Dragon Games

Flight Rising

Our first game on this list, Flight Rising, is a neopets-like web browser based pet game. In Flight Rising (Which I will be abbreviating as "FR") there are tons of breeds of dragons to choose from, with new ones being added with regularity. You get to breed, dress up (most of them, I'll get to that), feed, customize, and battle your dragons. There are also lots of minigames, which is the primary means of earning currency to customize your dragons. You can even post in forums and share your dragons and talk to other players, which I find unique given that our current internet landscape has phased out forums!

Now, how is this game played? What's the appeal?

When you start the game you are asked to choose between 4 main dragon breeds, the Guardian, a dragon originating from The Fishspine Reef with a culture surrounding loyalty and protection, the Mirror, which originates from The Abiding Boneyard, a species that hunts in groups like wolves with intense voracity, the Fae, From Starwood Strand, a small, teeny tiny breed with a monotone presentation and emotionless expression, and the Tundra, from The Snowsquall Tundra, a breed that forms deep bonds with eachother but has poor memory and identifies others primarily through scent.

_{Flight Rising's four starter breeds. |https://flightrising.fandom.com/wiki}

Once you choose a dragon from these 4 breeds, you'll be prompted to pick a primary and secondary color for it, this is the only time in the game you get to choose what color your dragon is manually, we'll touch on how colors work on dragons later. Once you've chosen your dragon and it's color scheme, you will also get to choose what element your lair is from a list of 11 total, so this dragon, and any dragon born in your lair will inherit your lair's chosen element. Elements affect very little in terms of gameplay (and again, I'll get to what else it does later), and the most important thing about elements to most people is the fact it determines what color your dragons eyes are. The 11 elements and their corresponding eye color are; Water, with blue eyes, Fire, with orange and red eyes, Nature, with dark green eyes, Wind, with a lime green eye (often having blue accents), Arcane, with pink eyes, Plague, with deep red eyes, Earth, with brown and gray eyes, Light, with yellow and white eyes, Ice, with pale blue and white eyes, Lightning, with cyan eyes, and Shadow, with purple eyes. You can change your lair's element at any time after this, but it's only free the first time.

After you've chosen your dragon and set your lair up, you will be given a second dragon of the opposite gender, it will be one of the four previously mentioned breeds, and all 3 colors will be random. Following this, the main gameplay cycle of the game involves various daily activities. Each day, you can gather items in the gathering tab, to get materials to feed your dragons and expand your lair (so you can have room for even more dragons!), do various tasks at the trading post, which can range from answering trivia questions, selling random items you get from gathering, to getting to play with an npcs pets for extra coins. Once daily, you can also max out your "Lucky streak", a cap on money earned through the fairground minigames. Each day you can earn a total of 75000 treasure.

But what can be done with that money?

The secondary, and arguably funnest & most important gameplay cycle of FR is the dragon customization. With the money you earn through the fairgrounds you can buy several things to customize your dragons.

DRAGON BREEDS & CUSTOMIZATION

Fr has a very elaborate customization system. There's a lot to explain here, so bare with me.

Firstly, let's address the breed system.

There are "modern" breeds, dragons that fall under the modern breed category can interbreed with other modern species, and can be dressed in apparel. These are considered the "main" group of dragons. The second category of breed are "ancient breeds". Ancient dragons can only breed with other ancients of the same species. And, they cannot wear apparel! However, their tertiary genes are extra special and add linebreaking effects, like a medusa mane!

Continuing on with the breeding system, dragons have several inheritable variables. Firstly, there are colors. Dragons have 3 color slots, a primary, secondary, and tertiary. The first color effects the body of the dragon, and the second one affects their wings and other features like manes. The third color is reserved for special accents. When you start the game your dragon will only have 2 of these 3 colors visible.

Now, you may have caught on by now that dragons can breed with eachother. When two dragons breed, the game will mix and match genes from the two parents. How the genetics inhereted by any offspring is calculated depends on a rarity system each gene has (which is too complex for me to get into, you can play around with it on your own time if this game interests you!). If both parents have the same genes then the hatchlings will inheret them 100% of the time.

