Peridot Reviews

This game is everything that you could possibly want out the makers of Pokémon Go. It is truly a beautiful game and the creatures are all so unique, adorable in their own ways, with different traits that you breed to your liking. You get to play with them, feed them, but instead of just having food or having coins to “buy” food, you scavenge for food with your friend. It is an incredible game!!! Yet, after you have your second this app, the game is worthless to play unless you are a pay to play person. You cannot breed any more Peridots nor can you really continue to do anything “special” other than the same actions with your friend which in turn levels them up, but again, that really doesn’t do much. I have come to the point where I have stopped playing until they make a way for players to earn nests (which is how players can breed Peridots) because others it is a waste of time. We should not have to pay to play and this type of pay to play idea should be labeled as such up front if they want players to actually continue to play their game.

I love the feel of raising and caring for your dots. Love playing with them, feeding them, teaching them tricks. But there are some massive issues that right now I can’t overlook.
The biggest issue is that you need to spend money (and a lot of it!) to get nests to raise more dots. $5 per nest, with only 1 free, is ridiculous when a main draw for this game was to breed and raise multiple dots. Can’t do that without nests, and the only way to get those is spend money. Hard pass.
The other issues I have are the bugs in the game itself. It often stops responding or recognizing locations/people/animals and has to be closed and reopened to have the hope that it will recognize things. The forced AR is a battery draining nightmare and while it’s cute to see your dot in your environment it often glitches and disappears or has missing cells. The game has no ability to sense things when it is even remotely dark out (I will often take walks after dark to wind down and I hoped to be able to play with my dot during them). The dots want you to feed them specific foods or play with specific balls, but the random generation of items means you can be searching for a ball type or food for 10 minutes without finding it - and good luck if you need an item from a biome that you can’t currently access.
TLDR: Overall I love the idea. The pay to play makes the game unplayable. And the glitches and battery draining aspects are also difficult to manage.

It’s a cute experience that gives me something to twiddle with every so often during the day. The dots are more engaging something like a tamagotchi as they interact with the environment and can even recognize things such as pets and flowers!
My two biggest complaints come down to the UI and the hatch a dot system.
The interface is really clunky with things buried in menus inside of menus. I feel like every time I was looking for something I had to open up every option every time to find what I was looking for. Information is also very vague in general on how things work, making it even more confusing to find what I’m looking for.
The thing that really bugs me is how to get new dots. The only way to hatch new dots it to connect with another player, have enough sun drops, and have a nest. When picking a partner some of the traits are locked and your new dot cannot inherit them until you’re a certain level. At time of writing I’m level 9, and I feel like nothing is unlocked. My first time hatching was almost an exact copy of my original dot! I definitely wouldn’t mind as much if the nests weren’t locked behind a $5 paywall. I’m not above spending money here and there on app games but that’s a lot to shell out every couple days to play half of the game.
Overall it’s a silly little time waster but my gripes might outweigh the fun. Plenty of potential if the devs don’t get too greedy like some of their other games.

This game looks and appears so beautiful and unique however after reading the comments in the groups from beta testers it has changed tremendously from that version. I’ve played PoGo since day 1, I now have been playing this since day 1 as well in hopes Niantic will help create a way to not make this all about money. A nest to breed one is far too expensive, and there needs to be something additionally added to help with xp gain, it seems to level up quite slowly and could use some additional missions. Being in AR mode all the time also drains the battery so much, there needs to be a “playroom” or something to that effect created so you don’t have to be in it all the time. Maybe even a way to save your favorite habitat in 360 view so your dot can have all that play room in case you can not leave your house that day etc. a feature to assist in re-rolling your eggs somehow via sun drops or gems would be great but the ability to highlight the ones you’re most desiring even if it’s only one option would be really nice. So many people are wanting specifically 1 thing more than others plus it would prompt more breeding to finally acquire your ultimate dot if it’s only 1 benefit at a time added to each version, heck even paying gems or sundrops to keep a feature and choosing multiples would be a great option during breeding. I look forward to watching this game develop and become something great it has so much going for it.

