Pet Sim Database and Reviews
I am preoccupied with small internet culture, specifically within browser-based pet sims. You can see a list of every pet sim I have documented here! This page is where I keep track of my experience playing them. Have a pet sim, running or defunct, you want me to put on this list? Let me know here!What am I looking for?
With this project, I am mostly looking at how active the community is, the quality of the overall website (including art and UI), and how accessible the game is as a f2p user. Considering that I've played some of these games for 5-10 years myself, I will be biased on a few of them. The amount of time since account creation will be included in my overviews, so be sure to take those into account when reading my experiences. This is going to take me a long while, seeing that my list currently has 90+ websites on it. I plan to play a small handful at a time and review them as I feel appropriate.I appologize for the weird formatting. I am still new in HTML and am not sure how to really organize long things like this!
Dates are in month/day/year order.
Despite my account date, I've been playing this game since 2014. My old account is deleted, so I don't feel bad admitting that these days, ha! Chicken Smoothie is perhaps my favorite browser game of all time. It is lacking in activities, there is no breeding or feeding or any sort of minigames, but the art is consistant, solid, and the community is alive and well. It thrives as an economy game and is one of the few browser games to still have Oekaki boards up. I've maybe run into one or two others, but they're few and far between in the modern age. The massive forums really make the place feel alive and pretty much run the site- it's how you find users to trade with and where you go to get help in completing their holiday events. Not a big fan of all the closed species, I was never able to get into them, but I just stay away from those parts. I am not super active on there unless there is an event, in which case I am on 24/7. I do check the game at least once a day, though. Posting some of my favorite pets below!
Lioden... what a behemoth! Lioden is one of those games where I won't play for months, and then it's the only thing I can think about. I have written papers for college classes on the nuances of this game. Tragically, it is a bit too much for me. I am a very relaxed player, and I will simply never reach some of those big goals! I get a gene pool that I think is cool, and I just produce lions untill I get bored (or until I forget to feed them and then lose all my cool lions.....). While this one is massive, it's also very friendly to noobs. I didn't have much trouble figuring out how things worked because of the fourms and the UI. I am, admittedly, not very active in these fourms (I stick in the discord server, mostly), but I do know that the community here is one of the bigger ones. Very solid game overall for grinders and gliders alike.
Once again, a website that I joined a long while ago but have since moved accounts. My first account was created on 12/20/2015, so this is another game that I have been on for about a decade now! I do not grind on Goatlings, instead I have a few I like and I go around, collecting spare ADs and my interest from the bank. This is a very simple game, with battles and collectable items. It's easy to learn and easy to get around on. I don't take much part in the economy, although I am a fan of selling my goat tokens at the market low and spare ADs at 20% off listed price in my shop. My small budget means I can scrape by with those low low prices and still make a profit! The community for this one is smaller, with a very slow live chat and decent fourms. Again, I tend to stick with discord for this game. Events are iffy, I've never quite figured them out, but with the baddie battle rotation, I don't really need events.