Capybara Spa +4

I really love Capybaras and since I can’t have a real Capybara in the development I live in, this game allows me to have Virtual Capybaras. I just wish there was an option to pay for this game to get rid of the advertisements. I find the advertising very annoying when I’m trying to care for and spend time with my Capybaras. If there was a ad free pay version, I would definitely buy it just to play ad free.

I have such mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it’s absolutely charming: the capybara are adorable, your interactions with them feel realistic, and they will win your heart quickly if you like caring for digital creatures. There’s only one real catch: it’s possible for them to escape and run away if you miss even a single day of feeding them. I’m reviewing this on behalf of my son, who was literally in tears yesterday after losing his phone at a friend’s house for a day, only to find that his beloved Muffin had vanished by the time he was able to get back to the app. Caring for these lil’ guys is compelling enough to allow people to form strong attachments, and as anyone who has had a pet go missing can tell you, it *hurts* to lose them.

My suggestion for the app maker: please be more forgiving with the capybara runaway / escape timer, or maybe change it to something else entirely, like getting annoyed? Kids lose their phones all the time, or get grounded from them, or have them break. Coming back to this app to discover that their little friend abandoned them genuinely hurts. I’d happily 5-star this app if it didn’t carry so much risk of heartbreak.

This is actually a good game, though it would be better if there were ways to actually get coins/stars without waiting 24 hours to watch 2 ads (max like ~200 stars a day) and added a way to actually grind for them or make the wait time shorter like every 30 mins-1 hours with the optional choice of watching ads for more (kinda like how it is now) instead of just waiting for coins as well, add a mini game that you can play and get coins based on how well you perform like the stars. This would make the game more playable and actually more enjoyable