Color works a little differently. Dragons can have any color in any of the PST slots. When two dragons are bred together the game will pick a color from between the range of either parent.

Dragons can also have their breed changed. Some breed changes cost premium currency, some can be obtained only through events and gameplay, and others can be bought for regular currency. There is only 1 breed you can not change your dragon to: The Imperial. Imperials can only be gotten by breeding other Imperials, so it's wise to keep them Imperials as they cannot EVER be changed back! Breeds are also inheritable, and the game will pick your hatchling's species from either parent at random.

A basic example of this system is: Dragon A has a tiger pattern primary, no secondary pattern, and an underbelly tertiary, and each of his colors are a different shade of blue. Dragon B has a tiger primary pattern, a blotched secondary pattern, and a spike tertiary, each of her colors are a shade of red. When these two dragons breed, their offspring will be any color that is either blue and red, or is between blue and red, they will always have a tiger primary, some of them will have no secondary pattern, and the tertiary will be split 50/50. The offspring will also inheret YOUR lair's element (Not the parents!) Hopefully this explains the breeding mechanic well enough to get the gist.

In addition to genetics, there are also eye types. Basically dragons can be born with a random eye type, which can change the shade their eyes are, change their pupil shape, give them extra eyes, etc. Some eye types can ONLY be obtained by purchasing eye vials or getting them from rare site events and then applying them to your dragons. But the majority of them can be hatched from a dragon naturally. As far as I know, these are not inheritable or determined by the parents.

The final thing about the breeding system: Your dragon has a lineage list on the right of its stats. This shows its offspring, and its parents (if it has them). You cannot remove dragons from a lineage list, some people hate seeing that their dragons have had random hatchlings in that list, so be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that you're okay with this before breeding your dragons. Also, name your dragons and hatchlings before selling or giving them to other players; there's a system I'll bring up later called exalting that permanently erases dragons from the game and when they're gone they cannot be renamed, and having a bunch of dragons in your offspring list unnamed can be a real bummer. But this is often a personal preference.

Next, let's talk about the dressup system.

This system is significantly less complex, you can buy & obtain apparel from site activities and use them to dress your dragons up. Only modern breeds and adult dragons can be dressed. Clothing ranges from hats, pants, shirts, armor; to accessories like swords, bows, flowers, and even pets like snakes, and chickens. Apparel's order can be manually rearranged to prevent and minimize clipping. Some apparel, Like Marvas cloak (which makes the dragon and anything layered below it invisible) have special effects.

Aside from apparel, there are also skins, which unlike apparel can also be used on babies and ancients. Skins are a cosmetic item that covers up some or all of your dragon, and there are two categories of skins. A full blown skin, which covers the majority of your dragon, and accents, which only cover a teeny bit of it. Skins can be obtained from the coliseum, elemental events (we'll get to those later too), or from other players. Skins can be created BY the player base by buying skin blueprints with premium currency. You basically just get a psd you can draw on, you submit it to be reviewed and then you'll recieve your skin and can put it on your dragons or sell it. For some players this is a very fundamental way to make money in the game as others may commission artists on the forums to draw skin designs for them!. Skins can be used WITH apparel, and since a skin can look like nearly anything, can be a way to give ancients the illusion of having apparel.

Next, there's scenes, vistas, and effects. Scenes give your dragons a background to stand on, vistas are used to customize your forum icon; but can also give dragons a decorative border next to their bios, and effects are a little more vague. They are a recent addition and can add extra effects over or under clothing in tandem WITH skins and apparel, some of them can be animated. All 3 of these things can be used by any dragon, modern, ancient, or hatchling.

There are also special cosmetic items you can use on dragons, the pose swap lets you change between a dragon's gender pose, the mirror scroll flips the direction the dragon is facing, and permababy scrolls make a dragon a baby that never grows up (this can be reversed with an aging scroll however). This dragon is fundamentally a baby to the game and cannot be used in coliseum or for breeding, but if they have been bred before or leveled in the coliseum that information will be retained.

Finally, You can give your dragons familiars, all dragons can use familiars. This is the most basic customization system. Familiars can be bought, traded for, or obtained through site activities. You give them to a dragon and can bond with them once a day for bonus currency, rare items, and loot chests. There are HUNDREDS of familiars, and you can name them too. They are arguably one of the most important features of the game; so you should definitely be giving your dragons familiars and bonding them every day!

