Stepets: Walking Pet Simulator 4+

I was searching for games that would encourage me to walk. Particularly something with creature evolution, and this does just that. The animals are adorable. The furniture options are adorable. The app is smooth, simple and user friendly. My daughter holds her phone and runs around the house to get her eggs to hatch or creatures to evolve, so she’s getting good exercise too. We also like to compare our creature collection. Not to many forced ads, and usually you will have an option to watch an add to double your prize, which I usually do. Fair opportunity's to receive free gems, which is the premium in-game currency. I would highly recommend you download this game. 💕😊

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.

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.