List of Pou-like games

The massive success of Pou has lead into many competitors, as the original game has reformulated the virtual pet genre. Here is a list of some of the most well-known and most obscure of these games

Virtual pet games

Mou

Mou is a virtual pet game identical to Pou, which is released for Windows devices instead of on mobile devices like Pou. The game is nearly identical to Pou, the only difference being the character on the game resembles a baby Pou with an oval body.

Frojo Apps

Frojo Apps is an app developer based in Uppsala, Sweden. Its games are primarily of the virtual pet genre, which play similar to Pou. The company's mascot is a purple squid-like creature known as Moy, who currently stars in seven virtual pet games and more games of different genres. Frojo Apps also created similar playing games with different characters such as Loy (a blue boomerang-shaped character), Joy, (a light green character with arms), Meep (a blue character with arms), and many other animals such as Corgis, pugs, cats, dinosaurs, and chickens.

My Boo

My Boo: Your Virtual Pet To Care and Play Games, simply known as My Boo, is a virtual pet game by the Brazilian/Portuguese app company Tapps Games. The player takes care of a blue ball-shaped character named Boo, and the gameplay is similar to Pou.

My Chu

My Chu is a series of two virtual pet games created by Latvian digital artist Apofiss. The appearance and name of Chu is more similar to the aformentioned My Boo, only that the player character is green instead of blue. Nontheless, the game still plays very similarly to Pou. A unique feature in this series is that the player collects bunnies (akin to Poos from Pou) and trading cards in order to unlock some items. The second installment of the series features a little pink Chu called Bubble who follows the main Chu around, often interacting with it.

Bootleg games starring Pou

Pou Back Home

Pou Back Home is an unofficial Flash game involving Pou made by 5xplay.com. The goal of the each level in the game is to solve obstacles so that Pou can get back home. At the end of each level, regardless of each level, the person may get a predefined number of stars (usually depending on level score), and a glitch in coding in-game forced every level to be 3 stars (which is then considered a bug).