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Simulation game Let's Build a Zoo, released in 2021, challenges players to manage a zoo. It boasts 4,056 Steam reviews with an 89% positive rating. Published by No More Robots, this title offers deep simulation gameplay.
Overview
Let's Build a Zoo is a 2021 Simulation game developed by Springloaded and published by No More Robots. On Steam it has gathered 4,062 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Simulation category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Springloaded with publisher No More Robots is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Simulation projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 183,000 to 427,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Let's Build a Zoo can be compared against similar Simulation titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
4,062
Positive
89%
Steam appid
1547890
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0183K to 427K
units (median: 305K)
≈ $2.1M to $4.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Let's Build a Zoo at roughly 183,000 to 427,000 copies, with a median around 305,000, derived from its 4,062 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.5M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $12.00Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.00 to $19.99, averaging $18.43 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $12.00 on 2026-04-11.
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Platforms
windows
Tags
SimulationPixel GraphicsCity BuilderManagementStrategySandboxBuildingCreature CollectorCuteResource ManagementColorfulEconomySingleplayerRelaxingOpen WorldIndieDinosaurs
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Let's Build a Zoo sold?
- indielist estimates Let's Build a Zoo has sold between 182,790 and 426,510 units (median 304,650), derived from its 4,062 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Let's Build a Zoo?
- Let's Build a Zoo was developed by Springloaded and published by No More Robots.
- When was Let's Build a Zoo released?
- Let's Build a Zoo was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Let's Build a Zoo have on Steam?
- Let's Build a Zoo has 4,062 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Let's Build a Zoo sold?
- indielist estimates Let's Build a Zoo has sold between 182,790 and 426,510 units (median 304,650), derived from its 4,062 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Let's Build a Zoo?
- Let's Build a Zoo was developed by Springloaded and published by No More Robots.
- When was Let's Build a Zoo released?
- Let's Build a Zoo was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does Let's Build a Zoo have on Steam?
- Let's Build a Zoo has 4,062 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Let's Build a Zoo within the Simulation segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Springloaded's other releases and No More Robots's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Let's Build a Zoo sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Let's Build a Zoo page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Simulation game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.