Okay, That's the basics of the customization system. I have a dragon that's fully decked out: Now what?

So, there's a lot of things you can do with this dragon. If you're inclined, you can breed it with another dragon, Train it up in the coliseum (a minigame where you can level your dragons up and defeat monsters for various loot), Share it in the forums; Or write it lore! Lore writing is one of the most beloved parts of the game to the majority of the community. Below your dragon's stats you'll see a little box. You can type anything you want in it and make up stories for your dragons. It also supports code so you can format it to look pretty! Roleplaying is an aspect of this game many users enjoy, so you can also take your dragon on these adventures and add them to its bio later.

Also, at some point, the developers will be adding an mmo-like mode to the game where you can walk around as your dragon in an open space and interact with other players, kind of like club penguin. A story mode rpg type of gameplay will be added in the future too, and it's been said you can use those dragons in that mode when it's available as well! Pvp coliseum is also slated to be coming soon.

If you ever get bored of your dragon, you can always resell it to another player or exalt it (which deletes it from the game forever), but you can also buy new dragons and give it some friends!

Obtaining dragons

However, the most interesting way to get new dragons is unhatched eggs. Unhatched eggs are a VERY rare item that generate 1 new dragon with random colors. Part of what makes them special is that these dragons have NO parents, meaning their lineage list is short. There are several types of unhatched eggs; here is a comprehensive list:

Unhatched elemental eggs: Water, Fire, Nature, Wind, Earth, Light, Arcane, Ice, Lightning, Plague, and Shadow eggs. These eggs will hatch one of the four starter type dragons, and it's element will match the type of unhatched egg it came from. They can only be obtained by gathering or fighting in the coliseum, with a less than 1% chance of dropping from battle.

Unhatched Bogsneak eggs: Unlike the elemental eggs, this egg can be generated by the user at nearly any time. One of the trading post activities involves brewing items to use on your dragons; and this is one of the things you can craft. It is very expensive and time consuming to create but it's the easiest way to get unhatched eggs. It will hatch a Bogsneak breed dragon with a random element and random color scheme.

Unhatched Nocturne eggs: This egg can only be obtained during Night of the Nocturne in December, one of the game's several yearly events. They are not hard to obtain during the event, they are arguably easier to get than the Bogsneak and Element eggs but because they are locked to 3 weeks in december they are a little bit less accessible. They will hatch a random element & random color Nocturne dragon.

Finally, the game has given out unhatched eggs for special events in the past, usually containing newly released breeds, and likely will in the future, unlike other unhatched eggs these ones can not be traded and must be hatched to get rid of them, the dragons that hatch out of them CAN be traded and sold however. So if you're a new player there's no way to get these; but there will be more event gift eggs in the future!

Another thing about eggs that makes them unique is their rarity makes them extremely valuable. Some people opt to sell them when they get them instead of hatching them. They usually sell for around 200 gems, the website's premium currency. This makes selling eggs the most reliable way to gain premium currency without having to spend real life money on it. As a result, lots of people farm Nocturne and Bogsneak eggs to resell. If you're a new player or f2p and want lots of gems I definitely reccommend doing this to make money.

However, Hatching eggs can be like gambling. Occasionally you'll hatch a dragon out of an egg worth way more than the egg was. A dragon with no parents, which I'll call a G1 from here out, where 2 or all 3 of its colors are the same can be worth thousands of gems. Sometimes G1 dragons where all 3 colors are different can be worth a lot too, but that market is a lot more unstable and more often than not you will not make back the value of the egg by hatching it, however it's still fun to gamble an egg and see what's inside. You might get lucky!

On this note, how do we go about making money? And what about site activities?

Money and Activities

So, FR has LOTS of activites, most of which are extra money making avenues. The game has two main currencies; Treasure, the normal currency you get from fairgrounds and other site activities, and gems, the premium currency you get from opening the chests you get from familiar bonding, trading with other players, and selling things on the auction house. It can also be bought for real life money.

