Nuerogotchi Game Guide

Everything you need to know about stats, leveling, mini-games, adventures, the shop, badges, and more.

Getting Started

When you first open Nuerogotchi you will walk through a short onboarding flow that sets up your pet and device.

Permissions

Grant access to Health (activity rings), Notifications (pet alerts), and Location (weather). All are optional but enhance the experience.

Name Your Pet

Give your pet a name (up to 16 characters). This name appears on the LCD screen and in chat messages. You can change it later in settings.

Personality

Write a custom personality or generate one with Apple Intelligence. This shapes how your pet talks and reacts. You can skip this and let the personality develop naturally.

Sound Settings

Toggle music and sound effects on or off. You can change these later in Settings.

Your Starting Pet

Every pet starts with a Beige shell and Green LCD. New colors unlock as you level up, shop, and complete adventures. Your pet begins at Level 1 in the Baby stage and will grow through three stages as you care for it.

Pet Care

Your pet has four stats that range from 0 to 100. Keep them healthy by performing five care actions using the A/B/C buttons on the device. Each action costs nothing and can be performed at any time.

Important: Hunger is inverted. A hunger value of 0 means full and 100 means starving. On the LCD, the "Food" stat displays as 100 - hunger, so a higher number is always better.

Care Actions

Every care action also grants 5 base XP and 1 coin (before multipliers).

Stat Decay

Stats change passively over time, even when you are not playing. Decay is applied every hour:

If stats drop too low your pet's mood changes to Starving, Dirty, Exhausted, or Sad, and you will receive push notifications (if enabled) reminding you to check in.

XP & Leveling

Your pet levels up by earning XP. The amount of XP needed to reach the next level increases linearly:

XP to next level = current_level * 35

The maximum level is 30.

Growth Stages

XP Sources

Care Quality Multiplier

The XP you earn from care actions is multiplied based on how well you are maintaining your pet's stats:

This means a single care action at 2.0x gives 10 XP instead of 5. Keeping your pet healthy is the fastest way to level up.

Coins & Economy

Coins (G) are the in-game currency used to buy items from the shop. There are no microtransactions — every coin is earned through gameplay.

Earning Coins

Daily Login Streaks

Log in on consecutive days to build your streak. Rewards scale up to a cap:

The streak bonus caps at +25 for both coins and XP (reached at streak day 5). Missing a day resets your streak to zero.

Spending Coins

Spend coins in the shop on food, toys, care items, accessories, eye styles, color unlocks, and elixirs. See the Shop section for full pricing.

Mini-Games

There are 15 mini-games, three for each of the five care categories. Mini-games trigger with a 10% chance after performing a care action, or can be played from the mini-game menu.

All mini-games share these rules:

• Duration: 15 seconds
• Lives: 3 (lose a life on each mistake)
• Controls: A, B, and C buttons only
• Win reward: 10 coins + 15 XP
• Loss reward: 2 coins + 5 XP

Feed Games

Catch the Snack

Food falls from the top of the screen in one of three columns. Move your catcher left (A) or right (C) and press B to chomp. Catch 5 snacks to win.

Recipe Rush

Ingredients appear on screen and you must match them to the correct recipe. Use A/B/C to select the matching ingredient before time runs out.

Food Fight

Good food and bad food fall from above. Catch the good food and avoid the bad food. Use A/B/C to pick the correct column.

Play Games

Copy Cat

A Simon-says memory game. The game shows a sequence of column highlights (left, center, right), then you repeat it using A/B/C. Each round adds one more step. Complete 3 rounds to win.

Rhythm Tap

Tap prompts appear in rhythm. Press the matching button (A/B/C) when the prompt reaches the target zone. Hit enough prompts to win.

Hot Potato

A potato bounces between columns. Use A/B/C to bounce it back before it lands. Keep it going until time runs out.

Clean Games

Bubble Pop

Bubbles appear in three columns. Press A/B/C to pop them in the corresponding column. Pop 8 bubbles before time runs out. Bubbles spawn faster as the game progresses.

Stain Scrub

Stains appear on screen. Each stain must be scrubbed 3 times by pressing the matching button. Clear all stains to win.

Sort Trash

Items fall and you must sort them into the correct recycling bin. Use A/B/C to direct each item to the right column.

Sleep Games

Don't Wake Up

Your pet is sleeping and distractions appear in one of three columns. Swat them away with A/B/C before they disturb your pet. Survive until the timer ends with at least 1 life remaining.

Sheep Count

Sheep jump across the screen. Count them and press the correct button when prompted. Accurate counting wins the game.

Lullaby

A musical pattern plays. Repeat the pattern using A/B/C in the correct order. Similar to Copy Cat but with a soothing theme.

Love Games

Heartbeat

A heart bounces up and down. Move the target zone with A (down) and C (up), then press B to hit when the heart is in the zone. Land 5 hits to win.

Pet Catch

Hearts float across the screen in three columns. Press A/B/C to catch them in the matching column. Collect enough hearts to win.

Tickle Spot

A spot lights up on one of three zones. Press the matching button (A/B/C) quickly for combo taps. Build up enough combos to win.

ByteQuest Adventures

ByteQuest is the adventure mode where your pet explores procedurally generated dungeons, fights bosses, and earns rare loot. There are 6 zones, each unlocked at a specific level.

Zones

After completing a zone there is a 10-minute cooldown before you can run another adventure.

