As a long time Neopets fan, I take no pleasure in saying that this collection is not very good... Make no mistake: It's functional! It works! But it's not very polished, and could have been so much more. Especially for the price. TLDR at the very bottom, although I do recommend you read the whole thing.


For those who weren't around in it's heyday, the majority of Neopets games were arcade style score chasers, often inspired by other pre-existing game concepts (Some more heavily than others), with the appeal being able to receive in-game currency for use on the site depending on your score. They were by no means perfect, but for the time they were rather high quality! Cheat codes, easter eggs, hidden modes, a good Neopets game had oodles of content despite the simple premise.

With the death of flash, and with some of these games being over 20 years old, the idea of having a tuned up collection of these old games in a more permanent form is quite appealing! However...

As the marketing suggests, this is a compilation of 26 old Neopets web games, 100% remade from flash, into unity. There's also one brand new game added to the collection, bringing the total up to 27. While this sounds like an okay number on paper, as of writing there are roughly 250 games on the site. Roughly 10% of all available games.

In the interest of fairness, many games included in this count are from the sites early days, and are either extremely simplistic, or otherwise unsuitable for such a collection. Additionally, there are plenty of other (usually gambling focused) games that would lose their charm / purpose if these on-site mechanics were removed. Even after these deductions however, there are still easily 100~150 valid games that could have made the cut that are unfortunately absent.

To make matters worse, you don't have access to every game right away. As an added incentive, there is a short Story Mode of sorts attempting to link all of them together. Only once beaten, does the arcade / free-play mode open up. The story mode, unfortunately, is... pretty bad. Dialogue is awkwardly written, character and place names are often misspelled or just flat out wrong, and there are even reports of some game breaking glitches preventing one of the final games from being beaten, locking out the player from progressing. While there are reports that this is only in certain versions / platforms, and not everyone has encountered it, this is still a major bug. (There are also rumors that a large portion of the story mode was cut due to development times / cost, but this is still hearsay as of writing)

Thankfully, this can be circumvented with a cheat code, entered on the main menu (→←→←↑↑↓↓)


As for the games themselves, they work reasonably well. As previously stated, they aren't ports, but instead complete remakes. Mechanically, they seem sound, and do indeed scratch that nostalgic itch (although many of them have a certain "Jank" to them that I expected to be fixed in a compilation like this). Additionally, if you still play Neopets, you can link your account so you still receive the usual rewards for playing. There are also supposedly going to be other site connectivity features, but they aren't live as of writing.

However, with rebuilding them from the ground up, comes some loss of detail. In all of the games I tried, it seems that corners have been cut in places. Aforementioned extras such as cheat codes and easter eggs seem absent, some modes have been removed, and one game in particular (Meerca Chase), is almost 100% different from its original counterpart. For a product so heavily focusing on nostalgia, these changes are baffling.


While the original games were never graphical masterpieces, every game in the collection has been, for want of better words, "simplified" or "sanded down". Each game feels much more homogeneous, and many unique stylings / bits of detail have been removed in what i can only assume is an attempt to make everything fit together better. Personally, I feel this backfires in many places, robing each game of its identity somewhat, as well as obscuring important features / mechanics. This may be personal preference however, so your mileage may vary. That said, one game in particular (Pyramids), benefits greatly from this graphical overhaul. Having high quality versions of the cards is quite appreciated.

Music is another area where the ball is dropped. Many games are missing their original soundtrack, playing in complete silence. Others have their music, but only for the menus. Others again have their respective music, but don't loop properly, creating these awkward gaps of silence before the music starts up again. Some sound effects are also altered, but this is less common, and less impactful personally.

Finally, the overall menu system is quite lacking. Each game's unique theme is absent, being replaced with a simple yellow box. Some menus don't have indicators of how to close them, leaving the player just pushing the usual buttons hoping for the best. Finally, all of the instructions and theming text has been re-written, and it's almost a universal downgrade.


All of the above is already not super flattering, but there's one last detail I have been neglecting to mention. The collection advertises itself as if these games no longer exist. As if Neopets shut down long ago, or flash took these classics with it when it died.

Well, that's not exactly true.

The truth is, Neopets is still around. And all of these games are still there. Fully functional.

Even better, almost every Neopets web game, still available or not, has been long preserved in various preservation projects such as Flashpoint. Sometimes even patched for better compatibility.

Now, of course, this could change in the future. Neopets could finally bite the dust after 25+ years. Those preservation projects could one day shut down for whatever convoluted reason. And then, yes. this collection would be the last holdout for some of these games. But until then you have better options.

I would love to see some future updates to this collection. Fix the audio & gameplay bugs, gradually add new games over time, maybe add some development logs / behind the scenes stuff, and this could honestly be a really good time capsule of the early 2000's internet! Unfortunately, I don't think that's very likely... I can only recommend you get this on the cheap, and if you're a fan of Neopets to begin with.


+ Games function well for the most part
+ Site connectivity
+ An official archive is always a good thing
- Not many games in the collection for the price
- Games are lacking content in places
- Missing / inconsistent audio
- Art style is very generic, and games overall feel less "Unique"
- Rushed story mode, with potentially game breaking bugs
- Story mode is mandatory without cheat code (on the main menu, enter →←→←↑↑↓↓)

Can only recommend for hardcore Neo fans. Still want that Darkest Faerie port though!

This is one of those games, that I wish I could put a yellow middle thumb instead of red, but the enjoyment you will get out of this game wholly depends on your nostalgia and love for the minigames selected for this compilation. My only problem is that many of the minigames have been redone (not for the better). both Meerca chase and Ice cream factory have noticeable hitbox issues that make them much harder than the originals. It's an ok compilation, but I wish more care had been put into some of the games.

It's not exactly bad, but definitely overpriced and super short.

It's basically redone versions of 25 minigames from the neopets website, now with controller support, sometimes 2 player support, and more bugs than before.

They don't really feel better than before for most of them, you'll get bored of them after 10-15 minutes each.

None of my favorite minigames got into this collection, which honestly sucks. Also the new minigame? It's a rhythm one with no new music and very bad animations.

Honestly, I want to support this project and see even more of Neopets and Neopia redone for a modern audience, but this one definitely needed more time in the oven. And more and better minigames for that price.

At least you can get neopoints from playing the games there, but at this point I'd rather leave neopets into my past. Unless we talk about the darkest faerie...