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Idle Tap Zoo – Simulation Game Review
Idle Tap Zoo is a Simulation game from Tech Tree Games LLC, first launched in 1st May 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 595+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Tap Zoo Stand Out
Tap, collect and raise your very own zoo animals in Idle Tap Zoo, the incremental idle zoo clicker game! Raise zoo animals and upgrade them to increase their birth rate and value, then sell them for a profit to expand your business with just a tap! Use your profits to build your own custom zoo!
Manage a zoo simulation and improve it with the small upgrades like bathrooms and food stalls to attract more visitors and become the ultimate business manager. More visitors means more money, and before you know it, you'll be able to expand your zoo with aquariums and safari rides!
In this idle game, your zoo will continue to grow and make you money that can be used to unlock new zoo animals like monkeys, pandas, gorillas and lions! Become a business manager and trade your animals in bulk at the trading post for gems. Use gems to research permanent upgrades for large boosts and continue to expand your zoo all with a simple tap!
How much will your zoo be worth?
Idle Tap Zoo Features:
Build Your Zoo
• Manage a zoo that can be customized exactly to your liking! Create the perfect business simulation!
• Create a dream zoo and open it to visitors to begin increasing your income and grow your business empire
• Customize your zoo with special decorations, fun rides, and all of your favorite zoo animals!
• Create a jungle habitat for the monkeys and gorillas! Create a lush bamboo forest for your tigers and pandas!
Raise Animals
• Raise zoo animals – Buy and sell your favorite zoo animals
• Raise animals and manage their population based on their birth and death rate percentage
• Stock your food with bananas for the gorillas and monkeys and bamboo for the pandas!
• Upgrade each zoo animals to help its survival rate and sell price
• Trade your zoo animals at the trade post for gems which can be used to boost your progress
Idle Progress
• A unique incremental/idle game experience without too much clicking
• The idle clicker game that lets you grow and learn – read fun zoo facts!
• Idle Progress – Your zoo will continue to grow and make money while you're gone
- Enjoy an idle safari in your pocket-return to the game to purchase rare attractions!
Expand Your Zoo
• Manage a zoo and tap to invest in improvements that can permanently increase zoo animals’ birth rate
• Be the zoo manager and increase the maximum time the zoo can run without you. Run a perfect zoo simulation!
• Build your zoo to be the best and earn as many achievements as possible
Build your dream zoo filled with fun rides, great attractions and all of your favorite zoo animals!
Tap to raise rare animals like monkeys, pandas and lions OH MY! Continue to expand your zoo in the best idle clicker simulation game, Idle Tap Zoo!
Download Idle Tap Zoo today to start managing a zoo!
Idle Tap Zoo does not require an internet connection, and only watch ads if you want.
See this game and other incremental, idle, tapper and clicker games on the incremental games subreddit
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Tap Zoo is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th April 2021
Recent improvements include:
- Bug fixes and optimizations
Download & Availability
Idle Tap Zoo is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
We need update so we can restore our purchases! Every time we click it it says no internet we have internet please please update Ive been playing this game on and off for over 5 years.
We've played this through to the end multiple times, and we just downloaded it again. Great level-up game theory script writing.
If you are looking for a game that will make you refrain from all productive activities for at least a month, this is perfect for you. Extremely addictive, ridiculous and funny storyline, and a bunch of cute animals with potential cuter upgrades. We just completed the story mode, and now we hate ourselves so we downloaded the dinosaur version of the same thing from the same developer to drown out our grief upon finish this beautiful masterpiece. Download now, and you too can have your friends and family become disappointed with you and have your phone die several times per day.
We downloaded this a year or so ago and played it to the end (it took a couple months of playing and hour-ish per day. We enjoyed it enough to do it again.
A simple game we will admit but its simplicity is what makes it fun. You dont need to spend money to feel like you accomplished something as well. Ads are not a hassle but are of use as well, the choice is all up to you. We dont feel exhausted or bored playing it, the game knows its a simple app game and keeps to that theme.
We absolutely love this game! Its super fun to play and best of all it doesnt have annoying ads unless you consent to actually watching one or two for a power up! Overall wonderful game.
