Xbox Live's Zoo Tycoon Friends launches for Windows Phone and Windows 8.1

Update two Microsoft has merely informed usa that the game "was briefly fabricated available in the market place for Windows Phone customers to download and play for a short period while testing." So information technology's merely available in a few markets until it completes the company's certification process.

Update: Currently, the game appears to be US-only.

As previously announced, Microsoft has launched a new entry in its long running Zoo Tycoon simulation game series, Zoo Tycoon Friends, as a free-to-play game for Windows Telephone and Windows viii.ane devices.

The game is much similar the previous titles in the series in that the player is charged with creating and maintaining a zoo, and all of its animals, while also trying to attract visitors. Zoo Tycoon Friends as well has a mission-based manner where they control human characters who have to rescue animals around the earth "in peril from global warming, flooding, drought, and other natural and human being-fabricated threats."

Here's a quick list of the game'southward features, which include an unnamed bonus if you own the Xbox One Zoo Tycoon game that came out in 2022:

Create your ultimate zoo and release animals to nature reserves to help conservation efforts!
Free-to-play game syncs automatically between your Windows 8 phone, tablet, and PC!
Bond with more than 40 amazing interactive animals in your zoo!
Bonus one-of-a-kind story and mission design!
More than 100 animal-friendly missions!
Get creative! Decorate your zoo and share it with your friends!
Connect with your friends through Xbox Live and Facebook!
Special bonus for Zoo Tycoon for Xbox Ane players!
Achievements are reflected in your Xbox Live gamerscore!

Unfortunately, the Windows Phone version does non currently support 512 MB devices. Hopefully this will exist dealt with in a hereafter update. If the game doesn't prove upwards on your device, you might want to expect as it might notwithstanding be propagating in the store fronts. Will you be getting this game and making your dream zoo? Thanks to Joe for the tip!