About Giftscop

Project

Giftscop is a playable replica of Petscop, aiming to recreate the fictional game as closely as possible.

Giftscop is the only Petscop fan project aiming to replicate the game exactly as it exists in the original story. Because of this, we encourage you to view Giftscop more like a replica than a game: Some parts can be boring, frustrating, or unfinished, but we will not change this, because they appear this way in the original videos too.

In other words, matching how things work in the videos is a higher priority than creating something fun to play.

Giftscop was originally created with Unity and released for Windows and macOS. In 2023, we released a small prototype that ran on the original PlayStation. Now, we are working on porting the entire project to the PS1 using a custom engine. More information about the PS1 homebrew version can be found here.

Game

With Giftscop, you can play through a recreated version of Petscop, according to our interpretations of how it works.

While Giftscop does allow you to play through the game, it is not a substitute for watching the original Petscop series. If you play Giftscop without having watched the series, you will be missing out on key information such as Paul's commentary and the video descriptions. Giftscop is made for those who have seen all of the original videos.

Additionally, the series is ambiguous about how some parts of the game function. We've implemented several of these parts according to our interpretations, but we do not intend for these to be treated as the "correct" interpretations.

Giftscop is a recreation of Petscop and not a standalone or original game. With our goal in mind, this means that Giftscop is more aimed at being accurate to Petscop, not being playable by regular gameplay standards. There are parts of Petscop that are tedious and objectively not "fun", and those are reflected accurately in Giftscop. Please expect this element while playing through the game.

At the top right of the Giftscop application, a watermark that says "Recreation" is present. This cannot be removed. The purpose of the watermark is to make it clear that Giftscop is a recreation of Petscop, and not real Petscop footage. This helps prevent people from misleading others, intentionally or otherwise, into believing Giftscop is actual Petscop or that Petscop is a real game.

For our documentation of info and help for playing Giftscop, please see the Info & Help page.