Parents' Guide to Dreamer Series: Zoo Keeper

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Christopher Healy By Christopher Healy , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 8+

Career sim more focused on the zoo than its animals.

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What's It About?

In DREAMER SERIES: ZOO KEEPER, you've just been hired to take care of the zoo's baby animals area. You will tend to the needs of young penguins, monkey, bears, tigers, and the like, feeding them, cleaning them and their enclosures, and letting them out for zoo visitors to see. You'll also have to buy supplies out of a limited budget, advertise to bring in more visitors, and study to become an expert on the animal species you're in charge of.

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Dreamer Series: Zoo Keeper is a great game for teaching kids the realities of the working world, but could be a bit more entertaining as a game for kids who love animals. The game's attention to detail is nice, but too much of that detail is focused on chores and other zoo business. The game would benefit from a greater variety of ways to interact with the animals. Know your own kids and whether they'd be better served by this zoo game, or one focused on cute animals doing tricks.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about how every job, no matter how much you love it, always has aspect you'll like less. Even the most enjoyable of careers has some level of drudge work involved. Accepting that fact, and learning to put up with -- or even enjoy -- the tough parts of a job, is an important life skill.

Game Details

  • Platforms : Nintendo DS , Nintendo DSi
  • Pricing structure :
  • Available online? : Not available online
  • Publisher : Dreamcatcher
  • Release date : January 4, 2010
  • Genre : Girl
  • ESRB rating : E for (No Descriptors)
  • Last updated : November 11, 2020

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