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2019PEGI 3PCSteam Deck playable90 % positive44.99 €

A deeply detailed zoo simulator where you sculpt habitats piece by piece and care for convincingly simulated animals. Creative building meets economic management in a relaxed yet layered sandbox loop.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Building and crafting
  • Economy and management
  • Lavish presentation
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Winkeltje: The Little Shop

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2022PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified88 % positive14.79 €

Brings what grabs you about Planet Zoo: economy and management, a cosy mood to unwind as well as a calm pace.

You run a small shop in a fantasy world, buying and crafting goods, decorating your store and keeping customers happy. A relaxed shop management sim built around optimizing and decorating.

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Haven Park

Building and crafting

As Flint you look after your grandma's campground, gathering resources and building facilities to suit the wishes of quirky campers while exploring the area at a leisurely pace. A very cozy, stress-free building and exploration game with charming dialogue.

Project Spark

Sandbox with your own goals

In Project Spark you sculpt and paint your own open world with intuitive tools, then build stories and small games inside it and share them with others. Its appeal lies in creation: you are both the maker and the player.

Zoo Tycoon 2

Sandbox with your own goals

You turn an empty plot of land into your own zoo, freely designing habitats for many animal species while keeping animals and visitors happy to keep the money flowing. A relaxed management sim with plenty of creative freedom.

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Sandbox with your own goals

A deep, relaxing city-builder sandbox where you grow a town into a sprawling metropolis, with traffic management as the real brain-teaser. Huge mod support makes the creative possibilities almost endless.

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Sandbox with your own goals

As Maxwell, you solve puzzles by writing words into a magic notebook that summons almost any object you can imagine, tweaked further with adjectives. It rewards creativity over reflexes, with countless and often hilariously absurd solutions to every problem.

Critter Café

Calm and deliberate

You renovate your own café, rescue fantastical critters through mysterious portals and build them a cosy home. A relaxed blend of light platforming, puzzles and café simulation.

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