Peridot Negative Reviews

Peridot App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Peridot app received 129 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Peridot? Can you share your negative thoughts about peridot?

Peridot for Negative User Reviews

✓ 99% of this game is locked behind p2pDon’t download it.Pinky3854Version: 1.0

✓ Absolutely loving it but I’m not going to pay £5 for the key features of the gameDon’t get me wrong it is a good game but I am not prepared to pay for the key features of the game and if it doesn’t change, and I have to pay £5 to use the key feature of the game I will not be playing for very long, so I suggest you make the key features available to everyone and not to make us pay for it.Benij 30Version: 1.0

✓ A Slippery Slope 💔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 the app (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 Peridot. 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..Kathrynn H.Version: 1.0.3

✓ Cute but not F2PThis 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..CyphoriumVersion: 1.0

✓ Pay to play, don’t waste your timeThis game was so cute and it’s so well made but it is a poor attempt at a cash grab. They have made the game functionally impossible to play. This is like if you had to pay to catch Pokémon in Pokémon go. I am coming out of this game with a very negative opinion about Niantic.</FlawedVersion: 1.0

✓ Gets boring fastOn day 1 after downloading I had an absolute blast. Adorable creature that was uniquely mine. What a great hook to get me interested. Within 36 hours my baby was now an adult with nothing left to do except breed once and be put on a shelf. Bottom line is that there is literally no game here. Niantic has spent a huge amount of effort to design what amounts to a 2 day distraction. It’s absolutely stunning to me that they released this “game” without actually adding any gaming elements..SkyRattlersVersion: 1.0

✓ So much potentialThis game has sooo much potential! However, having to pay for nests with absolutely no way to earn them in game is a massive problem and has caused me to stop playing. If nests could be earned through any other was for free to play players it would be such an amazing game. Very disappointed, I hope the developers keep this in mind..DrumsnthatVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Bad game do not recommendI can’t even get past the starching legs part.Lionel11hazil20Version: 1.8.2

✓ NestsThere is a huge pay wall to a key feature of the game. There should be a way to craft nest, why charge so much so that I can breed my pet?.RainbowdashalotVersion: 1.0

✓ Typical Niantic, too $$$You will need a decent phone camera to play this as AR is required. Same with location. The peridots are cute but the gameplay is repetitive. The gameplay with a single peridot lasts about 3 days, from baby to adult, and then you’ll need to breed to restart the, very repetitive, game cycle. This is $5 each time. So around $50 a month if your consistently hatching dots. Community day is $15. You HAVE to use campfire, Niantic’s still non-functional discord-copy social server. No easy way to see if someone wants to breed with you. Yes, you have to send a breed request. And accept requests of your own. The cough up the $5 and hope you get the traits you want. Oh and because campfire is required, if you’re under 18 you can’t breed. Nice for a game targeted towards families. Can’t breed? No new dots. No new gameplay. No new archetypes to collect (the main point of the game). I quickly quit and do not recommend Niantic is WELL known to not listen to community suggestions so I don’t expect improvements. Sooooooooooooo many better options out there. Even for money-hungry mobile games. Save yourself a ton of money and buy a real game with hours of new content for a single fee..Jam_angel_001Version: 1.0

✓ PaywallThink this is a really really cute game with an awesome base idea, you can play and walk and forage with your dot and watch it grow up and take it on walks with you. But the main part of this game, to me, is breeding and hatching new dots, with the ability to unlock new features for your baby dots to have. But you have to pay £4.99 per nest, or you can get more for a slightly discounted price. I understand the need to make money off a game, but when the whole premise of it is breeding and you have to pay to do just that, I think it’s ridiculous..WarriorRaptorVersion: 1.0.1

✓ A pay to play nightmareIt’s so frustrating because this game has so much potential but as it is shown to be currently: money seems to be the only priority. recent updates such as removing sun drop gifting just leaves a sour taste in my mouth; not to mention nests. They are effectively impossible to obtain unless you are randomly in a special test group which has been going on for ages. The AR features are dubious at best, most the time they’re either clipping into a wall or just not at all recognising what you’re trying to show them. The game glitches out so often that refreshing the app has become almost an unconscious movement, be it from the game freezing or dots just missing colours, it’s s confusing mess..BastnasiteVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Great concept, poorly executed.I was so excited when I heard about the new app niantic were creating, sounded like a Tamogotchi that you could actually breed and create new ones! However since the release I have been very disappointed. You get one free nest to use to hatch a second generation peridot but that’s it. To create anymore you have to pay £4.99 for ONE nest! Considering this game is based around breeding new types of peridot, I find this extremely extortionate. I will not pay that ridiculous price to play. The AR part of this game absolutely drains the battery and makes my phone to hot to handle and the graphics are very poor really. I’ve completely stopped playing and deleted the app because what’s the point if you have to pay to breed more peridots, especially a fiver at a time!.Nyxia16Version: 1.0

✓ It’s hard to log in for meI downloaded peridot because I’ve been bombarded with ads on TikTok, so I decided to get it and I’ve tried signing in and it said it was “login unauthorised” so I tried again trying with my Google account, again “login unauthorised” so now I have just decided that it’s a glitchy type of game. And I’ve seen a review saying that it take’s battery life,makes your phone heat rise up and gives a warning, and you pay a lot. Honestly because of this I’d rate it a ⭐️⭐️..Marx galVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Game is expensive and kills your batteryAfter the initial - ooh that’s amazing , as the graphics are excellent , you quickly realize that it’s really pretty boring … you need nests to progress and they are super expensive .. playing outside is almost impossible as it literally drains the battery , I’m on a new phone and it started to overheat and the battery drained incredibly quickly .. even if I wanted to play I would have to have a battery recharger attached to the phone … definitely got a wow factor initially but it’s not playable for lots of reasons.BieberisamazingVersion: 1.0

✓ Charming little pet sim with some shortcomingsIt’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..UzoolnVersion: 1.0

✓ Love the gameI’m impressed that they’ve listened to peoples complaints and added “free” ways to get nests but I still think that $34 for a virtual pet and a piece of clothing in todays economy is robbery. Taking advantage of people that like virtual pets. The price for things in the store is still WAY to high. Would happily pay 10 dollars a month for 5 nests not 25..EkatdawgVersion: 1.10.0

