Lady Popular gives you complete control of your own life as you battle it out in the fashion arena, decorate your apartment, juggle a boyfriend and more in the browser based game for young girls and boys. Available in either your browser (or one of the available mobile apps) you’ll be surprised by just how much depth Lady Popular holds behind it’s basic presentation and interface which hide a wealth of fun and gameplay. Players start out their Lady Popular journey by creating an in g...[Read Review]
IMVU is a social focused experience that is available online for free through a downloadable client (Windows and Mac) with mobile apps (iOS and Android) also available. Some elements of the game such as browsing the available chat rooms and stores is available through your browser however the chat rooms require one of the aforementioned clients. The game launched back in 2004 and has grown rapidly in that time to tens of million registered accounts and millions of items in its virtual catalogue ...[Read Review]
Animal Jam is a virtual world for children that incorporates real animal and plant facts into fun storylines that are supported by National Geographic educational content. Ideal for the curious child gamer Animal Jam also offers a range of social and game mechanics within its virtual world locations to encourage engagement with a child, tween and even teenager audience. Given the audience in mind Animal Jam avoids offering outside advertising in its game experience supporting itself through prem...[Read Review]
Second Life is a free to play online life simulation game designed to appeal to fans of the virtual world genre that want to go a step deeper with enhanced customisation and a real world inspired economy. Developed by Linden Labs Second Life has been online since 2003 for Windows and Mac with regular core releases occurring on 6 monthly cycle. With the added possibility of turning your game time into real world dollars Second Life has been able to maintain a thriving community of nearly a millio...[Read Review]
Smeet is a great social experience that offers you a platform to meet and chat with other social orientated gamers with a release in Germany in 2007 before expanding to other regions and multiple languages. While originally launched as a browser based game with the retirement of Adobe Flash Smeet has since transitioned to a Windows and Mac client with a similarly themed mobile version. The core experience of Smeet is similar to other games in the genre combining features that casual gamers will ...[Read Review]
Woozworld mixes a virtual world with social networking like mechanics and has been online since 2009. Despite being online for more than a decade Woozworld has retained an audience of players in the tween to teenager demographic by continually attracting the next generation of social gamers to its website and more recently the mobile apps. The social networking features has also allowed the game to retain some older fans who leverage the social network to stay in touch with friends made through ...[Read Review]
Club Cooee is one of the more unique virtual chat rooms available and is a great experience for fans of titles that merge social virtual worlds with games, vast avatar customisation and 3D chat rooms (such as IMVU). The game is published by Cooee GmbH and has a consistent audience of players of several thousands across the mobile apps (iOS and Android) along with Windows and Mac downloadable client. Club Cooee has all the fun features of similar games and includes 3D chat rooms to meet like mind...[Read Review]
Fishao (Fish Always Online) combines the joys of fishing, tournaments and virtual worlds into one place which creates a unique and enjoyable game experience for browser based gamers. Even if you don’t like fishing specifically you’ll find Fishao to be lots of fun given the socially minded community and collect them all long term goal that gives you a constant objective to strive for. Designed as an Adobe Flash based game in order to play Fishao following the retirement of Adobe Flash from modern...[Read Review]
Gaia Online is a blend of social and gaming MMO experience with its origins related to an anime based forum that has since grown to be deeper offering. In the current website iteration of Gaia Online players can connect with others, chat on the forums, play games and create their own avatar while collecting fashionable items. Launching in 2003 Gaia Online has had a long evolution to reach this point and while it has grown from a simple community forum this has not seen Gaia Online lack in popula...[Read Review]