My Free Zoo

We have another Digital Homicide here, folks!

The game itself is just more free-to-wait garbage in the same vein as Dungeon Keeper Mobile. Feel free to enjoy the same gameplay as games like Wildlife Park, but instead of being able to actually create a zoo the way you feel, you get to place one item, then wait for days if you don't pay the ransom. If you do pay, then all you get is another wait to try to grind dailies for a tiny trickle of the diamonds that are the real currency.

That's not the real problem here, however. The problem is the developer, who is yet another example of a forum tyrant indie "developer" who gets upset enough to ban anyone who levels any form of criticism, and go through the negative reviews to argue with anyone who leaves a negative review (I await your passive-aggressive "I'm totally not insulting you, you're just too STUPID to realize how totally not fighting with you I am!" response!)

You can see the horrible, horrible thing I did to deserve my own ban, here, when I created a thread telling the "developer" that picking fights with his customers is not exactly good publicity for his game.

https://imgur.com/a/v7R9u

So, since he banned me for making any kind of comment (and then responded an hour after banning me so that he was shielded from any sort of response to his response - KLASSY!), I just downloaded the free-to-wait game and made another negative review, since he can't delete that. TEEHEE!

That said, after pointing out that the game had a negative Steam review score, suddenly, MYSTERIOUSLY, the score suddenly jumped up to exactly 40%, just enough to get a "mixed" review score, just like all the other games from this "developer" has. This "developer" sure seems totally legit, folks!

UPDATE: Now that I have the ability to edit this review again, I just want to put up that he also flagged this review to try to get it deleted, as well. *slowclap* Also, as the developer response states, my ban was "an accident", but then went and deleted the thread that was previously just locked because someone else posted on it after I was banned. I got it on the wayback machine first, though, because I have NO IDEA how I had the foresight to think it might be necessary: https://web.archive.org/web/20180308125614/http://steamcommunity.com/app/694130/discussions/0/1694914736017534643/

That said, the games seem to be going in and out of "mixed" and "negative" review totals even though the total number of reviews doesn't fluctuate that wildly, so it seems like this might be Steam being schizophrenic rather than actual foul play, at least in this regard.

It's a facebook game.
it's slow, the tutorial doesnt mach the progression at all.
There is premium currency, and it's esentually not fun at all,
enless you're the person that likes facebook games then sure,
get it and play it.

But after all, i cannot recommend it as it is a facebook game and should
stay on facebook, not steam.

Freemium game. Definite paywall and no realistic way to avoid it.

I get that this is not a new concept, and many games follow this business model to attract their customers, but I feel like if you stick the word "Free" right in the name of your game, you're open to this criticism.

Yes I have a good number of hours into this game, and yes I'll keep playing it and trying to enjoy it for what it is, but a quick look through the mid to late game and the writiing is on the wall. About 80% of those things cost diamonds (the game's premium currency), and each one a significant amount. Filling out your zoo with late game animals and objects looks like it doesn't come close to being attainable from the insignificant amount of diamonds the quests provide, or the few other methods of obtaining objects and animals. The system of puzzle pieces and trading is like trying to put together a cake with a couple of crumbs you receive daily. It's nice that they put on events, but those don't look like they provide enough to get you very far, either.