✓ Not a free game - charges you to playThis game about breeding critters charges you real life money to breed. It’s $8Au for every single breeding. That’s a ridiculous price for a game with nothing else going on. Just make the actual game cost money to play instead of this free to play trick but then the CORE PART of the game costs money with no free option to work towards. Straight up scam.Edit Apple NicknameVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Fun but ...I was having such a fun time playing the game, the concept is really cool and I love the design of everything. But to have an essential part of the game be one use and then $5 per after is just too much. Even in pokémon go, the incubators - which aren't an essential function - you have one that as infinite uses with ability to purchase more if you so choose. Obviously the functions aren't the same as you can't reasonably hatch multiple Peridots at the same time, but maybe instead of giving out so many free gems - push those to be bought instead of an nests, as they have real benefit if collected. As a player, i'm much more likely to spend money on the game when an Item or currency can produce something rare, special, etc. Even a nest with abilities to produce higher chances for rare combinations or abilities would be a better alternative to just having to buy a basic necessity of the game. Anyways I still enjoy the game but definitely hinders my ability to continue playing if I have to spend $5 each time to do the entire point of the game..Bailey Goodson:3Version: 1.0

✓ Let us release dots to reuse nestsWe aren’t given enough nests for how many new archetypes are released. then you run out of resources and have to waste a nest on a dot you don’t want..Laurie_meVersion: 1.10.0

✓ Forced Boycotting for communityThis game is something I’ve been excited about for a couple years now. Glad it’s out, but horrified to find that it’s just riddled with the classic Niantic pay to play system even though they advertise as a free to play creatures breeding game. Oh btw if you got the game intending on playing it as it was designed, prepare to have to pay to do so. Promises of grandeur never come to fruition from Niantic, all they want is to mine your data while you mindlessly tap your screen and pay them to do so. This game is flailing in the water on release, many features available in beta testing have been removed or switch to pay to access them. Niantic reworked this app to line their own pockets so badly that the entire community is boycotting nest purchases and any other payable feature they’ve surprised us with after release. The community as a whole plans to allow this game to die off if Niantic doesn’t fix their pricing and treatment of their players. I heavily suggest anyone planning on getting this game, seek out their discord server first that way you can get real honest player info from other players and the community..RedArrowB06Version: 1.0

✓ You have to PAY per breeding attempt!!!The beta version of this game had a load of features that they scrapped. Someone at Niantic chose to dumb the game down and make it into a money churning NFT style of scam. Any time you want to breed a new pet, which is presently the CORE purpose the game is built around, you have to spend 7 bucks here. That’s for a chance at the results you want, and then you have to level up to be allowed to access specific traits. You can’t work to earn what you want, pretty much anything worthwhile in this game is gated. The AI is no better than the animals in PETZ. In beta you could build nests and there were wild versions to catch so it had playability without making you pay to play. It’s like they’re deliberately trying to tank something that could have been so fun and innovative. It would be more apt to say Tamagotchi walked so that Peridot could stumble and fall flat on its face..Crivvens!Version: 1.0

✓ So much potentialThis 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..EvieLynAVersion: 1.0

✓ Glitchy but cute and paywall is ridiculousSo I’ve run into some glitches with the foraging in different places, game seems not to recognize the difference between grass and my hard wood floor and gravel/sand so it’s been stopping me from completing things, also the fact that my dot wants to see flowers (of which I have none and there’s none on my walks) and it doesn’t recognize fake ones apparently as a thing is kinda annoying, this nests for 7$ is entirely horrible idea if the name of the game is to breed why should we have to pay for the basic thing we need to do that with?? I’d understand if it were a multiple nest thing like say it gives the possibility of multiple babies but not for one…. That’s just simply stated a rip off, even Pokémon go has free incubators for eggs…. Like give it a rest, you’re not expecting people to play for long or rather not expecting many new breeds to come out of this if you expect us to pay every time lol that’s laughable at best, all in all cute little game but some poor unfortunate soul was allowed to make it a paywall instead of something you could enjoy properly.Melina6969Version: 1.0

✓ Fun but gets boringSo aside the current hate from the existing community, I gave this game a chance. First off while the permanent AR gameplay is kinda fun, definitely kills battery. On my iPhone 14 Pro Max, 30 mins gameplay drains about 20% of battery. Walking on the street with constant AR and camera pointing is awkward, guess it’s more like sitting down in park kinda game but then again, battery!! Gameplay sweet and cute, but on the 2nd day the feed-fetch-trick-forage sequence gets super boring. You reach adulthood with your Dot in about 48 hours then you ready to breed and hatch new ones, which is the core of the game BUT to hatch an egg you NEED a nest EACH time costing you £4.99 or with certain bundles. So essentially you only can buy new pets if you want and after 48 hours you just end up with a battery draining glorified tamagotchi. Hit and miss for me, would be less bitter if exciting community wouldn’t feel like they were just milked for cash..Joda01Version: 1.0

✓ Breeding game that forces you to pay to breedYou get to breed ONCE before you need to pay $5USD every time you want to breed. No that $5 nest is NOT reusable. There is also no way currently to grind or earn nests for free. Kids accounts also cannot breed because they force you to use their chat app campfire to ask to breed. The community is very unhappy with the current state of the game. I have seen no one defending or praising the game except those haven’t yet realised the hard paywall..Mewchan87Version: 1.0

✓ Nests shouldn’t require moneyHi I noticed how nests require 5 dollars to purchase and as a 12 year old who isn’t allowed to pay for things on my phone even if it’s my own money I found that pretty annoying.Making nests require money defeats the entire point of the game.I thought that maybe nests could cost in game currency and if you wanted one that you could use multiple times you could pay actual money.Another idea I had was that 1 nest could be used an infinite amount of times and the more nests you have the more eggs you could hatch at once (assuming it takes time for them to hatch) an you could pay money to have more (obviously there would have to be a 1 day cool-down before your dot can breed again).If it doesn’t take time to hatch an egg then I thought we could still use that idea (with the 1 day cool down and infinite use of a nest) but instead of paying money for more nests you could pay money to immediately end the cool-down.If you used any of these ideas then it could REALLY make the game more optimal for children and people that don’t want to spend money on a game.This game is still fun but it would be better if I didn’t have to wait like 30 days for a new nest. Thanks for reading this far I hope you have a great day..P3NNY80Version: 1.0.3

✓ Breeding is paywalledUninstalled after finding out that the only way to breed your dots is to pay for a nest - at over $5 each. The gameplay is not worth paying this every generation. Too bad, was really looking forward to this game!.Kimber.amVersion: 1.0

✓ Money grab!You could buy Nests with Blightbux. Finally another way to get Nests. Oh wait, it’s gone. Penny pinching, money grabbing scaaaaaaaaaaaaam..NwlehmannVersion: 1.8.2

✓ The game was cute and fun until…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..ArtigiusVersion: 1.8.0

✓ NestA expensive real money item for each breeding? No way..TonkabobVersion: 1.0

✓ Definitely a Niantic game!!!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..Sphl0ckmanVersion: 1.0

