Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game – New Shores (2025)

Overview

Build your dream zoo with more choices than ever with Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game – New Shores!

Dive into aquatic worlds featuring manatees, sea turtles, zebra sharks, and more. Feel the cold breeze from the new type of enclosures featuring polar species such as the majestic polar bear, penguins, and muskox. Additionally, the world of Australian wildlife takes center stage: crocodiles, kangaroos, and koalas guarantee you lots of excited visitors.

Discover three different biomes with 24 new main species (represented by over 230 beautiful animal meeples) and 10 co-Species. In addition, a large vivarium is now also an integral part of your zoo. Choose from 48 animal species — fishes, reptiles, amphibians, and more — to fill the vivarium according to your wishes. It's up to you again to decide which direction you want to take. Do you design your vivarium with a focus on conservation, education, or popularity?

Get the full zoo experience with this first and final expansion of Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game – New Shores. Watch the zoo of your dreams come true, right in front of you!

Gameplay New Shores complements the gameplay of Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game without making it more complicated. Since a completely new Animal Exchange with 3 new biomes and over 80 new species is available, there is an enormous amount to discover and familiar strategies to rethink. In addition, reptiles, aquatic/semiaquatic animals, and the vivarium bring exciting changes to the game mechanics. Especially the vivarium provides new strategic options that you should take advantage of. So, the game experience remains familiar but still refreshingly different.

With the modular Animal Exchange that comes with New Shores, you can mix and match old and new species for endless combinations of zoo fun. Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game has never been so diverse!

—description from the publisher

Expansions

Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game – Additional Species Pack