Coming from somebody who loves the pet site games that you spend hours on like Neopets and Flight Rising, I enjoy Pixpets quite a bit! It's a simple game with bright colors and cute graphics that you check through the day and that's about it. Which is perfectly fine and not for everyone.

The limited ways to make money make me feel like a kid in a candy store. Did you ever have that time as a kid where you got money on your birthday or maybe your parents would let you buy something when they would drag you to Walmart after picking you up from school and your mind would swirl with possibilities? Maybe you could that new game you saw on TV. Or maybe you have enough to buy a toy AND a candy bar!
Even though it can be aggravating sometimes, it makes each purchase feel rewarding, and watching my collection of items and pets grow over time is rewarding to me. When it eventually turns into a nearly complete Pixdex and Riverside Mansion I can't help but let the capitalist collecting demon crawl out from within me and scream, "MORE. WE NEED MORE FURNITURE. MORE PLANTS. ANOTHER MANSION. MAKE A WHOLE MANSION FILLED WITH TROFFINCH."

I feel like people forget that this is the kind of game where you make your own fun. Imagining the dynamic between your pets and their environment. Your Troffinch keeps bringing home furniture from hoards so you have the idea of a little bird obsessed with interior design. That in turns leads to the mental image of your Pixpet losing his mind while you place lucky soup all over your apartment.

You don't know how the cooking works quite yet so as a result you end up making sugar cubes and water flasks. You find out how to place items in your Usershop, you fill it with Jars of Air. You take it farther and make a Jar of Air advertisement featuring your goofy OC because the whole idea is silly.

I can see how people could be here for community or out of nostalgia, but me personally, I'm here to find some creativity and make myself laugh.
And I'm having a great time.