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Stay: Your Forever Pet!

Windup Minds

A cozy pet sim where you raise Ember, your magical fox-like companion. Bring her home, care for her, and venture into the Shimmershift together -- deepening your bond one adventure at a time.

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About This Game

Meet Ember, Your Pet and New Best Friend

Take care of a furry friend in Stay: Your Forever Pet! In this cozy simulation game, explore a whimsical world, collecting resources and earning goods to accessorize your pet. Your Ember will bring magic and mischief into your space and take you on an adventure in a fantastical land. Believable behaviors and animation make Ember the world’s most spontaneous and vividly alive virtual pet ever made.

A Day with Ember

Every day with Ember follows a rhythm. You start by giving her what she wants to start the day, getting her ready for what's ahead. You can spend your downtime together, then set out on an expedition into the Shimmershift to recover her magic and just maybe, find her pack. Back home, you celebrate the day's finds, care for her, and wind down before it all begins again.

Low-Stress Gameplay

Play at your pace. You and your Ember work as a team to hunt for resources, banish thorny weeds, and explore the mysterious Shimmershift.

Craft Your Look

Use the resources you forage every day to trade for treats, toys, pet clothes, decorations, and more. There are dozens of toys and clothes to choose from -- 70 at launch -- find an outfit that suits your Ember’s unique look and personality.

Expeditions to the Shimmershift

Beyond your home lies hers: the Shimmershift, a strange wilderness where Ember's curiosity can run ahead of her caution. Embark on expeditions together: thorn-walled blockades that her magic can clear, sudden dangers to shelter her from, Mosslings to chase off, and quiet moments of wonder along the way. Ember can't do it alone. You read what she needs, call her back when she strays, steady her nerve, and decide together which path to take, spending her energy wisely so you both reach the end. Expeditions are the heart of Stay's adventure, and the system we'll keep deepening all through Early Access: new lands, new challenges, and new ways to face them, side by side.

Features

Care for and bond with a unique virtual pet

  • Lifelike behaviors and animation respond to the world as it's happening

  • Explore a whimsical Shimmershift together

  • Interact with Mosslings, delightful critters sometimes mischievous, other times helpful

  • Forage for resources while walking with your pet

  • Trade resources to receive decorations, accessories, treats, toys, and more

  • Dress up your companion to express your unique style

  • Customize your shared virtual yard

These are the current features in Stay: Your Forever Pet! as early access. Additional content and new gameplay features will be added as the game further develops.

About the Team

Stay: Your Forever Pet! is made by an indie team who've spent their careers making creatures feel charming and alive on games like Plants vs Zombies 2, Peridot, and Beasts of Maravilla Island. It's Ember's second outing, following her VR debut in Stay: Forever Home.

Community Activity

  1. Stay: Your Forever Pet!Steam patch notes

    Hotfix 4

    Most Notable Improvements/Additions: Improved Ember's Find behavior to be snappier and more followable Fixed the bug where Ember was not listening to the Stay command even when…

  2. Stay: Your Forever Pet!Steam announcement

    Partnership Update

    A Major Gameplay Update for Ember This is a big one! 🐾 We’ve been working hard on making Ember feel like a more active partner throughout every expedition, from exploration and…

  3. Stay: Your Forever Pet!Steam patch notes

    Hotfix 3

    Visual Fixes End goal checkpoint lighting tweaked for better visibility The thorn vine now goes away after completing Event in Choked Path Fixed ember walking through tunnel…

  4. Stay: Your Forever Pet!Steam patch notes

    Hotfix 2.5

    Hotfix 2.5 fixes 2 more bugs that caused progression issues: - Fixed brushing particles/sound not playing when brushing, and brushing want progress not incrementing - Fixed the…

  5. Stay: Your Forever Pet!Steam patch notes

    Hotfixes Round 2

    Fixed more bugs that caused progression-blockers during and outside of the expedition: Ember can now recover on her own if she gets stranded from the player Ember will get…

  6. Stay: Your Forever Pet!Steam patch notes

    Day 1 Hotfixes

    Fixed bugs that caused progression blockers in expeditions: - Fixed a vine wall that was not-clearable in the Blightbound Plateu checkpoint - Fixed the end goal saying "Returning…

  7. Stay: Your Forever Pet!Steam announcement

    Launch Day / Roadmap!

    First, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has played, supported, shared feedback, reported bugs, or simply spent time with Ember. Launching Stay: Your Forever Pet…

  8. Stay: Your Forever Pet!Steam announcement

    6/5 Development Update

    Hey everyone! We just wrapped our latest playtest and wanted to share where our heads are at as we prepare for Early Access. The Positives Ember herself: This has long been the…

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