Amaru: Self-care Virtual Pet 9+
Mindfulness and Journal Game
Six Wing Studios
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Amaru is here to support your self-care!
Feed, pet, customize, and play minigames with the adorable Amaru while being rewarded for taking care of yourself! The game contains engaging goal-setting, mindfulness, and journal activities that provide a fun way to build focus and resilience to stress, anxiety, and depression.
Explore the mysterious world of Enso to earn Collectibles, unlock Amaru’s story, and help him find his way home!
“Finally, a game that promotes (and reinforces) positive, long-term mental-health habits! It's enjoyable & the artwork is beautifully done. Daily goals are customizable, but there is a variety of preset goals to choose from to get you started. It's calming at the end of your day and refreshing at the beginning. Doesn't leave you frustrated and mentally depleted like most other games. Plus, magic kitties!”
“It's clear that the people behind this app care about helping people. I am genuinely floored about how focused the game is on self-care and the player. This is especially apparent in the 'free trial' aspect of this app- none of the self-care elements are behind a paywall, and they have an entire system for people to donate full copies of the game to those in financial need. The game is reassuring and never unhealthily pressures. also the animation is so good. I'd say more but I have no more space.”
FINANCIAL NEED? READ BELOW!
Want the full version but can’t afford it? No problem! All the self-care features in the app are completely FREE, and the game contains NO ADS! There will be points where you will be asked to pay to unlock story features or optional skins, but if you have financial need, you can apply for a free copy through our Keys for Those in Need Program. You’ll be given a place in line, and when a copy becomes available, you’ll receive it for FREE! We just ask that you pay it forward when you can!
WHAT’S INSIDE:
• A virtual pet to feed, pet, and care for!
• Make Amaru your own with custom colors and skins!
• Beautiful hand-drawn animation that evolves as your Bond grows stronger.
• A goal-setting system that rewards you for self-care.
• Journaling modes that promote free expression and support well-being.
• 20+ guided breathing and mindfulness meditation recordings scientifically shown to reduce stress, anxiety and depression with voicing and subtitles.
• Fun, low-pressure Mini-games to play with Amaru
• Gorgeous environments with unique, relaxing soundscapes like ocean waves or falling rain.
• 100+ lore-rich items revealing details about the fantasy world of Enso and its inhabitants.
• Hundreds of player-submitted Affirmation messages to brighten your day!
LANGUAGES:
This app is only in available in English, but we will be localizing to new languages soon.
FOLLOW US:
@fogofmaya on IG, Twitter, and TikTok can communicate with us via Discord (link is in the app).
What’s New
Version 1.52
Fixed a critical bug that was preventing new users from completing the game tutorial.
Ratings and Reviews
Really important game
I really hope this game continues to get support, because I would love to see more games like it. A lot of the anxiety and mindfulness games on the AppStore are bland and unthemed, but this art style at least gives me a reason to want to sit through mindfulness lessons, unlike other apps where you’re just listening to recordings
Most helpful
This game is so much more than a game and it can help you feel better as effectively as one hour of meditation. It is complete, with meditations, journaling, caring for Amaru, collecting interesting and strange objects, exploring new regions, playing… I’d like to see in the near future one more journal, a journal where you can keep your thoughts and memory so you don’t have to use another journaling app for this purpose. And why not a friend for Amaru? Thank you for this amazing app and for keeping improving it!
Was really great when it worked
I absolutely loved this when I first came across Amaru, & my doctors & I would recommend this as a way to make building good habits for combating stress/anxiety & depression fun. The app is very reasonably priced & I loved that it included mindfulness games & meditations to help when I needed to reset after a panic attack. Sadly I haven’t been able to get back to any of my data after an update a few months back, & have to restart all of the work I had done with Amaru which is very discouraging when it was a big part of my mental health routine for such a long time prior to it wiping clean. The developers were quick to respond, but it still hasn’t been resolved & often I’m asked repeat questions most likely since it’s been so long & ongoing a problem trying to get my data back. Since using the gratitude journal was the most important part for me, being BPD with chronic depression/anxiety I needed that journal for checking back on bad days as part of my bounce back habit…it was one of the best gratitude journals in an app I had found initially & was affordable but I did have to move on to using an other app since waiting this long without a journal would have been silly & detrimental to my mental health. I do hope this issue is resolved eventually so others don’t encounter this error but for now I have to chalk it up to a good app that no longer works & burned up a few of my dollars.
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Information
- Seller
- Seraph Games, LLC
- Size
- 853.6 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Catalan, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 9+ Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © Six Wing Studios, Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Unlock + Colors Combo $19.99
- App Unlock $12.99
- All The Things $24.99
- Winter Grove Pack $6.99
- Spooky Grove Pack $6.99
- Custo-Maru $6.99
- Cosmic Texture Pack $2.99
- Origins Puzzle Pack $2.99
- Fauna Texture Pack $2.99
- Founders Puzzle Pack $2.99