Tamagotchi Paradise💖🌈✨ 1 Month Review
Recently, the sensation to own a tamagotchi at my big age of 29 overcame me. There’s really no other way to describe it. I was going about my life not thinking about tamagotchi, and then one day, about a month ago, it entered my brain that I wanted one and I knew this prophecy would be fulfilled. I grew up playing with tamagotchi’s (specifically Tamagotchi Connection version 2 and 3), and as a lover and collector of old tech toys, tamagotchi’s hold a VERY special place in my heart. The devices themselves are so cute and satisfying to hold and operate, but on top of that the characters, world and lore are soooo charming to me!! I even drew fan art of my tamagotchis when I was a wee babe:
I guess I had a tama named Lenzo that I was really attached to??? Honestly that tracks. Also peep that my first tama was named Basch after the Final Fantasy 12 character LOOOL
My favourite tamagotchis growing up were Kuchipatchi and Mametchi (as were everybody’s I think lmao)
But like I was saying. I had this thought cross my mind that I wanted to get a tamagotchi, and I figured I would get a tamagotchi connection similar to the ones I owned as a kid (I unfortunately don’t have my original tamagotchis). Then, I was texting with my sister, and she tells me she just ordered a Tamagotchi Paradise, a version of tamagotchi that came out in 2025/2026!!! I was stunned. We hadn’t even talked about getting tamas together, but it crossed both our minds somehow!! Our brains are connected I guess, because we’re sisters. SOOO, with this new and exciting news, I decided to also get a Tamagotchi Paradise rather than the Connection, so we could connect ours together and our tamas could meet!
And so I got one!! I’ve now had it for just over a month, and I wanted to give a little review on what it’s like owning and playing with the Tamagotchi Paradise as an adult who grew up loving tamas as a kid!
MY KIT (aka the exterior):
I got my tamagotchi paradise on facebook marketplace for $60, but you can also order it online pretty easily for around the same price (maybe a little more). There are currently 6 different shell colours you can choose from and this DOES have an affect on certain aspects of your tamagotchi, but I’ll touch on that later.
The shell I have is called Pink Land. It’s pink (and green!) and land themed lol. I was a bit limited in what I could get because I was buying my tama secondhand, but honestly all the shells are very pretty so there’s no bad option. I think my favourite shell is actually the Blue Water shell (for it’s aquatic, frutiger aero-esque properties), but I’m now attached to my pink land device, so I don’t feel like I’m missing out or anything.
For my tama “kit” so to speak, I’m rocking a hard shell case adorned with stickers, a screen protector, a 3D printed star accessory for the dial at the top of the device (the previous owner put this on!), and of course, a little charm heheheh.
IF NOTHING ELSE, I would recommend you get a screen protector!!!! These things scratch SO easily. When I thrifted mine, it already had a few minor scratches on the screen, and within the first week I managed to add another. Fortunately, the screen protector keeps things safe, while also seemingly hiding the existing scratches. You can buy them easily on Amazon.
THE SHTICK
Here is the lore of the Tamagotchi Paradise, according the to tamagotchi wiki:
“Thanks to all of the love the people of The Earth have shown to the Tamagotchi for 29 years, the Tamagotchi Planet became overwhelmed with the love, which caused a volcano to erupt with large eggs that were scattered throughout space. These eggs hatched into New Tamagotchi Planets, smaller Gaiatchi brimming with new Tamagotchi life. Caregivers entrusted with a Tamagotchi Paradise device must care for one of these new planets by maintaining the Tamagotchi characters developing in its variety of ecosystems; what ecosystems the eggs are hatched in, along with how they're cared for and fed, will determine which species will evolve and thrive on the planet over time.”
So basically, you’re a scientist looking after a tamagotchi planet, and raising and caring for different tamagotchis within different biomes. The Paradise features a dial on the top right side of the device, which allows you to zoom in and out of different fields of view, from the planet view -> biome view -> individual tama view -> cellular view. Yes, you can see your current tamagotchi’s cellular health lmao. I won’t get into it in full detail, but the basics of each field of view are as follows:
Planet View- decorate your Gaiatchi (your planet), travel to other planets, and connect to other devices.
Biome View- Decorate the biome your tamas live in with toys that they interact/pay with, switch between biomes, clean poop, go on an egg hunt (aka collect food).
Individual View- Feed, play and clean the tamagotchi you’re currently taking care of.
Cellular View- See your tamas food and happiness needs and its species. The symbols around the cell represent the biome your tama lives in, it’s favourite food, if you’ve maxed it’s hunger and happiness stats, and if you’ve made any care misses. ALL of these things will affect what your tamagotchi grows up to be.
