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Good luck to you! I got back from Memorial Day traveling to find that my lovely garden of 8 zucchini and cucumber seedlings had been nibbled down to 2.
Happy first day of pride to all my fellow LGBTQIAA+/Queer people out there. Remember you are valid, you have a right to exist and things will get better no matter how bleak they look now.
How many of you here play on other pet sites and if so, what are they? I personally have tried a bunch but the only other that stuck with me was Dragon Cave. Idk if I just like dragons too much or if FR is just that much better than other sites
Wolvden, while owned by Lioden, has different staff, and they have been really pushing out QoL updates that are REALLY QoL, they do community polls and raffles often, etc.
The playstyle isn't for everyone- inbreeding is a thing, and though it has no effect on genetics/stats, etc, you can avoid it, or lean hard into it.
It's also similar to Lioden in that wolves will die, get sick, or run away if their mood is low or they're not fed, but I've been enjoying it.
I play Chicken Smoothie although a lot of the time, 'playing' is a bit of a stretch with that site lol. That's probably the reason I'm still on it though, it's relatively low effort if all you're interested in is checking out the pet growths every month. The trading aspect can be pretty intense but I rarely bother with it.
Neopets is the only one i consistently return to at the same rate as FR. Nostalgia for sure, but there's also just so much to do and you are not desperately punished for disappearing for a few years. I have had long stints on chickensmoothie, but when the friend group I had on there mostly moved to skype (yes it was long ago) i just moved with them, it was never really the pets that kept me there.
I've tried a bunch more, most forgettable. Once in a while I'm like i should try any of the more realistic/breeding focused games like howrse or lioden, but they dont really encourage the creativity and character building that FR and Neopets does as the pets seem more to be like a resource than a pet idk i always bounce off again after a few weeks (likewise ive tried marapets, subeta and some of the other neopets clones but theres never that much to do to keep me engaged)
I think FR is consistently better than a lot of the other sites despite also suffering from "not that lot to do that isnt making your own fun" syndrome, probably bc the art is just really good and the world is very grounded + its not brutal to get pets you actually like looking at and the premium currency is very accessible
I used to play Howrse but didn't log in for 3 months during the depths of college and my account got deleted. I ADORED that game before they got bought out by Ubisoft.
My first petsite was Chickensmoothie, and I still play it. I like how chill it is compared to FR. I also adore how well the dress up system over there works, you can get really creative with it! When I am stressed I usually grab a random pet over at CS and dress it up, it calms me somehow.
Second petsite was Valenth, it was a adoptable site where you had to level your pets that they could grow up and in a certain way, every species had a egg, a baby, and 3 different adult stages (Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic if i remember right). You had to feed them certain foods in order for them to grow to the adult you wanted. The art was really cool and the lore too, sadly it shut down around the time FR was launched.
Third petsite was Dragoncave, it was fun at the start when it was new, but the new releases got really exhausting for me after a while. I felt it just super unfair that you had to had a good internet connection/ping to the site in order to grab the eggs you wanted, and well people could maliciously target your eggs/hatchlings and give them too much clicks which caused their death. I remember it took soo long until a "fog/hide" function was implemented to protect your eggs/hatchlings. I eventually just stopped playing because I could frankly not to be arsed anymore because basic QoL features where just missing and not implemented.
Then there was Squiby, it was an offshoot site of Valenth kinda, but it died due incompetent owners.
The only 2 petsites I play nowadays are Chickensmoothie and Flight Rising. I steer clear of new petsites because I frankly rather play videogames in my freetime nowadays, but CS and FR have a special place in my heart.
I've toyed with a bunch. Funnily enough of them the only one I leave up in a tab like I do FR is Lorewolf and that's mainly because it's a thing to do while waiting for FR timers that's relatively mindless (it also feels very similar to FR in playstyle, that's probably by design). Sadly its practically on life support at this point.
Tried Felisfire and Gryffs (I think it's spelled?)- both had really pretty art... but the breeding system uses the hex number system for colors so 90% of the time you'll get muddy mud- so wasn't a fan of that. They're also like super dated web-design. Nostalgic for me growing up with websites like that but...
Tried the pokemon ones. One's run by a total asshole- don't like that. And it's boring as shit. The other was... fine, had a lot of mini-games and events and stuff to do around the site. I just drifted away from it.
Dappervolk was... the art's nice I guess? not really my style. They did try something with the rpg elements, points for that. I really do not care about collecting pets like that though. I think I'd rather go back to Gaiaonline if I were to get back into an avatar game like this.
I did do the Furvilla beta way back when and liked it a lot but on full launch I just fell off. Changes to the system made keeping up incredibly difficult for me.
