

This sounds horrifying – and unethical – but it’s not. Once you’ve unlocked the full genome of two animals, you can begin producing hybrids. This is one of the big things that makes Let’s Build a Zoo very different from what you’ll have likely played before. Each of the animals has a lot of variants too, so there might be ten different kinds of pig, for example, and you can unlock the full genome of any animal by breeding or buying every variant. Of course, your stock of animals is constantly in flux as these are living things that have a lot of sex, and then die. This’ll allow you to earn a little bit of money, then start making relationships with other zoos, and either buy animals from them, or trade your own.

When you first start off, you’ll do so by getting a gift of animals from another zoo.

Let’s Build a Zoo is, on the surface, a fairly standard version of a zoo-building sim.