SOME CRUCIAL INFO: what device you are playing on will influence what biome you start in, and what biomes you unlock. The biome your tamagotchi is raised in along with what you feed it and how well you care for it will influence WHAT tamagotchi it grows up to be. For example, I have the Pink Land device, so I started in the land biome and unlocked the water and sky biomes. But on the Orange Tropics device, the one my sister owns, she started in the tropics biome and unlocked the glacier and forest biomes.
So if you are considering getting a Tamagotchi Paradise, I would definitely look further into this! It’s important to consider not just the outer shell, but also the biomes and tamagotchi’s you would unlock!
MY TAMAS
When I booted up my Paradise for the first time, I was introduced to my world and asked to name it. Naturally, I named it “WURLD” lmao.
There is a leveling system for your planet, with your planet starting at level 1 and maxing at level 10. The levels kind of act as a tutorial for how to play and interact with the device, and you earn levels as you raise your first several tamas.
The first tama I got was Meowtchi. And I am OBSESSEDDDDDD!!!!! I absolutely love this dude, upon getting him as my first adult tama, he instantly became a fave of mine. I view Meowtchi as my reintroduction into my love for tamagotchi as an adult. Kuchipatchi represents my childhood love for tamas, and Meowtchi represents my continued love now into adulthood.
Meowtchi (right), and a Roar Young tamagotchi (left) aka teenage Meowtchi
Once I got my first adult, my planet leveled up and I unlocked the water biome, and was tasked to raise a tama to an adult in this biome. I got Imoritchi, who is extremely cute but unfortunately I do not have a good picture of tragically!! Here she is with another water tama I raised later on:
I then unlocked the sky biome, and like before, was tasked to raise a tama to adulthood. I decided this time, I would consult a growth chart I found online and try to purposefully go for the tama Magmatchi. Like I mentioned before, one element that influences what tamagotchi you end up with is how well you take care of it as it’s growing up. And in this particular case, Magmatchi can only be achieved if you make 6+ care mistakes. Care mistakes are made by having your tama reach 0 hunger or happiness for an extended period of time.
Now, is where I think it’s worth mentioning that the Tamagotchi Paradise is WAYYY less needy than the tamas I had growing up. And I think that’s a great thing!! I think tamagotchi knows their audience and understands we are no longer children with all the free time in the world. We have JOBS (tragic), and therefore don’t have the time to feed our tamagotchi every 30 minutes, lest it fuckin die.
However, it’s genuinely difficult to make 6 care mistakes bro. So in order to get Magmatchi, or any tama requiring 6 care mistakes, in which there are MANY, you kind of intentionally have to neglect it. And it feels BAD man. Here is what the teenage stage of my tama looked like basically all the time while I neglected it in order to ensure it would grow up to be Magmatchi:
I felt like I was traumatizing the lad. Once he grew into Magmatchi, I loved and cared for him dearly and made sure he had a GOOD LIFE after the trials he faced in his childhood!!
Happy (!!) Magmatchi (top left and right), with Magamatchi's species (bottom left) and cell composition (bottom right), showing the 6 care mistakes I accrued represented by the little swirly tornados.
After Magmatchi, I continued to raise more tamas across the 3 different biomes I unlocked until I reached level 10. And from that experience I would say that as far as care mistakes go, it’s not too difficult to stack up 1-3 care mistakes on a day that I’m in the studio tattooing. But 6+???? That requires neglect, which is a little sad LMAO. That being said, I think I still like the game design being this way, because if it were easier to make care mistakes, that would mean the tamagotchi would be needier overall, and a needy tamagotchi is just not intuitive to my adult life and schedule. It just feels bad though, if you wanna go for a specific tama that requires 6+ care mistakes and you have to intentionally neglect it, but I guess that’s the trade off.
THE GAMEPLAY
In my eyes, there are two main areas of actual gameplay with the Paradise: minigames and decorating. I’ll get into the minigames first. As your tama is growing from child to teenager to adult, you'll be zooming in to the cell view to check on its needs and stats. Taking care of your tamagotchi basically means feeding, playing, and cleaning it. There are 4 different minigames you can play with your tamagotchi to raise its happiness, and they’re all pretty charming, easy and somewhat fun. The minigames vary slightly between some of the devices, but on the Pink Land I have the games Arrows, Flags, 3 UFOs and Walking.
