Pingu and Friends is a collection of ten activities for players of any age based on the BBC clay-mated animated children's Pingu TV series. Players use an interactive mitten cursor to interact with many of the game's activities, including dragging objects, counting several items and drawing in the Art Studio activity. Some of the games (particularly 'Save Pinga') only utilise the keyboard arrow keys. The activities are split into two locations: inside Pingu's house and outside the house.

Most of the activities included in the game help younger players with several school subjects including mathematics, literacy, geography and science. The Art Studio activity also includes a variety of colouring pages and dot-to-dot puzzles for players to print. British actress Felicity Kendal provides narration for all the activities in the game.