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Promises a lot, might eventually get there, but the owner is shady.
Pros: The art is gorgeous, they have variety, and it's got an active discord.
Cons: Calls itself an rpg but so far offers little more than basic pet site questing with extra clicking. Not much to do. Inactive forums because all the effort of building a social platform was left on discord. The staff have been caught lying and hiding serious issues. Users are expected not to complain.
I played Santae for a handful of months and while the updates are daily, there really hasn't been much of any substance added. Mostly just more items and cash shop stuff. Even the newer features are just reskins of the old features. What there is to do is locked behind hours long timers that you have to lower with items, but they have so many events that you're expected to use these items en masse to get anywhere with little time to breath or save up. They stated early on to be anti-FOMO, but in practice they seem to be more annoyed by that statement than anything. When users expressed burnout, the threads were deleted and the owner said the game wasn't about people's feelings. They were caught using AI art and retaliated against the whistleblowers before finally admitting it was true. As soon as the outrage started to die down and new users were coming in the post about the AI was unpinned in spite of people asking for it to stay up and the art still being used. When things start to get tough the owner goes on gift bombing sprees with emotional quotes and complaining that he can't have fun anymore without upsetting people and that just feels very manipulative.

Maybe Santae can give what they've promised eventually, but as it stands right now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I think the owner should step back and let someone else do the PR and that rather than constantly berating users with events, just release small and consistent updates to build up the game's base as the rpg it was promised to be. In spite of thousands of users signing up for beta only a couple hundred are on at any given time.
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Completely agree, I wish I was able to delete my review because many of the positives on Santae are completely overshadowed by the instability of the owner. The effects have had a negative impact on staff, users, and the feeling onsite as a whole. And when you can't voice genuine concerns, what's the point of a beta test phase? Or any phase really. Constructive criticism is how you grow, but Santae silences it any chance they can.

If they cared at all about this site surviving long term, they'd do as you suggested and hire any kind of PR.
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Beta, but with a great direction
Pros: Lots of pet choice AND pet space
Cons: Beta blues: needs more things to do
Santae has absorbed my free time between work and chores. There's questing, herding, First Edition name gossiping, and fishing to do. A lot of the meta gameplay is on the beta Discord channels instead of on the site servers, but the potential is so palpable. Everyone is really positive and hoping for greatness out of this pet site. The ability to morph your pets at will with dusts (color palettes) or figurines (species AND color) grants a lot of flexibility without commitment FOMO. The collections on site do leave a bit of FOMO for figurines: need more sources for the non-magical toys that every player wants to have to 100% their profile. Beta updates are nightly, which shows the staff is determined to meet their roadmap that was laid out in the Kickstarter demands.
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Absolutely in love with Santae
Pros: Great user interface, amazing and vibrant art, intuitive to explore, lots of fun customization, fun foraging and fishing mechanics, dedicated development team constantly adding new content and updates
Cons: Still in development, needs more mini games
I am an alpha and beta tester of Santae, and wanted to share my thoughts
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As someone who grew up constantly on neopets and marapets, I was so excited to join the alpha and beta testing of their spiritual successor of Santae. It is so incredibly nostalgic, with many nods to earlier pet sites, but also has its own unique identity and features. While it’s still relatively early in development (currently in beta as of October 2024), it is robust and has many features. I really hope to see more mini games added, since at the moment it is a bit limited. I have really enjoyed the collecting and foraging of items, and absolutely love the character design and customization Santae offers. If you grew up on Neopets, you are sure to love Santae!
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Pros: Frequent events, lots of mature and fun community engagement, dedicated development team constantly adding new content and updates. Kickstarter goal successful in under 30mins.
Cons: Its still in development, but updates and new features are constant and frequent
Review: I grew up on neopets, and very much disliked what it became. I love the frequent events, i love hoarding items for the events, because they make sure that you will use almost all features on the site for the events , i love gift-criming peeps (we send items to random ppl and call it a crime!), i love collecting items for my pets and my collections, and most of all, i love reading the stories that they write for the events. its gorgeous!
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