Two Level Museum: Zooseum (Change 2) DLC Evaluation

After spending numerous time with Two Level Museum when it first launched on Change late final 12 months, I used to be provided the possibility to take a look at the Zooseum enlargement. Which is slightly bizarre, as a result of the sport is about operating a museum, and naturally, in typical Two Level type, nothing is as it’s in actuality, however nonetheless, a zoo in a museum is slightly odd. Maybe they’re simply buttering us up for an actual Two Level Zoo at a later stage.

For those who haven’t checked out our assessment of Two Level Museum, you’ll want to try this as effectively, as a result of a lot of the execs and cons of the bottom recreation are current right here within the Zooseum enlargement, though they do attempt some various things on this DLC.

After taking slightly time to determine precisely how the Zooseum enlargement works and the way it matches into the primary recreation: the primary map now has one new museum location, Silverbottom Park. Together with animals, which we’ll get to shortly, the sport now has a complete bunch of recent workers roles, exhibit instruments, habitats or enclosures, and so they all have completely different biomes for various kinds of creatures. There’s additionally a welfare station for fixing up and pampering animals as effectively. Nevertheless, the draw back with all these displays and new rooms to construct is that you just’ll run out of house shortly. My museum is large, however it’s nonetheless feeling cramped.

On the expedition map there’s a complete new island with new areas to ship workers to, and so they can carry again all kinds of unique, um, animals. They’re not precise actual animals, however as a substitute foolish variations of actual animals in typical Two Level type. All of them want someplace to reside, and the habitats are the place they go. Every animal wants a unique type of habitat and completely different decorations.

You additionally don’t have to fetch animals on expeditions and get them randomly. You possibly can apply to accommodate animals by means of the sport’s conservation system. You earn factors by releasing animals into the wild. This implies you cannot solely get the animals you need to fill out your museum, however it’s additionally not only a case of “listed below are some animals we discovered and caught in a cage”. You possibly can take care of them, then set them free.

The sport is slightly obscure on some issues, although. You’ll quickly discover out that some animals like to eat others, so holding them separate, and getting the sources to create areas for all these critters, will take a short while. That is additionally the place the conservation system turns out to be useful: you may maintain one thing for some time, then when one thing else comes alongside, not really feel too dangerous about letting it go. Though you’ll need to maintain some animals round for some time, particularly after they bond with an knowledgeable.

Outdoors of those methods, the remainder of the museum runs just about as earlier than. Preserve queues below management, worth issues effectively, give individuals tons to take a look at, and maintain workers completely satisfied. The Zooseum additions are built-in into the accessible house fairly effectively.

The Zooseum DLC is a superb addition to the Two Level universe. The animal conservation facet is rather well thought out from each a gameplay and animal welfare perspective. It’s a enjoyable little add-on, which hopefully doesn’t imply there’s by no means going to be a Two Level Zoo recreation.

Score: 4/5