Walking is my favourite game because I love that it incorporates the dial! You play as your tama walking through a maze of sorts, and you use the dial to control the direction the tama walks in. The goal is to walk it to the flowers (or coral, or stars- it changes based on the biome), while avoiding the enemy fellas. I think this game is the most creative because it uses the unique hardware of the device.
Of the four games, I play this and Arrows the most. Arrows for convenience, it’s RNG based and you just choose the left or right arrow and hope it’s the same one your tama chooses. You can play it with one hand, and don’t really have to pay attention at all. And Walking because I enjoy it the most. In the game Flags, you have to press the button corresponding to the flag your tamam holds up, and 3 UFOs is a shuffling game where you have to guess which UFO your tama is in as they shuffle around. They’re both just fine in my opinion.
I don’t dislike any of these games, but sometimes I find them tedious. When I just want cut to the chase and raise my tamas happiness, I’ll sometimes just feed it snacks, which also work to make it happy, but at a slower rate than the minigames.
There are also 5 additional (and more fun!!!!!) minigames on the device, which don’t have to do with the tama you’re raising, and are strictly for earning money for the shop. In the stop you can buy meals, snacks, outside toys for your tama to play with, and decorative items for your world (as in literally decorating the avatar of your world which is called a Gaiatchi!). The 5 games available are (these names are so literal and funny to me) Feeding Baby Milk, Delivering Vitamin, Matching Meals, Catching Poop, Cleaning Dust, and Punching Meteorite. You can play easy, medium or hard mode for each of these games, and winning them will give you more money depending on the difficulty you choose.
I actually really like all of these, and think they’re genuinely pretty fun. My favourites are Feeding Baby Milk, Delivering Vitamin and Matching Meals, and my least favourite and the one I hardly play is Cleanin Poop. I was on the subway the other day heading to a friend's house and was just running the minigames on my paradise to pass the time. I really actually enjoy them! My only con about all the games is that I honestly wish they were harder!!!
The other aspect of the game is decorating. You can decorate the biome your tama lives in, and it will interact and play with the toys you put out. It’s very cute, and I find myself swapping different toys in and out often. You can also decorate the avatar of your world (Gaiatchi) with different accessories. There’s not much more to it when it comes to the decorating aspect of the Paradise, but I count them as part of the gameplay because buying decorations is what would motivate you to play the minigames in the first place. Also, personally, I have enjoyed decorating my world to be themed to the season, so I decorated it with a party hat for my birthday in September, and currently it’s wearing a witch hat for the Halloween season!!
There are also codes available online which you can enter into the shop and unlock hidden items!! You can find a spreadsheet for that here.
The final thing I want to mention about the gameplay is that a core part of it is… just leaving your tamagotchi alone. This is definitely not a device that you’re going to spend hours straight playing on. You kind of just do what you need to do and then let it go idle for a while until your tama needs you again. I check what the store is selling (it changes daily on a repeating cycle), and play a few minigames to make some money maybe once a day, and the rest of the time that I pick up my Paradise it’s to quickly check on my tamas hunger and happiness stats and tend to them. Don’t get me wrong, I also love just staring at the little dude hanging out and playing with their toys, but only for so long.
Some people have said that when they reach this stage, the mundane stage of the device, they find it boring. I’m personally not feeling that way, although of course the initial excitement has waned. I’m still finding it to be rewarding and I personally really like how lowkey it feels! There are enough other devices and platforms vying for my attention that it’s kind of refreshing to interface with something that has a clear start and stop to it.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Playing the Tamagotchi Paradise has kind of healed my soul a little bit. Not to be sappy or make it too deep, but as I said, I really loved tamagotchis growing up, and they still occupy a very special, wholesome place in my heart, so it’s kind of a special experience for me owning one as an adult. It’s not life-changing or anything like that, just really nice :)
I think that most people would enjoy the Tamagotchi Paradise, as long as you go into it with realistic expectations. Like I said, you will not be on this thing for hours straight, and if you think you’ll be bored with it after a month, I would argue it’s maybe not worth the price. You have to be able to appreciate the slowness of it.
That being said, compared to the tamagotchis I played with growing up, this device has a lot of features to offer! I didn’t really touch on this, but there’s a whole breeding mechanic, where once your tama grows to an adult you can breed it and certain genetics can be passed along to its offspring. So there are actually TONS of variations of the tamas you can get seen on the growth chart I posted above, and that to me feels like late game kinda stuff. Just messing around with the genetics and raising little freaks. Endless possibilities.
Overall, as you can tell, I really like Tamagotchi Paradise!
