Peridot

Peridot

By Niantic, Inc.

  • Category: Games
  • Release Date: 2023-05-08
  • Current Version: 1.15.0
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 196.06 MB
  • Developer: Niantic, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 14.0
Score: 4.39947
4.39947
From 12,927 Ratings

Description

Peridot fulfills your fantasy of bonding with a magical, brag-worthy creature that can fly through the air, always wants to be by your side, and might have a secret love for turkey sandwiches. With the power of AR, this pet simulation game places whimsical beings known as Peridots (“Dots“ for short) in the real world with you. And with Peridot, playing with friends is better, simple as that. Meet up with your besties IRL to Hatch new Dots that will inherit the Traits of their parents, then snap a pic and share it with your friends! _______________ ADOPT your very own Peridot, creatures that feel and look totally real. Each Dot has unique DNA which makes them a truly special companion made just for you. NURTURE your creatures and help them live their best lives. Play fetch, teach them how to shake their butt, give them belly rubs, and dress them up in hats, mustaches, bowties, and more! EXPLORE the world, get outside, and see the world in a new way through your Dot’s eyes. Your Dot is curious about the environment and might uncover hidden items depending on where you adventure with them. When your Dot is looking particularly adorable, snap photos and videos to share with your friends on social. COLLABORATE with your friends and other players to breed your Dots together and Hatch entirely new Dots that are genetically unique. Discover together what’s possible and encounter endless possibilities of Peridot Archetypes that resemble some of your favorite animals, including cheetahs, unicorns, peacocks, and more. You can even combine and pass down these rare Traits to the future generations of Dots. EXPAND your beloved family of Dots by unlocking badass Peridot Archetypes and Traits as you climb the ranks within the Peridot Keeper Society. EXPERIENCE a rich narrative as you learn about the mysterious ancient past of these creatures and work to preserve the species for future generations. Join this heartwarming journey today and rediscover just how beautiful the world around you truly is. _______________ With the player’s permission, Adventure Sync uses the Health app to enable the player to earn walking distance when the app is closed. Notes: • Peridot is optimized for high-end smartphones, tablets are not supported. Device compatibility is not guaranteed and may be changed at any time. Supported device information can be found at: https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/en/36-peridot/faq/3377-supported-devices/ • Peridot is an AR-first experience and requires access to your smartphone’s camera while playing the game to interact with your creature in the real-world. • Continued use of GPS running in the background or camera access can dramatically reduce battery life. • It is recommended to play while connected to a network in order to obtain accurate location information. • Please visit playperidot.com for additional information.

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Reviews

  • Are there bugs in the game?

    4
    By J bug05
    My dot was fine last night and I woke this morning to a completely different dot. It’s a baby and is already named. What happened to my perfectly fine dot? Also every habitat is being called an unnatural ground. I need an 80s ball but it says the dirt is unatural surface. Are there some bugs in the game? I really like this game and will continue to play but could you tell me why I lost my other dot?
  • I love this game

    5
    By Peridot beam
    It's so cute
  • Don’t get this game

    1
    By Keri mariscal
    It is stupid it won’t let you play and you have to have a password and it will say you have to have permission to play so players if you got in well good for you but the game doesn’t s stupid I play on my mom’s phone and it doesn’t let you play it in the car I gave it one star because it is retad.
  • Um?!?!

    5
    By Sun'Star Of OceanClan
    The game does not let me get in and I looked at the “why can’t I sign in?” page. Could I please get answers. Overall, the game is cute looking!
  • Fun game, but I’ve got a problem…

    4
    By Kawaiigamer421
    I’ve been playing Peridot since July last year, so I’ve come to be very familiar and very fond of this game. However, about 3 weeks/1 month ago, I updated my iPad (not a very common thing for me to do. I don’t remember the exact update but it was iPadOS 17) but when I tried getting on Peridot, it would load all the way to the “Stretching our legs” message before freezing and crashing. I’ve been trying to fix it by clearing photos, cache, etc…and updating Peridot and my iPad more (both are currently at the latest versions, that being 1.15.0 for Peridot and iPadOS 17.4 respectively). Is the app not functional for those updates? I’d love to play without having to borrow my mother’s phone…
  • Removes reviews

