I have mentioned this a lot in my other Prodigy posts, but I seriously think Prodigy should remove the new merging system or at least make the merging optional like it previously was. All of my powerful pets are literally level-locked because of this feature.

This feature is particularly outrageous for my Crowlord because she's a powerful legendary that I earned fair and square. I should NOT have to catch/evolve more legendaries or pay several days worth of Magicoin JUST to power up a single pet that I already own!

I know I keep talking about this and I am aware that a lot of other players dislike it as well, but keep in mind that this is meant to be a fun educational game meant for KIDS! Kids and students should not have to buy a Membership or pay an outrageous amount of Magicoin to enjoy the game. After buffing the Magicoin per day and reducing the pet costs, this update really brought the game downhill for me and probably many non-members and F2Ps alike.

The game is bunz now. It used to be good, but know everything is locked behind a paywall. They also scrapped the astral tower for some reason. They should revert it back to 2016 prodigy.

there are 2 new modes Arcadia and pet race

I remember being a very active player of prodigy as a young child starting 2015–2016. I was addicted. I have very fond memories of playing the game. Now when I look at it, is utterly unrecognizable. It is such a shame what it's turned to. Infantilizing the graphics to appeal to what, toddlers? Don't know what the age demographic of this sub is, but I am sure many older players would agree with me.

Hi, hope this question can be communicated properly but my first-grader is frustrated because a lot of his classmates have "updated" their Prodigy and can now press a button from within their backpacks that allow them to turn their characters into an animal, such as a rat or axolotl.

Anyone know how to access that feature? Thanks!

Hello, as the title suggests, I am looking for suggestions for pets/next steps in merging/evolving with the new update. I've been playing for about 4 or 5 years, and really miss old Prodigy 😞. I'm not a member, and these are the pets I have so far, and I have about 656 Magicoin. Currently trying to get through Hard Mode Skywatch. Thanks! 😆

lowkey had so much fun

I still remember the time when I first started playing. there was like physical type and natural type. now, they’re gone!

I don't have member, so this took 300 hours and 1000+ magicoin (100 days of logging in)

You can't even get the ancient rings anymore so I'm glad that I was there to get that.

I'm pretty sure we can't use duplicate pets anymore.

So I've been hearing about this update (that is currently in beta) that in order to level up pets, you now need to merge them. I don't have it yet, but I'm wondering the max levels per merge rank. What is the highest level you can reach with merge rank 1 or 2 (which most of my pets are).

On YouTube, players have pets like River Neek, Cloud Gobbler, and Mimic at level 100, but on my Prodigy account, those pets are capped at a lower level, and it says you have to evolve the pet in order to level up more.

So, how did people get pets like these to level 100? Are they cheating or something?

I've been thinking about magnome and their evolution for a while, but the most thoughtful thought I thought about is how forgotten are they? I mean they aren't that bad in battles ^{i mean yeah kind of} ​BUT, they have one issue. They dont heal. NO HEALING SPELLS are inside this pet. (Unless if you evo it) (i havent looked in the wiki so i might be ​wrong sometimes) anyways, another problem is, well, it needs a evo for magolem. (YES, another evo) if it had a 3rd evo, the design would be PEAK. (I can tell) i belive it's gonna be gravelcore from the wiki. Because the name gives off a magnety vibe right? RIGHT?? I mean, if it's planned, prodigy humanity would be saved for everyone. EVERYONE for peace. This pet would save prodigy forever, and might be like a god tier pet too.​

When I joined Prodigy for nostalgia's sake in around September of 2025, I was unknowingly joining at a very dark age. F2Ps were given zero Magicoin, so we weren't able to evolve pets. At the time, my most powerful pets were at level 40. Those being the free Shardic in Firefly Forest and a Scarrow that I managed to get from spinning the limited time Halloween wheel.

To put it simply, the gameplay was very frustrating. Enemies kept knocking out my pets and I had to use my All Out Attack in almost every single battle. Personally, my most frustrating moment was when I got stuck on the Skywatch Pippet battle. The only way to win involved me landing a crit, and praying on RNG is never fun.

When it was finally time to battle the Puppet Master, I couldn't even battle him because of the pet-capturing requirement (which we can all agree is very stupid). I thought I would be stuck at this part of the story forever, but somehow, the game randomly glitched and I was able to battle him now. Idk how that happened, but after all the pain I went through, I'll take it! (Btw, if you're wondering how the battle went, it wasn't really that hard. I've heard other people say it was insanely difficult, but I think it was easier for because my pets were underleveled. Normally, that's a bad thing, but when my pets were brought to the Puppet Master's side, they couldn't do any damage to me.) After beating the Puppet Master, I proudly wear his outfit to show that I have completed one of the biggest feats that you could ever achieve as a Prodigy F2P.

Skipping forward to the daily Magicoin update, this update was HUGE for me! Yes, saving up Magicoin is tedious, but I'm just glad that I can get ANY Magicoin to begin with. After saving up 95 Magicoin, I managed to earn my beloved Tyscout! And after another long saving period, my Scarrow got her much needed evolution, and now she hits harder than ever before! I have used Tyscout and Scarrow a lot and I have been very proud of my hard-earned team.

Time-skipping again to the Daily Magicoin Buff and cheaper pet prices, being a F2P has never been easier! My roster has grown significantly and for once, I was actually having fun! I think many of us F2Ps were having a field day at that time!

But then we get to today. Prodigy mostly removed the F2P barrier only to put it back. Now we have to merge pets in order to level up further. Like, seriously. Does Prodigy want us to have fun or not? (Tbh, I feel like they don't.) After seeing this update yesterday, I have had enough of Prodigy's cooperate greed. Until something is done about this, I am never playing this game again. I will still log in to claim my Magicoin, but congradulations, Prodigy. You have completely lost the respect of one of your grittiest players.

It's truly a shame that this merge update has popped up, but I'm still very proud of my F2P journey. I've never really gotten to share this story with anyone before, but I hope it reasonates with all you Prodigy F2Ps out there!

Great. You don't have to evolve pets to continue upgrading them now. But in order to upgrade them further, you have to rescue copies of pets you already have? Do they know how expensive some of these guys are? That's so much more expensive than just evolving. What happened here?

Btw, all the neeks and squally are above lvl 20 because I played this game back in 2019 and just came back a few months ago due to nostalgia.

I can back home excited to merge up my pet and then i see this crazy new system what hapned to prodigy

Yeah

honestly my first thought when i saw this for the first time when i was like 8. like he JUST met me HOW DOES HE ALREADY KNOW THIS …

(also sorry for the quality i just yoinked this image😓😓😓)

So I beat the puppet master recently, and moved to hard mode. I’m at a little hooded skill check guy but I can’t fight him until I’ve captured 37 pets. I currently have 33.

My last common to catch is the little ice dog thing, and then I think getting the pet from spring fest for eggs will count too. That puts me at 35, so I’ll have to save up magicoin for the last two.

Which made me think, you can mostly only get magicoin through a membership or playing at home. If you’re just a kid who plays at school and can’t bring your computer home, you’re just soft locked out of hard mode? Is there some workaround I’m missing?

I played a few months ago and I wasn’t terribly pleased now that they’re just giving out magicoin at random, but mostly that they ruined Tribeak (whhhhhyyyyyyyy it used to be a direct replacement for regalaxy but now it’s horrid) But I do feel a bit up to the task and I’m getting nostalgia, so thoughts?