Putt-Putt® Saves The Zoo
Fair · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$6.99Fair
On its price record
$2.02BANGER
- Length
- 0.7h 1.1h to 100%
- Value
- $9.99/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 824 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.02 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Today's the grand opening of the Cartown Zoo, and there's still so much to do: zoo chow is running low, and all the baby animals are missing.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 100% DirectX compatible graphics, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 74 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $2.02 BANGER line 4 times.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside ($6.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Papetura ($11.99, scores 59).
More about Putt-Putt® Saves The Zoo
This site sampled 304 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 98 percent of the 387 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
I think this is my recommendation for where to start in the Putt-Putt series. It has enough "modern" polish that it doesn't feel as dated as something like Putt-Putt joins the Parade and yet the puzzles are simple enough to be one of a kid's first gaming experiences. I had a lot of fond memories of this series, and this game in particular, from when I was a kid and it has been really nice to be able to share this...
1 more review
You need a pretty beefy PC to run this one. I'd say at least an RTX 5090 Ti and 128 gigs of RAM. Regardless, the otherworldly topiary creatures make this a true staple in the horror genre.
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
Putt-Putt® Saves The Zoo scores 62/100 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/294660/putt-putt-saves-the-zooReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length 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.