Everyone mentioning Lioden and Wolvden reminded me... didn't the owners of that also have a dinosaur one in the works that got put on indefinite hiatus? I found out about that one way too late and I'm really sad about it. Dinos are my jam. I would be ok with putting up with a game with pet death n shit if I get to breed dinosaurs like that....
I have tried a lot of pet sites in the past, and most of them were rather forgetable.
The first one was Neopets, and I still log in to collect interest, but it has changed so much, it is more the sunken cost that keeps me doing that. I haven't really checked out any other thing on the site.
I was playing sylestia, but for some reason my computer simply will not load it anymore, which is strange because my brother, who lives next door and uses the same internet, can access it. I found it fun, and it was a sort of unique take on petsites where you would explore using your pets and could find wild pets and capture them. It had a variety of pets from dragons to horses to cats and dogs as well as other types (not 1:1 but based upon those species) and the breeding system was more complicated than FRs with recessive and dominant genes and it was a lot more restrictive in that you can't (from what I remember) change the species of a pet and it was much harder to give genes to (and once you gave a gene to a pet, it locked that pet out of having other genes applied). It was more focused on breeding to get the pets you wanted rather than taking an existing pet and applying scrolls/potions to them. It also allows you to create custom pets, but I can't quite remember how it worked.
I play gryffs, which is a lot slower paced than FR and has a lot less to do, but I love the art style, and the community is very nice. It is all about griffins, as you might have guessed. There isn't a whole lot to do, and updates are really slow due to there only being two people working on it. The breeding system works off of a hex color system, like Sylestia, so it can be harder to predict what colors offspring will be, and it can be harder to produce good breeding pairs. The markings system allows for one single gryff to have every marking in the game (there is a player who I think goes out of their way to breed gryffs with every single marking) and it also has an opacity setting that allows you to create fades that can drastically change how a gryff looks. at 100%, markings will cover anything underneath them and and you will get that marking's color only. As it starts getting less and less, the markings beneath (or the gryff itself) will become more visible and the various colors of the markings will start mixing.
It has no gender and any gryff can breed with any other gryff, and gryffs are born as adults. Without using breeding tokens, gryffs can only produce one gryff a day, but breeding tokens cost site currency (not premium) and are relatively easy to come by.
I also play chicken smoothie, but as others have said, play is not really the right word, because it is more a pet collecting site than anything else.
Beastkeeper was another site I played, and it was interesting, but I found it after it was already pretty much abandoned I think, so as interesting as it was, it had too many issues for me to want to keep playing it.
I played Aywas for a while, but it had an issue with out of control inflation and felt like it was too artist oriented for me. IE, there would be art contests that would give out a lot of site currency and special items that couldn't be obtained elsewhere. It wasn't bad, just as a non-artist, it got discouraging to me, because most site items and site pets were worthless.
Khimeros is another site I played, and there are a lot of similiar sites (I believe they were started by the same people), though this one is owned by someone who has been talked about for wanting to pay artists with FR currency, and who sold KS items for Khimeros currency (and I would name them! I just can't remember their name right now. Onyx! maybe that was it? It was an O name and I think four letters at least :P)
Leayphs is run by the same people who do Gryffs, but it has more to do and has more species of pets. I tried it, and it just didn't 'stick' with me. It wasn't bad, but I preferred gryffs.
There are a lot of other sites, but I think one of the biggest issues is that most of them were started as 'passion projects' by individuals who didn't realize exactly what it would take running a site that thousands of users use every day. Nor that turning your passion project into a job is a fast way to make you lose any passion you might have had for it. There is also the issue that I believe a certain site owner would create sites, get what they could from them and then abandon or sell them and move on to create another pet site, leaving a trail of pet sites in their wake. (it was the owner of Aywas, I believe, but I don't know much more, just little tidbits that I heard here and there)
I played Sylestia for a while but didn't have a head for the breeding system. The rpg battle system was fun, but to the grinding required to get any real money wrecked my wrists and I had to quit.
I also got overwhelmed by how frequent and abundant the festival/seasonal events were. There was so much to do each time and each of them required grinding in the special rpg exploration area if you wanted to get results and it became stressful for me instead of fun.
Also, it seems there was a banwave because there were players conspiring to crash the pet selling economy? that was after I quit playing though so idk
Pixel Cat's End was made by a FR player and has registration windows every now and then (one just ended recently) and it's super chill. It has a small rpg battle thing that doesn't get too intense, clothing, a base decorating thing I haven't tried, and little things like getting random letters that have items some times. It's incredibly forgiving.
I also do not understand its genetic system, I might be dumb.
Chicken Smoothie is the only other pet sim that has really kept my attention, and even then, I lose interest in it quickly compared to FR. It's pretty simple to play and I like collecting/hoarding specific designs.