This game is incredibly adorable. It has incentivized me to get out and exercise or just simply enjoy nature. I’ve been playing it nonstop since I downloaded Peridot (30+ day login bonus streak currently). There is quite a lot of love and passion put into this game and it is clear to see! However, I simply cannot recommend it to anyone in its current state. As of now the main draw / feature advertised to folks is breeding new Peridots to unlock rarer traits and cuter “dots” as they call them. The problem lies in the fact that there is no feasible way to obtain nests through in-game play. I’ve completed all of my dailies, weeklies, dot’s desires, login bonus… nothing! You only get one nest to start off with so you can hatch one new dot beyond the default one you chose at the beginning. If you do wish to pursue hatching dots regardless of not being able to obtain them with in-game methods you’ll have to spend $5.00 USD per nest. That doesn’t sound like a whole lot but it will certainly add up quick. There should always be an option for folks to buy extra nests on the shop if they want to — but I will not be spending money for each individual time I want to try breeding a new this app. If you just want a single (or two) pocket pet(s), this game is for you. Please don’t expect to be able to breed more Peridots like the advertisements imply unless you’re willing to open your wallet.

This game is right up my alley! Breeding cute pets called Dots to see what you can unlock, walking with them and more! I love how they interact with you and how you can help them grow. Here’s the issue though. You get a free nest (one item needed to breed) at first, but after that you need to pay $5.00 to get another. Yes, $5 per nest. You cannot get nests for free which makes the game boring and.. well honestly disappointing as you can’t do anything else after. There’s also the issue with it making your phone extremely hot. I have to keep my quality low which only helps a little, as it still gets very hot when I’m playing. I have an iPhone 13 max pro or whatever so it’s not the oldest phone. I’ve heard people with the newest version of whatever phone they have still overheating.. but I can’t confirm that. You also need sun drops to breed which you can get 400 a day from friends- currently unlimited- but there’s an issue where the screen blacks or whites out if you try to scroll down, making it impossible to get to the rest of your friends. It’s a shame really because this game has so much potential. But Niantic making this game’s main mechanic locked behind a paywall is pretty disappointing to say the least. Maybe they’ll change it; hopefully when the hype is still fresh.

this app is still new, I get that. I expect new features will continue to come out and flesh out something that feels really special. I love my Dots and the animations and interactions you have with them are sweet and endearing.

Here’s my biggest problem: cost. It costs 5 dollars to hatch a new Dot (after your first two). When the whole game is centered around raising and hatching to find new traits, this becomes an issue. How much money would a dedicated player need to pay a month? 30 at the lowest. That’s six Dots. Once you’ve raised a Dot, the incentive to keep coming back gets halted.

I have no problem paying for a good game. I have no problem paying a subscription, even, for a good game I know I will enjoy. But this current monetization model will drive everyone away. I would pay probably 3-4 dollars a month flat in a subscription model. To ask your players to pay 5 every four days for continued progress and use is ridiculous. Please change the way that Nests are able to be obtained in some form or fashion. I know developers need income, I want to give them that. But you have to understand that the average person will stop playing as soon as they realize they have a 5 dollar block.

Growing up as a tamagotchi kid, I love playing this game. Going on walks with my dots, showing them a tree or a flower, digging in some dirt, playing fetch, seeing them grow up, etc. but I cannot justify spending so much money. If it was $1/nest with discount bundles from there, that would feel reasonable, considering it takes a dot about 3-4 days to mature so I’d be buying them so often. $5 just to continue progressing the game, without opportunities to buy with in-game money? No way, no app game is worth that. I’ve spent a decent of money on PoGo through the years, but at least I don’t absolutely HAVE to in order to progress, and that game is also getting too expensive for me to care about lately.

Besides the paywall, I also wish the hatch-a-dot system was less clunky. Having to send a message in Campfire, which is a separate app, and hoping somebody else checks their messages? The “send seed gift” should be replaced with the hatch request, since exchanging the same 400 seeds back and forth with someone seems pointless.

Love the idea behind the game, but the execution is lacking. I’ll play it again in the future if the paywall issue is mitigated, but for now it makes sense to abandon my 2 free dot pets...

this app seemed like a good game but by time I was less then 10 minutes in I realized that the nests meant to breed peridots were locked behind a paywall of 4.99, and that the “nest fragments” that existed in the beta were no more, and with just the 1 nest given out of pity for the player I decided to keep playing, but little did I know it only got worse, with some traits of peridots being behind levels far into the 30s I felt like I was getting spit at, trying to find a small bit of hope I reached out to other players nearby me but was only met with radio silence until nearly 3 days had passed, finally after 5 days of playing the game I was finally able to breed a this app, but with a astronomical cost of about 1,337 gems to unlock the two star and three star traits behind a level lock I found myself unwilling to continue playing, this game had tons of potential despite having the model of most nft scams, and I wouldn’t have minded the scam like micro transactions if ordinary players had at least the ability to have more then 2 peridots, however with no ability to even do that I ultimately lost any hope I had for this game lasting more then a year, without major changes in the gameplay and the core structure of earning this app might as well just shut the stables doors and throw out the key.