    1
    By TakenlessNickName
    [ Edit: WARNING TO STALKING VICTIMS: If you showcase a dot, and then enter incognito mode, it takes DAYS to remove your personal information (keeper name & dot name) from the habitat, which gives away your location. That's probably the most dangerous part of this buggy mess. ] Third time re-submitting my rating & review. Note that everything written below is 100% true to the entirety of my understanding and experience. Many issues with the game remain, even without the nickname bug (I assume my old review was taken down because they tried to fix this bug). For instance, there's no way to babysit your dots if you're not in game, so you always come back to them starved and isolated, with the big sad eyes. You might not have to worry about that, depending on how you play the game and budget in your household, since each individual nest (one slot for a dot) is a whopping five american dollars. It takes maybe two days to raise one. $5 every two days if you want to participate in the most interesting portion of the game, and the dots just get brought into a life of misery and torment once you do. Not only that, but the glitches are absurd! Wanna swap out dots to take care of the other ones? Good luck. It freezes half the time! Restart the app and you have to slog through the loading screen and attempt to swap them out again. Stare at a tree for five minutes? No you didn't, the app says that's a human face. Or cardboard. Or dirt. Etc. The A.R. recognition is so bad, it's literally easier to fill the whole viewport of your phone camera with a google image example of whatever you're trying to scan (which is probably part of their training data) than to actually go out and scan that thing in the real world. Water is the worst for this, but tree trunks really are a close second. And the optimization? There IS none. My phone feels like it's about to explode from the heat when I play this game, and it's literally one of the newer models (13) that I've only owned for a few months. Battery life is also impacted by the game running in the background as well, although at least adventure sync almost works in this game... Want to report a bug? Oops, you can't! Not in the standalone peridot app or the chat, at least. You have to post PUBLICLY in Niantic's social media app (campfire) or their external web forum for EVERYONE to see, even if the screenshot example you have of your bug may contain private/personal information. No privacy whatsoever, no ease of referring back to your complaint. You can TRY to report a bug in the app, but the decision tree very strongly discourages and obscures it. Same goes for feedback, even moreso. That's not the only basic feature missing from the actual peridot app itself...you can't even send hatch-a-dot (breeding) requests without the obtrusive campfire integration, which is buggy for many people, and COMPLETELY UNAVAILABLE in some regions!!! But, maybe you don't care about any of that. Maybe you just want to make a fun family tree of fantasy creatures, no matter how expensive or buggy it is. Well, bad news there, too! There is currently NO family tree viewing functionality, NO dot growth stages (baby->teen->adult) history page, and NO details about how related any two dots are WHATSOEVER!!! On the one hand, I'm sure inbreeding doesn't matter too much when the creatures being inbred literally do not exist...on the other hand, if you forget to record ANY of that information, it's gone for good. It's really ridiculous. The monetization strategies, optimization attempts, and glitch mitigation present in this game make any chinese knockoff candy crush app look like a masterpiece in comparison. Furthermore, the merchandise shop (which I viewed briefly on the first day of playing the app) is seemingly through Amazon (they ask for an amazon login), an awful company with horrible labor practices. Really says something that a company owned by such a massive multinational corporation such as google isn't willing to shell out a little more to go through basically any other supplier... The dots are pretty to look at, so they get one star and not zero. Everything else? FORGET IT!
  • Good (Butt…)

    4
    By Beetroot!
    I love my lil guy to death, but with the new update and feral dots… I feel like it’s unnecessary. Especially since it doesn’t do much in my opinion.
  • This is cute

    2
    By Banana bloo baby
    I had this app and it used to work fine but then I tried to get on it one day. It started in the loading screen like normal but then the music started glitching out and it crashed. I tried deleting and reinstalling twice but it still doesn’t work.
  • Super fun and cute!

    5
    By KomiKomi101
    I wanted another pet, but I wasn’t allowed to. This was the next best thing! Like a virtual pet! I love playing with my dog( I named him beanie) and it even has real life sounds! Would recommend!
  • Vfj

    5
    By Fdhshbsh
    Loveeee

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