Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 10:26 pm
Pengu – Raise Virtual AI Pets – Game Review
Pengu – Raise Virtual AI Pets is a game from SLAY GmbH, first launched in 30th September 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 218,567+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pengu – Raise Virtual AI Pets Stand Out
The #1 virtual pet game in the world! For couples, friends and parents:
Welcome to Pengu: Your AI-Powered Virtual Pet & Friend! A captivating virtual pet world that combines the charm of classic pet games with the power of AI. Chat with Pengu, watch it evolve, and co-parent with friends and loved ones. Pengu offers more than just fun—it’s a companion that grows with you, adapting to your unique style of care and interaction.
Co-Parent with Friends & Loved Ones: Share the joy of raising Pengu with those you care about. Perfect for couples, friends, and families, Pengu strengthens relationships through shared milestones and co-parenting adventures. Celebrate achievements together and create lasting memories with your virtual pet.
AI-Powered Virtual Pet: Pengu learns from your interactions, forming its own personality based on your behavior. This intelligent companion brings the nostalgia of virtual pets into a new era, creating meaningful experiences that go beyond simple care routines. Whether you’re teaching Pengu something new or just having a chat, Pengu feels more like a true friend with every interaction.
Customize & Create: Make Pengu’s world your own! Personalize your virtual pet with stylish outfits, accessories, and unique wallpapers. Your creativity shapes Pengu’s home, making each experience personal and dynamic as your Pengu grows and adapts.
Mini-Games & Rewards: Play engaging games, unlock exclusive items, and enhance Pengu’s environment. The more you play, the more fun surprises await as you enrich your Pengu’s life, earning rewards that unlock new possibilities.
Pengu Widget: Keep Pengu close with an adorable widget! Check in, chat, and interact with your AI friend directly from your home screen—staying connected has never been easier or more fun.
A Virtual Friend for Everyone: • For Couples: Build stronger bonds through shared experiences and co-parenting Pengu. • For Friends: Turn every interaction into a shared adventure and make new memories. • For Families: Co-parent Pengu together, bringing generations closer through the joy of virtual pet care.
Social Fun & Connection: Pengu is all about sharing cute moments and fun with friends. Chat, send digital gifts, and celebrate Pengu’s milestones with others. It’s always more fun when shared with those you care about! Share your Pengu’s achievements, challenge your friends, and explore new ways to stay connected in this virtual world.
Your Virtual Pet with Pengu. Download now and see how Pengu grows with you, adapts to your life, and connects you with loved ones!
Virtual pet, Virtual AI friend, co-parent virtual pet, best virtual pet game
Pengu is free to download and use, and that will never change for our main features. However, if you’re looking to get the most from Pengu, you can subscribe to one of our optional subscription product Pengu Pass.
We currently offer Pengu Pass. The prices may vary per country and are subject to change without notice. Prices are clearly displayed in the app.
- Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
- Your subscription will automatically renew itself, unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
- Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
- You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings in the iTunes Store.
- If offered, if you choose to use our free trial, any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription to that publication, where applicable
- If you don’t choose to purchase Pengu Pass, you can simply continue using and enjoying Pengu Pass for free.
Your personal data is securely stored on Pengu Pass – be sure to read our privacy policy and terms and conditions:
Privacy Policy: https://web.penguapp.co/privacy-policy
Terms of use: https://web.penguapp.co/terms
This game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pengu – Raise Virtual AI Pets is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 7th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
You've been invited to raise your cute Pengu!
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Download & Availability
Pengu – Raise Virtual AI Pets is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pengu – Raise Virtual AI Pets 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:
Its just like raising a kid its awesome.
We love it, its great for bonding with friends and loved ones.
Why cant we buy co-parent pengu pass monthly, and only can buy it yearly for $70. We dont like that. Game was better before it turned to a money grab.
This game is so much fun to play with our sister.
This game is so relaxing it also help us bond a strong relationship with our partner.
Cute game keeps us and our bf interested.
We love this app ngl it has so many good things about it other then almost every cheep item is now it the pengu pass its disappointing they you cant really get much now because of it not to mention all spin to wins are rigged we can do the same one on 4 different pengu and end up with the same price on everyone every time we wish it was really up to chance other then those things it really is a fun lil app to do with your partner or friends.
The penguins need way too much attention it becomes burdensome.
We cannot just parent by yourself.
Im going with 3 stars and heres why: When we seen the ad for this, we quickly downloaded it with our fianc in mind. She also downloaded the game. Everything was fine for 2 weeks until good ol pengu pass started popping up profusely. But then we noticed the game loves to make sure you are very aware of the clothing items that you cannot buy without the pass. We get it. The thing is, the free items arent even that good Im sorry. The fianc agrees as well. Wait no! There is a good item or 2 here and there, our apologies! But we wish there was just a little more for the non P2P people. And when we play the games for coins and we watch the ad for x2, it NEVER gives us our x2 coins. Even with the watching an ad for free food or 20 coins, its a 50/50 shot if we receive it. Thats really frustrating. Besides thats, cute game. Needs a few bug fixes.
