| Publishers | Microsoft |
| Developers | Blue Fang Games |
| Release date | 2001 |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Game rating |
Game Description
Zoo Tycoon is a simulation computer game developed by Blue Fang Games, and published by Microsoft in 2001. It’s a single player game, initially released to be played on a Microsoft PC or Apple Macintosh. In Zoo Tycoon, the player gets to experience all the excitement of running a business by becoming the titular zoo tycoon: building, running and expanding their very own zoo.
The player can build everything from food stands to movie theatres – and of course, animal exhibits, for a wide choice of animals. While restaurants and shops help keep guests happy, you need both guest and animal happiness high to make money. To keep the animals happy you’ll need to carefully choose their habitat and terrain. If you put the lions in an arctic exhibit, they won’t be too pleased! Don’t forget to employ plenty of zookeepers, or else an animal might just get loose – and could kill a guest.
You can choose to play in either scenario or freeform mode. In scenario mode, the game sets objectives for the player to reach, often in a limited time. This could mean achieving a certain level of guest happiness, or breeding a particular animal in your zoo. Scenario mode provides structured game play and regular, measurable achievement. In freeform mode, the player has total freedom. They can set their own aims and pursue them at any pace they’d like. As the game progresses, you can invest in researching new items and new animals, unlocking them and making them playable.
Download Zoo Tycoon
We might have the game available for more than one platform. Zoo Tycoon is currently available on these platforms:
Windows (2001)
Zoo_Tycoon_Win_Preinstalled_EN.zip (972.4MB)
Zoo_Tycoon_Win_ROM_EN.zip (1.19GB)
Zoo_Tycoon_Win_ISO_EN.zip (483.9MB)
How to play in Windows
- Download Zoo_Tycoon_Win_ROM_EN.zip and extract the files to your desktop. You might need to use a software such as 7-zip or WinRar to extract.
- After that, you want to mount the 2 ROM files found inside the downloaded folder, to do this you will need to use a software such as Daemon Tools.
- When you have them mounted, run the setup found inside the mounted drive for the base game (not expansion) and finish installing the game. After, run the setup for the expansion and install it.
- Finally, you want to open the crack folder and copy-paste the files found inside into the game installation directory (right click on game desktop shortcut and select “open file location” to see installation directory). Confirm you want to overwrite those files. Now you can run the game.
- Enjoy!
Mac (2001)
Zoo_Tycoon_Mac_ROM_EN.zip (457.9MB)
Additional files, patches and fixes
Zoo Tycoon Screenshots
Windows
why does my game always suddenly just closes?
sometimes it closes back after 5sec ..
thanks
I cant get my marine show functions to work, no income from grandstand, and not able to amend the tricks in the show
Hello! Thank you for providing the game! Unfortunately, I am having issues getting the game to display properly on Parallels for Mac. So just a little background: 1) I upgraded my 13” 2015 MacBook Pro from El Capitan to High Sierra, 2) installed Parallels along with Windows 10 — neither of which I have purchased yet (I’m still in my trial period), and 3) followed the installation instructions from featured comment above. All the steps worked and I was able to install the game successfully.
For some reason though, ZT fails to display properly after the introductory Blue Fang Games graphics play. First, the window minimizes from fullscreen to about 1/4 of the screen. At this point, nothing is cropped, the window is just smaller. However, once I am brought to the main menu of ZT, it automatically zooms in to the top left corner of the screen and prevents me from moving my mouse around to see the rest of the main menu.
I am, however, able to click the first menu option (it’s the only visible menu option). When I do so, I am taken to the correct page. But still, I cannot navigate or see beyond the zoomed-in area. When I expand the window to full screen, it merely enlarges the zoomed-in area — still not allowing me to see the rest of the Main Menu, and immediately snaps back to the original, smaller window size.
Then Windows freezes, leaving me no choice but to quit ZT externally via the dock on Mac OS.
I’ve tried running compatibility tests (i.e., right-click the ZT shortcut on my Desktop > Properties > Compatibility) and playing around with the different resolution settings on Windows (e.g., switching my display resolution to 800 x 600) but neither worked. I also even attempted to edit the resolution settings in the .ini file (i.e., BD-ROM Drive (F:) ZOO_TYCN > DATA) to match my recommended display resolution on my Windows 10 (i.e., 2560 x 1366), but kept getting the error message “You can’t save to ‘F:DATA’. Please choose another location.” (I tried saving the edited file elsewhere but doing so had no effect on how ZT displayed).
I’ve read through a Reddit thread and watched a YouTube video addressing this same issue but nothing has worked for me. I am dying to play this game again and relive my childhood so any suggestions or insights (e.g., Does it have to do with the fact that I have not yet purchased Parallels or Windows? The message “Activate Windows – Go to settings to active Windows” is on the screen and does not disappear.) would be very much appreciated. If I need to provide more details about my issue in order to be better assisted, I am more than happy to do so. Thank you in advance!
Note: I am unable to add my screenshots to this post, so please refer to my Reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ZooTycoon/comments/kvkzto/zoo_tycoon_1_zoomedin_display_issue_on_parallels/
i got it to work perfectly but i have no water creatures or dinosaurs
I’ve tried everything to get this to run
on my computer. I followed all the
steps and downloaded it multiple times but the game still won’t launch. I even tried to change the compatibility to previous versions of windows but still no luck :/
If you are downloading this game, please go down and find Shellbaeee’s reply to west. It’s really helpful.
Also, if you are on windows 10 then run the game in compatibility mode.
