Friends – Pengu, Bao & Mellow

Ive been playing this for a long time, so this review comes from a pretty deep-felt place. This game started off cute and simple. You feed your pengu, pet it, and play mini games to help level it up. Unlock in game currency through this to buy cute outfit accessories etc, pretty standard stuff for mobile apps But over time the app has become excessively buggy, and intrusive with ads. To the point I had to turn off system notifications and events because they were using the dynamic island to push sales for skins and the pengu pass, mind you, that had an EIGHT DAY timer. So if i didnt turn it off, it would always be in my dynamic island. The system ads (via notifications) got to a point where it was every couple of hours it would ping your phone, and then when you opened the app you would be hit with 2-4 pop ups for ads or the pengu pass. This is exhausting. If the devs read this, you need to understand that as a consumer the fastest way to make someone lose interest to using your app (and subsequently giving you real money) is to hinder the user experience at ever turn. A clean UI, with non intrusive ads that offer an improved experience over blatant cash grabbing, is the point. And finally, they are using AI generated art now instead of paying artists. So yeah, the game has fallen off tremendously. Truly a shame, will probably uninstall along with my girlfriend as well, and we have money invested in the game.

I honestly love this game. The only thing I don’t like it that even with every upgrade I still have a bug of some sort. With the most current upgrade I can’t see anything in the store as the boxes are all squished to the left side of the screen. Not sure which versions previously but have also had to deal with watching ads to open the free chest and then getting an error message and playing games when the entire app suddenly fully closes out like not even an my apps open screen. Again minor bugs but still annoying. That’s really the only reason I’ve taken off one star because even with the minor bugs with every update they are easy to deal with. Love using this to learn so much about raising kids with my love. The games are fun although I think the rewards should be higher than 2 coins for anything I’d have to play 50 levels just to get 100 coins. Also just updated it and the app now won’t load at all. The widget is showing not my Pengu nor the initials of me and my partner I am adding that I don’t update often due to how many bugs there always seem to be but I hadn’t updated in a few months so I updated the app yesterday and now none of the games are working. These kind of bugs make it impossible for me to enjoy the app. I can’t play games, I can’t earn or spend money other than cuddling and feeding. And even at that, soon I’m going to run out of money and my Pengu is going to die from starving. This needs to be fixed asap!!!

Omg this game is so fun basically you have a penguin and you get a decorate it and you could choose if it’s a girl or a boy you could also raise it with one of your friends or family or your partner. It is so cool. Also, you could buy clothes we can buy food and those mini games for me. I like this one called drill cause like it’s like so cool cause you just like all the nails and try to get like everything out. It’s so cool and more level up the more you unlock things and you can message like message text everybody not everybody but like the person that you’re raising your Pengu with and you have quest to level up and you could also feed it and if you want to sleep, it goes to sleep whenever you’re not active onto the game so you don’t even have to worry about putting it to sleep but yeah I love this game five star. I would definitely recommend one thing I would like is when you’re paying mini games could you like do it one many game cause like I get like three ads and annoying cause like I’ll be about a win and then here comes in so also maybe raise up the amount of going to get because like I’ve been struggling to afford food for but like OMG like everything is awesome. My love this game and you should definitely get it like just get it just get it. Just get it already. Do not miss out, but yeah bye