✓ Great Game, But…I love this game. I was a fan of Tamagotchi back in the day, and Peridot is like a better version of that. The game is new and there are limited things to do right now, but I’m sure that there will be new features added over time, which I am looking forward to. HOWEVER… Nests being behind a paywall is a game killer. I get making them rare-ish, but right now there is no way outside of paying real money ($5) to hatch new dots. So basically after you get your free nest for starting the game, you’re stuck. Once your Dot becomes an adult, there isn’t much left to do if you can’t breed new ones. I’m hoping that something will be added to address the issue with Nests. Make them purchasable with Sundrops, since those can be acquired in game. That right there would be a big plus. You need sundrops to breed your Dots so it would require playing and saving them up to both buy a Nest and breed a new baby. Once the Nest issue is resolved, I will happily revise this review to 5 stars!.LadyDragonbornVersion: 1.0.1

✓ DownfallI played 4-5 months ago and I would of rated it 5 stars when nests were obtainable by gems. But $8 AUD for a nest is crazy. Please make it back how it was in beta.DayliaaaVersion: 1.0

✓ Great game great premise but…. Money grabbingHonestly 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..EnviousinsVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Niantic’s ATM of youThis game proposes an interesting question: what if Scrooge McDuck made tamagotchi? The decision to hide the main draw and FEATURE of the game behind a paywall is transparently greedy - and it’s not just a one-time payment!! It’s one you have to make every time you want to roll the dice for a new creature: the main point of the game. It’s absurd, Niantic, and you aren’t fooling anyone. It’s meant to be a unique feature of a Game, not an ATM. If one could purchase the ability to hatch new ‘dots through in-game currency and that was it, that would be the MINIMUM requirement to make this a viable game. Then there are the performance issues: frequent game crashes; stalling; phone overheating (felt through a phone case) even on the lowest visual quality setting; buggy animations; and unlike Pokemon Go, there is no option to turn off AR. You even have to use Niantic’s clunky Discord knock-off to try to contact another user so you can cross your creature with theirs. Ah, and you simply MUST make an account in order to access anything at all! Summary: Disappointing and emblematic of Late Stage Capitalism Made-for-In-App-Purchases. 1/5.CatsareafinethingVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Cute but unreasonably expensiveI really enjoy the game but the cost of breeding the Dots is far too high to justify. In my area it costs $7.00 per Nest, so if you played at a reasonable pace and bred a Dot once every three days, it would cost $70.00 a month just to play the game normally. Additionally, the act of breeding a Dot is difficult and frustrating, as you need to seek approval from another player and many of the traits are locked until you level up or spend even more money on gems. So even when I did buy a Nest (at a discount), the purchase left me feeling bad. This is a game I'd be happy to spend money on otherwise (as I'd love to buy cute accessories or bonuses for my Dots) but I really can't justify playing right now with the price point for just the main component of the game being so high..JessiRatesGamesVersion: 1.0

✓ Amazing potential but paywalledTheres a pay wall pretty early on in game play. The dots are cute, and the ar is pretty cool. However, it cooks my phone with maybe 5 mins of game play, which is a bummer seeing as i want to be able to actually interact with my dot and use the ar feature. Its cool to see your dot walk with you and interact with the world but that also kills battery. After playing for 10 minutes my battery drained from 95% to 75%. I understand the ar can be a bit of heavy lifting but on a brand new phone with no battery issues this is pretty bad. All to say you really cant be on the app for longer then 4ish minutes until problems start to arise. There isnt much motivation to use this throughout my day when im busy if i know im not going to be by a charger. Its a cool game with a cool concept but the pay wall and battery life issues are real problems. The game is a glorified tech demo, which is a shame because it could be a full fledged game..IDunnoJackVersion: 1.0

✓ Great potentialThe AR is delightful, I swear my “dot” was looking at my feet. But there MUST be a free way to get nests or this game will have no future. With a way to gget free nests it is 5 stars no question. Like tamagotchi for the 21st century..NRWritesVersion: 1.0

✓ Too expensiveThis game is super cute and would be super addictive but having to pay for a nest everytime is ridiculous… you don’t even need to do that with Pokémon..WastedWarrior123423Version: 1.0.1

✓ Adorable, and expensiveNot free to play. This game is paywalled; you cannot progress without spending a LOT of money..Th0rnleafVersion: 1.0

✓ Only free to play for the first 2 petsReally cute game and I enjoyed it until I hit the pay wall after a day! A real shame you can’t breed more than 2 pets for free, which means you can play for free for a day or two then it’s $10 per new egg. $100 just to breed 10 virtual pets? I’m sorry but that’s really scammy….MauvealertVersion: 1.0.1

✓ The MAIN feature of the game is pay-walledThis game is super cute and has great potential BUT the main feature of the game (breeding and collecting dots) is paywalled. You get one single free nest when you start and then it’s $5 per nest ($7 Canadian) which is outrageous. This means you get to breed one new dot for free and then any more you have to pay, and pay a lot, if you want to keep and collect the new dots that you’re breeding. $1 per nest would be totally acceptable but $5 is exorbitant (in the beta there was a way to farm items used to make nests). There has to be a free to play friendly way to get nests for this game to be even remotely successful. I’m writing this the day after launch so I’m really hoping they smarten up and rework this or this game is going to tank..Simon062349Version: 1.0

✓ Was great, not so much anymoreThe latest update has made it more difficult to grow your dots. No more desires, just socializing.. eh..AwSadToadVersion: 1.8.0

✓ PeridotPeridot is a great app/game for everyone, I struggle with many mental disorders and this app helps encourages me to get out and about the only struggle is the cost of the game itself. As I am struggling with mental disorders I have been put on a work exception there for I’m unemployed and can’t afford the nest which is required for main game play..Unaffordable GameplayVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Needs optimisation, possible pay to play.My phone burns up while playing this game and my battery dies after just over an hour. Seems like a really great game but from what I can tell it is pay to play. Peridot becomes an adult in 3 days, you get 1 free nest to hatch another and then you have to pay for anymore? So that’s 1 week before you have to pay to do anymore as there really isn’t much to do without breeding. Also VERY little instruction about how things work.. took me 3 days to figure out how to breed! App is also very unintuitive!.TheevilMeVersion: 1.0

✓ Adorable, great potential, expensivePeridot 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..@spluncherVersion: 1.0

✓ Loved it at firstThis game was really fun at first then it got really annoying when I saw you had to pay to get another nest honestly I don’t recommend this game I don’t see the point to playing it bc you have to pay real money just to get another dot I think it’s also way to much money it’s a fiver for one nest and even know I hate the fact u have to pay I also think if your gonna pay it should be like 98p or something like that.EXTREMELY ANGRY CUSTOMER😡Version: 1.1.1

✓ Too expensiveI was really excited to play this game after hearing good things about it during beta. The game itself is lovely, the concept is great but unfortunately there is zero chance of progressing at all without paying a lot of money. The breeding aspect is completely stuck behind a paywall. You can’t grind for the rewards. You just have to spend money. It’s a real shame. I don’t mind spending money here and there and appreciate Niantic need to make an income but the amount they are asking for is ridiculous. I recommend not bothering with this game unless you have a bottomless pit of cash..Em1984!Version: 1.0

