Ludography
Disco Zoo cover

2014 · Simulation

Disco Zoo

Collect animals in a Battleship-type minigame, then throw funky disco parties to entertain visitors and expand the zoo's offerings.

Released
21 February 2014
Platforms
AndroidiOS
Genres
Simulation
Developers
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Publishers
NimbleBit
Country
United States

About

Disco Zoo is a zoo simulation video game developed by Milkbag Games and published by NimbleBit for iOS and Android. It was released on the App Store on February 21, 2014, for iOS.

Keywords

  • horse
  • rabbit
  • management
  • fox
  • giraffe
  • sheep
  • monkey
  • zebra
  • pig
  • gorilla
  • cow
  • lion

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Using pixelated graphics seen in other NimbleBit games such as Pocket Trains and Pocket Planes, the game puts the player in charge of a virtual zoo. The user starts with a small collection of farm animals, and must rescue more animals to expand the zoo. New exhibits are constructed when a player rescues an animal for the first time; thereafter, additional instances of that animal will be added to the same exhibit.

The game contains 14 different regions: Farm, Outback, Savanna, Northern, Polar, Jungle, Jurassic, Ice Age, City, Mountain, Nocturnal, Moon, Mars, and Constellation. Each region has 7 different animals that can be collected. 3 of these will be "Common", 2 will be "Rare", and one will be "Mythical". The last one is "Timeless" and the Timeless animal for a region is unlocked after a certain amount of resets of the game.

Reception

Disco Zoo has been received fairly well by critics, who described the game as fitting in well with previous "fun Nimblebit-style titles", but some reviewers expressed concerns about players eventually becoming uninterested in continuing to play the game. Metacritic gave an aggregated score of 70/100 based on 9 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". TouchArcade rated it 4 out of 5 stars, noting it "perfectly fits on the App Store shelves next to Tiny Tower, Nimble Quest and their other titles". PC Magazine also rated it 4 out of 5, saying the game has "a quirky theme, lots of gameplay, and a heaping of adorableness".

148Apps' 4 star rating described it as "a nice and charming game", but was concerned "that feeling that it's possible to just quit at any time does ultimately drag it down." Pocket Gamer gave it 3 stars, calling it an "artfully constructed free-to-play time [...] spinner." 5/5, with its overall conclusion being "a polished title with a couple of nice ideas completely undermined by boring mechanics and obtrusive, game-breaking monetization."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
iOS21 February 2014Worldwide
Android21 February 2014Worldwide

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