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I need help to find out if I'm schizophrenic or not. I'm looking for a game I used to play back in 2016-2017 on my phone.
It was a tamagotchi-style indie game where you took care of this blob which would grow and change form depending on what you fed it, with at least a dozen different forms available to unlock in the game depending on your actions. It was mainly black and white, probably an indie game, and I may misremember but I think it also had a hand-drawn style.
The game is eerly similar in both concept and monster design to Homegrown Pet (pic related), but was longer and had a story where you investigated a hospital, I believe, and found stuff. The monster in this game was a girl as well, possibly the protagonist mutated girlfriend, possibly just a random blob. Most of the forms she could evolve into were pretty awful looking and not really cutesy or anime or whatever. I'm pretty sure it was hard to get her to look like a regular girl.
Although Homegrown Pet is so similar, I've not found anyone mentioning the game I'm thinking about in any discussion related to the game. The closest I've gotten to is a post from almost 3 years ago by the game's author that mentions that he was "Taking reference of thos mobile game where you have constantly feed your pet for it to evolve rather than taking reference of tamagotchi. (You don't really need to bath him, he is self cleaning... maybe)" which makes me think the game actually exists and I'm not crazy. I've sent him a DM on Twitter but I doubt he'll answer me or will even remember the game at this point.
Besides that, I've tried looking through multiple keywords with google, duckduckgo, and the playstore to no avail. I've even tried asking ChatGPT but it's been fruitless (although curiously, among the many suggestions to real games that weren't the one I was looking for, across multiple sessions on different accounts, it kept suggesting a game called "My Monster" which seems to be the only one to not exist)
