To an extent, what Neopets and My Singing Monsters have done well is in terms of the needs of virtual pets which almost mirror those of existing ones. My Singing Monster’s feeding and breeding is very similar to that of the real pets.
 
I’d say a lot of pet simulator games tend to mirror real life animals the most. Especially, horse games where some of them might pass away if you don’t care for them correctly.

Some pet sites have features in place as well where your pets will tell you that they’re starving or hungry, but generally, there isn’t any consequences involved if you’re not actually taking care of them.

Unless you’re taking care of a digital pet like Tamagotchi or a Digimon, then they’ll pass away on you. These games have natural behaviors like real life animals.
 
My Singing Monsters, Neopets and Tamagotchi pictures the needs of real pets. It's quite similar like the way you can breed and feed a real pet.
 
Don't all of them have the same behavior like real life animals do? I strongly belive that one of the objectives behind making virtual pet sites games is to make players get used to taking care of animals in real life.
 
Don't all of them have the same behavior like real life animals do? I strongly belive that one of the objectives behind making virtual pet sites games is to make players get used to taking care of animals in real life.
When it comes to realism in virtual pets, I think we also need to pick Neopets and Digimon because they did a good job in simulating virtual pets that look like the real ones.
 
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