Honestly after dropping around $30 the first week in game I think I am no longer going to be playing. Every event is just a new purchase. The amount of money that goes into this is just not worth the limited game play. After your dots are adults they just gain growth but for zero point. There is no reason to even care for them after other then to fill daily quests. After, you dont even need to take care of the rest. Honestly I expected more out of this game. Its just a greedy money grab. Dont waste your money and time. Its not worth it. The graphics are ok, but its the same animations over again. You get nothing but growth for completing training. There really is zero reason to 100% their tricks esp after they are grown. I got excited in the first couple weeks. Im just done with the game. Just go back to pokemon. At least you can probably catch some free pets. The ar use is practically the same, and you dont have to throw money at it constantly if you dont want too.

The balance between price of items and game play is way off. Its not worth it. Dont waste your time and money. Overpriced and it literally requires you to pay for every dot past the first 2. Maybe if things balance out i may come back. But as it stands, its just not worth it.

I’m very excited and enjoying the game. What I love about it the most is that it isn’t necessarily a demanding title at all. For someone in their 30’s who has a busy life, this is my perfect companion. On the walk & subway ride to work, I can let my dot free to roam the city. The AR could use some work when it comes to recognizing walls or doors, etc. But, seeing your dot walk in front of you on the sidewalk is just a cool experience.

I will say the game being new is finding its ground on what can be added into it for entertainment. I do believe there is still some work cut out to do when it comes to that aspect. But then again, this isn’t Pokémon GO and that’s a reason I actually enjoy it. I’m not required to be in Peridot all of the time looking for certain ones. I can just hop in casually when I’d like and take care of my cute lil “Floura” before heading into work or going to sleep.

I see so much potential with this & truly hope the upset PoGO players don’t ruin a good thing out of selfishness & greed. this app is cute, has its purpose, and deserves to stick around. This is the new Tamagotchi/Gigapet 2.0 :)

Honestly im amazed with how amazing this game is. The AR feature is incredible for just starting out! I love the tomogatchi like play style with the uniqueness of NFTs despite all the problems the game is still new and im so impressed. Im so excited too see where this goes since its first Niantic specific server since Ingress which is still going strong after almost if not over a decade!!! So fun to see the business knowledge ive seen taken. over the years. from ingress breaking the gaming indestry with location based gaming, to AR in pogo creating its very own genre of games with unique twist! I notice the slow starts after the 2017 server problems and i commend you all for your skill in attention to your flaws to fix too the unique creativity you bring with every single original game. I know with all the backlash due to prices and everything is a lot but at the end of the day yall are fantastic programmers minimum for the games that have been released over the years. Thank you and im super excited for the future of this game

The fact you HAVe to pay 5$ for each time you breed a dot is insane. When the dots themselves and discovering them is the main game loop, this game quickly becomes crazy expensive. And the supporting features like feeding and petting your pet do not justify this insane cost. It would be much better if the nests could be obtainable without paying, and instead monetization is locked behind seeing into the eggs, cosmetics, or even certain dot traits (which btw all of these also cost real money...but at least you get a few free for playing.) if they change the game to give more ability for the users to actually play the game and the monetization to be supporting the player then this game would be 5 stars for me. I'm disappointed that a game like this theoretically will cost more for me to play than other games like genshin impact... the blatant greed makes me less likely to support. The idea is so cool but the game just doesn't deliver because of this nest paywall. Atm it just doesn't justify the spend. But if this changes I'll 100% change this review to a higher star rating. Best of luck to the team of this app.

I absolutely love this game! It’s cute and easy to play. There are some things that I feel could use work but they are mostly due to personal preference. I like how the hatch-a-dot system works and you get to pick from three eggs instead of only getting one offspring.
I don’t really mind the AR features but I personally think it would be better as an option instead of all the time. I say this because my dot often has trouble measuring distance and gets stuck in the floor a lot. If the player could turn the AR on or off I feel it would be more appealing. Maybe a room for your this app would be a cute idea. Be able to buy or earn furnishings for them to have for comfort or interact with.
This was just the thought that had been nagging at me the most since I started playing. I know that making, adding or changing things to a game can be quite the project so I’m only saying this as a suggestion.
Overall I find it to be a fun game to play and can see myself keeping it well into the future.