We have had so much fun playing a zoo game like no other. We would totally recommend this game to people who love animals like ourselves. The pixel art is also very good but the only thing we wish that this game had is animal AI for the animals to do different actions and walk around their pen, maybe the turtles could roll over on to their shell and roll back or maybe the otters could dig and find random stuff that has no impact on the game.
No ads unless you want them, first App Store review ever. Super user friendly , fun and progressive gameplay.
We love the gameplay that feels like we have more control and not just about waiting around and knowing the next upgrade just gives us more money. We have to plan for the next animal or else it might not be suitable yet. The artstyle is cute and there is NO CONSTANT ADS. They are optional and very generous as well. Awesome game.
Our favorite mobile game Ive played in awhile please continue to fix. Its a really fun game we cant get enough of.
We have not experienced a forced to watch ad. Easy play great for unwinding after a long day at work.
This is a good game we played it when we were little and it always challenged us.
Its got some really cute animals and is just a really chill game. We like the mountain turtle isnt that from final fantasy or something.
Love doing this on a side during breaks from studying or winding down.
This game is Soo fun and we love that you can watch ads for in game rewards. Very fun and relaxing game :).
Its just plain fun. You unlock things, upgrade stuff, search for and catch escaped animals, hire a robot monkey, and make money. Sure, there are some little things that stick out as slightly weird, some scary (like a shark escaping unaided to the forest) and some mind-boggling in their silliness (like a single human weighing 120 quadrillion kilograms), but its a light, fun diversion.
This game gives you the option to watch a few ads for things but none of the things you actually need to play the game we only gave it 4 because it could be improved a little but overall good to pass the time.
The game is a lot of fun. We ended up paying to remove the ads because we spent more time watching ads than playing the game. We gave it 4 star because the way the game is designed the notch in newer iPhones cut into the money and you can see the numbers but not the mail,bil, ect. SUPER annoying.
This game is great it is so well thought out we really like your game wish there were more skins to all the animals peace out.
The screen doesnt fit our phone. The money counter is too high up and the notch in our iPhone 12 cuts it off so we cant see exactly how much money we have. Its really annoying. So we thought we would play on our iPad but there is no way to transfer progress between devices. Please fix these problems. Otherwise its a great game. A little more challenging than other idle games and the graphics are cute.
Really good and entertaining game.
We love this game so much we play it every single day and we actually really like how u just go out of the game for a while and you earn like… A lot of money im even earning money right now. But there is one thing we do not like about this. The thing we do NOT like about this is that there is not even that many types of biomes…. Like.. No just No please fix it. Thats all we have to say though. Have a great day bye.
Our only complaint is the price of things other than that this game is great! We wish the No Ad Pack wasnt 10$ if it was $0.99 – $2.99 oh our we would have bought it within the first 10 mins of download. If everythings prices got adjusted a tiny it might be the best idle out there.
We really enjoyed this game but we found one small problem. When you use tge mating boost we cant press the x after the ad, so we have to close the game and reload it. Otherwise a really great and cute game.=).
We loved this game on android. But we downloaded it on Apple and now we get adds. We did pay to remove adds, but when we get rewards, it asks if we want to watch an add for a reward. The only way we get the rewards is if we watch the adds. Which is something we paid to NOT have. We dont play this game nearly as much anymore because of that issue.
We used to love this game. We delete it every once in a while, then come back to it months later. This last time, the ads stopped working. Apparently the bug has been fixed on Android, but the last iOS update was two years ago. We just wanted to watch ads to get more gems.
Needs more creatures and should lower the amount of gems needed to get a special character. Almost $30 to change the look of a creature is a lot. We should be able to buy the mythical creatures for gems instead of fossils also if we want to pay for it.
We cant close the Mating Boost screen using the x on the screen.
If you beat the game and reset it, it will not restore purchases. You get an error that says you need an internet connection. It sure will still allow you to watch ads over the internet even though it says you arent connected. Scam.
Played before on another phone with same account. When we press the restore purchases and we receive a message that to restore you need an internet connection. Uh, Im on here obviously we have connection.
This is a really cute zoo related game with lots of cute animals! A well established title for veteran zoo gamers.
The most fun and addictive game we have ever played.
