Livly Island - Adopt Cute Pets

Literally the best game ever :) so cute and fun. I think the art style is so adorable and unique compared to other games. I love the livlies, decorating my island, and dressing up my hom. There’s new gachas every week and the first few spins are discounted which is great for helping you build up your inventory. If you spin a gacha 50 times, you get to pick any item you want as a bonus gift! Every month they give out a free 2k of the currency via a fun little riddle and it really comes in handy. New livlies come out every week too! There is always fresh content being added, including events for holidays and free items; they often update the app to make it better. You can tell they really care about improving the game as much as possible. All that’s missing in my opinion is a way to filter through our inventory to find items easier, and a way to post pictures of our islands/outfits to share with friends! These additions would make the game absolutely perfect. I personally don’t mind that we can only trade duplicate items because I like to keep one of every item I get anyway, but maybe also giving us a way to get rid of items we only have one of would be good too. But yeah anyways this is my favorite game ever and if you read this far you should definitely download and give it a try!!!! :D <3

This game is really fun and I have recommended it to many people. The community in the game is really lovely and friendly, and communication has been made easy between language barriers. I’ve played it for nearly a year now and the collections are really cute! Of course, the livly pets are all well designed and lovable, too. The artwork is great and the animations and sound effects are really well done, and the music you can get for your island is also really good! The only drawback is how difficult it is to recover your account if you get logged out. It’s tied to your phone, and you’ll be unable to make any other account in the same phone anyways, so I’m not sure why it’s part of the app. The process of contacting the company and multiple immediate responses over email, including having to resend the same information multiple times, took over a week and a half of back and forth. A lot of content in that time was missed (unfortunately it lined up with a limited time daily gift event I was looking forward to), without any way to recover or make up for it. I recommend making a note of your account information for yourself if you ever run into that issue, because twice since I recovered the account I’ve been logged back out again for no reason. Hopefully in the future there’s a 2 factor verification or something similar instead of a difficult to recover password that requires people to be contacted individually, I can’t imagine that is easy to handle on the admin side and will only get harder as the player base grows.

Ok I am not going to lie, I thought of playing this game as cutesy cozy chill game. I WAS WRONG. This game is intense! And I don’t mean there’s no cutesy cozy chill aspect of decorating and having fun with your Livlies (the lil creatures). What I mean is the TRADING. The clothes for your character and decors are obtained through Gacha mechanics and you get duplicates. You can trade fellow Livly players for other decor, clothes or even fruits you obtain through trees you plant. As a Japanese person myself, THESE JAPANESE PEOPLE DO NOT PLAY. I mean, there are rules. Like if you’re trading a Gacha item from current ongoing Gacha, and you want something from Gacha that ended, you better be willing to give them MORE. There’s N (normal), R (rare) and SR (super rare) rating for items, but there’s a wishlist count (how many people have this item in the wishlist). You better be tallying those wishlist numbers because they use that. Often asking you to match the wishlist numbers (meaning higher wishlist = sought out more = worth more). There’s typically no “reruns” but the game gives you special tickets that allow you to rerun gachas. There are also items from events that are limited time and cannot be rerun. Those items “costs” even more (i.e consider offering items with 2x more wishlist count than this item has). Considering the seriousness of trades, and bulletin board manners, is it still fun? YES. They’re feeding off your FOMO. And Gacha items? Yes they are cute and makes you want to rip open your wallet to pull for more. Livlies are extremely cute (by the way, if you’re new - Neopygmies are LITERALLY so cute just saying). It is worth playing but don’t go crazy!!