Stepets: Walking Pet Simulator for Android

Love the concept of this game! For me personally, I’m a pretty busy person and can’t give much time to the game itself (interacting and playing mini games to raise the characters and progress). I’d love it if it was mostly activity-based, and maybe the mini games could just be for the coins and extra stuff? I’d still do them, but wouldn’t rely on having to stop and get on my phone in the middle of the day to progress in the game. I.e., I’d love to be able to walk or maintain a certain heart rate for a certain amount of time in order to raise the characters instead of playing mini games! Again I love the concept, I know it took a long time to develop!

I downloaded this a couple of days ago. The common eggs are free and easy, requiring only 500 steps to hatch. But uncommon and rarer eggs require gems to purchase, incubators that are needed to evolve the Stepets require gems (10 gems for one incubator, up to 40 gems for 5 incubators), and each habitat space can only hold 3 animals so you need to expand a space, requiring 5 gems. So even though I walk 10,000 steps a day, I’m at 8 gems and two spaces holding 6 baby Stepets who all need incubators in order to evolve 🙃. The game is generous with its basic currency, coins, with which you can buy decorations for the habitats - but you get 1 gem per ad watched. Although this game is free to download, if you are a player who cannot or chooses not to buy premium currency using real money, just be aware it will be immensely slow going! I give it 2 stars for wanting to motivate people to walk and for being very cute - and take off 3 stars for requiring premium currency to progress. I would give 5 stars if — like Fortnite being playable even if you don’t spend premium currency for outfits — you could actually play Stepets and advance for free, but decorations cost premium currency.

FUN GAME!!! Me 9 years old!

Been playing it for a bit and it’s very cute and fun, motivating to get steps and collect different designs. However I ran into an early bug, when as a player I was offered a discount one-time payment to get rid of ads. It was in my budget and I wanted to support the game, so I opted to pay. The purchase button didn’t work! Even after restarting the game and trying different approaches. I emailed the devs thru their website and got no response. Ironically once the discount expired and full price offered, the Purchase button resumed working (I was sent to the payment screen). The ads are a bit much—you’re stuck for at least 30-60s when they come up, rather than sprinkled more lightly throughout the game, so I just quit and stop playing when an ad starts since the wait just isn’t worth it to me.

Could be better