The release date for the console version of Planet Zoo has finally been revealed.
Frontier Developments announced this today (January 30). Planet Zoo: Console Edition coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on March 26.
The news was shared alongside a brand new trailer – which you can watch below – showing off the game on current-gen consoles and a collection of adorable furry and scaly friends like Lema’s, Armadillo, Tigers, Pandas and more.
“Planet Zoo offers controller support that puts powerful creative tools at your fingertips and includes years of features, content and animals from the free updates of the famous PC video game,” said the developer.
The trailer also showed off the game’s building mechanics and how players can design their zoo, with game engine images of snowy cliffs and tropical locations as available places to play.
Preorders are available now, with the standard edition costing $49.99 (£39.99 / AU$75.89). If you’re looking for more content for your base game, you can grab the Deluxe Edition, which costs $59.99 (£49.99 / AU$91.07), which gives you access to 16 more species and two campaign scenarios .
There’s also the Ultimate Edition for $119.99 (£99.99 / AU$182.16), which includes everything previously listed in the Standard and Deluxe Editions, as well as a season pass.
The Season Pass expands the animal collection and gives players access to 14 future downloadable content (DLC) packs featuring 81 new species from around the world, 15 additional campaign scenarios in different locations, and more than 2,000 additional landscape pieces.
All Season Pass content is expected to be released in March 2025. Pre-ordering also rewards players with three exclusive animals, including the Thomson’s gazelle, the pygmy hippopotamus and the Komodo dragon.
Planet Zoo was first released on PC in 2019 and regular DLC packs have been added to the game, in addition to free updates that introduced new creatures and campaign scenarios.
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