TusslingsA creature that grows from your real activity. On your wrist.
Tusslings is a virtual pet for Garmin watches. An egg arrives every day. Your steps and workouts make it ready. What hatches is yours to name, feed, train and battle, and it all happens on the watch.
Meet the creatures See the roadmap
How a day plays
- An egg arrives. One a day, unless you are still holding one. Each egg is seeded from the date and your watch, so no two watches get the same egg.
- Your activity makes it ready. Steps toward your Garmin goal and intensity minutes fill one meter. Half your step goal plus 15 weighted minutes fills it, as does a full goal or 30 weighted minutes. Vigorous minutes count double. The watch face and the in-activity field show the egg cracking as you get closer.
- Hatch it in Arena. The reveal only ever happens in the Arena app. Name your creature at the hatch or rename it later.
- Raise it. Your creature earns experience from your daily movement, levels up, and shows real moods on the watch face from your body data. Pet it, give it treats, dress it, and watch it build a physique at level 15 and 35.
- Train with it. Coach records a run, walk, ride or swim with your creature as the pace coach. Saved workouts flavor your next eggs toward matching elements. Big efforts earn achievement eggs and awaken Grit transformations.
- Battle and trade. Two Tusslings watches pair over ANT, no phone needed. Both watches run the same deterministic fight, so there is always exactly one winner. Trades are two-sided and confirmed by both people.
Four small apps that behave as one game
Garmin allows one program per app type, so Tusslings ships as a set that shares one signing key and talks over a private bridge on the watch.
| App | What it does |
|---|---|
| Tusslings Face | The watch face. Shows the time, your chosen metrics, and your active creature with moods from your heart rate, sleep and activity. Press to open the Arena. |
| Tusslings Arena | The game. Eggs, hatching, your roster, care, Coach recordings, the Field Guide, battles and trades. Free, with an optional Plus face. |
| Tusslings Field | A data field for native Garmin activities and Garmin Coach workouts. Draws the egg cracking in real time as you close in on the day's goal. |
| Tusslings Display | For Garmin Edge bike computers. Shows your creature and ride stats on the handlebars while the watch records. |
An optional phone companion for Android and iOS keeps a Vault of overflow creatures, a training journal and backups. It is never required: the game runs entirely on the watch.
Free and Plus
| Free | Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Creatures from new eggs | The original eight species | Every species in the released creature waves, 18 at the first wave, growing to 32 |
| Daily eggs, levels, care, collection, battles | Included | Included |
| Coach | Run, Walk, Stroller Run, Road Bike, Pool Swim, and their indoor and open-water forms | All released Coach activities |
| Activity flavor | Within the free pool | Within the released Plus pool |
| Face | Basic background | Released Plus scenery |
Plus is a separate paid watch face. Keep it installed and the Arena on the same watch unlocks the released Plus content. Plus grants eligibility, never a guaranteed creature. Every creature you already own stays yours whatever you do.
Watches
| Current builds | Forerunner 955, Forerunner 970, Epix Pro Gen 2 47 mm, vívoactive 5, Venu 3S, fēnix 7 Pro |
|---|---|
| Edge Display | Edge 540, 550, 840, 850, 1040, 1050 |
| Earlier builds, frozen | Instinct 2, 2S and 2X (a 1-bit face and a compact Arena), fēnix 6S Pro. These keep their published versions and receive no new features. |
Watches differ in sensors and memory. A feature a watch cannot support honestly is hidden on that watch rather than faked.
Your data stays on your devices
There are no accounts and no Tusslings server. Your creatures, activity and health data live on your watch and, if you choose, on your phone. Battles and trades move only the creature data needed between two watches you both hold. The privacy policy and the consumer health data policy say exactly what moves and when.
Where things stand
Tusslings is in private beta with real testers on their own watches. The Connect IQ store listings are being prepared. If you have a beta build, the support page has the install steps and the backup-code reminder.