✓ Pay to play, please fixI love the concept, I love the cute creatures, I love the breeding idea, I love the endless possibilities Please please take away the paywall on breeding, or at least make someway where players can grind or play to earn nests, you will make more money if you do, this game has so much potential, don’t waste it!.Geometry Dash Player!Version: 1.0

✓ Pretty Cool with an Absurd PaywallI don’t know if it deserves 3 stars, but there is one main issue in my opinion that basically needs fixed which is the way you have to play to progress through the game. Imagine owning a little unique digital pet that you can mix with others pets to create a very wide range of babies. Very cool until after the the first baby, it takes 5 bucks a pop for a new one. Oh, and by the way, the traits are randomly generated from the parents, and you’ll be locked out of several of them until you reach a higher level. I tried to play and level up, but now I’m to a point of realizing I’m making a big commitment that I’ll need to invest a lot of money in to have fun with. If you got like 20 eggs for 5 bucks instead of 1, I’d probably come back and play. The paywall between me and getting cool peridots is just too steep unfortunately. At the end of all that, definitely worth checking out for a couple days. It’s cute, fun use of AR, and a neat idea for a game..OG Ingress PlayerVersion: 1.3.1

✓ Was absolutely fantastic… for the first two daysI just started playing this with friends a couple days ago. We have been having an absolute blast walking around with our Dots, collecting food and treats and watching our little guys grow. Today, my Dot finally reached adulthood after much grinding and I was so excited to get my next one. I used my only nest and got a new baby through breeding… but then it occurred to me that I would need a nest every time I wanted to add a new Dot to the family. It seems the only way to get more nests at the moment is to purchase them with actual money, which I cannot afford to do. It’s unfortunate that I won’t be able to participate in what is one of the major functions of this game and will not be able to collect archetypes or raise anymore dots. I give it about a week before I lose interest given there’s only so much you can do with your Dots before they’ve done everything. I wish we had a daily or weekly nest so we could keep collecting dots like the trailer showed..SassyCassandraVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Even without breeding I still enjoy the simulation aspectsI’m an 80s kid and as I entered middle school Tamagotchi back in the 90s was all the rage. I miss the Tamagotchi Connect app. There is a new Tamagotchi coming soon but until that happens Peridot is the next best thing. Plus it promotes healthy active lifestyles and as a gamer that’s something I struggle a lot with. So anything that makes walking or exercising fun is good! I am sad that they removed foraging for nests and agree nest prices are too high. I enjoy the AR aspects watching my Peridot interact with my real pets and friends and family and explore my world. Oh and I love how they all look completely one of a kind! That’s the best part and still even without breeding your one Peridot is still one of a kind! And that’s awesome. I love how they purr when you pet them and feeding them and dressing them up and teaching them tricks. I will keep playing until the end, but without breeding and losing players by the thousands each day, that end is very near. For that reason I won’t spend real life money on the game cuz it’s going to die soon sadly..XenokittenVersion: 1.0

✓ Avoid this toxic companyBefore you spend money on this expensive pay-to-win app, you should be aware that the developers have a long history of taking money for in-game purchases then closing their games down without offering refunds. Considering Niantic’s shameful and long-standing reputation for not properly testing features, for ignoring customer feedback and for putting prices up massively (raid passes in Pokémon Go were recently increased by a massive 95% overnight!), I strongly recommend not giving this company any of your money, and not giving them the long list of permissions to collect data about you that this app demands..Andy_R_Version: 1.0

✓ BadIt made me pay money.Heather 66Version: 1.8.0

✓ Paywalled after a day.I’d be shocked if this review actually gets published as the App Store is nerfing all negative reviews, but here goes: This is the most cynical cash grab game I’ve ever played. Literally zero to do without paying for extra nests, there’s actually not a game here, just a breeding simulator. The breeding costs a fiver per go, by the way. You literally have to pay to progress. Parasitic business practices from a company that should (but never does) know better..Hairboy1Version: 1.0.1

✓ 3/5!I really enjoy the concept! We don’t have enough interesting genetic games, and adding the multiplayer aspect is so exciting! You can go-hatch with someone passing by and you never know what you’re going to get! But, you can only really explore the main aspect of the game, the entire selling point, if you pay. That’s really upsetting to me, as it seems like a lot of love went into it. But it comes off as a cash grab. I think a great feature would to be to add some way for free to play players to get some nests. Sure you can make it tougher, but at least make it possible. This game is only so fun without that, and I think people would be more interested in paying for items and nests if it didn’t seem so greedy. I know I would. The ar is also a little goofy, but that doesn’t really bother me. A few quality of play changes could be made, but really just add a way for free to play players to get more nests. Be it a daily spin, quests, whatever. So much potential to be a huge success! Make it more accessible!.HanuhiVersion: 1.0

✓ PotentialThe app drains the battery from your phone extremely quickly. You are able to watch your Dot grow, play fetch, teach them tricks and feed them food that they have found. Plenty of things to do, to encourage you to reload the app up again. Downside, once you’ve bred your Dot with another adult Dot. You have to pay £5/€5 per 1 nest. This means to continue playing the game with breeding, you will need to keep paying the £5 per breed. This is the main objection of the game. You can still continue to play with your Dots without nesting and making a baby dot, but it gets quite boring without the excitement of getting a baby and seeing the different designs. It’s a shame the nests cost so high. Also, please remove the communication option, I dislike that you have to message strangers..TelephonemakkaVersion: 1.0

✓ Everything was going well untilEverything was going well until I tried to make my peridot learn a trick, I was at keeper level 3 but when I held the food up to the Center like the game told me to my peridot just got the scribbles over it’s head and even when I restart it I still can’t please help! And fix this please! I want to play with my peridot and I don’t want to keep trying.Pink teddddyyVersion: 1.1

✓ Good idea - but pay to play and buggyI 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..PeachymischiefVersion: 1.0

✓ Pay to playI was really upset to find out that after the first free nest you are unable to buy nests in game with in game currency You have to pay about 5 dollars for a nest This seems really unfair and targeted. Why isn’t there a way to use in game gems to buy nests? A huge part of this game is breeding and you can’t even do that without paying real money..ChideenoVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Why do you need my id?Could not even play the game.Hi_8273732Version: 1.8.0

