Games like Toontown: 6 cozy games you can play today
Disney's Toontown Online — the cartoon MMORPG where your toon rode the trolley, earned jellybeans in minigames, furnished an estate and defended a toony town from the business-suited Cogs with cream pies and seltzer bottles — closed for good on September 19, 2013. If you spent afternoons in Toontown Central saving up for the next gag track, no game has felt quite the same since. Here's the honest list of what comes closest — and our pick, Petropolis Play, doesn't ask you to take anyone's word for anything: it's free, runs in your browser with no download and no signup, works beautifully on phones, and is embedded on this very page.
Free forever · No download · No account · Progress saves on your own device.
The proof is the game itself
Every "games like Toontown" search runs into the same heartbreak: a login screen that hasn't loaded since 2013, and forum threads full of memories. This page embeds its top pick instead — the complete free version of Petropolis Play, live below. Adopt and name your first pet in under 60 seconds, no account needed — and the same game is waiting on the Petropolis Play homepage anytime.
Free forever · No download · Progress saves on this device
See it before you play it
Real screenshots from the free game embedded above — no trailer magic, no mockups. This is what adopting your first pet actually looks like.
6 games like Toontown, ranked
Yes, it's our list and yes, we put ourselves first — so we've printed the yardstick below every pick. Check our work.
🐾 Petropolis Play
Best for: former toons who want a friend and a room to call theirs again — free, no download, no signup
Full disclosure: this is our game, and it's why this list exists — so let's be honest about the line first: Petropolis Play is not a multiplayer MMO. There are no Cogs here, no gags, no trolley tracks and no shared town — ours is a quieter, single-player cozy corner. What Petropolis Play keeps is Toontown's deeper heart. You adopt: four species are free today — pup, kitten, bunny and a brand-new sunny turtle — each in their own colors, each waiting for the name you give them. You care: hunger, happiness and health tick down gently, and feeding, playing and resting bring them back up (pets can never die or run away — they just wait patiently, a deliberate choice for players who already lost a friend to a shutdown). You earn: PawCoins come from minigames like Berry Catch and a daily login bonus — the way the trolley paid out jellybeans — and they can never be bought. And you decorate: drag-and-drop furniture into a room that's entirely yours, across five themes. Best of all for anyone whose toon vanished in 2013: your progress saves on your own device, not on a server that can be switched off — and the game is plain HTML, so no plugin or app-store decision can ever take it. It's free forever, there is genuinely nothing to sign up for, it's genuinely mobile-friendly, and the only purchase is an optional $4.99 one-time Full Version — never a subscription, and no premium currency. Don't take our word for it: it's embedded above.
🎪 Toontown Online
Best for: pure nostalgia — the world closed on September 19, 2013
The honest starting point: Toontown Online itself is not coming back. Disney opened its kid-friendly MMORPG on June 2, 2003, and for ten years it was somewhere genuinely special: you created a cartoon toon, explored neighborhoods from Toontown Central to Donald's Dreamland, rode the trolley to play minigames for jellybeans, furnished your estate, and defended the town from the business-suited Cogs with cream pies, seltzer bottles and anvils — free to start, with a membership over the full game. On August 20, 2013, Disney announced the world would close — making membership free for the final weeks — and on September 19, 2013 the servers went dark, the same day Disney closed Pixie Hollow and Pirates of the Caribbean Online, as the company shifted focus to Club Penguin and mobile. No official successor has ever shipped.
🚋 Toontown Rewritten
Best for: the real Toontown, rebuilt by fans — if you have a computer to download it on
The remarkable epilogue: Toontown's players refused to let the town die. Toontown Rewritten is a free, non-commercial, volunteer-run revival that has been rebuilding the original game since 2014 — the neighborhoods, the trolley games, the gag tracks, the Cogs — and it is still going today. The honest catches: it's a PC/Mac download rather than a browser tab, so there's no playing it on a phone; it's unofficial and fan-run, unaffiliated with Disney, with no promises it'll last; and we'd approach any fan server with ordinary care (a fresh password you don't use anywhere else). But if what you miss is Toontown itself, this is the closest it gets.
