Last updated on January 23rd, 2026 at 09:11 pm
Dolphin Paradise: Wild Friends – Family Game Review
Dolphin Paradise: Wild Friends is a Family/Simulation/Entertainment game from HappyGiant, LLC, first launched in 12th October 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 298+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dolphin Paradise: Wild Friends Stand Out
"Dolphin Paradise: Wild Friends" is THE premiere iOS 3D dolphin pet–sim that turns your device into a virtual lagoon.
Here, you can feed, train and create a strong bond with realistic looking dolphins and orcas. These high-resolution, animated dolphins swim and perform tricks across your screen and crave your attention at each step of the game, awaiting your commands. Learn tricks and perform Shows! Share with friends!
GRAPHICS
Amazing 3D graphics replicate actually swimming in a lagoon with dolphins.
TRICK TRAINING
Train dolphins to do fun and exciting tricks!
CARE, NURTURE & PLAY
Take good care of your dolphins. Shower them with affection by petting and rubbing their bellies. Keep them healthy with tasty feedings and let them swim, frolic & jump in the paradise lagoon; above and below water!
MINI-GAMES
Help keep the lagoon clean from jellyfish to earn shells and pearls which can be used to buy dolphins, props, decorations and habitats.
PHOTOS
Use our camera system to zoom and pan and take pictures of your dolphins, above or below water. Share exciting pics of your dolphins swimming, leaping, jumping and doing tricks via email, Facebook or Twitter.
FRIENDS AND SHARING
Share photos, Dolphin Show scores and achievements with friends. And now, visit friend’s lagoons!
CUSTOMIZATION
Players can acquire custom props and decorations for Dolphin Shows and buy multiple dolphin types, eventually caring for many dolphins. Coming soon too, different habitats!
Dolphin Paradise is free to play but contains items that can be purchased with real money. If you don’t want to use this feature please disable in-app purchases.
Install Dolphin Paradise today. It’s free!
Dolphin Paradise is published and developed by HappyGiant
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PRESS
GameZebo: “Dolphin Paradise features bright, colorful 3D graphics and lots of dolphin-ish clicks and whistles…”
The Iphone Mom: "Dolphin Paradise: Wild Friends is a beautifully detailed 3D app that kids will be sure to love. If you think that your kids would enjoy playing with dolphins – check out Dolphin Paradise!"
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dolphin Paradise: Wild Friends is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th September 2019
Recent improvements include:
•Fixes and Improvements!
Download & Availability
Dolphin Paradise: Wild Friends is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dolphin Paradise: Wild Friends on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game a lot! Dolphins are probably our favorite ocean animal (if axolotl dosent count, then it would be second)! We love how you can research dolphins, play with them, and overall take care of them! We feel like Im helping save dolphins with our little dolphin lagoon sanctuary. We would like an alliance/club feature where other people belong with one group. They can have like a alliance/club lagoon with all of their dolphins! We also want to see baby dolphins! We want you to be able to choose when they grow up though. Also we want you to be able to expand your lagoon sanctuary because it feels to small. We would also like underwater decorations and toys. We would also like more dolphin species! Also we have been experiencing a glitch where our dolphin (Click) will not to a fluke walk even though we taught it to her. This also happens with the preview dolphins as well. Could you mabye check in to see what is going on? Anyways, we love this game a lot and we would like to see these features added amd this (bug?) fixed. Tysm and have a great day/night.
We love dolphins so much and we Al was wanted a pet dolphin Now we can take care of our very own dolphin . Thank you so much for making this game.
Its amazing but you cant figure out how to do the ball for the dolphin and you should have more shells and pearls but overall its amazing.
We LOVE THIS GAME. We just wish that they could make most of this stuff free for beginners like us.
Hi we love this game so much we recommend it if you love the ocean and here are some ideas to make it better… 1. People swimming in the "paradise" 2. Real shows the video said shows but there is no shows :( 3. Night and day Thanks for making this game -Luella.
Can you add dolphin calfs make them stay close to there mother and make do the stuff they do at Seaworld.
CAn you guys make a tank for the habitat please and a open ocean for the habitat.
We like this game a lot we like how you can feed and pet and touch your orders and the dolphins good job on this game not gonna lie it was pretty perfect for us all right Im not being sarcastic like for real we actually love this game we actually cant stop playing. Just wanted to let you guys now bye.
Awesome game. Ideas for it, one, 3D fish please when feeding your dolphin model problem, dolphins are about the length of a fully grown adult, their tails are also slightly wider and maybe make the tail 2 inches longer, the fins are sorta weird because the top fin should be a little bit more into the middle of the dolphin and slightly bigger, the bottom fins are a bit quirky too, they should also be moved deeper into the middle, the orca model is fine though, also, there should be competitions for which dolphin has the most coolest trick pattern. And heres an emoji spam because why not.
