A virtual pet discussion thread!

Have you always enjoyed this genre of game? What other virtual pet games have you played? Is this your first one? Let’s talk about it!

I have always been apart of the virtual pet community. My first interaction with the internet was Neopets, and ever since I’ve always found myself playing any pet game I could find. I even collected Tamagotchi for some time!

Some virtual pet games I’ve played over the years:

Neopets, Anatheria, Nutrinopets, Misticpets, PetRPG, Flight Rising, Ovipets, Pixpet, Chicken Smoothie, Verpets, Aftermathzone, Kingdom Sky, Teripets, Alacrity Sim, Creature Breeder, Mycena Cave, Aurasphere, Kaylune, Marapets, Icepets, Boopets, Wajas, Aywas, Palawind/Paladore, Subeta, Rescreatu, Dappervolk, Ichumon, Goatlings, Webkinz, and many more that I’ll write down as I remember!

I recommend checking out the virtual pet forum, TGL! You can find a ton of VPS and updates on there.

https://thegaminglist.com/

I am also making a virtual pet site called Petverse if you want to check it out!

https://petverse.com/

I was part of a site called minstall, mydreamstable in english, where we could make our own horses/dogs/cats/bunnies and upload pictures to them, and draw ourselves some nice stable/farm artworks and profiles! I was part of those sites for majority of my childhood, including even becoming a site support and translator for a while before running into Flight Rising.

I played FR quite actively from 2017 up until 2022, but I got a bit bored. Checked out chickensmoothie, wasnt for me, tried out Dappervolk and Lioden as well but it just didnt catch my attention. Now I have permanently moved over to Lorwolf, so happy a new site is coming along well!

Oh, and I was also a big part of Howrse in my younger years, but it got quite pay 2 win, and a lot of people left, so.. xD

oh yes! as a 12 year old, right up until I was 19, I spent most of my time on pet sites. I remember during summer holidays from school I would stay up till like 5am playing them lol. I actually ended up just drifting away from them for around 8 years, up until 2021 when I randomly remembered all the sites I used to frequent and decided to go down memory lane and log back in to my accounts on various sites. these include sites like Flight Rising, DragCave, Chickensmoothie, Neopets, Wajas, Rescreatu, Mweor, and a whole bunch of others I can't remember right now. I remember back then as a teen I would literally search “virtual pet sites” and join almost every single one lol.

my favourite site since I joined it back in 2021 has to be The Final Outpost, with this one being my second favourite. <:

Oh man, that sounds cool! I was never too big into the horse sim games. I did play one, however… Bella Sara I think it was called? You would collect trading cards and each horse had a code to input into the game you have to virtually. Very Webkinz-esque.

I played FR since early access and quit sometime in late 2019. Chicken Smoothie I played before accounts were a thing; they were just little adoptables that you could put in your forum sigantures etc. When they opened account creation, I didn’t realize until a few months later since I didn’t visit super often prior.

Also, Rescreatu!! I love that one. I joined in 2007 or something? I lost my original account so my current one is from like 2012 I think?

I love virtual pet sites! I have played so many over the years. I don't think I could remember them all. Some I don't think exist anymore or really inactive. I especially seem to like ones with breeding in them. Neopets was the first one I ever played as well. I still login every now and then.

Flight Rising is my favorite one for sure. I have played it pretty consistently since Oct 2014.
Some other websites that I have played some: PonyIsland, Subeta, Wajas, Mweor, Ichumon, Rescreatu, Verpets, Dappervolk, Lioden, Wolvden, Celestial Equine, Gryffs, Novilar, FelisFire, Khimeros and many more.

The first 3 out of this list are some other favorites. Lorwolf is quickly becoming another favorite.

Oh nice!! Yeah, most of the ones I used to play are long gone now, unfortunately. It’s nice to see that some are still thriving, though. I think that a lot of them faded into obscurity because virtual pets were more of a novelty back in the 90s-early 2000s; a lot of people wanted to make their own, and once the fad started to simmer, it wasn’t worth it to keep paying for the expenses of having it up.

I think that FR and LW are a really nice change of pace for the genre and I think they’ve been so successful because they’re not your classic virtual pet game.

I actually got my start with virtual worlds in general!

I played Neopets and Club Penguin for the games more than anything, before moving over to GaiaOnline a little later. Dressing an avatar really clicked for me, so it made my jump to Flight Rising pretty fun since I had so many dragons to dress up.

