Planet Zoo is, temporarily, a game about mass-producing knackered warthogs

Something has… gone wrong with Planet Zoo. I think it’ll be fixed easily enough, possibly even today, and I’m still having fun with it as it is. But, in the game’s franchise mode at least, the promise of “build your own zoo, with whatever you like in it” has quietly been phased out for “in the grim darkness of the international animal trade, there is only warthogs”.

Well, warthogs, ostriches and Indian peafowl, to be precise. Because, for anyone starting a game right now, that’s pretty much all you can expect to see in your zoo for a good, long while. And you’ll be seeing a lot of them, too, because grinding out millions of them is currently the best hope of you’ve got of getting other animals. It’s very much a case of Go Pig or Go Home, and here’s why.

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