History YMMV / PlanetZoo

* WinBackTheCrowd: Two forms for Frontier:

* BrokenBase: The Southeast Asia Animal Pack. Some love it for its colorful roster of animals and for adding no less than eight new creatures to the game, as opposed to the just five players had come to expect, while some hate it due to the less than-stellar quality of some of said animals, at least upon their initial reveal — namely the binturong, dhole, and Malayan tapir. This is particularly since while in response to widespread criticism, the binturong’s model was updated in time for the pack’s release, and the dhole got a remaster about a month later, the Malayan tapir, which initially looked like a blatant reskin of the Baird’s tapir, didn’t get its due until Update 1.16, over two and a half years after the pack was released.

* Broken Base: The Southeast Asia Animal Pack. Some love it for its colorful roster of animals and for adding no less than eight new creatures to the game, as opposed to the just five players had come to expect, while some hate it due to the less than-stellar quality of some of said animals, at least upon their initial reveal — namely the binturong, dhole, and Malayan tapir. This is particularly since while in response to widespread criticism, the binturong’s model was updated in time for the pack’s release, and the dhole got a remaster about a month later, the Malayan tapir, which initially looked like a blatant reskin of the Baird’s tapir, didn’t get its due until Update 1.16, over two and a half years after the pack was released.

* MemeticMutation:
** The phrase "piece by piece" used to describe the game's robust construction system has become one amongst the fanbase for just how much the phrase is consistently used in promotional materials.
** Before Malayan Tapir model got fixed in 1.16 update, players joked that Frontier is hating the animal, and neglects it on purpose, due to the fact that animal was basically [[PaletteSwap Baird's Tapir copy]] for over ''3 years''.

* NightmareFuel:
** Animals that die can ''rot into skeletons'' if left lying around too long. Fittingly, this is an in-universe example too, as animal bones can frighten away guests.
** If you are a arachnophobe (or in general afraid of anthropods), realistic looking spiders ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and one centipede]]) might make you not putting them in any of your zoos. The other bugs (malaysian leaf insect and burrowing cockroach) flip flop this since they are not scary as "traditionally scary" bugs.

** The inclusion of wisent in upcoming Eurasian Animal Pack resulted in many positive responses of Poles, who are happy that one of their national animals (second being white tailed eagle) will get added to the game.

* TheScrappy:
** Himalayan Brown Bear. Many players don't like it for being species not common in captivity, saying that it should have been replaced by eurasian brown bear.
** Malayan Tapir, due to being ''a blatant'' recolor of Baird's Tapir, with many players asking Frontier to change its model to more accurate one, ever since the animal ''was announced'' in Southeast Asia Animal Pack teaser trailer.
*** Thankfully, their models got enhanced in the 1.16 update making them more distinct from Baird’s Tapir.

* MemeticMutation: The phrase "piece by piece" used to describe the game's robust construction system has become one amongst the fanbase for just how much the phrase is consistently used in promotional materials.

** More generally, it is a noted trend in reactions to Scenery and Animal Packs tend to be more positive from their region of focus than outside it, with one example being how the Europe Pack being more popular in Europe than North America and the North American Animal Pack being more popular in North America than in Europe.

** Himalayan brown bear. Many players don't like it for being species not common in captivity, saying that it should have been replaced by eurasian brown bear.
** Malayan tapir, due to being ''a blatant'' recolor of baird's tapir, with many players asking Frontier to change its model to more accurate one, ever since the animal ''was announced'' in Southeast Asia Animal Pack teaser trailer.

** Malayan tapir, due to being ''blatant'' recolor of baird's tapir, with many players asking Frontier to change its model to more accurate one, ever since the animal ''was announced'' in Southeast Asia Animal Pack teaser trailer.

** More generally, it is a noted trend in reactions to Scenery and Animal Packs tend to be more positive from their region of focus than outside it, with the Europe Pack being more popular in Europe than North America, and in turn North America's Animal Pack being more popular in North America than in Europe being one particular example.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: The inclusion of wisent in upcoming Eurasian Animal Pack resulted in many positive responses of Poles, who are happy that one of their national animals (second being white tailed eagle) will get added to the game.

** Malayan tapir, due to being ''blatant'' recolor of baird's tapir, with many players asking Frontier to change its model to more accurate one, ever since the animal ''was announced''.

** Many players were unhappy with the DLC packs containing no more than five animals and a large amount of scenery items. Frontier addressed this by introducing a new type of DLC known as an "Animal Pack" that adds eight unique animals and no scenery items. To date, they've released two of these based on Southeast Asia and North America.

