Gotcha
It runs while you're gone
Registers fill up, visitors come and go, animals get hungry. Kody hands you the rundown the second you open the app.
Build a zoo out ofyour own photos.
The zoo is the second half of Gotcha 2.0. Your collection stops being a list and turns into a place: habitats you built, paths you laid, and visitors lining up to see the animals you caught.
The animals are your photos
Every creature in the zoo is cut out of a picture you took. They stand around their enclosure at the size they really were, and you can walk over and pet one.
Visitors show up, and they pay
They pull into the parking lot and come through the turnstiles. Every habitat they can walk to earns money you collect at the register. One with no path to it earns nothing.
Build something worth the drive
A colosseum, a carousel, statues, gazebos, ponds. Landmarks are what turn a field with animals in it into a place people tell their friends about.
Buy the next lot
You open on a few plots with forest on all sides. Buy the next one, clear what is growing on it, keep going. There is always another plot, and it always costs more than the last.
Build the habitat that fits what you caught.
Grassland, jungle, savanna, wetland, desert, ice. Move your animals in and they live there, at the size they really were, in an enclosure you paid for.
The one you start with. Long grass, a drinking pool, and a log for whoever wants to climb it.
Visitors are the score.
The zoo grades itself on what a visitor would notice: how many animals are out, how much variety, what landmarks you put up, whether the place is clean and the animals look happy. Push those up and the gate admits more people, and your zoo gets promoted.
1Roadside StopA gate, a path, and a parking lot.
2Village GreenWord has gotten around the neighborhood.
3Country ParkPeople make an afternoon of it.
4Nature ReserveWorth the drive from the next town over.
5Wildlife ParkTour buses start showing up.
6Safari ParkA day trip people plan weeks ahead.
7National ParkThe one everybody in the country can name.
8World WonderPeople get on a plane for this one.
What you actually do in there.
Feed animals, build habitats, lay paths, and decide what the day's money is going toward.
Feed your animals
Each one levels up as you take care of it, and a happy habitat earns more.
Lay the paths
Fourteen surfaces, dragged out a tile at a time, from plain sand to a moonlit mosaic.
Spend the money
Habitats, decorations, facilities, and six discounted slots that reset nightly.
Work the Zoo Pass
Thirty tiers of rewards a season, earned by playing instead of paying.
Your friends have zoos
Visit another collector, walk their zoo, see what they built out of what they caught. You can even feed an animal of theirs that has been waiting too long.
A logbook of the whole run
Every promotion, every record crowd, opening day itself. A month in, it is a genuinely nice thing to scroll back through.
Dress up your collector
Sixty-seven wardrobe pieces, a nameplate on your gate, and any animal you like on the sign out front.
The shop resets daily
Six discounted slots that are gone by morning, a deal of the day, and a free gift that gets better the longer your streak runs.
The Zoo Pass
Thirty tiers of rewards a season, earned by playing. The free track is yours whether or not you take the Gotcha+ one alongside it.
Kody keeps the place running.
He is at the gate when you open the app, and he gives it to you straight: what came in overnight, who has not been fed, and what your visitors are unimpressed by.
Welcome back. You were gone nine hours and we took in 4,120 coins.
Promoted. You're a Country Park now, and the gate admits forty.
Word of mouth is poor. Nothing new has opened in a while.
Catch something. Give it a home.
The gates open as soon as you have your first animal, and that is one photo away.