I think through forum signatures I also discovered sites like DragCave and PokéFarm? But it's been a hot minute, so I don't exactly remember when or where I heard about those, and my accounts there are probably lost forever, anyway. :p

Since FR though, I've poked at the big ones like Lioden, Wolvden, and Dappervolk, but I haven't played them recently. Goatlings, Mycena Cave, Wajas, and Tattered Weave [now Tattered World, it seems?], are all sites that I've had recommended to me, but never actually got around to trying out.

I've been on a bit of a hiatus from everything and only recently got back online for Lorwolf's launch. But I'm having lots of fun!

Chickensmoothie was the very first pet site that I joined back in March 2015.

I found out about Flight Rising through the forums on CS. I remember waiting excitedly for a registration window to open. Finally in May of 2015, I was able to get in. Flight Rising is my favorite pet site currently and I still play regularly there. I love the dragons! :D

There is a forum on Flight Rising that mentioned Lorwolf and that's how I found this site. I was able to do early access and enjoyed that. Now I've been here since launch.

I've been playing petsites for years. It started with Subeta, which I've been on for, well, a lot of years, now. Sadly, they focus more on the human avatar stuff than the pets nowadays.

So far I think only one pet site I joined has actually died (Novilar), which is a shame but ah well.

Currently, along with occasionally checking Subeta, I also actively play Flight Rising, Xanje, FelisFire, Furvilla, and Pixel Cat's End. I also have a Chickensmoothie account but I don't touch the site very often. I used to play OviPets, but I got tired of having to manually feed everything and left. I prefer pet sites where the pets stay alive, so I don't touch things like Wolv/Lioden xD

Flight Rising's my big time eater, though Lorwolf is definitely up there as well xD Found here through Flight Rising, actually.

My very first online pet game was Webkinz, I loved the plushes and used to have quite a collection hehe (Alley Cat my beloved scrungly and Signature Timber Wolf my coolest bae <3) I tried out Howrse a long time ago and didn't stick with it for very long (wasn't impressed really), then saw my friend playing Flight Rising and was convinced to join there about a year ago, became absolutely obsessed and wish I'd joined earlier!! Then decided being part of the start-up community for Lorwolf might be interesting and here I am :) Not sure if Animal Jam counts, but I used to play there too a long time ago when it was a part of National Geographic Kid's site ^^

Oh man, I've played so many I'm not sure if I could remember them all. I joined so many as a kid and teen, literally always joining any site I could find.

Neopets was my first game back in 2006, with Marapets, Webkinz, and Subeta later after the dress up revamp happened and I migrated off to other sites in frustration as a kid with way too much free time, haha.

I spent a very long time in middle school too in a place known as Grophland too that still has a very special place in my heart with those goofy slugs. MoshiMonsters (rip) was a huge favorite at the time too

Flight Rising had got me back into pet games as an adult and I still play Neopets, Subeta, Flight Rising, and Rescreatu very occasionally on and off. Lorwolf I think hits the itch for me that Furvilla and Dappervolk just missed.

I've had a commitment problem with a lot of games for various reasons, so I've bounced around a lot and some I visit far more frequently than others these days.

I've been meaning to do a huge masterlist and personal review of a bunch of pet sites as a sort of personal project since I've been entertaining the idea more now of trying to build one of my own as a way to get some real world experience programming projects and running communities as a developer, and I've gotten really kneedeep into studying game design theory & development as a result.

Here's all the ones I've played that I remember:

Neopets, Icepets, Chibipaws (rip), Howrse, Lioden, Rescreatu, Subeta, Marapets, Sylestia, Mweor, Wolvden, Gryffs, Webkinz, Xanje, Furvilla, Ovipets, GPX Plus, Pokefarm Q, Pokemon Crater (also rip), Dragcave, Grophland, Chickensmoothie, Tattered World, Dappervolk, Mycena Cave, Furrypaws, Pocket Puma Pets, Exabyss, Goatlings, Aywas, Misticpets, Acitius (rip), Verpets, Flying for Home, Leayph, Canis Novus, Figment (love this game but it's still super alpha sadly ;;),

And these are ones I've heard of, but never got around to trying: Felisfire, Pixel Cat's End, Wajas, Pixpet, Celestial Equine, PokemonPets, Ichumon, Leviathan Myth, Beastkeeper, Protochroma, Khimeros, Novilar, Leporidae, Evosaur, Magistream, Animal Jam (kinda avoiding ngl)