* NightmareFuel: Animals that die can ''rot into skeletons'' if left lying around too long. Fittingly, this is an in-universe example too, as animal bones can frighten away guests.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Two forms:

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The graphics are nothing short of breathtaking, the cartoon-ish design of the guests notwithstanding. The animals are all incredibly photorealistic and the environments and foliage border on SceneryPorn. It's possible to build zoos that look just as good or even better than actual real zoos.

** The Twilight Pack brings in the long-awaited flying animal to the game, the Egyptian fruit bat, complete with a new walkthrough exhibit that opens the door for more flying animals like birds and butterflies in the future. This feature was then expanded upon in the very next DLC pack, the Grasslands Animal Pack; adding five species of Butterflies that could all be added to a single walkthrough exhibit. The walkthrough exhibit also allowed for the widely-desired sloths, starting with the brown-throated sloth from the Tropical Pack.

** The Twilight Pack brings in the long-awaited flying animal to the game, the Egyptian fruit bat, complete with a new walkthrough exhibit that opens the door for more flying animals like birds and butterflies in the future. This feature was then expanded upon in the very next DLC pack, the Grasslands Animal Pack; adding five species of Butterflies that could all be added to a single walkthrough exhibit. It also allowed for the widely-desired sloths, starting with the brown-throated sloth from the Tropical Pack.

** The Twilight Pack brings in the long-awaited flying animal to the game, the Egyptian fruit bat, complete with a new walkthrough exhibit that opens the door for more flying animals like birds and butterflies in the future.
*** This feature was then expanded upon in the very dext DLC pack, the Grasslands Animal Pack; adding five species of Butterflies that could all be added to a single walkthrough exhibit.

** Baby habitat animals cannot be removed until they mature to adulthood[[note]]Okay granted, you can put them into storage but there is only so much you can store and they won't even age there[[/note]]. While it doesn't seem problematic for animals that grew up rather quickly, it does prove to be one for animals that took a long time to mature or ExplosiveBreeders such as Giant Tortoises or Peafowls. As an added "bonus", these babies further contributes to the animal food expenses and makes your exhibit dirty rather quickly. The option can be overlooked, but you can easily put animals on contraceptives to prevent this issue.

** The update also reintroduced Muti-select, a very useful feature that was removed temporarily because of technical issues.

* AwesomeMusic/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is beautiful and calm: a perfect backdrop for planning out your exhibits. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-AGDF1Blhc Parkie's Pieces]] is just one standout example.

** The Twilight Pack brings in the long-awaited flying animal to the game, the Egyptian fruit bat, complete with a new walkthrough exhibit that opens the door for more flying animals like birds and butterflies in the future

** After a near-universally negative reaction to the Binturong's appearance in the southeast Asia DLC, Frontier dramatically improved the creature's model before the DLC was actually released.

** The Twilight pack brings in the long-awaited flying animal to the game, the Egyptian fruit bat, complete with a new walkthrough exhibit that opens the door for more flying animals, such as birds and butterflies.

** The Twilight Pack brings in the long-awaited flying animal to the game, the Egyptian fruit bat, complete with a new walkthrough exhibit that opens the door for more flying animals in the future, such as birds and butterflies.

** "Stress" can take a perfectly happy animal content with its environment and ''tank'' its welfare rating. All stats contribute to an animal's welfare, including how recently it's been fed, environmental concerns, number of animals in the social group, and if it has enrichment items available. While a decrease in one of these usually is bad, it only takes a small portion out of the total welfare and can be remedied quickly. Stress is different; even if all other stats are high and taken care of, stress will lower the animal's welfare rating into the red if not to 0 (compared to other stats only taking off 5-15%). And since the most common cause of stress is the animal not having a place to hide, it may take a while before enough guests get to the exhibit and you'll ignore it long enough for the game to sound the alarm that the animal's welfare is poor. Thankfully that is fixed with bushes or building a walled shelter, but there are very few indicators that a species will be shy enough to necessitate watching the stress rating.

** "Stress" can take a perfectly happy animal content with it's environment and ''tank'' it's welfare rating. All stats contribute to an animal's welfare, including how recently it's been fed, environmental concerns, number of animals in the social group, and if it has enrichment items available. While a decrease in one of these usually is bad, it only takes a small portion out of the total welfare and can be remedied quickly. Stress is different; even if all other stats are high and taken care of, stress will lower the animal's welfare rating into the red if not to 0. And since the most common cause of stress is the animal not having a place to hide, it may take a while before enough guests get to the exhibit and you'll ignore it long enough for the game to sound the alarm that the animal's welfare is poor. Thankfully that is fixed with bushes or building a walled shelter, but there are very few indicators that a species will be shy enough to necessitate watching the stress rating.