✓ 4 1/2 stars on average? Are we playing the same game?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 the app 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!.LehmahnVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Feels incomplete, poorly executedWhilst the concept is incredibly cute, there is very little in the way of ongoing gameplay. Once you’ve raised your Dot to an adult and done 1 breeding, then raised that baby to an adult, you’re done unless you want to pay $5 every time to breed. In a game whose final end game is to unlock colour combinations and archetypes, that’s almost impossible in the current format. Additionally there is no incentive to keep playing as the only thing you can do apart from the paywall-locked breeding is to feed foraged items, and throw a ball. The game feels like it’s in a beta test and should be part of a much larger game, but this is it. I hope Niantic comes up with more reasons to keep playing, otherwise it’s worth about a week of fun, then it’s straight to the uninstall pile. Edit: My rating has been dropped to 1 due to a number of near-game breaking bugs. Game sees my dogs as people, and takes minutes of scanning to see a dog as a dog. The tiny finger movements designated as pats are no longer working as pats and are causing the Dots to scavenge instead. Plants are scanning as unnatural surfaces. Dots are ignoring more than half of the food thrown to them. Please fix this..Lilielle BlackroseVersion: 1.0

✓ Pay to Win! On day 1!In a game about breeding Dots, so you can real se them into the wild, to save the Dot population, you guessed it, you gotta breed! But niantic wants their cut every single time! The ONLY way to breed is with two adult dots and a nest. The ONLY way to get nests is paying money to Niantic. $5 per next, and they’re single use. There is no other way. Not to mention that the game has been stripped to bare bones compared to beta there is nothing to do. You can’t grind tricks because your dot will refuse the food, you can make your dot too tired to play, you can’t breed without paying so once they grow up that’s it. I was excited about this game for the past year since I didn’t make it into the beta, and now I’m disappointed. Don’t waste your memory space or money. The devs refuse to even notice the community’s cries, they have stripped the game to digging up sandwiches, they say breeding isn’t actually an important part of the game, and are slowly removing more traits from Dots to lessen complexity. It’s not worth it unless you have just tons of money to blow to be able to play it..ChiefArdyVersion: 1.0

✓ No way you’re getting my info!I was excited to get this fir my son, but it asks for our location… and then your credit card details or photo your ID. No way!! What a shame!!.BryjbgyuddhVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Paywall & battery killerSuch a cute concept.. Hatching an egg, and raising it.. (initial DC vibes of 6 years ago).. Then breeding for different traits, if you have unlocked them. Biggest downfall is this game totally revolves around breeding.. but the devs have locked “nests” behind paywalls.. Initial first nest is free then £5.99.. so don’t think so, when achievements in game are based around hatching dots.. Beta aspect you could forage for nest parts.. this has been removed.. This will be a very short game, until the huge paywall is removed. Huge battery drain also...AnochelVersion: 1.0

✓ Loading a lotAfter you hatch your pet, the screen keeps loading. The peridots are cute though. I wish it would load on my iPad so I can enjoy the game..HemehVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Great ConceptIt’s super fun and cute and I love the visuals. However, even for a powerful newer phone it’s so immersive that it’s often very laggy and unforgiving on battery life and makes interacting with animals and flowers tasks very difficult. This game shows no mercy with the AR requirement and it’s sometimes really tiring on the eyes and the forced AR means a lot of my friends can’t even play it because their phones can’t handle constant AR usage so I miss out on a chance to enjoy the game with people locally. The Hatch a Dot system is annoying because most people show up in habitats nearby but no longer play the game and won’t get the request (probably sick of the constant AR or paywalls too) so the chance of actually breeding another Dot is minimal most of the time. Kinda kills the concept for me, I came into this hoping to create unique creatures and play with my friends who can’t even play the game. Pretty bummed. Really hope it gets better in the future like PokeGo did..CoolCORGI109856743Version: 1.0

✓ DisappointedThis game seems really fun to play! But in reality there’s no point in playing, since the only way to progress is locked behind a £5 paywall, but you need to pay £5 every time you want to breed a new peridot. In all that makes playing the game feels useless as i know that i can’t play anymore. Bring back the free nests from the beta and maybe you’ll get more players, but right now there’s no point in playing..ScribblewormVersion: 1.0

✓ It’s okThe game seems to be borrowing a lot from Pokémon but adds a new twist in the sense that you have to use AR therefore you’re more likely to move around. There are lots of clipping and animation issues when the software gets confused with what I suppose to be the surface for the pet to be on, also general animations are bad especially interacting with food and object that sort of just stick to the pet’s face with the eating sounds, doesn’t look good please work on improving that. Interactions are ok but there should be more and the growth needs to be slower and require more work so that people don’t get bored of the app after 5 minutes of play..Frug0Version: 1.0

✓ Don’t downloadCute and visually appealing my daughter loved it however you can only hatch 2 eggs and then you can’t get any further unless you pay $9.99 per nest. Ridiculous..Br0okerHVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Good early game, locked behind paywallIts adorable and fun, but paying $6 for every nest afterwards is ridiculous. Maybe if it was 4-6 for $6 would be better or even one free one a week. Would also like to see one Nest that doesn’t break like the incubator in pogo. I would also love to see more ways to get EXP to level up not. Last, would like the ability to find and adopt stray Peridots on our adventures..CanadianQuinnVersion: 1.0

✓ Battery destroyer and misleading!Don’t get this app if you want your phone to explode, there’s also these tasks where you have to look at certain things, however sometimes this game doesn’t detect the very obvious item however detects something that is nothing alike to be that item??? Also has a lot of pay to breed..YithestupidVersion: 1.0

✓ Great conceptI absoloutly love this games concept - it reminds me of a game I played as a kid called oddballz. Unfortunately I feel that the game is limiting due to its pay to play model. It would be great if there were in game ways to purchase all items even if it required “grinding” to earn the required currency.TBrewert0nVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Gonna be expensivePlayed this for a few days and have to say it is nice visually and is simple enough to understand. That being said, this will cost you a fortune to play as you will quickly find out. When you want to hatch another Dot you will need a nest and the only way to get a nest is to buy one with real money, I like Pokémon GO where you get a free infinite incubator you do not get a free infinite nest on Peridot. Be prepared to spend if you want to collect all the creatures on this game.Simonm1987Version: 1.0

✓ Wish Main Feature Wasn’t Behind a PaywallI love this game. Choosing my first Dot and raising them has been a lot of fun. I like checking in on them throughout the day and seeing how they evolved from baby to adult. It’s super cute! My main issue, and one that seems to be shared by others, is that a big part of the game is to breed your Dot with others and create new combinations and diversify the gene pool. It’s a cool idea and I was excited to have lots of baby Dots! However, beyond your first free nest (a necessity to hatch a new baby) the rest need to be purchased. Right now a single nest is $4.99. This seems ridiculous for a huge component of the game play to be locked behind a paywall. Really hope Niantic reconsiders how they handle nests. I would love to see them be a craft-able item, or if you don’t want to spend time searching for materials you can purchase a pre-made one. Additionally, I would spend $5 on a nest that I could use multiple times, but $5 to hatch one Dot (which can be accomplished in a few days) seems unreasonable..CDZIVersion: 1.0

