Planet Zoo

General information

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GamersGate		Deluxe Edition also available.
		Deluxe Edition also available.
Humble Store		Deluxe Edition also available.
Steam		Deluxe Edition also available.

All versions require Steam and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

Name	Notes
Island Pack	June 28, 2022
Wetlands Animal Pack	April 12, 2022
Europe Pack	December 14, 2021
North America Animal Pack	October 4, 2021
Africa Pack	June 22, 2021
Southeast Asia Animal Pack	March 30, 2021
Aquatic Pack	December 8, 2020
You, me & Other Animals: The music of Planet Zoo	This is used for a soundtrack and album.
Australia Pack	August 25, 2020
South America Pack	April 7, 2020
Arctic Pack	December 17, 2019
Deluxe Upgrade Pack	(Pygmy hippopotamus, Komodo dragon, and Thomson's gazelle) Upgrades the standard edition to the Deluxe Edition

Remove video files
Navigate to `<path-to-game>\Movies` and delete all the files.

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Planet Zoo\<user-id>\Config %LOCALAPPDATA%\Frontier Developments\Planet Zoo
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/703080/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Planet Zoo\<user-id>\Saves
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/703080/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Can select which monitor displays the game but not both at once.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Main menu is locked to 60fps but the in-game FPS is unlimited.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Most keys can be remapped but some cannot.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Mouse sensitivity controls the camera speed.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions		Hardcoded on when characters are talking.
Mute on focus lost		Music goes quiet when opening the steam overlay but does not mute completely when not in focus.

Frame rate settings are currently locked to 30 Hz even on monitors that are higher refresh rate when not using exclusive fullscreen mode.

Use exclusive fullscreen^{[citation needed]}
Go to the Settings window and navigate to the Video settings page. Change the setting from Borderless Window or Windowed to Full Screen Change your Refresh Rate to the desired setting.

This issue appears to come from the latest update that added the Africa DLC and may be fixed in a future patch.

Verify integrity of game cache
Right click Planet Zoo in your Steam Library and select "properties". Click "local files" then click "verify integrity of game files" Steam should then verify and replace files as needed. Wait for Steam to finish verifying then try launching Planet Zoo again.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7 SP1, 8.1	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2500 AMD FX-6350	Intel Core i7-4770K AMD Ryzen 5 1600
System memory (RAM)	8 GB	16 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	16 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 AMD Radeon R9 270X 2 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.