Does it work with windows 7?:(
So there is a glitch if you download the preinstalled version where you can’t assign tasks to maintenance workers (trash never gets cleaned). To fix you need to install with daemon tools, zoo tycoon then zoo tycoon complete.
Maintenance workers do not fix fence or clear trash. Unable to assign tasks to them too. Think there is a bug 🙁
Are the links still working? They won’t load for me
I need help with this. I have autism and I don’t understand what these terms mean at all, I don’t know what extracting or mounting means or ROM files etc.. could somebody give me detailed step by step instructions on how to download this game?
Hey! I can help you out.
First things first, if your computer runs Windows 10, this game won’t work as is. You’ll have to download a special patch for the issue. If you do have a Windows 10 computer, follow these steps and then reply and I’ll give you some more steps on the downloading the patch.
Okay, here we go!
1. Click on the button that says “Zoo_Tycoon_Win_ROM_EN.zip (1.18 GB)” It will open up a link to a website called “Mega”. Click on the green download button. A progress bar will appear at the top of the screen. You don’t have to do anything else on that page, just wait for the download to finish.
2. Once it downloads, double click on the file (it will pop up on the bottom of you browser most the time. If it doesn’t try searching “Downloads” in your Start menu to open your downloads folder. It should be there) to open it and find a button that says “Extract All”. It’s different on different computers, so I can’t tell you exactly where to find the button. Another window should pop up. Click “Extract” on that one, too.
3. For the next step, you’ll need a program that can mount digital CDs. I used Daemon Lite. Here’s the link: https://www.daemon-tools.cc/products/dtLite
On the left side of the screen is a blue download button. Click that and wait for the software to download. Once it finishes, open it.
4. Now that you have Daemon open, click on the gray button in the bottom left corner that says “Quick Mount”.
5. Find the UNZIPPED (Note unzipped. If you try the zipped file it won’t work. You can tell it’s unzipped because it will have the same name as the one you downloaded off this website but the icon won’t have a zipper on it like the other one) file. Open it (you might have to open it twice, I can’t remember), then open the folder called “Game Files”, then the folder called “Base Game”. There should be two files in it called rzr-ztcc1. Open the one that says “BIN File” a little bit to the right of the name. This will “mount” a digital CD on Daemon.
6. A blue icon should pop up next to the Quick Mount button that says something like “(E:) ZOO_TYCN”. Click on it and the installer for the game should pop up. Install it like usual (At some point in the install, it asks you if you want to make a desktop icon. I suggest doing so because it makes later steps easier).
7. If you want the expansion, repeat steps 4-6 but instead of opening the “Base Game” file in step 5, open the one that says “Expansion” and open the BIN file there.
8. Go back to the Zoo Tycoon folder and open the “Crack” folder. You’ll need to click on the Base Game Crack folder and then click Extract All again. Then open the unzipped folder and right click on the application called “zoo” and copy it.
9. Right click on the Zoo Tycoon icon on your desktop and click “Open File Location”. Paste the zoo application you just copied into the file, then confirm that you want to replace the files already there.
10. If you didn’t install the expansion, skip this step. Otherwise, repeat steps 8-9 but this time with the Expansion Crack folder and the application inside.
11. You’re done! You can run the game now. If it doesn’t work, let me know. I can try to help you troubleshoot.
These steps really helped me out! Thanks for posting.
so how do you get the patch? For windows ten?
Try to run the game in compatability mode for windows 7. It works out well for me. If you don’t know, right click the executable, select properties and go to compatibility mode.
GL and I hoped this helps!
I’m incredibly bad at tech despite how much time i spend on the computer, so this was very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you so so much. I’ve been trying to get this to work on and off for 2 years and somehow this is the first time it’s ever worked
how do i download the patch?
I’ve followed these instructions a few times and it’s still not working for me. I got everything installed, accepted the end user agreement, and it tried opening but crashed before it could do anything. Any advice from anyone?
Hey Shelbaeee, I’m new here and am wondering if you’ll be able to help me with the maintenance glitch/ workers aren’t cleaning anything despite my best efforts? I’m running the Complete Collection with Compatibility Mode set for Windows 7 and my rig is running Windows 11… should I download the ROMS from here and try this version?
Thanks!
Anyone having a problem where their marine animal shows won’t work? i.e. show screen not appearing?
Yes, I’m getting the same. I haven’t been able to figure out yet what to do about that, perhaps it’s just a bug. Which is a shame because some of the scenarios require you to run a successful show to succeed and unlock later scenarios. As a side-issue, the stands are all set to $0.00 and can’t be made profitable either.
It’s a shame, but I’m definitely wanting to enjoy the game anyway!
I was able to download, unzip, and run the application. It’s working for me and I have been able to play, however I’m having the same maintenance issue and have no idea what all lingo down below means. In stupid terms, how do I fix this? I don’t have the disk- only the downloaded file on my computer.
Thank you!!
For everyone wondering:
1. Download the ROM file -> unzip + extract files
2. Download Daemon 2 Lite
3. Click Quick Mount
4. Select the the first bin file, then repeat step 3 with the second. Think of this as digitally putting in two CD’S – each bin file represents one. ztcc1 is the base game, ztcc2 is the complete collection.
5. Double click and install ztcc1
6. Double click and install ztcc2
Play!
This worked for me in fixing the matienence worker problem, however now I am expierencing issues trying to get marine animal shows to work if anyone has advice for that!
it works, OMG yesss yesss