✓ Fun, but the monetization needs workAs it stands, I don’t know if this game will succeed with its current monetization scheme. It’s very fun, but I’m simply not going to pay for a service that may be pulled shortly into the future because its overzealous monetization prevented it from appealing to enough players. Hatch-a-dot is a core mechanic, and necessary to complete the gameplay loop. Not to mention that breeding dots to collect ‘archetypes’ of traits is treated as the long term goal of the game. Doing so obviously is meant to take many rounds of breeding with an element of luck in finding partners and randomizing baby dot traits. Paying for just the chance to obtain the dot a player wants is sure to turn many people away, myself included. It’s a shame, because I’m enjoying the game otherwise. I wouldn’t mind buying a premium currency to breed a dot with a specific appearance more quickly, or picking up some real-world merch if I was sure I would be able to enjoy this game long-term. I hope that Niantic can make some meaningful changes soon..AbstractOccasionVersion: 1.0

✓ Pay to playIt’s a modern tamagotchi, where you can feed and play with your pet. You raise it from infancy to adulthood, where the only new thing to do is breed your pet to unlock a different appearances (which can only be unlocked by levelling up your user level). You cannot breed new pets without paying cash for nests. Beyond that, there’s not much else to do and it gets boring pretty fast..Stevie ZavVersion: 1.0

✓ Disgusting paywall practicesSadly the game had a lot of potential in the Beta trial but the global release changed how you acquire nests, nests are the only way you can breed dots to get more….. unfortunately Niantic decided a single nest will now cost £5.00! They removed the feature where you got parts from visiting habitats and completely pay walled the game which makes the game complete unplayable unless you are willing to pay £5 every time you want to hatch a dot(bare in mind there’s hundreds of combinations).Ethan.GreyVersion: 1.0

✓ Want to love it…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..LdovesVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Unreasonably expensiveThis game has some v fun aspects(mainly the breeding), but there are few things to do (not much in terms of activities, the ones you do can get tedious and the AR is pretty clunky) both to interact and to level up/get the currencies required to progress and get more Dots (which in turn help you level up further, since you eventually max out your dot and it stops giving you EXP/currency). In essence, it can get frustrating at higher levels since there isn’t much to do that matters, and the things that are fun are paywalled, since your progress slows as you level up AND things get more expensive. For things to do, there are interacting with IRL scenery/feeding/fetch/petting (which are done in moments unless the game AR bugs out, which does happen), and (time/location restricted) battles with corrupted dots that give you a little currency and get saved in your Visitors section, available to breed with (which costs quite a bit and the cost only grows over time) for 24hrs, after which they disappear. I have a bone to pick with the battle system, tbh, because drawing a steady circle around the enemy can be difficult on the move, which… the AR often happens to perceive even when you’re standing in place, and you end up trying to draw a ton of uninterrupted circles around the opponent (if you release your finger/have the opponent cross the border, you do no damage) within the allotted 20 seconds or so, as you watch it float away from you, your circle distorting with it. I feel a bit salty because this game can be fun, but as of now it feels quite underbaked *and* paywalled at the same time. It’s not a good mix..Anna-the-Great-and-TerribleVersion: 1.8.2

✓ Game aspects are lacking and high costI play a lot of Niantic games and I was really looking forward to this one. However they’ve made some decisions that mean I cannot really recommend this game. The most important issue is that there is no way to breed without spending money. To breed you need a nest and nests cost £5. You cannot get them any other way. The activities in game are lacking too. You can feed them, play ball and teach them tricks. Once they become adults all you can do is breed. It’s dull very quickly!.SecretlondonVersion: 1.0.3

✓ NestsAny 5star review you read is before they realise (~2days in) that they will need to Pay 5$ to breed dots. Breeding dots is an essential part of this game. This will cost you 5$ each time (to buy a single use nest to hatch them in). This game would be really playable if they found an alternate way to monetise it. Making nests a purchase only feature brakes the central mechanic of the game. Breeding subsequent dots to expand your appearance and attributes (exciting) becomes redundant. Therefore as a player your enjoyment will peak after the second day when your dot becomes an adult when in essence you’ve completed the game. Could be easily fixed by returning the ability to hunt for and find nest fragments. usability - campfire integration weird - I don’t know how to access it and send a hatch request to someone every time I want to read my messages (only way I know to open them).LordMcBearVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Overpriced and underwhelmingWay too expensive for very little reward..Strats65Version: 1.0.1

✓ Has potential but the paywall...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 Peridot..Ploo2Version: 1.0

✓ Could have been greatI really enjoyed this game and if it had been free to play, it would have easily become my favourite game and I’d have played it daily. But it was ruined by greed. I played for a few days but then to continue I would have to pay £5 each time I wanted to breed my dot. Locking the entire game behind a paywall is monumentally stupid and it makes it clear this game was just a cash grab. I uninstalled after I realised I couldn’t progress any further if I didn’t pay. Every once in a while I’ll check online to see if they've added a free way to play but it’s always in vain..PeewetaVersion: 1.1

✓ Fun, but not “willing to break the bank” fun.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....AirbenderandiVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Mostly Pay to PlayA core gameplay feature, hatching dots, is not free and is expensive. I would’ve been willing to pay for EXTRAS (some traits, accessories, etc.) not for the main feature. This just feels greedy and hopes that the cute AR will carry it. I doubt it when there’s next to no gameplay unless you pay and pay A LOT. But for a few days, I did enjoy feeding and playing with a cute creature in augmented reality and got a few pictures… That’s it though. I hatched a dot but without a real goal for a free-to-play/casual paying player, I don’t have much interest in raising it or continuing to play. A child might enjoy it for longer, but be aware that hatching more dots is only available for accounts 13+ since it relies on the Campfire app..Krys 🦋Version: 1.0

✓ Has potential, seriously lacking currentlyThis game has potential to be amazing! I’m already basically addicted to it, however there’s a serious problem with how the keeper leveling works and breeding. You can only gain so much keeper experience in a day, which isn’t HORRIBLE other then the fact that after your Dot is an adult, you can’t do anything with it unless you want to pay to breed it. It’s like 7 dollars Canadian for EACH time you want to breed besides the first one. If they make it more like the beta where you can collect nest parts it will be an amazing game, but right now it’s fun for like 4 days that’s it..GardenxSnakeVersion: 1.0

✓ 0 stars): I want to play it, my phone was hacked like 7 years ago but not anymore and it still crashes everytime I open the game. That is just mean..NioHashiri0000Version: 1.0

✓ GraphicsYou can’t always see your dot. Which makes the experience a bit poor. There is also not enough activities within the game. I feel like they will introduce new things..MouradiNassereddineVersion: 1.0

✓ Don’t waste your timeThe app never opened for me, it would get stuck in the loading page and never opened for me.TanbuVersion: 1.8.0

