Pokipet - Raise virtual pets in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ love it! but...

let me start this review by saying i absolutely adore this game-- HOWEVER, i do think it can be predatory in terms of its' in-app purchases. the entire issue around pets getting sick is incredibly annoying, and seems to have spiked in frequency since i decided to first spend money on the game. me and my partner have two pets, and take care of them every day, but they get sick /constantly/. it seems as though if we leave for more than 3-4 hours, they always get sick. it's especially annoying when you don't have the funds to heal them from being sick. a cost of 300 coins is huge for that, and when they are sick, you can't even really do much. when a pet is sick, the game bars you from doing anything you usually can to earn coins. treats, water, exercise, food, etc. it's all unavailable. the only things left then is the minigames, waiting around for 25 free coins to be available every few hours, or buying coins with your real money. the toy minigame becomes impossible after about level 10, and again, the free 25 coin gift is only available every few hours. this means that its almost impossible to heal your pet for a good long while when you don't have the digital funds for it without using your real money to purchase coins. again, i love this game, but one of my pets has been sick for days and my partner and i havent been able to heal him, nor will we have the funds to get his care bars back up for awhile either. its annoying. please fix this.

★★★★★ Worse than a real pet.

My girlfriend & I have had this app for a couple months now and it’s started to cause me literal panic attacks. I put the pet asleep right before I go to sleep so it wakes up when I am at work. I don’t have time to check my phone at work so of course the pet gets severely neglected for 5+ hours. In attempt to keep it cared for, I set timers on my phone for every hour or so to check on them. I will maintain full hearts, and it still manages to get sick more than 4 times a day & drain my coins. But I don’t have time to play the stupid mini game every 30 mins or sit down and play the game for hours and stock up on coins for the work week to keep him medicated. I just want to get off work and relax but no, I have to sit and play the stupid games and check that pet every 30 minutes to keep it “happy & healthy”. I can’t sit down and play other games without it crying to me that it’s sick, when I fed it meds like an hour ago and filled its hearts 20 mins ago. If I wanted this much responsibility I’d just get a real pet. As bad as I feel for our pet, I’m going to have to start putting me first & purposely leaving the pet neglected for hours/days because I can’t risk checking my phone at work 10+ times to keep a fake dog happy. Don’t get me wrong I love our pet. But ugh, having to earn 1200+ coins a day & playing that mini game over & over every single day has driven me insane. I feel like a real dog would be less of a toll on my mental health.

★★★★★ Games bugs that NEED to be fixed

I normally never write reviews but this lowkey annoys me. Don’t get me wrong I love this app, I think it’s so cute and cool to be able to co-parent a pet with a s/o or a friend. The problem I have is sometimes I’ll go on and I’ll fulfill my pets needs and give him a toy and then all of a sudden the game refreshes and all of what I just did goes away and is back to where it was before. Now, this wouldn’t be that big of a problem but it’s the fact that the coins I just spent and the ability to exercise, give a treat, and give water go away. It’ll say to wait 30 minutes as if I did the action but the hearts I just filled go right back to what it previously was. It would really help if you fixed this bug, I don’t know if it’s just for the sake of money or it’s an actual bug but I love this app and I really wish it would be fixed. Oh and the fact that I can’t feed or exercise my pet if they want a toy is also quite annoying because if you don’t have enough coins to get a toy for them you can’t even do actions to get the toy. Also idk if it was intentional but when this happens you can’t even play the mini game to get coins neither, it just disappears. Anyways that’s all I got, I love the app but there are a couple bugs that need to be fixed, thank you.

★★★★★ AMAZING but might be better

This app is amazing and gives me joy every single day! However, it breaks my heart to see it sick or unhappy. It feels like a real pet and is very adorable! A part I am not sure is that my pet is getting sick constantly, even when I give it medicine. It keeps getting sick and I have to end up waiting for enough money to heal it, and this can take days! I really wish it to stop getting sick so frequently and to figure out why it's getting sick. Another problem I see throughout the game and from many other users, is the minigame problem. I really enjoyed the idea at first and the fact I can earn money that way, but I just can't pass this one level! There are some pretty easy levels first, but the gap between level 11 and 12 is ridiculous. I really think the devs should study this situation more and perhaps add more minigame options or increase the money earned, or decrease the hardness in the game. On another hand, I really enjoy raising my pets and I have such great ideas for future pet options! Perhaps rabbits, or hamsters! I really recommend this app to those who wish to have a pet, but can't. Overall, this app is simply wonderful and I am hoping to see future updates and wish everyone the best!

★★★★★ Not enough coins

Pokipet is a great app, I love how you can take care of it like a real pet and they’re super adorable to play with. But there are some things that annoy me that I hope you can fix! My pet is always sick and sometimes I don’t have enough coins to fix it. I can’t earn coins by feeding my pet either because it doesn’t let me. Moreover, I’m stuck on a hard level on the mini game so I can’t get more coins from that too. So, my only option left is to wait hours to get the free 25 coins. I had to wait almost 3 days until I could cure my pet. But my pet is sick once again today. It’s really tiring to do this all the time and I don’t have the patience to wait if this keeps happening. I just want to be able to play with my pet again. I also don’t understand why I only earn 25 coins from the mini games when some levels are so hard that I have to spend 150 coins on the magic wand. It is not worth it if I don’t get more coins than that. The mini games would be great if I could get more coins as my level goes higher. Overall, I hope you can fix these issues because it’s a really great game besides that. Thank you for your hard work in making this game as well.

★★★★★ PLEASE READ

I have nothing against this game. I actually thought it was super cute in the beginning. However, after having it for around two weeks, there are a few issues I noticed that make it impossible to actually play this game and enjoy it, especially without spending loads of money. FIRST of all, at a certain point, the mini games, which are your only way of getting money to take care of your pet, become extremely hard and get to a place where you only have 2 minutes to sort a bunch of items that are the same color, which is virtually impossible. I spent 3 days trying to pass a level because I didn’t want to spend the 10 dollars it costs for 30 extra seconds or another life and have yet to pass that level, or the 1000 coins which are basically impossible to get. SECOND, as I said above, it also costs around 10 dollars for more lives, or you have to wait another hour to get one new life to play, and all the while your pet is probably sick and you feel bad for it. THIRD, the pets get sick way too often, like 4 times a day if you’re not constantly on your phone, and healing it costs so many coins that at a certain point, if your level is too hard, you have to pay a lot of real money to get. Please make this game more available to play for people who don’t want to or can’t spend real money, and please address the issues above. Thank you!

★★★★★ Could be better

I really enjoyed this app when I first got it. My husband and I could both take care of a pet together which was healing for us since we just lost our pet last year. I really enjoyed the mini games and even paid to remove ads. However, the biggest downside to this game is the coins. I got to level 105 and could not for the life of me get past it. I attempted over 20 times but couldn’t beat the time. In that time, our pet kept getting “sick” and needed medicine which was 300 coins each time and I wasn’t able to complete level 105 to get anymore coins. We ultimately decided to delete the app out of frustration. We can’t enjoy the cute fun aspect of the game if the need for coins is always looming in order to even play the game. Either the mini games need to be easier or increase the amount of coins per game so you’re not continuously scraping by every few days to pay for “medicine”. There’s also no where on the interface that says how many “lives” you have to play the games. I wasn’t even aware you had limited chances to play so that also inhibited me from getting coins on top of the game being too hard to complete.