Pou
Pou is a digital pet game available on BlackBerry 10, iOS and Android developed and published by Lebanese videogame designer Paul Salameh (Also known as Zakeh on the Google Play Store), the game is similar to Tamagotchi, another digital pet. The game consist of taking care of an alien, which it's species is called "Pou".
The player's Pou, can interact with other Pous by visiting them when the game is connected to the Internet or play games with other Pous as opponents via selected mini games which have Pou-vs-Pou or PvP capability. It has user accounts in order to save and back up the game progress state, in case the device is cleared. The last game progress can be resumed by logging into the user's account. The users can transfer a Pou from one device to another regardless of the platform by logging out of their account from a device and logging into another; however the application version must be the same between the two devices. In 2014, multilingual support was added.
In 2015, on the now discontinued Google+ service, Pou's official profile announced a new game in 3D, however, it's still in development.
The game was successful, with the Android app amassing over 500 million downloads as of November 3, 2022. To the point that it has gained a cult following. The game's legacy was so big, that even a lot of rip-offs of Pou have been released. Such as Mou by hungrymousegames, Swedish developer Frojo Apps' games such as the Moy heptalogy, Meep, Joy, among others, My Boo franchise by Brazillian developer Tapps Games, and My Chu franchise by Latvian developer Kiku Apps .