⭐ Neopets
Best for: a whole pet world that's still online, free in a browser
Neopets launched in 1999, outlived Flash, and is still free in a real browser tab — no download needed: create a Neopet, name it, feed it, play games for Neopoints, do dailies and explore a whole planet. It's from the same generation of the web as Toontown, and it survived. The honest catches: it's a quarter-century of accumulated interface, everything starts with an account sign-up, and its economy and battling sides are more spreadsheet than storybook.
🐶 Webkinz Classic
Best for: the adopt-care-decorate ritual — still online
If what you miss most is having a pet who's yours and a room to furnish for them, Ganz's Webkinz is still standing: your plush's adoption code brings your pet to life online, where you feed them, play with them and decorate their room — the same gentle ritual that made Toontown's estates so moreish. Webkinz Classic keeps that original 2000s loop alive today. The honest catches: the traditional adoption model is tied to buying a physical plush toy with a code, it runs through apps rather than a plain browser tab, and an optional Deluxe Membership gates extras.
🦊 Animal Jam
Best for: an animal alter-ego and a den to decorate, still online
WildWorks' Animal Jam is one of the closest things still standing to Toontown's shape: create an animal character, play minigames for gems, collect clothes and furniture, and decorate a den that's yours — with a big, long-running community around it. The honest catches: the original browser world retired with Flash in 2020, so it now lives in apps (plus a desktop download for AJ Classic); an optional membership and premium sapphires sit over the best bits; and everything starts with an account.
The yardstick for a Toontown successor
Toontown wasn't just a game — it was your toon, trolley rides that paid for tomorrow's gags, an estate that was yours, and a town that was always pleased to see you. Whatever you try from this list, these are the four things that made it special, and the four things we checked for.
A character that's unmistakably yours
Your toon was nobody's preset: you picked the species, the colors, the name, and the whole town came to know them as yours. Any game on a 'like Toontown' list has to start with somebody who belongs to you — not a generic avatar off a rack.
Minigames that pay your way
The trolley was never decoration: a few rides of minigames paid the jellybeans that bought tomorrow's gags and estate furniture. We checked that coins come from playing and daily routines, not from a premium-currency shortcut.
A place of your own to come home to
Every toon had an estate to furnish and show off — the quiet half of the game between Cog battles. A real successor needs somewhere that's yours to decorate, and yours to keep.
A friend who can't be switched off
Toontown's players learned on September 19, 2013 that a world living on somebody else's servers can simply end. We gave extra credit to games that run in a plain browser tab, work on phones, and keep your progress somewhere no company decision can reach.
What "like Toontown" means here
"Like Toontown" can mean the Cog battles, the trolley, the gag tracks, the estates — or just the feeling of a character who's yours in a cheerful world that never asks too much of you. Here's exactly what it means at Petropolis Play— and, just as honestly, what it doesn't.
What carried over
- A pet that's yours — pick a species, a color and a name
- A gentle daily loop — feed, play, rest — stats gently decay
- Coins earned by playing — minigames and a daily bonus, never bought
- Dress-up and decorating — 44 shop items, five themes, drag-and-drop
- Free in any browser — no download, no account
- A friend who can't be taken away — never leaves; progress saves on your device
What you won't find here
- Not the official Toontown — Disney closed that world on September 19, 2013
- No Cogs, gags or trolley rides — no battles at all, just a cozy care loop
- No shared multiplayer town or chat — a single-player cozy corner
- No toon species or jellybeans — adopted pets and PawCoins instead
- No membership or premium currency — coins are only ever earned
Who will you bring home?
Four friends are free to adopt today — including the brand-new Sunny Turtle. Six more, like the very relaxed Breezy Sloth and one very small, very polite dragon, move in with the one-time Full Version.
Puddle Pup
Splashes in every puddle, then naps like a champion.
Whisker Kitten
Professional sunbeam chaser and part-time yarn critic.
Clover Bunny
Bounces first, asks questions later.
Ember Fox
Clever, quick, and secretly very cuddly.
Bamboo Panda
Snack enthusiast. Napping professional.
Pebble Penguin
Waddles with purpose. Loves a good slide.
Spark Dragon
Tiny flames, enormous heart.
Stardust Unicorn
Leaves a trail of sparkles wherever she trots.
