Early Development

Build and manage your own rescue zoo, go on rescue missions with friends, fight off evil coffee machine robots, and bring rescued animals home. Two playstyles, one world: run a thriving zoo or gear up for adventure.

A multiplayer online rescue zoo game with adventure, crafting, and community at its heart.

🌱 Build Your Rescue Zoo
⚔️ Adventure With Friends
🔒 Invite-Only Community
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The Rescue Team — five unique bear characters ready for action
🌱 HOW IT WORKS

Your Rescue Zoo Adventure

Three simple steps to start your journey as a rescue zoo keeper.

1

Go on Rescue Missions

Head out alone or with friends. Fight evil coffee machine robots, find animals in danger, and bring them back to safety.

2

Build Your Zoo

Design enclosures, place decorations, and create the perfect home for every rescued animal. Your zoo, your rules.

3

Grow & Explore

Level up your skills, craft gear, harvest resources, fish for hidden treasures, unlock new areas, and watch your rescue zoo thrive.

🐾 GAME FEATURES

What Is Niko's Rescue Zoo?

Part rescue zoo sim, part multiplayer adventure. Manage your zoo, hire staff, terraform the landscape, or gear up to fight evil coffee machine robots and rescue animals with friends. Your playstyle, your choice.

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Rescue Missions

Pick up distress signals and go on random rescue adventures with friends. Fight off evil coffee machine robots, save the animals, and bring them home safely to your rescue zoo.

Battle Evil Coffee Machine Robots

The evil coffee machine has built an army of robot minions and they're up to no good. Fight off waves of coffee machine robots, take on epic bosses, and stop their schemes to destroy the rescue zoo.

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Your Private Rescue Zoo

Build enclosures, hire staff, feed the animals, terraform the landscape, and make it your own. Handle incidents, keep your rescue zoo happy, and watch it grow. Every rescued animal gives you real stat bonuses.

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The Rescue Hub

Meet up with friends before heading out on rescue missions. Spend rescue coins, upgrade your gear, grab supplies, and plan your next adventure. All in one place.

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Explore & Discover

Harvest resources, craft useful gear, and fish for sunken treasures. The world rewards you for going off the trail with hidden loot, rare materials, secret bosses, and portals to other dimensions.

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Community-Driven

Content inspired by the community. Inside jokes from the stream, spontaneous events on mountaintops, community challenges. Whatever the community wants to see goes into the game.

⭐ THE RESCUE TEAM

Meet the Rescue Soldiers

These are the in-game 3D models. Drag to spin them around!

Red
The Orange Teddy
Anton
The Big Teddy
Caja
The Pink Teddy

These are actual in-game 3D models. Click and drag to rotate!

📸 SNEAK PEEK

From the Game

A Rescue Soldier fighting an ECM boss on a rescue mission
Out on a rescue mission fighting ECM robots
The Rescue Zoo UI with animal enclosures and upgrades
Build and upgrade your Rescue Zoo
A Tiger Den enclosure built in the game world
Build animal enclosures in the open world
Rescue Missions menu with expedition list
Queue up for Rescue Missions with friends
Character selection screen with multiple Rescue Soldiers
Choose your Rescue Soldier and jump into the action
Exploring a rescue base camp
Explore the world and discover hidden areas
💖 OUR STORY

A Solo Dev Project with a Mission

Hi, I'm Niko. About 30 years ago, my parents bought a small zoo in Denmark and converted it into a rescue center, Odsherred Zoo Rescue, Denmark's first zoo and rescue center for exotic animals in need. We take in animals from the medical and cosmetic testing industry, illegally obtained exotic pets, surplus animals who might otherwise be put down, fur farm animals, and others facing difficult fates, giving them a forever home.

I left home to work as a game developer, but about 8 years ago we lost my dad to cancer. I moved back to help my mother and the 600+ exotic rescue animals living at the zoo. Now I'm both a zookeeper and a solo game developer, and I'm using those skills to build something that can make a real difference.

Niko's Rescue Zoo is a community multiplayer online game where you explore the world of Niko's Rescue Zoo, fight the evil coffee machine and its robot minions, rescue animals, and build your own rescue zoo with friends. It's a huge project for one person, and that's exactly why it's invite-only. Together with the community, we make the game great over time, with the goal of helping as many animals as possible and having fun together.

Want in? Sign up below and help us build the game together.

Watch the story behind the rescue zoo:

Niko's Rescue Zoo bear mascot
Solo Dev
one developer, one mission
Invite Only
private community game
600+
real rescue animals inspiring the game
📝 DEV LOG

Development Updates

Follow along as we build Niko's Rescue Zoo together with the community.

Feb
09

New Public Site Goes Live

We've launched a brand new nikosrescuezoo.com! This is your new home for all Niko's Rescue Zoo news, dev logs, and updates. Built for the community. Stay tuned for more.

Milestone

Ready to Save Some Animals?

Join the rescue team and help us build a game that makes a real difference for animals in need.

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