At any given moment, you might go from fretting over whether you need more soil or long grass in your panda enclosure to balancing vendor prices of your concessions stands, and these tutorials hold your hand through the basics. There is a lot to understand to start a park of your own, so these first few levels are key to learning the game foundation.

Each of the three levels puts you in charge of a fully established park that needs a few tweaks. It's best to start with the Career mode, which starts with three tutorial levels specifically designed to help you understand the basics. With Planet Zoo, Frontier has managed to get even closer to what a good park-building game should be: tons of customization but enough of an on-ramp to understand it before being thrown into the deep end.

This recent string started with Planet Coaster, which was a deep yet difficult-to-approach game and continued with the easier and much simpler Jurassic World Evolution. With every 'park' game that it develops, Frontier Developments gets closer and closer to the ideal game of the genre.

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