# Meta launches AI virtual pet game Waddle World in the Philippines

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/metas-waddle-world-is-a-tamagotchi-like-ai-pet-app/
- Published: 2026-10-28T08:40:19+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T08:47:32+00:00
- Original publisher: Engadget
- Original article: https://www.engadget.com/2299227/meta-tamagotchi-like-ai-digital-pet-app-waddle-world/
- Topics: AI, Software, Technology

## Key points

- Meta has launched an AI virtual pet game called Waddle World.
- Players can journal with a pet that replies with text and doodles.
- The game is currently available only in the Philippines.

## Summary

Meta has released Waddle World, an AI-powered virtual pet game that lets users care for a pet and chat with it through diary entries. The launch matters as another example of Meta using playful, cute experiences to bring people into contact with its AI tools, though the game is currently available only in the Philippines.

Players hatch a pet, feed and play with it, and write or dictate journal entries; the AI pet replies with text and an illustrated doodle. Mini-games let players earn points to buy food and toys, and the app’s store listings indicate it first appeared in late September. Meta has not explained the limited launch, which may be a trial ahead of wider availability; the company is also planning an egg-shaped AI companion device for release in December.

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