I used to play WolfPlay, and ended up giving up because of the wolf death. It made it really hard to make any sort of currency on the game. Plus I had several bad interactions with mods.
Honestly, FR is the only pet site worth playing in the long run. I've tried like every site that has come out so far and they're just not as good. Either the creators turn out to be assholes or the websites go full P2W even though 85% of the website is nonfunctional. (See: Neopets) Out of the damn near 20 total years of playing pet sites FR is the only one I've actually stuck with.
Neopets is the only one that's kept me coming back (probably because it was my first).
I actually usually get my virtual pet fix via video games instead of pet sites. Pokémon, Monster Hunter Stories, and Temtem have been ones I've enjoyed!
played neopets a lot as a kid; my account still exists, but got hacked and I can't regain access because I can't access the ancient hotmail email account I initially signed up with. I am very bitter about this still lol, I wish I could join in w/all my pals going back to it now that it's under new management or whatever.
these days all I really play are FR and dragon cave. idk why, I consider myself mostly neutral re: dragons. pawborough beta has been fun to check out too, I hope it sticks around. lorwolf was meh.
My first one was Dragon Cave and then Dragonadopters. Found FR through a dragonadopters fan forum. Nothing stuck except FR. I really love FR a lot, the community and the art are stellar. I'm so happy this place still exists.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-02 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)Wolvden, while owned by Lioden, has different staff, and they have been really pushing out QoL updates that are REALLY QoL, they do community polls and raffles often, etc.
The playstyle isn't for everyone- inbreeding is a thing, and though it has no effect on genetics/stats, etc, you can avoid it, or lean hard into it.
It's also similar to Lioden in that wolves will die, get sick, or run away if their mood is low or they're not fed, but I've been enjoying it.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-03 07:07 am (UTC)(link)I've tried a bunch more, most forgettable. Once in a while I'm like i should try any of the more realistic/breeding focused games like howrse or lioden, but they dont really encourage the creativity and character building that FR and Neopets does as the pets seem more to be like a resource than a pet idk i always bounce off again after a few weeks (likewise ive tried marapets, subeta and some of the other neopets clones but theres never that much to do to keep me engaged)
I think FR is consistently better than a lot of the other sites despite also suffering from "not that lot to do that isnt making your own fun" syndrome, probably bc the art is just really good and the world is very grounded + its not brutal to get pets you actually like looking at and the premium currency is very accessible
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-03 11:22 am (UTC)(link)Second petsite was Valenth, it was a adoptable site where you had to level your pets that they could grow up and in a certain way, every species had a egg, a baby, and 3 different adult stages (Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic if i remember right). You had to feed them certain foods in order for them to grow to the adult you wanted. The art was really cool and the lore too, sadly it shut down around the time FR was launched.
Third petsite was Dragoncave, it was fun at the start when it was new, but the new releases got really exhausting for me after a while. I felt it just super unfair that you had to had a good internet connection/ping to the site in order to grab the eggs you wanted, and well people could maliciously target your eggs/hatchlings and give them too much clicks which caused their death. I remember it took soo long until a "fog/hide" function was implemented to protect your eggs/hatchlings. I eventually just stopped playing because I could frankly not to be arsed anymore because basic QoL features where just missing and not implemented.
Then there was Squiby, it was an offshoot site of Valenth kinda, but it died due incompetent owners.
The only 2 petsites I play nowadays are Chickensmoothie and Flight Rising. I steer clear of new petsites because I frankly rather play videogames in my freetime nowadays, but CS and FR have a special place in my heart.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-03 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)Tried Felisfire and Gryffs (I think it's spelled?)- both had really pretty art... but the breeding system uses the hex number system for colors so 90% of the time you'll get muddy mud- so wasn't a fan of that. They're also like super dated web-design. Nostalgic for me growing up with websites like that but...
Tried the pokemon ones. One's run by a total asshole- don't like that. And it's boring as shit. The other was... fine, had a lot of mini-games and events and stuff to do around the site. I just drifted away from it.
Dappervolk was... the art's nice I guess? not really my style. They did try something with the rpg elements, points for that. I really do not care about collecting pets like that though. I think I'd rather go back to Gaiaonline if I were to get back into an avatar game like this.
I did do the Furvilla beta way back when and liked it a lot but on full launch I just fell off. Changes to the system made keeping up incredibly difficult for me.
Everyone mentioning Lioden and Wolvden reminded me... didn't the owners of that also have a dinosaur one in the works that got put on indefinite hiatus? I found out about that one way too late and I'm really sad about it. Dinos are my jam. I would be ok with putting up with a game with pet death n shit if I get to breed dinosaurs like that....