We love this game so much like it is one of our favorites and we love your updates but its so annoying how you need to get a pengu pass to do anything at this point this game is not free or accessible for everyone we love that you added a snooze button but you need a pengu pass for it you should at least let people without pengu pass to have access to the snooze button for at least 3 hours instead of 6 since if you have pengu pass you can use the snooze button less than 6 hours another thing is its crazy we cant buy nothing for us pengu any more because its all oh you need pengu pass for it which is annoying also and it is unfair that people with pengu pass can compete to win the drangon or animal pupu or get any Halloween or thanksgiving costumes for their penguin, you also can not do the poll which we really want to do but we cant do it we truly love the game but its very clear it is not accessible for everyone so it is making it less enjoyable this is why Im giving this a 3 but its a interesting game and this is one of the best raising a pet games we have ever played another slight suggestion is maybe add a few new more games (you should add pull the pin, fruit merge, and a knock off 99 nights in the forest game that is similar to the one on Roblox we think lots of people will play it) also it would be helpful to fix the bugs because we updated the app and we played tiles but for some reason it when we do the puzzle it does not show the tiles at all. In the arcade cause they can be a bit repetitive at times and on pengu you should let your penguin do online server games. But other than that the game is really fun and we suggest you should play this game even if their is some fixes that can be done hopefully you consider and add a few of our ideas we threw out their we would truly appreciate it and we think others will too, we are a pengu player for life. (One more thing is if this is a game for 4 year olds why do you need to have TikTok to get outfits we find that tom foolery it is kind of dumb when you think about what 4 year olds has TikTok PLEASE FIX THIS AND READ MY REVIEW so you know how to improve your game so everyone can play thank you).
Our friends and we all love this game but there are so many bugs to keep it from being enjoyable. The popcorn game doesnt give us an option anymore to restart when we drop 3 popcorns so we have to exit out. And then it doesnt let us get our extra coins at the end. The turkey pupu game keeps freezing after we finish levels and makes us redo them.
Our sister in law are raising one and honestly we love it! Trying to get our kids to do and our husband. Still learning how to work it b it all in all its absolutely fun.
We have been playing this game for quiet some time on diff devices so we had to restart just a few days ago but its so fun and interactive. It brought us and our boyfriend so much closer because we are long distance and its easy little things to do and communicate about and its just a fun game in general. Im so happy we get to play this and we hope yall do too.
Amazing and cute game fun with friends.
It's an awesome game wher you can take care of a pet with your friends or gf or bf we recommend it to everyone.
This game is perfect for long distance and this game can actually prove to your parents that you can take care of a pet. Thats how we got a cat and this game is just so fun.
We really love this game and it is really fun.
We used to love this game so much there's so much to do and it's really fun but then they put half of the game under a huge paywall and we don't think that's fair because before we had so many free options and things to work with a free pupu when it came out too and as much as a enjoy this game it's not what it used to be now you have to pay for almost everything and you can't click on notifications on the game or else it will freeze and break then you have to close it and manually open the game.
Pengu is a very fun game to do with your friends. You can do a bunch of fun games inside of pengu too. The little penguins are so cute and adorable. The only thing is you have to be pretty responsible for your pengu not to go away. You have to feed and love it almost twice a day to keep it happy and healthy.
The popcorn game isnt letting us restart the level of we fail. So we have to restart the game every time.
Fun app. Us and bestie are using it but there are bugs that either dont give us our points or the links to upgrade dont work. Would purchase a pengu pass if this was fixed.
Wasnt able to raise a Pengu with a Random person and the app is complicated.
The Pengu Hole game is broken. Its impossible to get past level 2 without purchasing upgrades, which arent even buyable. Whenever we watch an ad to get an upgrade in the mini game, nothing happens after watching the whole ad. This results in the game being unbeatable after level 1.
It honestly used to be really great for free users about a year ago. It wasnt until a couple months ago thats theyre constantly trying to shove a premium subscription every single couple of minutes. You used to be able to get decent clothing that you paid coins for, but without the subscription you dont have access to a lot of things.
Best game to play with your friends and loved ones.
We wish if there was more levels on some games.
Its fun to play if your partner Doesnt forget to take care of Pengu but its really fun and overall 10/ 10.
Well we love this because our mom doesnt complain anymore.
This game is so fun and entertaining we are raising a penguin with our friend and it is fun.
Fun to play helps with responsibility.
This game can have it's ups and downs but it's still fun.
Really fun to raise with your bf.
Im just writing this to get the xp for our penguin.
Us and our friend love this app its the best app ever.
Pengu is a fun game, we like playing with it but all the stuff is really over priced, a shirt for 540 coins.
Here since the beginning. Bought the no ads way back when. Now its trying to do a monthly subscription to Pengu.
The game used to be fun. Now its only updating for monetization. They havent added new rooms since the game came out, regardless of the constant new room coming soon.
Make a co parent pass that you can pay for monthly.
We dont like that yall want us to pay with REAL money for the cool and fun stuff when we already have to make the game money for the other stuff. Go back to not having to pay for this game its not fun when you have to have pengu pass to get cuter stuff even if you already have the coins to buy it nobody wants to pay for whats supposed to be a cute little fun app.
Amazing game to play with family friends, especially young siblings teaching them responsibility & have a set schedule to take care of these Pengus PS fix the popcorn game yall lie about the coin income. You will hear from our lawyer within the next 2 weeks. Shut up bucko.
Loved the game made like a hundred pengus with our friends overall recommended it with friends.
We love this app its really fun we recommend it.
Love this game! Its cute and for for adults and children.
This app really Helps us stay close with our friends and other people.
You dont have to pay for everything and there are so awesome game on this Theres another version of flappy bird, but instead, its with the penguin. If you pay, there are more better stuff.
Helped our relationship with our girlfriend.
Guys it's cute but like we're already bored.
Our friend rarely takes care of him so we should get full custody cause when it says were both taking care of our penguin it gives her credit when she hasnt taken care of him in over 7 months.
Honestly we just want the widget be customizable.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.23
- Size: 623.60 MB
- iOS: 15.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: SLAY GmbH
Last updated: 7th December 2025 | Genre: | Developer: SLAY GmbH