A pet simulator game is a game about raising and caring for a virtual pet.

Handheld electronic game

Digital Monster The Digital Monster is a digital pet created by WiZ and Bandai that spawned the ''Digimon'' franchise. It was released by Bandai on June 26, 1997, in Japan and on December 5, 1997 in North America. This pet was a masculine counterpart to the Tama ...

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Digimon , short for "Digital Monsters" ( ''Dejitaru Monsutā''), is a Japanese media franchise, which encompasses virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films, and a trading card game. The franchise focuses on the eponymous creatures who inhabit a ...

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Giga Pet Giga Pets are digital pet toys that were first released by Tiger Electronics in the United States in 1997 in the midst of a virtual-pet toy fad. Available in a variety of different characters, each Giga Pet is a palm-sized unit with an LCD scre ...

Pokémon Pikachu Pokémon Pikachu, also known as in Japan, is a limited series of two portable ''Pokémon'' digital pets (similar to Tamagotchi) featuring the famous yellow electric-type Pokémon, Pikachu. It debuted on March 27, 1998, in Japan, on November 2, ...

Tamagotchi is a brand of handheld digital pets that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996 in Japan and in the United States on May 1, 1997, quickly becoming one of the bigge ...

Pingu ''Pingu'' is a stop motion animated children's television series originally produced in Switzerland. It was co-created by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann. It centres on the titular anthropomorphic emperor penguin and his family, who live i ...

& Pinga Best Friends (Japanese: PINGU＆PINGA ちいさなともだち)

Console or handheld

Social network embedded

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Pet Society ''Pet Society'' was a social-network game developed by Playfish that could be played on Facebook. The game ranked as one of the most popular Facebook applications. Players could design their pets by choosing genders, names, colors and altering a ...

'' * '' PetVille''

Mobile games

* '' My Talking Angela'' * '' My Talking Tom'' * ''

Pocket Frogs ''Pocket Frogs'' is a life simulation video game developed and published by NimbleBit for the App Store (iOS), iOS App Store and Google Play Store. It was released as a free game with additional in-app purchases. The aim is to complete the 'Frog ...

'' * '' Pou'' * ''

Dragonvale ''DragonVale'' is a park management simulator video game originally developed by Backflip Studios and released on September 14, 2011, for iOS and on November 9, 2012, for Android. DragonVale was one of the first breed-and-nurture games to be a ...

PC games

* '' Adopt Me!'' * '' Animal Jam'' * '' Busou Shinki Battle Rondo'' * '' Creatures'' * '' Fin Fin on Teo the Magic Planet'' * '' Fish Tycoon'' * '' GoPets'' * ''

Insaniquarium ''Insaniquarium'' is a 2001 virtual pets simulator video game, developed by George Fan, Flying Bear Entertainment and published by PopCap Games and MumboJumbo. Before PopCap Games's involvement, the game was a web-based Java (programming langu ...

'' * '' MOPy fish'' * '' PF.Magic''

Petz ''Petz'' is a series of single-player video games dating back to 1995, in which the player can adopt, raise, care for and breed their own virtual pets. Developed by PF.Magic, original ''Petz'' ( ''Dogz'' and ''Catz'') has sold over 1.5 million ...

series * '' Puppy Luv'' * '' The Sims 2: Pets'' * '' The Sims 3: Pets'' * '' The Sims 4: Cats & Dogs'' * '' The Sims: Unleashed'' * ''

Neopets ''Neopets'' is a free-to-play virtual pet site, virtual pet browser game. First launched in 1999, the game allows users to own virtual pets ("Neopets") and explore a virtual world called "Neopia." Players can earn one of two virtual currency, v ...

'' * '' Zoo Tycoon 2''

Browser-based games

References

{{video game lists by genre Artificial pet