This game really does have potential to be great, but it’s almost as if hitting a wall as soon as your first dot grows up and you have no way to earn new nests besides the one that comes. There is nothing more that can be done besides repeating the same few actions feed , play and do tasks. On Apple device I haven’t been able to add any friends for the whole time since launch and I feel as though that makes it discouraging to find things to do or want to use my one and only nest. While waiting for more updates to fix the glitches there is not much to do with no friends, no way to earn nests etc . I want to keep playing and enjoying hatching new dots but after liking a game so quick and relizing it’s going to use my real money to play more than a few days and not at all any way to earn the nests by playing the game it’s hard. I understand having some paid feature but the nests are the CORE part of the game and should at least be earnable so people can get hooked and then more rare ones or packs could be paid… please fix the friends list as I really wanna keep playing.

Launch day revealed every feature of the game: create a dot, dig up items, hatch a dot. Guess what? You may have 1 (one) dot for free. If you’d like to hatch any more, you will need to pay a mandatory $5 for each and every new Dot you’d like. See where this is going? You’re just feeding a company money directly for them to tease the idea of a game to you. Just go browse top paid apps & buy a full-fledged port of something for $20, you’ll play it longer than this nonsense. Also, they charge for the items you can dig up if you need specific ones, but they all “spoil” at the end of the day. Why? Anyway, even if this game had any substance to it, there’s not a single reason to expect your players to pay you literally $5 a day presuming they’re hatching a new Dot every day (which is the only reason to have Peridot at all). You might as well subscribe to an mmo! At least those try to impress you with things to do and reasons to be online. This is a full-on nothingburger designed by the same people who tanked their last game with the same senseless greed. You can miss me with that business, I’ll just draw my own creatures for free with any features I want!

Yesterday, my friend recommended me this game. When I tried it, it was very fun, and still is! It is so fun raising a Dot, going to different types of terrain and habitats! I feel that it really connects you to other people near you, and makes you explore. The genetics system is fascinating and will definitely inspire some people. One tiny problem I have with the game is the nests. I love how you can hatch new Dots, but a $5 nest is too much for some people and I think there should be another way to acquire one. It is great how the developers have supplied a free one, but for people who move ahead quickly in games could have a problem. It would be a much easier way to get new nests or Dots by having the user unlock a nest every ten or so levels, with maybe a few requirements and such for getting a new nest. Maybe they could earn more profit by letting people adjust 5 traits to have higher chances or more rare appearances for $5 per nest, or something like that. Thank you for reading.

Pros: The dots are cute, and it’s cute to see them react to being fed, pet or played with. It’s neat to forage for food and toys for them basically anywhere.

Cons: like many other reviews mention, it’s expensive and frustrating that a major part of the game - hatching new dots - is only possible by paying for new nests. If you could craft nests or use in game currency to buy them as well, that would go a long way to improving the game and letting players progress by hatching new dots. My phone also gets super hot after about five minutes of game play, which means extensive battery drain, too. If I play for about 10 minutes, my phone will go from about 80% charged to low battery. I don’t see how I’m ever supposed to explore with my dots in the real world by going on walks which is a frequent dot desire to earn points to help them grow if my phone is both overheating and battery is drained to the point where I can only play for longer than 5 minutes by having my phone charging while I play. The game will also get laggy when switching between my dots, too.

Very buggy and quirky but cute. The characters are fairly well designed and each seems to be unique. However it was clearly released several months to early before any real testing was done. The screen frequently starts glitching requiring the game to be restarted. The friends part has a list that can’t be sorted and most often but not always when you send a gift it takes you back to the beginning of the list instead of where you were. Clicking to recover a gift takes you out of the friends area all together despite the game being built around needing to receive gifts from lots of friends to be able to hatch more critters. The tasks are fairly simple but annoying having to go to various types of biomes to collect the foods. Fortunately if you don’t have the right biome nearby you can use a photo. Also the equivalent of pokestops only show other people you can friend rather than actually giving you any incentives. Overall it’s ok but definitely not great and not finished. Definitely what you would expect from Niantic.