Sunny Turtle
Slow to the pool, first in line for a snack.
Breezy Sloth
Hangs around all summer. Literally.
Free means free — and it can't be taken away
Toontown players learned the hard way that a world living on somebody else's servers — and tied to somebody else's business decisions — can disappear with one announcement. Petropolis Play's core loop — adopting, caring, earning and decorating — is permanently free, the room is furnished with PawCoins you win by playing, the game is plain HTML (no plugin, no download required), and your progress saves on your own device, where no closure notice can reach it. The one optional purchase is a single $4.99 Full Version. Once — then it's yours.
The Toontown-era deal
Free* until the day the town was switched off
- A toon and a whole town living entirely on somebody else's servers
- The best neighborhoods and tasks behind a monthly membership
- A whole world at the mercy of one company's decision to close it
- A login screen that went dark on September 19, 2013
Free core game
$0 forever — really
- Adopt and name a pet free — four species today
- Feed, play, rest — the whole care loop, free forever
- PawCoins earned by playing, never bought
- 44 shop items, five room themes, drag-and-drop decorating
- No download, no account, works on any phone or laptop
- Optional $4.99 one-time upgrade, never a subscription
Frequently asked
Is Toontown Online still online?
No — and we'd rather tell you plainly than let you click through to a dead bookmark. Disney opened Toontown Online on June 2, 2003, but on August 20, 2013 it announced the world would close — making membership free for the final weeks — and on September 19, 2013 the servers went dark for good, the same day Disney closed Pixie Hollow and Pirates of the Caribbean Online, as the company shifted focus to Club Penguin and mobile. There has never been an official successor. If you kept a toon there, the six picks above are the honest next-best thing — starting with the one playable on this page.
What games are like Toontown?
Depends which part you miss — so here it is honestly. If it's Toontown itself: Toontown Rewritten, the free fan-made revival, has been rebuilding the original game since 2014 (PC/Mac download, unofficial). If it's a whole world that's survived: Neopets (free in a browser since 1999) and Animal Jam (animal alter-ego and den decorating, now in apps) are still standing. If it's the adopt-care-decorate ritual: Webkinz Classic still runs it through apps. And if it's the deeper heart — a friend who's yours, coins earned by playing and a room to decorate: that's Petropolis Play, our own free cozy browser pet game, playable right here with no download or signup. The list above walks through each honestly, catches included.
Is Toontown coming back, or is there an official Toontown 2?
No official successor has ever shipped, and Disney has never announced one. The only projects carrying the Toontown name today are fan-made revivals — Toontown Rewritten chief among them — unofficial labors of love, unaffiliated with Disney, run by volunteers with no guarantees they'll last (we'd approach any fan server with care, and never reuse an old password there). Petropolis Play is an independent, unaffiliated cozy cousin: we grew up in worlds like Toontown too, and built a free browser pet game around the same adopt-care-earn-decorate heart.
Can my pet be taken away, like my toon was?
No — and that's a deliberate design choice, not an oversight. Hunger, happiness and health gently drift down if you're away, but your pet simply waits patiently for you: they can't get sick, can't run away, can't be taken away and can't die. Just as important: your progress saves on your own device, not on a server we can switch off, and the game is plain HTML rather than a plugin or a download — so no browser decision and no company decision, ours included, can do to your pet what September 2013 did to Toontown.
Is Petropolis Play really free?
Yes — honestly free. Adopting, feeding, playing, minigames, shopping and room decorating are free forever, and PawCoins are earned by playing, never bought — the way Toontown's trolley games paid out jellybeans, with no premium currency and no members-only neighborhoods. The single optional purchase is a $4.99 one-time Full Version that adds six more species, two more minigames, outfits, every room theme and up to three pets at once — never a subscription. The free game embedded above is the real thing, not a demo.
Is Petropolis Play affiliated with Disney or Toontown?
No. Petropolis Play is an independent game and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to The Walt Disney Company, Disney Interactive, Toontown Online, Toontown Rewritten, Neopets, World of Neopia Inc., Webkinz, Ganz Inc., Animal Jam, or WildWorks. All trademarks belong to their respective owners — we just grew up in worlds like Toontown too, and built a free, browser-based cozy pet world of our own.
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