Firstly, the main activity of the site, and what most consider the greatest way to make a LOT of money; the dominance system.

Dominance is a system that determines which of the 11 elements, referred to as "flights" will be gaining bonuses for the week. Dominance is determined by the exalt to active dragons ratio. It's a group effort that everyone in their respective flight can contribute to, and if your flight places EVERYONE in the flight will recieve the bonus; regardless of if they helped or contributed. Here is an excerpt from the game's dominance page:

"The realm is embroiled in a perpetual conflict called Dominance. Dominance is determined by a flight's dedication to exalting dragons. These dragons leave their home lairs to forever serve under their elemental deity, using their combined power to help combat the other flights. Each Saturday, the top three flights with the highest ratio of exaltations will receive special bonuses for the following week. However: If the Beastclans secure one of the three top slots, no flight will receive that slot's bonuses."

You can pretty much ignore the beastclan thing. It has to do with the game's lore and isn't really that important. It's basically the game's way of saying no one placed 1st/2nd/3rd for the week.

The dominance bonuses are the following:

1st place: 15% off Marketplace Treasure items, 5% off Lair Expansions, +1500 Treasure a day, +3 Gathering turns a day

2nd place: 7% off Marketplace Treasure items, 1% off Lair Expansions, +750 Treasure a day +2 Gathering turns a day

3rd place: +375 Treasure a day, +1 Gathering turns a day

However, there is actually one more incentive to participate in dominance: Exalt bonuses.

Exalting is a system where you basically delete the selected dragon from the game forever, for a small amount of money. But there are things you can do to make more money from exalted dragons.

First, there's daily exalt bonuses. A certain color, gene, or breed, being matched when exalting will give you extra money. Secondly, dragons with a higher level will give you larger exalt bonuses; the typical best level to exalt at in terms of amount of time it takes to the amount of money you earn is about 5-7. People will often buy dragons from the auction house in bulk and level them all up to exalt all at once. This can make you huge amounts of money if you put in the work but it requires more effort than maxing your lucky streak.

Speaking of, what about leveling and the coliseum?

So, the coliseum is basically Pokemon. You fight in a team of 3 of your dragons against monsters, that also have their own elements. There is a rock paper scissors mechanic akin to Pokemon but frankly the element/weakness system is something that never really affected my gameplay, personally. Your dragons cap at level 20 and you unlock new venues as they level up. You can bring low leveled dragons into higher leveled areas of the coliseum with your strongest dragons to level them for exaltion fast! Any Adult dragon is eligible to be used in the coliseum, modern or ancient.

The coliseum consists of turn-based combat, your dragons can use magic / element based attacks or physical attacks, and some attacks like eliminate; are gamebreakingly good and make the grinding of items and levels way easier. There is a slot system to change/give dragons new moves, and to give them stat bonuses. Dragons also gain stat points when they level up and you can choose to put them into any stats you want. The system is fairly complicated in terms of how to properly min-max your dragons, but that's the basics. I recommend reading this guide if you want to learn more! How to train your Dragon: By Duke

Each area of the coliseum also has different monsters, each with their own loottables, dropping items, food, apparel and other cosmetics.; some of this loot can be extremely valuable to resell or you can use it in creating new items for your dragons or unlocking den slots, speaking of;

Let's talk lair and den space!

So, the lair in which your dragons live have limited space. The primary lair, can only be upgraded with treasure. You start with 10 slots and can buy upgrades in increments of 5, with the current max being 220 slots, the price goes up every time you upgrade, and getting them all will cost 31,970,000 treasure total.

There's also the hibernal dens. Hibernal dens are a little different; dragons in the hibernal dens are "sleeping"; meaning they cannot be fed, cannot bond with familiars, and cannot breed or be used in the coliseum. They can still be dressed and customized however. The hibernal dens have 2 means of unlocking slots; With items, or with gems. You start with 5 hibernal den slots, 105 slots can be unlocked with 50 gems each (never changing in price), and you can unlock 395 slots with items.

Combining the main lair and the hibernal dens, this is a total of nearly 800 slots for dragons! Wow! The game also regularly adds new item tasks and sometimes expands the main lair cap too, so you won't have to worry about ever having to permanently run out of space.