So far a great game with great graphics! However we find ourselves disappointed at another zoo game with no hyenas, will more animals be added? Because we find it strange that such a beautiful animal isnt here but humans are? Still grateful for the inclusion of spiders, and the great graphics though.
Its a good and fun game! Our fav animal has to be the spider.
This is an amazing game. Ill admit that we had our doubts when first downloading it after seeing an ad. We thought everything in the ad seemed too good to be true, but it was all true. Theres no frustration in trying to build up your zoo (except for when we forgot we had otters that werent going to breed and they all died…. But that was our mistake. The game explained how everything worked and we were just being stupid right there XD). The animations are cute and it has a different style from other zoo games. Its very easy and a nice little idle game almost. The prices make sense and nothing is crazy hard to get. We applaud the creators on this PERFECT game. :).
Its a great game, we thought it was impossible to find even a decent game until we downloaded this game.
There NEEDS to be expansions to all of the environments throughout the zoo. And to get them you can add new rare animals like Ex: ____ Cost shells Adds expansions to ___ and __ Just sayin you dont have to | |.
We think the gifts should be free cause there are so many you can get a day, but you have to watch a ad to get one… NO ADS.
So this games really fun however it progresses very slow once u get to about the snake stage we keep trying to make money but the upgrades are so much and we dont know what to do because the game seems really fun its just that we feel like Im missing something Im buying upgrades buying visitor upgrades selling animals yet still everything is so expensive.
The animals seem to die to easily.
We use iphone xs and the money balance portion is cut off. So you even do QA testing? Omg this is basic you know.
This is by far the most engaging incremental game Ive come across. It takes time to get to the point when you are doing resets, and even then there is strategy to deciding whether to reset or stick it out until the next rank. The only downside that Ive come across is the lack of data transfer. We played for about 1 week, was on our 10th reset and our phone battery failed. We had no way to transfer the data to our new phone and had to start over. Even with that frustration the game deserves the 5 star rating we gave. Great Job.
Been playing this game for a couple months now and pretty much did all we can do we think we like the fact you can use your gems to get rare or legendary animals but the thing we dislike is when you use your gems why dont they change on the screen. We know if you want it as the default skin you will still get the bonus. But we wanted to unlock all the skins and see them listed on the side but they just stay are the regular skin and we were wondering when this is ever going to be fixed or it just our game.
Fun idle game. Only complaint we have is that the statues dont seem to do anything? We have some that are on the third tier but still start out with 0% mating rates when we buy new animal types.
Overall, Best idle game with no unwanted ads, and dont pay attention to the bad reviews, thats 1 out of…. 4K people! Try the game.
So many ways to play this game. We can concentrate on building up animal populations, improvements, or both. There or challenge levels we choose to participate in or not. We can build many short term zoos to sell for rewards or make a long term zoo to collect more animal varieties that will be sold at greater reward levels. The only reason to spend money is move along faster or to buy different animal species that produce better. But even without those bonuses, the game is fun. Always fun minus the frustration that is so common in other free games. As for ads, this developer runs them at the most user friendly level we have ever seen in a free game because… 1-You choose if you want to see an ad. You can advance in the game without ads, but it goes much faster to watch them. 2-The ads load well. No lagging. No crashing. And always pays. 3-Ad pays both money or gems. The higher your zoo value, the better it pays. Game can be played off line. There are still money and gem gifts but more gifts come while online. The animations are cute. The only downside, for us, it that game must be played in portrait view. It wont tilt to landscape view. Which we like because we can charge our iPad and play the game in that direction without it bending the cord.
This game is super interactive and extremely fun to play! Not to mention the animals are adorable! And the game isnt all about in app purchases and is very fun to play and doesnt take forever to get started.
Only been playing for a little while but Im really having fun playing this. Its challenging and relaxing at the same time. The best idle type game Ive tried.
We love incremental/ management games and finding this one has been a treat. No clicking, this is an idle/manager. Ads are not intrusive and optional. Game play is fun- balance out adding new animals, selling and building your zoo. Cute art.
This game is so cute and there are so many features that keep it fun so theres no room for boredom. We havent played many games like this one, its a keeper.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: v1.3.0
- Size: 123.52 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Tech Tree Games LLC]()
Last updated: 26th April 2021 | Genre: Simulation | Developer: Tech Tree Games LLC