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-03 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)The first one was Neopets, and I still log in to collect interest, but it has changed so much, it is more the sunken cost that keeps me doing that. I haven't really checked out any other thing on the site.
I was playing sylestia, but for some reason my computer simply will not load it anymore, which is strange because my brother, who lives next door and uses the same internet, can access it. I found it fun, and it was a sort of unique take on petsites where you would explore using your pets and could find wild pets and capture them. It had a variety of pets from dragons to horses to cats and dogs as well as other types (not 1:1 but based upon those species) and the breeding system was more complicated than FRs with recessive and dominant genes and it was a lot more restrictive in that you can't (from what I remember) change the species of a pet and it was much harder to give genes to (and once you gave a gene to a pet, it locked that pet out of having other genes applied). It was more focused on breeding to get the pets you wanted rather than taking an existing pet and applying scrolls/potions to them. It also allows you to create custom pets, but I can't quite remember how it worked.
I play gryffs, which is a lot slower paced than FR and has a lot less to do, but I love the art style, and the community is very nice. It is all about griffins, as you might have guessed. There isn't a whole lot to do, and updates are really slow due to there only being two people working on it. The breeding system works off of a hex color system, like Sylestia, so it can be harder to predict what colors offspring will be, and it can be harder to produce good breeding pairs. The markings system allows for one single gryff to have every marking in the game (there is a player who I think goes out of their way to breed gryffs with every single marking) and it also has an opacity setting that allows you to create fades that can drastically change how a gryff looks. at 100%, markings will cover anything underneath them and and you will get that marking's color only. As it starts getting less and less, the markings beneath (or the gryff itself) will become more visible and the various colors of the markings will start mixing.
It has no gender and any gryff can breed with any other gryff, and gryffs are born as adults. Without using breeding tokens, gryffs can only produce one gryff a day, but breeding tokens cost site currency (not premium) and are relatively easy to come by.
I also play chicken smoothie, but as others have said, play is not really the right word, because it is more a pet collecting site than anything else.
Beastkeeper was another site I played, and it was interesting, but I found it after it was already pretty much abandoned I think, so as interesting as it was, it had too many issues for me to want to keep playing it.
I played Aywas for a while, but it had an issue with out of control inflation and felt like it was too artist oriented for me. IE, there would be art contests that would give out a lot of site currency and special items that couldn't be obtained elsewhere. It wasn't bad, just as a non-artist, it got discouraging to me, because most site items and site pets were worthless.
Khimeros is another site I played, and there are a lot of similiar sites (I believe they were started by the same people), though this one is owned by someone who has been talked about for wanting to pay artists with FR currency, and who sold KS items for Khimeros currency (and I would name them! I just can't remember their name right now. Onyx! maybe that was it? It was an O name and I think four letters at least :P)
Leayphs is run by the same people who do Gryffs, but it has more to do and has more species of pets. I tried it, and it just didn't 'stick' with me. It wasn't bad, but I preferred gryffs.
There are a lot of other sites, but I think one of the biggest issues is that most of them were started as 'passion projects' by individuals who didn't realize exactly what it would take running a site that thousands of users use every day. Nor that turning your passion project into a job is a fast way to make you lose any passion you might have had for it. There is also the issue that I believe a certain site owner would create sites, get what they could from them and then abandon or sell them and move on to create another pet site, leaving a trail of pet sites in their wake. (it was the owner of Aywas, I believe, but I don't know much more, just little tidbits that I heard here and there)
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-03 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)any marapets user who can confirm/deny? (i got a bit of a laugh from "its just like this website except completely different!!")
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-03 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)I also got overwhelmed by how frequent and abundant the festival/seasonal events were. There was so much to do each time and each of them required grinding in the special rpg exploration area if you wanted to get results and it became stressful for me instead of fun.
Also, it seems there was a banwave because there were players conspiring to crash the pet selling economy? that was after I quit playing though so idk
Pixel Cat's End was made by a FR player and has registration windows every now and then (one just ended recently) and it's super chill. It has a small rpg battle thing that doesn't get too intense, clothing, a base decorating thing I haven't tried, and little things like getting random letters that have items some times. It's incredibly forgiving.
I also do not understand its genetic system, I might be dumb.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-03 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)I used to play WolfPlay, and ended up giving up because of the wolf death. It made it really hard to make any sort of currency on the game. Plus I had several bad interactions with mods.
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-05 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)I actually usually get my virtual pet fix via video games instead of pet sites. Pokémon, Monster Hunter Stories, and Temtem have been ones I've enjoyed!
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(Anonymous) 2025-06-06 12:08 am (UTC)(link)these days all I really play are FR and dragon cave. idk why, I consider myself mostly neutral re: dragons. pawborough beta has been fun to check out too, I hope it sticks around. lorwolf was meh.
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