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Garden Eel Pet – Education Game Review
Garden Eel Pet is a Education/Simulation/Trivia game from Hiroki Yamada, first launched in 16th August 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 377+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Garden Eel Pet Stand Out
Over one million downloads worldwide!
Introducing the 「Garden Eel」 to this already popular game! FREE DOWNLOAD! It's real easy to raise your own pet in this game!!
■Raise your own Garden Eel on your smartphone.
■Watch how cute your Garden Eel moves. It's so soothing and therapeutic.
[Instructions]
This is a virtual pet app where you can raise your very own Garden Eel on your smartphone. It`s so easy to raise. Just feed your pet once every four days and clean its home once a week. This game app is great for kids and people who find RPG's and puzzle games a bit tedious. Try this game out! It's therapeutic, and a great way to kill time!
[Basic Functions]
- It's simple to raise. Just remember to feed you Garden Eel and clean its home.
- Like a real Garden Eel, it moves around in such an adorable way.
- You can give your Garden Eel a name. You can give it a new name at anytime.
- You can take a picture of your Garden Eel with your mobile device and share it with your friends over various social networking sites.
- The app also can send you notifications to let you know when your pet needs feeding and cleaning.
- All of these functions are free and do not require any microtransactions!
[Recommended for:]
- people who have always wanted a Garden Eel or already have one and want a virtual Garden Eel to spend time with everywhere and at anytime
- people who love visiting the zoo and aquariums
- people who love raising virtual pets
- people who want a simple game to pass their free time with something fun
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Garden Eel Pet is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th May 2022
Recent improvements include:
- bugfix.
Download & Availability
Garden Eel Pet is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Garden Eel Pet 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 like raising virtual pets like tamagotchis! C:.
This game makes us feel happy and its very therapeutic highly recommend getting this game.
The game is so nice, very idling, we love it, but the currency is so annoying and difficult to get and you have to wait such a long time to get some, we hope in the future you can add other ways to get currency faster instead of watching ad slop.
We have a question why are our eels coughing? Is this a bug or am we doing something wrong please if its a bug fix it, we dont wanna have to be worried that our eels are gonna die soon.
We had 4 els now we have 2 why do you they die.
Cute, but a little annoying that you cant turn off the music.
So we forgot we had this game and when we came back 1 eel died.
This game is really cute and relaxing, we got the black and white eel and then the orange eel and fed them and cleaned their tank and it was going well. Then we got enough hearts for a third eel and we picked the black one, and the first two eels keep hissing and fighting with the black one. Every time we open the app the first two eels are on the opposite side of the tank as the black eel and theyre hissing at each other. We dont know what we did wrong to make our eels racist but its very upsetting to see this violence and bigotry in our own tank.
We would give this a two because our garden eel would die every Day when we feed it.
From the title you know 2 things 1:we LITERALLY LOVE THIS GAME: and 2:family friendly!So technicly Im saying you should download this for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
We've had our eels for over two years now, just about a week ago we hit two years! We have bought everything we can and we still love checking in! We have issues concerning mental health but the reminders and having it live this long make us feel a sense of responsibility. Favorite game :) <3.
Hi guys! Our second review in the series so far! Check out our Axolotl Pet review and see what we did! Our garden eels have many different names, like Quyvie and Xalvio. They all are very good to each other. Though they wish this app had: (1:) decorations (2:) more to do (3:) time to feed and clean (4:) HAVING TO CHECK ON IT 24/7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [having to check on it so much is a game ruiner] Otherwise, our 41 days old garden eels are great and so is the app! We hope we can see you in the next review, Tortiose! Sincerely, Dogey_june.
We love our eels even though many have died.
This app shows advertising for vaping and smoking. Highly inappropriate for a 4+ app. Needless to say this was immediately deleted from our sons iPad, much to his dismay. Apple, do better managing your app content.
Our eels are amazing but two of ours bit at each other.
This game is probably our most favorite. Ive had this for about a week now and we plan to keep it. We love how you dont have to do annoying things to get money u just earn it by taking care of them which is really easy, its fun to go on there when you not in the best mood or you really hyper it calms you down and is just great we also really like how you can add more animals than just the eals we have 5 other games you made that are similar and still we gave them all 5 stars because of how great they are.
Theyre skinny and cute. Lulzies.
So far we have had three garden eels for about three days we just got the third one and we are happy because tomorrow is a new day where we get to have more garden eels mostly we just watch the ads to get our Garden Eels but still this game is a great game and we will give it five stars.
Everything about this game is good its awesome best game ever.
This game relieves stress it is an awesome game and we love the background music thank you for making this game we hope you can continue making more games like this.
We Go on every morning to feed and clean and watch as their happy faces squiggle about!:).
This game is so relaxing and the eels are adorable.
This app is so cool we have already 4 eels.
Love the game make some with more amphibians, birds and other small creatures as well as with reptiles.
This is a great game and is fun to watch, but everything that you can buy is very expensive.
Really cool and calming game. Its real simple you just click buttons to clean and feed but something is so peaceful about it.
We like this game a lot and we think the features are really cool it would be awesome to see some of the features transferred to other games youve made. Like the Axolotl game for instance, all you can do is feed the animal and clean the enclosure, Id like to see if many you can add one more Axolotl and buy decorations to to put in the tank…great games btw, it was just a suggestion.
Its kind of bad because we left for 2 hours and we lost both our eels and we did not even get our hearts back change this.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7
- Size: 123.46 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Hiroki Yamada
Last updated: 9th May 2022 | Genre: Education, Simulation | Developer: Hiroki Yamada