Hi there, we love this game and our dolphins name is Sugar. H.
We love this game just make it so you can do more things plz.
OmFg THANK YOU OKHHB YEAH we jotaro kujo, love this game so much we cant even express how happy we are.
This game is so much fun .It is the best.we wish we could play it all day and night.
We love dolphins, so we got this game for us.
We LOVE this game we play it all the time our name is Ady and we are 9 our dolphins name is Smily and we have almost all the tricks we wish pearls were easier to get and we could then get the orca we really wanted to get.
Oh our TIGERS! This game is Crazy! We love it! Thank you for making it! Can you make a wolf game? And add pets to this game? Thanks.
We love this game but there is to many adds and the pearls are hard to get and some people do not have the money to buy pearls and we need pearls but we love everything else and it is a fun game.
We honestly love This game but we do have a few things we would like to suggest. We love how you can have more than one dolphin to take care of but you can only get four types of dolphins and we think you should have a few more species of dolphin in this game maybe you should add a Spinner dolphin or a Boto ( river dolphin) .Also this game has adds . And there are a lot of adds and the thing about the adds is that when you are watching them its the same one over and over and over again! The reason we gave Dolphin paradise 4 stars was because of the adds and that they only have 4 species of dolphin . Please consider adding more dolphin species to the game . Thank you.
We love this game a lot but we wish that you could play as a dolphin and it cost 1 Pearl.
Im a dolphin lover. We ourselves want to say one bad thing about this game. The mermaids.. They are barely wearing anything.. So just saying please make them wear more or take them out. But we lover the cute little dolphins.
There are ups and downs to this game. We love that you can take pictures and get more animals than just dolphins. We also like that you can give the dolphins hand commands. Next we love that you can change the scenery. Finally we like that you can decorate the island. What we dont like is that you need shells and perls to get things and they are hard to get because you can only get them from the jellyfish and you have to wait a few hours for it to load them. Some times the animals dont listen to the hand commands. With the shells and perls you use them to get fish and animals so if it hard to get you cant get a lot of things.
This game is awesome but on the screen we cant even press the freakin check marks or anything that is freakin terrible we would rather play Roblox than this its keeps getting stuck could you please fix the please please thats the only thing we dont like about this game the rest is fine.
We love this game.It really makes us feel like we own a dolphin.we play this game everyday its amazing.we love the graphics and the idea.we love that the dolphins have personalities and that you can get different ones.we do wish the pearls and shells are easier to collect but it is still an amazing game.we also wish you could do jelly tag more then once a day but we love all the challenges its so fun.
We love this game. Like a lot. We only rate it 4 stars though because sometimes we do something and we dont know how we did it and then like, we never got our dolphin back. Thats not our only problem. But this game is so good that we will just leave it like that. Please download this app if you like dolphins.
We cant feed our dolphin unless we buy it and we already did but its still a good game.
So we love the game but the reason we put 3 stars is because we cant do shows, the show button turned into the mermaid button, please fix this, Ill make our review 5 stars once you do.
This game used to work but whenever we try to make a purchase, the stupid thing crashes! DO NOT GET THEY ONLY WANT YOUR MONEY AND THIS APP IS A SCAM PLAY ORCA PARADISE INSTEAD.
Okay so Ive played this and well… The mermaids kinda creep us out so… Can you please put an option for no mermaids or mermaids? It would be great, besides if you added that we would give it a 5 star but since you did not add it yet Ill be waiting to see if you did. And it will still be a 3 star but when you do add it, Ill give you that 5 star ;) Thank you.
This is the absolute best game ever! Its easy to play, fun, and a little educational! We love that you can have different options of dolphins, and that you can teach them tricks and feed them. We also love the Raise Money and Dolphin Care tabs, it makes it much easier to gain shells, and happiness for your dolphin. We do have a few suggestions though, and 1 problem. Lets just start off with our issue. We find it very hard to get pearls. We understand that they are more valuable and should be harder to earn, but maybe you made it a little too hard to get them. Some of us dont have money to make in-app purchases for the pearls. Also the Watch to get pearls button, when we press it, we dont get to watch the video and earn pearls! We need pearls! We cant be the only one with that problem! Please fix this. Now we have a few suggestions. First off, we think all those tricks we are teaching our dolphins should go to a great use! Dolphin show! We think this should definitely be in game! Next, we think we should be able to have injured dolphins be sent in the pool with your permanently owned dolphins, and then you can heal them, and let them recover in your lagoon, then set them free. We think that would be a fun addition to the game! Thanks for reading our suggestions, and please fix our pearl problem! Once again we LOVE this game, so theres no hate.
Maybe you can add Winter from Dolphin Tale for free on here and you have the option to put or take off her prosthetic tale. And maybe add other dolphins with sicknesses and youll have to treat them too. Sicknesses like sunburns, boat injuries and other things. Thanks for reading and we hope you consider these.
We LOVE this game so Much if you can make an goat Version we Wud go cracra plz doooooo.
This game is awesome!It has so many things to do when you play.It is a great game to play when you are bored.You can play this game at any age.You should get this game!Have fun playing it! Have a great time playing.
This game is awesome the previews are great especially the dolphin one it gave our dolphin company but the mermaids are weird our dolphin was scared it would be great if we can have dolphin play dates with other players it would give our dolphins lots of company and you can add players to a pod and share a huge island even if you dont do this this game is MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE.
We love dolphins they are our favorite sea creatures and it has and always will be our favorite game.
We used to play and love this game, but it hasn't been updated in about a year along with Orca Friends and other apps, so please update them now.
It's an awsome game and we love it. Something we are not very pleased with is that the perals are very hard to get. We would also like if there was a multiplayer. We bought the turtle and every time we equipped it it doesnt show up! Its like we wasted 20 pearls for nothing! If you are reading, please let us get the turtle on the island and make pearls more easier to get. If you can we would be very pleased.
We dont want the mermaids in the lagoon so please put an option while the offer is on to have them in it or have them not if you read this thank you.
We love this game but some parts of the game we would like fixed. First of all we found that the pearls are very hard to get which Im not very pleased with, and this game will get our tricks mixed up! We wasnt pleased with that either, and one more thing, the game keeps doing previews of other dolphins or mermaids or some other random thing. We kinda liked the preview of the dolphins at first but then it got rather frustrating. And with the mermaids it got us even more frustrated! We just want to hang out with our dolphin with no other mermaids or other dolphins. We just want hang out with our very own dolphin. So we would love these problems fixed as soon as you can get to them please. Thanks.
Its a great game- definitely for dolphin lovers. However, its more of a game you spend five minutes at a time on, versus half an hour. It can get kinda boring if you do it for a long time, but its game to pick up when you want to be entertained for a minutes.
Us again Ill delete this until you make those two updates.
You made this game every thing we have wanted in a dolphin game thanks.
We love love this game l figure out how to make one of them do cool things. Please pretty please dont change this APP.
This is a really enjoyable game. Beautiful high-quality graphics, lots of options, lots of mini-games and challenges.
Its amazing we love the mermaids and turtle but they dont give us enough pearls to buy another dolphin. Also when it says Watch an add to get pearls we click on it and hen the add doesnt show up so we dont get pearls please fix we need more pearls.
What happened to the dolphin shows? Now where the shows used to be it's mermaids telling how to use them. So boring without shows. We used to give 5 stars but without shows not much fun. No challenge.
We downloaded this for our 7 year old daughter who loves dolphins, and was shocked to find that you had to pay actual money for almost everything! She asked us if she could buy more pearls to be able to buy the mermaids but we were going to have to pay $15.99 for 75 pearls. We said no, but she was upset because there wasnt really anything to do with the dolphin, just a few jumps that are really quite boring. The graphics are good, but the game could be more engaging. We deleted the game because it was so disappointing, and very overrated (not to mention expensive!) we recommend not wasting your time.
We don't even know what this game is about because we never got a chance to play it because it keeps crashing on us and you have to be able to get on it for playing it.Please fix!this is.
We literally just got the game and then it crashed and when we opened it again it also crashed. That happened about 5 times and we had to delete it. :(. We're sure it's a good game but this is an easy fix.
We opened the app up and it will freeze for a few seconds and then sometimes it will work but sometimes it doesn't work and the app will close randomly and we have had this app before and it would never do anything like this and we don't know if it's something wrong with our iPad mini or something wrong with the app please help us get this fixed.
UGH! This game was great the first time, but we deleted it because it was taking up too much room. But since the 2017 update took place, this game has turned into the glitchy-est game ever. EVER. We have never seen a game so glitchy, and we have TONS AND TONS of room on our iPad, and it's still the glitchy-est game that has ever been installed. It's awesome, otherwise. But ya can't really enjoy it WHEN ITS THE GLITCHIEST THING EV BEEN INSTALLED. We don't mean to overreact, but jeez. This is awful.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.3
- Size: 744.73 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: HappyGiant, LLC
Last updated: 9th September 2019 | Genre: Family, Simulation | Developer: HappyGiant, LLC