There are other uses for items in the game besides den tasks, so let's touch on those!

Trading post & Items

I briefly mentioned the trading post previously, so let's give it a little more attention.

The trading post is an area of the website that holds some of the daily activities. The current daily activities are:

Tomo's Trivia Tablet: A trivia game asking you questions about the gameplay and the website's lore, you get a little treasure for every correctly answered question, and sometimes bonus items! It's run by Tomo (a blue Snapper dragon) and Scribbles (her Fae companion that writes your answers down for her.) You can play here once a day.

Crim's Collection Cart: A random item exchange stand. Crim (a Tundra) will ask you to bring her random items once an hour, for a little bit of treasure because she loves to collect them. She will also drop fest currency when it's available too, so this is a good way to make elemental currency during flight events.

Pinkerton's Plundered Pile: Pinkerton (also a Tundra) is Crim's brother, and total opposite. Once a day he will give you a free item that he stole from Crim in an attempt to shrink her hoard, this can be apparel, coliseum gear, to completely useless and random crap. Sometimes he gives you REALLY good items, so he's worth checking daily.

Swipp's Swap Stand: Here you can trade items with Swipp and his daughters Tripp and Pipp (All Faes) for other items, you will usually be giving up garbage for things like gene scrolls, familiars, apparel, and scenes. These items are exclusive to his stand; so it's worth checking regularly to see if he has anything you need, These can also often be resold for a lot of money or be used for certain den tasks. This resets every 2 hours for a total of 12 cycles a day.

Roundsey's Raffle Roulette: A roulette run by Roundsey (a Spiral dragon). Each raffle runs for 1 week and often has rare or retired items available, as well as developer generated g1 dragons, these are particularly valuable g1s so it's worth entering if you see one you like! You can buy as many tickets as you can afford. The more you buy the higher a chance you have of winning. This is something all players on the site can participate in, so you're gambling against others!

Baldwin's Bubbling Brew: This one is a little different. Run by Baldwin (a Bogsneak), You can craft exclusive items here. It's similar to Swipp; but the items don't reset and require more steps. You can transmutate items down into different types of slop, which can be turned into apparel and familiars directly, or turned into a better kind of slop, to make even better slop, to make REALLY good apparel and gene scrolls; including Bogsneak eggs. Items are locked behind a leveling system. You can also make skins during flight events here. This is a fun thing to casually interact with, and like Swipp; the exclusive items are often needed to unlock den tasks or can be resold for a pretty penny. This is something you want to start working on from the beginning because it will suck to not have those levels unlocked when you need a specific item.

Galore's Glorious Gifts: This one can be mostly ignored. It's used to give players rare and special items during HUGE events, like new breed releases, or anniversaries. You will get a ping notification when a gift is available; But gifts must be claimed within a certain time window or they will go away, So it's best to check your pings and the site news often, as they will announce when he has a gift for you. It's run by Galore the Guardian dragon.

Fiona's Fantastic Familiars: Here you can bond with 8 of Fiona's (a Skydancer) random familiars in the game, Once a day. This has the same benefits as bonding with your own familiars, you get the treasure, random rare item drops, and chests. You also get bonus treasure if one of your dragons has the same familiar she offers, Too! In the feats tab, you will also be able to receive gifts like special familiars and treasure for completing certain familiar goals. But be aware: the rare familiars you can get from her are exclusive from her trading stand, and are limited to 1 per account, so be careful with reselling.

Finally there's Arlo's Ancient Artifacts:, run by Arlo the Obelisk. Once a day you can gather resources to mine plots. Each plot has it's own special items, including gene & breed scrolls, apparel, familiars, and scenes. You can mine these plots indefinitely and collect the prizes several times. You can also send some resources to people on your friends list (and similarly receive them) to make mining the plots faster!

NOTE: THE TRADING POST (AS WELL AS FAMILIAR BONDING AND YOUR LUCKY STREAK) WILL RESET DAILY AT 3AM EST!!!

Flight fests, holidays, and Grand Exchange.

