u/fultre

Really hard to take a photo on this..

Hello everyone! I thought I'd share a small part of the zoo I'm currently building in Zoo Tycoon. I've been taking my time with the exhibit design, and I think it's starting to come together nicely. The game has aged like fine vine. :)

I only played the demo, but honestly Aquapark Tycoon is already shapin up to be the best water park game I've ever played.

It's genuinely miles ahead of RCT 3 Soaked and even Planet Coaster 2 water park implementation. The amount of depth surprised me.

The path system is fantastic and actually feels intuitive instead of fighting you every step of the way. Building pools, slides and entire areas flow really naturally. The rides are great, there's a proper tycoon element to it, guests behave convincingly, and the physics are excellent.

What impressed me most is that it feels like an actual management game first, rather than just a sandbox builder. Staffing, park layout, toilets, shops, guest flow and optimisation all seem to matter. The guests feel so real, with real needs and their needs matter.

It also somehow captures that classic just one more thing before I quit feeling that older tycoon games had.

They even updated the demo and added real ride supports, like, insane attention to detail man.

If the full release maintains the quality of the demo, I genuinely think this could become the new benchmark for water park games or tycoon games. I've been waiting years for something like this, and it already feels better than anything else currently available.