Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 10:59 am
Zookeeper World – Puzzle Game Review
Zookeeper World is a Puzzle game from KITERETSU.INC, first launched in 10th September 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 4,365+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Zookeeper World Stand Out
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Zookeeper, the definitive action-puzzle game played by more than 30 million people, is now available as a Apple Arcade exclusive!
Solve simple match-3 puzzles to create your own zoo. Make it the only one of its kind in the world!
Get through a variety of puzzles and collect Coins to fill your zoo with cute animals, plants and more! They’ll increase your zoo’s Charm and attract all sorts of visitors!
As you complete requests from these visitors as well as the Boss, your zoo rank will increase. Before long, you'll be expanding and customizing your zoo with various designs and decorations! You just might come across a family of ducks or a calico cat, or even cruise around in a UFO! With endless ways to spice things up, there’s never a dull moment as a zookeeper!
You can upgrade the animals you’ve collected, too. Increase their Charm and turn them into cosplay animals!
Hula Dance Rabbit, Punk Monkey, Tanned Giraffe, Afro Panda, Santa Fennec, Tuxedo Penguin, Franken-Lion, Muay Thai Polar Bear, Sailor Crocodile, Pancake Elephant, Witch Flamingo… Can you collect them all?
To upgrade your animals though, you’ll need gems. You can get them by defeating MECHA BOSS, who will occasionally attack your zoo!
There are lots of puzzle stages with innovative gimmicks like "One Move All Challenge," where you have to match all the animals in one move, and "MECHA BOSS Challenge," where you go all out against MECHA BOSS!
You can get gems in several ways, such as by scoring EXCELLENT in "Star Collection Quest." All you have to do is complete the puzzles and collect stars!
New animals, puzzle stages and events will be added and updated on a regular basis. Come join the fun!
Don't forget to feed your animals when they get hungry!
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Zookeeper World is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Update to unlock new content!
- More puzzle stages!
New Puzzle Gimmick: "Treasure Chests"
New 12 Puzzle stages to play!
Next stage will be available on November 30, and no update required!
Turn on your notifications to receive puzzle stage updates.
Download & Availability
Zookeeper World is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Zookeeper World on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is very fun but feels a bit too empty. We feel like there should be more stuff and activities.
This is the best game and we cant explain it. Its just has so many things that you can do and its just amazing just get it youll really like it.
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This game fulfills the edge to rearrange and design our own zoo while also being able to play little puzzle games. Its just great to zone out and play.
We Literally LOVE This Game! Its SO Fun, And Every Time we Go Just One More Level, Im Already Ten Levels Ahead. Its Such A Fun Game, And we Feel Like Even Older Teens, Maybe Any Age Can Enjoy It! The Animals Are So Adorable, And You Can Even Name And Dress Them Up! Love This Game.
You should totally get this game. It is the best game ever we have ever played you should totally download it. Its the best game ever.
Best zoo keeper game we ever played.
We enjoy doing the puzzles and growing the animals at the zoo. Fun concept.
It is fun but a little hard to walk we can not play the games because They do not have any instructions.PUT SOME INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO DO THE GAMES .PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
Buried in the submenus of some of the optional mini games are over fifty, English dubbed, two minute episodes of Paper Rabbit Rope. EDIT: You can now watch it from the TV in the plaza outside your zoo. If you want to watch them in the original Japanese, switch your game language and redownload the episode (but these are largely available on YouTube). EDIT 2, a few years later: This remains one of our favorite Match-3 games. They continue to add fresh content and interesting updates. And HimemiyaI meanPrincess Rose is still our favorite visitor to our zoo.
Ive played for at least an hour daily for MONTHS and Ive yet to get tired of it, theres a lot you can do in this game!! Havent come across any bugs or issues, no ads and no daily lives like in Candy Crush. Highly recommend.
If you like animals and puzzles get this no adds.
We love this game and the animation style.
This games is so amazing. We recommend it for all ages. Theres no adds at all.
Great game! But when our Leader told us to feed the animals we fed all the animals, then we tried to feed the monkeys and it wouldnt let us feed them.
All the match three Skinner box fun without any of the micro transactions, what more could we want.
We enjoy playing zookeeper world it will remind you of kinda like a Sims game where youre building your own city but instead you are creating your own zoo, different just to kill time pretty cool and you dont have to buy coins to be able to build your city for your zoo and good for kids. Very decent. We highly recommend for parents who have little kids.
Enjoyable game: plenty to do (base game and events), solid level design, acceptable build mechanic, however, this is the most battery-hungry game Ive ever played. It took us a week to realize that our phone was fine, but an hour of Zookeeper was equivalent to 8-12 hours of normal phone use. Yikes.
We love this game so much it is like we really own a zoo.
All we have to say is best game ever.
Ive had several games over the years and we can confidently say we keep coming back to this one! The game play is easy to understand and we love customizing the zoo.
Zookeeper World is such a fun game! We loved all the animals the game had and still do! There where lots of fun things to do and not repetitive at all.
So if you are looking for a game with no ads, then this game is for you. If you want it, it is a free game with no advertisements for any particular reason.
Its a sweet take on the match type game ..and you get to build a zoo.
We first started playing Zookeeper World over three years ago and at first, we wasnt sure how much we liked it and then we were sure we liked it but figured Id get bored Ive left this game for flash year games a couple of times but we keep coming back. Its incredibly relaxing, and has enough variety with the different contests and games on the weekends to keep us thoroughly entertained. And like the others, we particularly love that Im not playing with a corporation thats constantly trying to steal our money and entice us into different gambling schemes and make us watch ads for other games that Ive seen 100 times already! Thank you, Apple Arcade, for offering an affordable and stable game platform that isnt constantly trying to rip us off.