Flight fests are events celebrating every element in the game. They happen once a month from january-november at the end of the month, with each element having 1 event a year. During flight fests, you can buy apparel, genes, familiars, and scenes, from Joxar the Mirror in exchange for element currency; a special currency used JUST for said element's event. Element currency never expires and can be used for next year's event. Skins can also be bought from Joxar for treasure. Skins, apparel, and familiars, all will be retired permanently after a flight event is over and the only way you can get them after that is from other players, Roundsey raffles, Or from a JoxBox. The gene and scene will return the next year.

The community usually has dom pushes that result in the flight the festival is about winning dominance for the week, and any flight in dominance will receive a discount at Joxar's stores.

In addition to selling you flight themed goods, Joxar also has an additional store where you can buy recolors of retired flight fest familiars and apparel. These will never vanish from his store, but it's only opened during flight events and they can only be bought with a special token, The Prismatic token, gained from a Spare inventory crate; also known as a Joxbox, or brewed at Baldwins. Joxboxes contain retired fest items and familiars, but not all of them; Only some of them have and will be added to the Joxbox, and it's luck based. You will usually get 1-3 items from a Joxbox, with very valuable items only resulting in 1 item. A spare inventory crate costs 80000 treasure.

There are also 3 other grand exchange stores that are always open, Acclaimed Achievements Association, run by a Wildclaw named Avery, where you can spend achievement points (points rewarded to you for special feats like hatching certain types of dragons, beating certain enemies in coliseum, etc) For apparel, scenes, genes, and familiars. There's also Glass and Gloss's Genuine Genes, Run by an Aberration named Glass & Gloss, where you can exchange modern dragon genes for the ancient breed equivalent, and Sage's Seasonal Sundries; a shop that rotates apparel scenes and familiars out depending on what the season is. All three of these shops have permanent items and they will return if they cycle out.

Additionally, there are shops for other holidays; Warriors Way has a shop run by Arvelle, a Ridgeback, where you can buy apparel, scenes, familiars, and genes themed around the art of battle and war, Patches' Pirate Plunder, Run by Patches the Pearlcatcher, where you can get pirate themed apparel scenes and familiars, and Susie's Sweet Sentiments, Run by Susie the Coatl. She sells valentines themed apparel, genes, scenes, and familiars.

Finally: there are two special shops in grand exchange: Higgins' Haunted Hollow, Run by a Nocturne named Higgins during Night of the Nocturne, and Marva's Marvelous Marvels, the april fools shop. Higgins sells an insane amount of items, as well as offering a trade to allow you to get more chests during notn. Notn is an insane event that has far too much going on for me to cover in my overview, so I implore you to read about it here. The tldr is it's the game's end of year celebration happening every december for about 3 ish weeks, and you can get unhatched eggs and breed change scrolls from it. All of it's items cycle back the next year and every year they add more, so there's no need to feel fomo over it if you miss an item you really want. It's an extremely fun event to engage in with the community and is easily the game's biggest highlight for me!

Marva's april fools event is a little bit different from notn. It happens every year on april fools, and it's effects are different every year. The main thing it does is alter a cosmetic of the website, like making your dragons invisible for a day, giving them silly googly eyes, etc; and you also get a chest from galore that can be opened about a week after april fools. If you try to open the chest during the event it gives the illusion of being an infinite cycle of unique chests, but each chest opens into a different item after the event, but you won't know what it is! so half the fun is getting to pick a random chest based on feels. It's one of those things that only makes sense when you participate in it, and I do reccommend visiting the site around april fools to experience it. Marva's store will have whatever was in the chests the next year, or they will get added to the random drop pool from normal chests, so they don't go away! Some of the items from previous years that Marva sells now includes scenes, eye vials, and apparel.

Aside from grand exchange holidays, FR also celebrates it's anniversary in grand ways in early june, we're never told what these are in advance and they are different each year, sometimes being massive events like Fathomsearch in 2024. There are also four microholidays dedicated to each of the four food types, Springswarm for insects, Sunparched Prowl for Meat, Drakeharvest for plants, and Frigidfin Expedition for seafood.

Below I've included a full calender for all of the events in the game currently.

