Howdy, readers! For anyone who has animal characters or fursonas, I’ve found some good games where you can customize your character or sona within the game. However for those with characters of more obscure species, there may be less possibilities for you.
One is emuFeral, a game that is an emulator of Fer.al, a game that was taken down by Wildworks in favor of an NFT game called Cinder. Cinder was basically a copy of a specific land within Fer.al, and that’s it. I never played it, but I know about it due to videos. Cinder went nowhere. I’m going to say it right now, NFTs suck, in my opinion.
The emulator is accessed and available to download through a Discord server called fer.ever. Once the emulator is downloaded and you set up an account within the server, you can play fer.al as normal. Well, mostly normal. There are no purchases with actual money, and it’s easier to get the in-game currency star fragments in the emulator than it was in the base fer.al game. In regards to playable species, the emulator has a fox, in the form of the playable kitsune, a cat in the form of the senri, a bunny/rabbit/hare in the form of the jackalope, a dragon in the form of well…itself, a wolf in the form of the werewolf, and a horse or other ungulate in the form of the kirin, a bird in the form of the phoenix, a demon-sort of creature in the form of the shinigami, and a plant…fairy sorta thing in the form of the fae. The fae is pretty humanoid, so that may be for more humanoid sort of characters. In emuFeral you can use decals to add patterns like stripes or spots, or cover the default patterns and add your own. You can go wild with customizing your avatar. There are also accessories you can get through crafting, or being awarded them from quests or mini-games.
I made Orbal in emuFeral. Orbal’s colors do look a little different here, and that’s because her design has been updated, but I haven’t revealed it in its entirety yet. I suppose this is sort of a sneak peak!
Another is Furana, a Roblox game. Furana is a Roblox game that has numerous species morphs. A few I can name from the top of my head are fox, wolf, bunny, bat, dragon, manokit, protogen, bug, and cat.
Another Roblox game is Felandia. Don’t let the title fool you, you can create much more than just a cat, in the game. There is an in-game shop where you can buy all sorts of parts from, such as rabbit ears, a striped arctic fox tail, a canine snout, and much more! You can make pretty much any species to some extent. A few specific exceptions like giraffe, and snake for examples can’t be made, because you can’t remove your characters’s limbs, and you can’t have a super long neck. There is a lot you can make though. It may take a little while to get enough coins to be able to buy the specific parts you want, and sometimes it takes talking to NPCs that sometimes appear around the map, depending on what parts you’re needing.
For those with cat characters with realistic fur colors, Warrior Cats Ultimate Edition is the perfect game to make your cat. Sadly, the game is limited by realistic-ish fur colors for a cat, but otherwise there’s kinda no limit to what you can make.
Wings of Fire Roblox is another game based upon a book series, and it’s good for those with dragon characters. However, the dragons in the game are different tribes from the Wings of Fire book series, so if your dragon character is a species that is remotely similar to any of those tribes, you’ll have to improvise a little.
Of course, you can also simply look through the Marketplace (previously known as Catalog) in Roblox, to see if there are any avatar items that exist, that resemble your character or sona. If they don’t exist, you could even try to model your own, if you know Blender or another 3D modeling program, and how to make textures for a model.
Outside of games within Roblox, there are other games out there that are good options.
One option with many playable animals is Animal Jam. Animal Jam has two versions, Animal Jam Classic, which is the original, 2D version, and Animal Jam, which was once known as Play Wild, a 3D version. I will be calling Animal Jam Classic, just Classic for short.
Animal Jam has many more available species than Classic, and Classic is more restrictive in regards to what people without an in-game membership can use. So, I personally suggest Animal Jam. However if you want a more nostalgic play, for those who played Classic when they were younger, you could get a membership and play Classic. There is an additional way to get membership, besides paying for it with real money. It involves having an Animal Jam account that has both an Animal Jam and Classic login. You can buy membership with in-game sapphires in Animal Jam, and this membership will synch to Classic. I have done this method before myself. It takes a lot of sapphires, but it’s better if you prefer to not have a periodic fee of real money. You can get sapphires through selling items in My Shops.
Animal Jam even has a few dinosaurs and even unicorns and dragons, however the color customization for them is a bit different than most other animals, with how you get them in the first place.
Another, unexpected one are remakes of ToonTown Online. Toontown Rewritten and Toontown: Corporate Clash are said remakes. Both are limited in regards to available playable species. However, Corporate Clash has a few more playable species than Rewritten. I think my favorite of the available options within them are the deer, bear, fox, and koala. The customization Is somewhat simple. That’s how it was in the original Toontown, so the remakes emulate that. Of course, Corporate Clash has a little more to it, to put it simply. Corporate Clash has a different story, new gag and cog types, new playable species and so on. Essentially, Rewritten is more true to the original Toontown Online game, while Corporate Clash is a remake of sorts. I have played both games, and Rewritten is nice, but honestly I prefer Corporate Clash. In Toontown, gags are essentially what you use to fight cogs, the robotic enemies in both games. Gags are basically sorta like old cartoon antic-related things, like throwing food, water-squirting items like a squirt flower or fire hose, dropping an item like an anvil, joy buzzers, banana peels, and so on. There’s many more in the game besides what I described, those are just ones I can remember off the top of my head. You can get clothing and accessories for your toons through various means, such as buying them from shops, getting them during events, and sometimes even through codes you can enter into a specific menu within the game.
Another is Minecraft. Specifically, in the form of making your own custom skin, or using the character creator that Bedrock Edition has. The character creator has limits, but there are no limits with what a custom skin looks like, as long as it is possible within the pixel dimensions of the skin. I have made Minecraft skins of many of my own characters, and I’ve even made Orbal, who is my website mascot.