just be the best freemium zoo management game we’ve played to date.Īt its very core, Dream Zoo has a fair bit in common with its like-minded genre ancestors. As a genre, zoo tycooning has been just as popular on Facebook ( Zoo World 2, Zoo Paradise) as it has on mobile, so it seems like something the big Z would have jumped on long before now. Enter Dream Zoo.ĭream Zoo is, much to our surprise, Zynga’s first foray into the world of zoo management games. But despite their great numbers, none of these play-a-likes managed to bring anything triumphantly new to the formula. Zoo Story, Tiny Zoo, Safari Zoo, DinerTown Zoo, Zoo Club – the list goes on and on. Dream Zoo brings plenty of fresh new twists to freemium zoo management gamesĮver since Tap Zoo launched back in September 2010, every freemium developer and their brother has tried to put out a successful mobile zoo game.
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