Elemental holidays: Crystaline Gala (Ice holiday, January), Trickmurk Circus (Shadow holiday, February) Mistral Jamboree (Wind holiday, March), Wavecrest Saturnalia (Water holiday, April) Greenkeepers Gathering (Nature holiday, May), Brightshine Jubilee (Light holiday, June), Thundercrack Carnivale (Lightning holiday, July) Flameforger's Festival (Fire holiday, August), Starfall Celebration (Arcane holiday, September), Riot of Rot (Plague holiday, October), Rockbreaker's Ceremony (Earth holiday, November)

Events: Night of the Nocturne (December), Love is in the air (February), April fool's day (April), Flight Rising's anniversary (early June), Warrior's Way (August) Talk like a pirate day (September)

Microholidays: Springswarm (March), Sunparched Prowl (June), Drakeharvest (September), Frigidfin Expedition (December)

It's worth noting that save for a few select holidays these typically land on different calendar days of the year each year.

That's the basics of Flight Rising.

There are other aspects of the game worth exploring, but I feel do not require elaboration or should be discovered on your own time as to not ruin the surprise, like fairgrounds games or breeds. Overall, FR is a really unique, and fun experience. It receives active updates and community support, something a lot of pet sites do not receive these days. Staff is active with it's community and large updates happen 2-3 times a year, with several smaller content drops happening regularly; As of writing this, FR is about to receive it's newest breed: The Cirrus, an ancient dragon based on the Girin.

_{The Cirrus breed, Flight Rising's newest addition.}

Is it worth playing?

Personally, I say yes. The game has enough fresh content coming to keep you interested in checking it regularly, enough customization to get attached to your dragons, and is very forgiving. You are never punished for missing a log in, if you miss an event and want an item you couldn't get you can easily save up to buy them, and sometimes players are nice enough to send you spares. The closest thing the game punishes you for is not feeding your dragons every day, and starving dragons can't fight or breed, but they can easily be fed again to regain their energy and sometimes FR will restore them to full health for you if you haven't logged in in a long time or during special events as a courtesy. You also don't HAVE to participate in any of these gameplay loops if you don't like them. You can cater your experience on here very easily.

The one thing I say you really have to watch out for is: the site does not like multiaccounting or crosstrading. Crosstrading is technically permitted, but only if the other game allows it too, and it won't let you crosstrade with Nintendo games (for whatever reason?) Either way, if you're crosstrading with someone just don't say you're doing it on the site and keep it to like, discord dms. Multiaccounting is taken super seriously though, you can't even make a storage account or both will get closed. And you trading too many items too might get you flagged as multiaccounting/account funneling, though staff says they can tell the difference It's something I've heard about people getting banned for. Just don't make a second account though and you'll definitely be fine. Both are bannable offenses but they let you make a new account if you get banned for something that isn't egregious and unethical like bullying, you just don't get to keep any of the items and dragons you had on your original account. I think it's understandable why staff wouldn't want people multiaccounting as it can ruin the economy and tight knit community that helps the game thrive, but it does suck a bit that I've seen so many players have to be so anxious about just LOOKING like multiaccounters for playing with their friends, regardless of if that's something staff thinks looks like multiaccounting or not, they haven't done much to quell the userbase's fears on the subject and need to be more clear about what counts as multiaccounting, as they keep muddying the water further.

Being said, Flight Rising has such a large and active userbase. You would also enjoy this game if you enjoy spaces where you can be casually social. Staff is VERY good about shutting down online bullying and bigots, and has a very welcoming community in general. It is a 13+ website though, meaning you can't swear, and they don't really like it if you talk about current events or politics which makes sense given it's a pet game for kids. But bullying and bigotry isn't tolerated at all.

Overall, if you are big on dragons, and like browser games or yearn for flash era online spaces, Flight Rising is a good choice for something to play when you're bored. It's not the kind of game that is meant to be played for hours, but if you want specific dragons in a certain color, it can take a really long time to get them and can give you a long term goal to chip away at every now and then; and that's what makes it such a strong experience. Plus, it has that tacky neopets aesthetic to it, and still has forums, which makes it feel like it's part of an internet that hasn't existed in a very, very long time; yet it does not feel dated, which I find pleasant and charming, and I hope you do too.

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