✓ Good conceptIt’s visually appealing and has potential but is let down by the aggressive payment model. Subscription based would serve it better. You offer both free and subscriber rewards that give bests at different intervals. Still sell the nests for the rich people. I’ll keep playing to see where this goes but I won’t be buying anything until it’s actually affordable..Bolsen.nzVersion: 1.0

✓ Paywalled.I’d rate 5 * for the creativity of the game however it’s heavily paywalled. Nests cost $8 each and if you want to continue breeding to get new dots it’ll be $8 each time..Hugo's trainerVersion: 1.0

✓ Cute but keeps telling me to show a dog / catI don’t like that it repetitively asks me to show a cat / dog to level up, I can’t because my dog passed :( it makes me feel upset..Camila MieleVersion: 1.7.2

✓ THIS IS A SCAMMy child realy wanted this game and i did everything to make a account. And the asked to put a photo of your credit card and driver’s license DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP IT IS A SCAM.Spring trap 🪤Version: 1.3.1

✓ Pay to breed...This game mainly focuses on breeding and unlocking other appearances/ creatures, but you need to pay for every breeding (need to buy an item in order to breed) after your second peridot. Never thought this company would be this greedy..Fifo6735579Version: 1.0

✓ Too expensive…I like the game but ohhh my goodness it’s too expensive to play. The prices are outrageous! To add to this…last update was bad…game crashes a lot within a minute of opening?.GurgtjfeghVersion: 1.8.0

✓ Core Mechanic of the game stuck behind paywall.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..LexanlionVersion: 1.9.0

✓ PeridotGreat game with lovely energy and really nice to play. It is it very accessible to people with low income though, as to progress at the level the game aims you too, you have to spend money. Also, it used to have a conservation aspect of releasing the creatures back into the ‘wild’ which it no longer has, along with very little breeding opportunity unless you spend money which to me makes the whole game less exciting than it could have been and more like just having a virtual pet..Tim6415849Version: 1.8.2

✓ Forced Paywall and destroys your battery lifeFirst thing you’ll find, you need nests to hatch Peridots, you get one for free as a new player and then you have to pay £4.99 per time. So unless you like being fleeced, you’ll only ever have 2 peridots and can’t breed them. Pointless. There is no grinding option to get these nests (there was in the beta but that’s been removed - I wonder why?!). So there is literally nothing going for this game beyond the first breeding unless you pay. If that’s going to be the case, the price needs to be more reasonable - 99p would be more realistic. I’m not spending £5 a time and I sure as hell wouldn’t let my kids spend £5 a time! Other than that, it destroys your battery life. It actually made my iPhone 14 get so hot it displayed a warning on the screen - I’ve never seen that before! It also runs a full battery to flat in around 45mins to an hour of use. The AR elements of the game are very good and work well and that’s obviously where the power goes - but an option to turn them off when simply playing or feeding would really help, as would a low power mode. I so wanted to love this game, and I probably would if it wasn’t forcibly paywalled in the way that it is. Rated ⭐️⭐️ for the great use of AR but otherwise it’s a one-star hustle..JessicaRoseUKVersion: 1.0

✓ Short Term FunI had found myself often times during the last year thinking I would love a Tamogotchi type app on my phone that was pretty and well developed. While I looked around and tried a couple apps nothing was quite right. I really love the concept of this app and during the first couple days of playing I was pretty enamored, but that kind of quickly wore off. There just isn’t enough things to actually do with your dot. Anyone who has kept up with Tamogochis these days know that the game has evolved beyond just simply taking care of the daily needs of your pet and this app could benefit from that. Also, of course the paywall. It’s insane. Absolute insanity. I don’t expect (unlike a lot of people it seems) to not have to have in-app purchases especially on a free app. I just wish they were reasonable. I saw on boards that initially there were options around building nests previously in beta versions of the game. Some combo of that with paying for nests would make much more sense to me. Like yes, make me pay for cosmetics or things that speed up results, but not for the basic point of the game..BeeleewilliamsVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Has potentialThe premise of the game is to breed more dots, but having to pay £5 each time for a nest isn't fun. There's not much to do otherwise. You play more to breed better dots and have to pay to do so. I believe in the beta you collected materials for nests. Please go back to this. It has so much potential to be an amazing game, but it's lost my interest after a few days as I won't be paying numerous fees to continue..Jax_91Version: 1.0

✓ Really cute gameThere’s a lot of interactive elements to play with your dot and it’s fun going on walks and foraging, however the app has made my phone overheat quite a bit and it seems to crash 90% of the time when I click on the map button in the top left corner. Other than that, a nice chilled out game..EllaB08Version: 1.0.3

✓ Stupid pay wallI loved the game until I realise you can’t breed without paying a decent amount every time. It’s extremely unreasonable seeing as that’s the main reason to play. If you can’t pay you play. This shouldn’t be advertised as free to play. Please make it so that you can earn nests some how and I’d be more inclined to pay for the game.LonShonVersion: 1.0

✓ ScamPaywall after first time you breed your peridot. Game has very little to do. Throw a ball, feed it a sandwich, pet it, walk it. Can’t breed to get different colours and types unless you pay $7 or more for a nest. Don’t bother with this game.DgjansbxjdjVersion: 1.0.3

✓ PaywallCan’t continue playing the game without constantly paying $7..Jynx.EireVersion: 1.0

✓ Unacceptable pricingI’m not opposed to paying to play games, but that’s for things like an upfront cost to download the app or purchasing unnecessary extra resources if I want the experience to be easier. This game wants to you pay every time for an item that is essential to the main purpose of the game. That’s messed up..MwmwmmwmmwVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Convoluted excuse to use proprietary chatThis is such a pointless game, the features are over complicated and there is little to no explanation to what each item does that you collect. Also, it costs £5 every time you want to breed your dot to collect more traits which is THE CORE MECHANIC OF THE GAME. Insanely overpriced, seeing as this would be spent every 2-4 days. I fear for the parents who have got this for their kids and haven’t turned off in app purchases.LieflingsVersion: 1.0

✓ Way Too ExpensiveThe whole point of the game is hatching new dots but it costs so much! No point playing after using the free nest, and the nest wasn’t even reusable. Hoping they make this feature free in future, and unlocking traits more reasonably priced..ElephantalopeVersion: 1.0

✓ Free or playtoearn nestsCannot give it a positive review until the paywall is fixed. Without $7 you literally cannot continue to play this “free game”.420BillowVersion: 1.0

