ZooKeeper Simulator

ZooKeeper Simulator

Fair · Multiplayer · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $3.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Feb 2024. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
0.8h 1.5h to 100%
Value
$4.99/hr
Reviews
87% of 501 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

It is 20% off today.

Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Refunds10 of 350 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
Value$4.99/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead That is today's sale price. Normally $6.24/hr
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

In ZooKeeper Simulator, there are two teams: Zookeeper vs Animals. Zookeeper must maintain the park by carrying out missions while animals must prevent them utilizing violence and pure brutality.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

8 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 15 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 20 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Happy Room ($4.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Streamer Life Simulator ($1.99, scores 46).

More about ZooKeeper Simulator

Of the 350 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 795 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 109 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 188 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 14:52 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

ZooKeeper Simulator - Not Recommended ZooKeeper Simulator tries to sell itself as a fun, chaotic simulator, but in reality it feels unfinished, shallow, and barely held together by broken physics. The gameplay gets old almost immediately. Objectives are repetitive, there's little to no progression, and once you've played a few rounds you've basically seen everything the game has to offer. The "chaos" isn't clever or...
CheesyPumpkinGamingNot recommendedafter 4.1hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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ZooKeeper Simulator scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1194680/zookeeper-simulator
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperForceight
PublisherForceight
GenreMultiplayer
Released2019
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate