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Orca Paradise: Wild Friends – Family Game Review
Orca Paradise: Wild Friends is a Family/Entertainment game from HappyGiant, LLC, first launched in 20th April 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 199+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Orca Paradise: Wild Friends Stand Out
Orca Paradise – Wild Friends is the premium gorgeous 3D pet–sim that turns your iOS device into a virtual lagoon. Here, you can feed, train and create a strong bond with realistic looking orcas and dolphins in a beautiful pacific northwest environment. These high-resolution, animated orcas 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 northwest environment with Orcas!
TRICK TRAINING AND ORCA SHOWS
Train orcas to do fun and exciting tricks and then perform in ever bigger and grander dolphin shows!
CARE, NURTURE & PLAY
Take good care of your orcas. 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 orcas swimming, leaping, jumping and doing tricks via email, Facebook or Twitter.
FRIENDS AND SHARING
Share photos, Orca Show scores and achievements with friends. And coming soon, visit friend’s lagoons!
CUSTOMIZATION
Players can acquire custom props and decorations for Orca Shows and buy multiple dolphin types, eventually caring for many dolphins and orcas.
Orca Paradise is a paid app but contains items that can be purchased with real money. If you don’t want to use this feature please disable in-app purchases.
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Orca Paradise is published and developed by HappyGiant
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This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Orca Paradise: Wild Friends is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th March 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
•CRITICAL-MUST-HAVE-UPDATE! PLEASE READ – ALL players MUST update to this version by June 1, 2017 to ensure the game will continue to run, and your account info will be saved. Thank you!!!
•MAJOR UPDATE Coming Soon with New Features, but you need to update to this first!
Download & Availability
Orca Paradise: Wild Friends is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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 so much that we want to see them in person.
This game is beautiful and fun we recommend playing this if you like marine mammals,its the best.
Orca show or any dolphin show New dolphin variants (Amazon river dolphin, porpoises, bajii etc) People for the show New creatures (octopus or sea lions) More than 3 dolphins (you can have we guess a lot) New areas or locations (show, wild, home, Arctic, etc) Genders (boys will have long dorsal fin girls will have a short one) Breeding Toys for the show and new food for the orcas and dolphins New Jellyfish (like the big ones) Daily prizes (for fun).
We love orcas!!!! We think you forgot that orcas need air but tricks makes it.
We love the orca paradise game & the dolphin paradise game Can you please add more orcas and have baby orcas it would be really cool thank you we love orcas there so cute.
So we had purchases and lots of progress in this game but our iPad broke and we lost progress.
Make it were u are a trainer in seaworld (pls not the real seaworld there mean :<)but can u make it where we see our selfs petting and Giving fish and stuff.
We dont know how to get a new habitat.
We love this game it is our favorite.
We have been wondering for a long time on if you can get more habitats. We would really want to know.
We like too play this app because its alot of fun.
We love this game already and Ive only been playing it for two days. We know EVERYTHING about orcas! We love them so much, there one of the biggest dolphins in the world. When we get older we want to go to sea world and see an orca! We bet there se awesome and cool! They are just the BEST! Best. Game. EVER.
We actually liked the game a lot and it was addicting but we got into another game but we still think this was fun.
We really like this game its super fun and easy but we wish we could have more orcas otherwise this game is so fun.
This is the best game ever! Ive only just started to play, but Im so attracted that each time we get a chance to play video games, we play this.
We love this game!! The orcas are so cute! We love watching them stand up and be cute, best game yet.
We love this game! We really want to work as a marine biologist one day, and we find this game very fun. We do think it would be fun to be able to have more than one orca or dolphin. And be able to do shows with them. It would also be fun if you could choose genders, and breed them. And maybe more ways to earn energy besides eating fish. We think it would be really cool to have dolphin shows so we could preform our tricks.
Orcas are our favorite animal.
We love this game so much! But their called behaviors, not tricks, other than that we love the game.
You are going to love this game it will be fun and exciting. You will have a great time playing this game you get to hove a free orca in the beginning and then you get a dolphin and a beluga and you get to name them you will love this game.
We want breeding because having just 1 orca is boring.add killer whale breeding and breeding programs pleaseeeeee.
We love the gameee so much but pls pls pls add a slide out and no more mermaids or belugas or dolphins bc its CALLED ORCA PARADISE and they should have kinda normal like a pec wave a slide out thrasher and there should be a pod of orcas pls ADD MORE AND ADD SOME TRAINeRS.
We love this game, heres what you NEED to add! More orcas, no dolphins/belugas. You can have up to 6 orcas! Its called ORCA Paradise. Orca Shows You can create your own stadium! Cool! Use your 6 orcas to perform a show! Custom Music! You can make 5 stadiums. Genders & Calfs The orcas have genders & calfs! Realistic! When male, it has a tall dorsal fin. When female, it has a short dorsal fin. Calfs can be born by breeding! Calfs cannot mate with their mother/any other family member. Choose your calfs gender and teach them tricks A calf will be adult within two months! Toys! Have toys in your backstage pool of the show! Experience! Orcas interact with the toys! Calfs will mostly play with them. CURIOUS ORCAS! Two places: Show Place: Dine With Orcas, Backstage with 4 pools. Wild: one big area. Shows can be made with Shamu Shows. We love SeaWorld! This includes: The Shamu Adventure Shamu Visions Believe One Ocean Orca Encounter Parts from it is also possible. Shows can be trained with certain moves with the song! Example: At the start of the music is a breach, and then its freestyle, then at the end its a V-Spin! Please add all of this! We accept it! Im not an anti-cap.
Its good but whenever we would watch adds to get pearls we would never get the pearls so its a little frustrating.
We like the graphics but sometimes it weird when the orca does a cork screw. We do have 1 question how do you perform a show with the orca? We would like to add more orcas and that you could have 6 orcas and that you could choose the gender so if it was a male it would have a tall dorsal fin and it would really cool if you could customize the eyepatch of the orca so all of them could look different. It would also be cool if you could collapse the fin completely to left or to the right for the males as well.
We love this game. We love orcas and dolphins but we wish there was more. We keep waiting for something to happen but nothing does. We wish you could earn pearls and not have to watch a video, also they need to add babies. More adventures would be very helpful.
Despite the fact that actual orca captivity is really bad, the game is a nice and appropriate place to simulate working with the animal! It's got amazing graphics and is super anatomically correct except for the movement, which tends to be too fast and the orca is too bendy. We absolutely fell in love with ours (which we named Tokitae, after Lolita). Really the only appropriate place to touch and train orcas, and they do so amazingly with the graphics it blows us away! Play this game and don't buy a ticket.<3.
They are called behaviors, not tricks.
Our favorite part of this game was playing with friends.
This game is great but we were thinking of new updates that could make the game more challenging and fun. One way to make this game fun is to make shows. Another thing that would be cool is to be able to buy orcas. And adding different ecotypes would make the game more diverse too. We also wish that the orcas had genders. And that there was an option to breed the whales. Another cool feature is to make every orca look different even if they are the same ecotype. It would be cute to see orcas actually doing something for example breaching, tail slapping, dorsal slapping, ect. Another cool feature that would make the game more challenging is to have orcas have personalities. Another thing that would make the game more challenging is to have orcas like and dislike each other. For example Leilani and Saunton may get along just fine but Leilani and Keilani usually attack each other (rather theyre fighting for dominance or one of them is submissive to the other) selling orcas can also be an option also making more enclosures would be cool. But we feel like theyre should be a requirement of how big the pool is.
This is a good app. Relaxing. Fun to play. We recommend it.
Whenever we open the app, while we play music,it crashes before we get to do anything with the orca. It very annoying. When we do not play music in the background it is very laggy then after a while it crashes as well.
So we got a notification while playing a game that our orca needed some rub downs and some love so we did that and a few hours later we were playing a game and then a notification pops up saying one of our orca care activities are ready to get started. BUT yesterday we wanted to do some proper orca care so we decided to pick one and it was vaccines. Well we had enough speed and stuff to start it so we tapped on the thingy and then when it said start we tapped on the button but then all it did was say we could buy it again. We did this with other orca care activities to see if it would work and not do the same thing the vaccine thing did but it STILL did the same thing. We ran out of pearls and decided to watch a ad for it. But we got NO PEARLS we still had zero pearls. We then decided to feed our orca some mackerel but we had to pay for it. The day before yesterday we had purchased some mackerel and we guess we can only give it to our orca once. Anyways those are the things that annoy us.
App wont connect to apple server, so you cant purchase more pearls to buy tricks.
We tried to dalload this app and it will not download.
We play but we when we try to watch ads for pearls we cant and have the watch for pearls option 24/7 but never get an ad for pearls either fix this or add a better earn for pearls method cause Im not wasting money on an app thats bugged.
Super fun! Just started. We love our pet orca.
First off, 1 we love orcas so we searched a simulator and found this. So we play for about 10 seconds and we're already in love with the game. This game makes us feel all war, inside. Because orcas are cute and cool and their friendly gentle giants. This game is the best.
Omg what a great game we love the graphics and most of all the animals.
We heart orca paridise and happy giant!!!!!!!!!!! Love love love this app so much fun! Although we never have enough pearls for like, ANYTHING only thing we hate about it other than that it's a lot of fun.
Was working fine and know it won't open at all. Really like it but will have to drop it if it never opens.
Hey we bout this game and when we play it,it just takes us out! FIX THIS NOW AND we WILL RATE 5 STARS IF NOT NO STARS.
We downloaded the game like an hour ago and nothing hapend we waited and it went halfway and stopped we're getting inpatient!!!!!!!!!!! This better be worth it!!!!! We'll Rate 3.
We love it so much! We love playing with our orca. Wish we could actually.
We installed the game on our iPad in January and after the most recent iOS update the game will not load up, crashes, no Happy Giant logo, just crashes. We like the game, plus we want to play with our orca.
We love this game. Since we downloaded the software update on our phone the app keeps crashing on us and we can't even play it.
We played this game before on our old phone now we have a new phone and we can download the game but we can't play it.
We tap on it and the screen goes black and kicks us off! Same thing with the dolphin paradise! What the heck is wrong with this game!!! Please fix.
Awesome amazing outstanding app.
This game is one of the only five games we have, and it's our favorite.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.1
- Size: 677.77 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: HappyGiant, LLC
Last updated: 12th March 2017 | Genre: Family, Entertainment | Developer: HappyGiant, LLC