This truly is a fun, cute, and great game but I do have some issues.. I’ll start withy biggest issue.. The nests. I understand that this game is new and does need advertisements and money to keep it free but my favorite part of the game is raising them but that’s kinda difficult when you hate paying for stuff in games.
What I would suggest is finding a way to pay for a nest with sun drops or gemstones. I would say maybe about 500 gemstones or 5000 sundrops because to get that amount of sundrops or gemstones it would cost close to $5 which is the price for a nest.

Another issue is sometimes my dots will go into the ground and into walls and turn grey which is a weird sight to see but it’s not too often. It usually happens when playing fetch which my dot. The ball will get all glitchy and go into the ground or through walls which ends up making my dot grey and go through the floor or wall.

Also sometimes there’ll be a glitch where if I close out of the game for a second while walking and then re open it, I’ll get the message that appears when in a vehicle even though I wasn’t in a vehicle.

And here is my last suggestion. When I’m a vehicle and is a passenger, I feel like it would be cool if the dot could also sit in the vehicle with you. It would be pretty nice seeing my little dot sitting in a car with me.

Anyways this is a great game and I do believe it will get incredibly better and way more fun than it is now.

If you enjoy breeding and caring for cute pets, this game was pretty decent. In the original release, Niantic being Niantic attempted to paywall every hatch, but quickly learned that wouldn’t work. Once they started allowing some free nests (a fair amount even, in my opinion), the game actually became quite pleasant, and it was a fun way to get the kids out to see different parts of our town (go for the on-screen habitat, stay to experience the off-screen point of interest). I was even ok with buying a few supplemental nests to support the game and give the kids some extra hatching fun.

That all changed, dramatically and quickly, with this last update. A game that was happily swaddled in cuteness and fun changed to dark and creepy with the addition of feral dots and blight, complete with ominous music. At the same time, the desires of each Dot pet was removed, effectively taking away the most fun part of caring for each one. My daughter went from absolutely loving the game, to being completely creeped out and hating it. While we probably could have just shifted her focus for a bit if it was a temporary Halloween event, instead it sadly is a permanent change. The previous version of the game will be missed, and we will not be playing this depressing version. Hopefully Niantic will quickly realize how much they’ve alienated family players by this change of tone.

Peridough should be way more accessible. I can dig up Sundrops and constantly farm Blightbux, so Peridough needs to be easier to get too. Also, at least every other day (if not every single day) there should be a Nest available for Blightbux or Peridough. If you can’t do that then bring back crafting Nests, I should at the very least be able to craft 2 Nests a day or every other day. Honestly who in this economy is able to pay $5 for a Nest every. Single. Time. It’s just not feasible and people should be able to just enjoy something without it hurting their pockets. You can keep the bundles and stuff. I’m sure people who can afford it buy it, which is definitely giving y’all enough money to keep the game running. I wouldn’t have an issue at all with the in-app purchases if the dev team of this game wasn’t basically making them mandatory. This game is pay to play, not pay to win. It’s entirely backwards; what app has ever done anything like that?? None because it makes no sense and doesn’t work. The whole point of the game is to breed for better traits and eventually get archetypes so why would you take away a CORE MECHANIC of the game?? It makes zero sense. Also, how much you spend breeding with rescued/feral and friend’s dots needs to be less random. It’s definitely randomized, otherwise I wouldn’t already have the archetype I do. You should spend less or more depending on how many traits from that dot are still locked for you.

While it’s fun to make the dots and get the archetypes the process can get expensive with the nest issues. I get it they have to make money to keep employees paid and servers running but it’s a little steep. With that said I did pay every once in a while as I’ll pay for games that bring me enjoyment.
The reason why I deleted my account though was the constant use of AR. It’s a phone killer in short. The things that it does to your battery and electronics in your phone is not good. I’m not going to continue to play a game that will over heat my phone and shorten my phones life span. Heat is one of the factors that kills your batteries capacity to hold a charge. Even if your phone says its charged to 100% your battery may only be holding a 90% charge as an example. That a reason why phones have trouble making it through the day as they age under the same amount of usage. I get the AR aspect of this game but maybe make the game play out like your other games in their own digital worlds. Pokemon Go would be an example. Most people just use AR in that game to snap a quick pic and then back to the Pokemon digital world to continue playing. Anyway I’d come back if the game went in this direction as it is fun.