Love wildlife and exotic animals? Then Cowboy Safari is definitely a must-try! Try the game now, dive into a vibrant, colorful world full of adventures, fast-paced missions, and untamed beauty, and build your own sky zoo.
Cowboy Safari is a fast-paced, endless runner adventure game developed by AzGames.io, where you become a daring cowboy taming wild animals across exotic landscapes. Your goal is challenging yet pretty addictive: Run across the savannah and other landscapes, lasso wild animals, ride them, dodge obstacles, and bring them back to your zoo to attract more visitors. Meanwhile, aim to collect in-game coins by completing missions to upgrade habitats within your zoo to increase your zoo ticket value.
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Developer | Azgames |
| Release date | November 2025 |
| Gameplay | Endless runner adventure, where you chase and ride animals across dynamic terrains. Build, upgrade, and manage the zoo. |
| Core game loop | • Run toward an animal • Throw the lasso to catch it • Jump onto its back and ride • Deliver tamed animals to the Sky Zoo • Take on missions, get coins and unlock upgrades |
| Huge wild animal selection | Lasso buffaloes, zebras, ostriches, bison, and many others. |
| Ride animals | Each animal behaves and boosts your movement differently. |
| Zoo management | Bring animals to the Sky Zoo to level it up. |
| Multiple maps to explore | Savannahs, jungles, and more. |
| Upgrade system | Use in-game coins to unlock and progress through maps and improve the zoo. |
| Simple controls | • Click and release the spacebar or left mouse to jump, throw the lasso, and land on the animal. • Use the arrow key to ride and steer the animal. |
| Vivid visuals and graphics | 3D vibrant, lively wildlife landscapes and smooth animations. |
Here are some basic guides to help you master the game.

You start a run in a terrain where your cowboy is on the back of an animal and automatically moves forward. When you spot an animal in range, aim the lasso, then release to catch. Time your jump perfectly so you can jump onto the animal’s back safely. When you ride them long enough, you befriend them.
Tip: Only release when the target animal’s color turns yellow—that means it’s safe to land on it.
Once on an animal, ride it skillfully! Each animal has distinct behavior that you’ll need to adapt to. Importantly, pay attention to the animal’s “anger.” If you stay too long or don’t jump in time, the animal will buck you off for sure. When they get angry, try to quickly jump to a new animal to maintain the run, with higher chances to encounter rarer animals to tame. Aim to ride them as far as possible while avoiding collisions with obstacles and bigger animals.
Your run ends when you crash or get thrown off. It’s then time to visit your sky zoo with new tamed animals added. Use your coin rewards to build enclosures and upgrade animals’ habitats to attract more and more visitors. Upgrades also make your animals stronger and more friendly.
You also need in-game coins to unlock new stops within a map and then progress through further maps to explore new terrains and meet rarer animals.
The game features many rare animals (zebras, buffalo, lions, etc.), each with unique speed and movement styles. Here are just a few:
| Name | Type | Zoo Habitat | In-game description | Behavior & Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pebbles | Zebra | Zebra | Originally thought to be a white horse with, well, black markings. To a zebra, stripes are always flattering. | Agile and fast, yet pretty hard to control its speed. |
| Camenbert | Bison | Buffalo | Big, tough, and hasn't had a haircut since the 70's | Buffalo Family Traits: Strong and steady; slower than zebras yet quite easy to control. |
| Max | Water Buffalo | Buffalo | These domestic buffalo are more chilled than their wild cousins. | |
| Major Aria | Cape Buffalo | Buffalo | The African buffalo, or Cape buffalo, is a large African bovine | |
| Austin | Ostrich | Ostrich | Ostriches have just one response to their problems … Running. | Ostrich Family Traits: Blazing fast with top-notch speed; quite thrilling to ride until it gets angry. |
| James | Bosstrich | Ostrich | Nobody likes the Bosstrich, but everyone pretends to. | |
| Dr Dali | African Elephant | Elephant | Weighing in at up to several tons, they are the largest terrestrial mammals. They plough through trees with ease. | Elephant Family Traits: Massive and so powerful—they can smash big trees and many other animals. |
| Dr Baldwin | Mammoth | Elephant | Bigger, stronger, and hairier than elephants, though they have troubles with extinction. |
Focus on completing missions. Missions reward coins and unlocks; aim to finish as many of them as you can to rack up coin earnings so that you can upgrade the zoo’s habitats quicker.
Aim to tame more animals before the next cruises. Don’t miss any new animals! Befriend them to expand your zoo and earn more each time you open it for business.
Unlock new stops and maps as soon as possible. Each map introduces new animals, and new animals mean faster zoo progression.
Visit your zoo often. Sometimes, visitors leave you tips; check the zoo regularly to collect them and boost your upgrade budget!

If you enjoy Cowboy Safari, you might also like titles like Zoo Builder Tycoon, Safari Hunt, or Animals Run. Though they share the same theme, where you can meet a bunch of cute, exotic animals, each features its own gameplay styles, objectives, and challenges.
For example, Zoo Builder Tycoon focuses more on management than action, while Safari Hunt emphasizes animal collection and exploration, and Animal Arena is more about animal-capture missions. Still, Cowboy Safari offers a kind of seamless blend of action and management strategy, plus its animal variants, making the whole gameplay quite special.
Catch animals using the lasso, tame, and bring your animal friends to the zoo.
You will need to take on different missions and gather coins to progress through different stops within a map, and explore brand-new maps as well.
Yes, after completing a series of missions, you will finally unlock the boss missions, featuring tougher challenges and greater rewards.
The run ends for sure. You can then spend a few moments visiting the zoo and your animal friends, or you can simply retry a new run instantly.
It’s now time to start exploring the wildlife and tons of exotic wild animals, taming and bringing them to your sky zoo to build up a one-of-a-kind floating zoo. Do not forget to upgrade often and dive deeper into the whole gameplay. Enjoy playing Cowboy Safari now!



