This is a great game but there needs to be updates that include adding on to the zoo, adding new animals, and new habitats. Just more additions like an aquarium, a reptile house, and an insect house. The game just gets boring when youve added all there is to add.
Zookeeper world is great game with amazingly cute graphics! We hope you get this game because we know that you will love it.
Very silly fun game. Easily one of our favorites! :3.
Needs some work but we love the game wish it was not in Apple Arcade though but other then that love the game *sort of glitchy.
Reminds us of games we used to play when we were younger.
Soooooooo good yall got to try this out it is so much fun.
We would give it ten stars if we could.
LOVED this game so much up until a little after level 200. We dont just want to play super hard puzzles, we wanna reach goals and build and decorate our zoo and make it pretty and fun. After level 200 though it gets significantly harder and the expansion costs are insane so Im playing game after game after game with no ability to build out our zoo because we have to save every penny. It sucked the joy right out of it for us.
He is great because of all the mini games and all the fun animals you can upgrade. We really like this game we recommend most of you buy this game. Its really great.
This app is pretty good, and its similar to Trackswitch.
The game is super fun. Its just we have to have Internet for it. And why does the dude get a statue? Why dont we get it? We do have the work.
Ive really been enjoying the game until we hit about level 250. Now even when we clear the board, have two unused rainbow stars and 8 moves, we will still only get a good rating and no reward star. The extra rainbow stars and moves should count for more. Im playing levels 10 or 15 times and even with extra moves and unused rainbow stars Im not earning our excellent or getting a star reward. It becomes discouraging and frustrating instead of fun. We dont mind replaying levels, but when we use boosters and have lots of moves and stars left, we should get the excellent. Otherwise we have no idea what is needed to win.
The game is great fun, and loads of detail and subtle humor throughout. HOWEVER, it frequently freezes at the end of stages on Mac OS 14.6 (Sonoma). Other than that, we wish there was a wider variety of animals once you fully expand the zooso you don't have to repeat the ones already achieved. :).
We really love this game so much, we actually play it everyday lol we love that you get to keep trying each level when you fail instead of only getting so many lives for a certain amount of time like candy crush and royal match, it makes the game so much more fun and addictive! We love the cute little animals and its been fun building up our zoo! Definitely our favorite game at the moment.
Im really enjoying this game. It has all the features of games like Gardenscapes, but its wayyy more fun! The ability to customize the zoo animals/features plus the numerous really fun minigames takes this style of game up a level. However, there are two features we really wish the game had: 1. An option to use the zoo view/zoom controls like the ones in the (hammer) Shop. We really hate not being able to see more of the zoo at once when our zookeeper is in certain areas. We should be able to have full control of the zoom controls, if wanted. 2. Id really like to see a currency conversion option that allows players to convert Coins <-> Gems. There are many instances where we have tens of thousands of coins, but no gems, or vise versa. It would allow more freedom when buying anything in the game. Seeing these two options to the game would definitely make us change this review to 5 stars.
This game is amazing! BUT we CANNOT VISIT OTHER PEOPLES ZOOS!! Try as we might, we CANNOT! We cant find the settings to change it LITERALLY ANYWHERE!! It keeps saying You are not old enough to use this feature. How do change this? Please help, and Ill make our rating 5 stars.
We absolutely love this game!!! The gameplay is entertaining, the mini games are fun, the players dialogues, names, and messages are fantastic we have played this for hours on end! The chances to win items/coins/gems are, in our honest opinion, pretty high! It gives off an Animal Crossing vibe as far as completing tasks for patrons, the items and animals are unique and charming. We LOVE THAT YOU CAN RETURN ITEMS FOR THE SAME PRICE BACK!!! It makes the experience so much better for us because we change our mind all the time! Download this game. You wont regret it.
Im in love with this game! So fun, adorable, and addicting in the best way. We hope the developers keep adding to it so we can play it many more days in the future. 10/10.
Its cool if you like animals and building habitats, but if you dont go play a different game.
Zookeeper world is a great game and it is fun and exciting. It is an amazing, unique, fun game, but sometimes it is hard. It is a very good way to calm down.
One of the have we play every day, making sure to collect every star, finish every special event 100%, and stay in the pineapple league. Very fun time waster while waiting on kids/wife to do a thing and we need to do nothing else. The only real cons are: – Lately, some puzzles feel like you need to use items in order to get a star – At least 1/3 to 1/2 of the time, when we fill the specific animal meter and earn a rainbow star, we can predict where it will land, and its usually the place we dont want it to go. Either Im psychic for the dumbest thing ever or its not truly random – we have no idea how folks are doing it, but we suspect the fruit league players at the top are cheating, and that stinks. For example, at the time of this writing, a new round started and still has 2 days to go, and the top player has 2691 fruits. More than twice the number 2 player. We hung around once for the start of a new round, playing very aggressively. We had the top spot for the first 15 minutes, then out of nowhere someone jumped way past us and got to close to 1000. The fact that you cant spend real money to buy items and you cant pick which stage you want to stack fruits (513 would be one good example) is what puzzles us. Please try and fix this.
Not sure if Ive encountered a bug at all, but we can not feed our animals when we tap on the bubble.
This game is so awesome! There are a few tricky moments but the game is really fun.
Good game but we are literally 16 so why can we not go to other zoos.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 9.6.0
- Size: 1,032.02 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: AR, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: KITERETSU.INC
Last updated: 19th November 2025 | Genre: Puzzle | Developer: KITERETSU.INC