Make It Grow (Idan Rooze, Keren Schneider, Or Magen, Paz Shraibman)
"A short, experimental Tamagotchi-like, where you have to take care of an extraterrestrial." - Author's description
Download on itch.io (Windows, Mac)
tagged : virtual pet
Buddytale (Evie Chang, Izzy Fox, Holly Cheng)
"Buddytale is an exploration of our attachments to virtual pets, our responsibilities as their caretakers, and the way digital mortality affects the value we place on our relationships to computational entities." - Author's description
Download on itch.io (Windows, Mac)
Plankton (PanGuoJun)
"A plankton simulation game, electronic pet generated by math codes." - Author's description
Purchase for $1.99 on Steam (Windows)
Frog Pets (Nathalie Lawhead)
"Keep your Frog Pets alive by managing their needs!" - Author's description
Author's note: "The app is hidden in a folder. You will have to find Frog Pets before being able to run it. This is to offer them protection, and deter virtual predators aiming to prey off (eat) Frog Pets."
Download on itch.io (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Wreckboy (drak)
"give him a brick and watch him go." - Author's description
Play / download on itch.io (Browser, Windows, Mac, Linux)
noa noa (Tony Coculuzzi, isyourguy)
"A virtual pet simulator! Play games, buy things, and keep your pet alive." - Author's description
Play / download here (Browser, Windows)
Trashpet (hubol)
"a game best suited for emptying your downloads folder. feed your pet your old files!!!!!!!!!" - Author's description
Download on itch.io (Windows, Mac)
Stryopets (Zampano)
"stryopets are in and cool and you could do with one on this special day." - Author's description
Play on itch.io (Browser)
Ledoliel (Aliceffekt)
"Ledoliel is a sort-of tamagochi dating toy for iOS, involving strange procedural creatures and their bizarre customs, where you must try and figure out what topics they might want to discuss, gift they might want to receive and places they may like to be touched - based on their cryptic attributes." - Author's description