Room Types

Each room in a zone is randomly generated (except the boss room, which is always last). The distribution is:

Adventure Stats

Your pet's adventure performance is determined by three stats calculated at the start of each run:

Stat Bonuses from Pet Condition

Keep your pet in good condition before starting an adventure for the best odds of success.

Color Drops

Completing any zone has a 15% chance to drop a rare color unlock: Purple, Indigo, or Red shell, or Orange LCD. These cannot be purchased in the shop.

Shop

The shop has 7 categories of items you can buy with coins. Some items are free starter items. Prices are listed in gold (G).

Food (12 items)

Plus 6 additional food items at various price points.

Toys (8 items)

Plus 4 additional toys.

Care Items (8 items)

Plus 3 additional care items.

Accessories (10 items)

Plus 5 additional accessories. There are also 8 adventure-exclusive accessories that can only be obtained as loot drops from ByteQuest.

Eye Styles (3 purchasable)

Colors (5 items)

Elixirs (5 items)

Elixirs provide temporary personality buffs lasting 24 hours. Prices range from 20G to 40G each.

There are also 6 adventure-exclusive elixirs that can only be obtained as loot drops from ByteQuest.

Color Unlock System

Colors are unlocked through four different methods: default, level-up rewards, shop purchases, ByteQuest drops, and badge rewards.

Default (Unlocked from Start)

• Shells: Grey, Black
• LCDs: Green, White

Level-Up Rewards

Shop Purchases

ByteQuest Drops (15% Chance)

• Shells: Purple, Indigo, Red
• LCDs: Orange

Badge Rewards

Eye Styles

There are 17 total eye styles that change how your pet's face looks on the LCD. Eyes are unlocked through leveling, shopping, badges, adventures, and one secret method.

Badges

There are 39 badges across 7 categories. Badges are permanent achievements that also unlock special rewards like colors and eye styles.

Care Badges (12)

Similar tiers exist for Play, Clean, Sleep, and Pet actions (3 badges each, 12 total across all five care types).

Streak Badges (5)

Minigame Badges (5)

Economy Badges (5)

Growth Badges (4)

Secret Badges (4)

Adventure Badges (8)

Personality System

Your pet develops a dominant personality based on which care action you perform the most over its lifetime. The personality affects how your pet talks in chat and reacts to actions.

Personality is determined by whichever care action has the highest lifetime count, but only after you have performed at least 10 total actions. Before that threshold, your pet is simply Curious.

You can also write a custom personality description during onboarding or in settings, which shapes how the AI responds in chat mode.

Daily Routine Tips

Here are some strategies to level up efficiently and unlock everything:

• Log in every day. Streak bonuses cap at day 5, giving you up to 28 coins and 35 XP per daily login. Missing one day resets the streak to zero.
• Keep all stats above 70. This activates the 2.0x XP multiplier on all care actions, doubling your leveling speed.
• Run adventures whenever off cooldown. The 10-minute cooldown is short. Adventures are the primary source of rare color drops (15% chance per run) and exclusive loot.
• Feed and sleep before adventures. Hunger below 30 gives +1 Luck, and energy above 70 gives +1 HP. Happiness above 70 gives +1 ATK.
• Save coins for expensive unlocks. The Pink Shell (150G), Legendary Ramen (150G), Caretaker Bot (120G), and Galaxy Cape (120G) are the priciest shop items.
• Win all 15 mini-game types. This earns the Game Master badge, which unlocks the Red LCD color.
• Go for Perfect Runs. Winning a mini-game with all 3 lives earns the Perfect Run badge. Winning with only 1 life earns Comeback Kid.
• Play at odd hours. Using the app between 2:00 AM and 4:00 AM unlocks the secret Night Owl badge.
• Chat often. Sending 100 messages unlocks the Chatty badge and helps your pet's personality develop.
• Aim for 10 badges. The Badge Collector badge at 10 badges unlocks the Gold shell.

Weather

Nuerogotchi uses Apple WeatherKit to fetch real-time weather for your location. A small icon appears in the LCD corner showing the current conditions.

Weather Icons

How It Works

• Location permission required. Grant location access during onboarding or in iOS Settings to enable weather.
• Updates every 30 minutes. Weather data is cached to save battery. It refreshes when you open the app or return from the background.
• Your pet knows the weather. When chatting or responding, your pet is aware of the current conditions and may reference them naturally.
• Fully on-device. Weather is fetched via Apple's native WeatherKit framework. No third-party APIs or servers involved.

Accessories

There are 18 total accessories that add visual flair to your pet's LCD face. 10 can be purchased from the shop and 8 are exclusive drops from ByteQuest adventures. Only one accessory can be equipped at a time.

Shop Accessories (10)

Adventure-Exclusive Accessories (8)

These accessories can only be obtained as loot drops from ByteQuest runs. They cannot be purchased in the shop.

Bracket Styles

Bracket styles change the characters that frame your pet's face on the LCD. For example, the default Classic style displays as {●_●}, while switching to Angle brackets gives <●_●>. There are 24 total bracket styles unlocked through gameplay.

Free & Level-Up Brackets

Free (Available from Start)

Level-Up Rewards

Shop Brackets (7)

Quest Drop Brackets (8)

These bracket styles are exclusive drops from ByteQuest adventures. They feature typographic and East Asian bracket characters.