✓ Nests Costing £5 is ridiculous with no F2P OptionBreeding and creating new dots is the whole point of the game and to hate that behind £5 is extortionate when you’re not even guaranteed to get a dot you would actually like. If there was a F2P option at all I could understand, but to literally only be able to pay PER NEST is ridiculous. Pay to speed things up, sure but this has put me off entirely, I’ve been playing for months and have a huge number of dots I didn’t have to pay £5 for, Niantic, this is ridiculous and has totally ruined the game for me..HíköVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Niantic again neglects northernersThe outrageous pay per play after your Period grows was expected. But I’m disappointed that A LOT of the daily tasks include looking at a flower, or tree trunk, when where I live, there are no trees, and there’s not going to be flowers for another month. Otherwise it’s fun..ManniliutVersion: 1.0

✓ PaywallGood game to start but hits a pay wall fast and hard, progress is completely stoped by $5 per game loop requirement and fee will repeat again and again. After this clear cash grab I feel disappointed and insulted…..GetuownnameVersion: 1.0

✓ I was stating to fall in love with this gameThe game is very fun and super addictive. I really like the aspect of breeding your Peridots with others to make unique combinations. I also just love pet sims in general. The problem came in when I saw the price for nests (which is a base component for breeding Peridots in game). Far too expensive! Not to mention that there is currently no way to earn nests in game. I understand that games need to make money, but what happened to free to play games that let you earn items slowly in combination with reasonably priced items? Not everyone can afford such high prices, and imo long-term fan loyalty ends up getting you the most money. I’ll be uninstalling this game for now with hopes that they fix some of this in future..KnotQuietWriteVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Does not workI have made 4 accounts with different names so far that I cannot access as it freezes and quits after picking the first egg and I then have no way of logging into said accounts because I was never offered to set a password or contact method. I have the latest iPad so I know the problem isn’t on my end. Very lame :(.CrybkuszbmoyscbinVersion: 1.4.0

✓ Core gameplay loop locked behind a paywallThe game itself is cute and fun but the fact that you have to pay for nests makes it unplayable.The entire point of the game is to breed your dots but they've locked this feature behind a $5 ($7 where I am!) paywall. There is no other way to attain these nests and this game is going to fall off quickly if people have to pay every time they want to access the core mechanic of this game..Allison 🌿Version: 1.0

✓ Want to love thisDon’t get me wrong, this game is incredibly cute! It has the potential to be fun. However, if the entire point of the game is to breed more Dots to stop them from going extinct, then having to pay for the nest each time and that’s a whopping $7 Canadian… NOPE! No thanks. I have my two Dots, and that’s because there is a free nest given for launch. However, unless Niantic gives us an option to grind or craft a nest I will not be playing anymore. As cute as this game is, only being able to play fetch, feed, and play tricks gets old fast. DO BETTER NIANTIC!.Hel KatVersion: 1.0

✓ Talk about shooting yourself in the footPeridot 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 peridot, 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 Peridot might as well just shut the stables doors and throw out the key..Lootfarmer1Version: 1.0.1

✓ Cost of NestsI could understand if the cost of a nest was lower, but currently it is very expensive to play with the core mechanic of the game — creating and discovering new peridots to raise. Even if they’re lower priced, adding back the mechanic of building our own nests for free with found materials would be better. Please change the pricing, or add more ways to gain nests, as most people have already raised concerns about this and about how they will be leaving the game because of it..McKenzieEvansVersion: 1.0

✓ Can okay get more nests if you pay real moneyIt’s a great idea and way to do that whole “pet” game thing but after getting a free nest you have to pay real money for nests to make more Dots, like come on now, after I use this nest that’s it. I liked raising my Dots and training them but this is ridiculous.Miss_Katherine96Version: 1.0.1

✓ Breeding behind a paywallGreat game, with great potential IF you didn’t have to pay £5 per nest (which are needed for breeding). I wouldn’t mind paying if they were £1.99 but I refuse to pay £5. If you can’t afford to pay for nests then you will find the game boring very quickly after you have bred your first dot (you get 1 free nest). For a game where breeding dots is a core part of the game, placing breeding behind a paywall is disgraceful. You can easily make money on other items so why charge so much for nests. At least bring back the option to find nest parts at habitats to be able to build them like you had in beta. Come on Niantic, prove you are not greedy and that you are not just using this game to milk people by giving us a free way to get nests (or at least make nests a lot cheaper to buy)..LellypoVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Okay ig..It overheats my phone really fast, and I haven’t been able to actually play the game for awhile now due to a glitch it keeps telling me I need to teach my dot tricks which I have but then I get stuck on the screen after you teach at the trick and I can’t even log out of the account or anything to start another one.EveryzingerboxVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Nests5* if you bring back the ability to make nests and release Dots to free a nest for a new Dot… I have one nest left and once that’s used I’ll not be playing and certainly not paying to play. Shame really Niantic! Your pricing in all your games is point blank greedy! What’s the thinking???.KjdoumaVersion: 1.0

✓ Seemed promising, but is pretty disappointingThe game starts out well, with a choice between three colored eggs that, when you choose one, leads to a cute little companion. The first few days were fun and I enjoyed exploring with my unique dot while slowly raising it to adulthood. But then we come to the breeding mechanism. For such a crucial aspect of a “free” game—the aspect that is most advertised and encouraged—breeding is extremely paywalled. It’s laughable to call this a free game, because unless you’re content to pay money every few days to continue on in the advertised mission of expanding the species, you’ve pretty much just got a slightly interact-able creature that, once reaching adulthood where it essentially has no other use than for breeding, serves no purpose but to drain your phone battery as fast as possible. Could have been a very promising game, but I don’t know how much longer I’ll keep it around, as there are plenty of other apps that could take up storage and drain battery while providing a much more enjoyable and affordable gameplay experience..HyacithiaVersion: 1.0

✓ Has potentialThis 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..AshleetheartistVersion: 1.0

✓ Honestly baffling monetizationThe game itself is relatively pleasing to look at and fun to play for a day or two. However, the main element that makes the game interesting (breeding) is locked behind a 5 dollar purchase that only gets you a single breeding nest. In addition, using this nest costs Sundrops, another form of currency, and actually being able to inherit features from both parents generally costs Gems, yet another currency. To void the Gem cost, you have to level up quite a bit, which is really an uninteresting slog unless you’re routinely shelling out 5 dollars for each new Dot. Even then, there’s not actually a whole lot you can do with them, and very little incentive to go out and explore your environment. The only long-term “goal” is to discover all the Archetypes, which based on nest costs is prohibitively expensive (at LEAST 125 dollars assuming every nest is successful and no gems are required). I was looking forward to this game for a while, and I’m very disappointed with this outcome. Maybe in a year or so they’ll have made things more reasonable, but I don’t have a lot of hope..Dank DanielVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Money grab that doesn’t functionFirst, the money needed to play this game makes it prohibitive to most people. Having to buy so much just to slowly progress. Sigh! Second, the friend list is not accessible as it goes white if you move beyond your first three friends. So no friend interaction allowed. Very cute but so many issues!!! Very dissatisfied and disappointed!.Feverfew7Version: 1.0

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