3 years in the past on Might ninth 2023, Niantic launched their very own AR recreation, Peridot. When Niantic offered most of their gaming division to Scopely in 2025, it was shared that Niantic would spin off its expertise platform into a brand new standalone entity, Niantic Spatial Inc. Led by Hanke, Niantic Spatial shall be a geospatial AI firm powered by a subsequent era map, and that it will proceed to personal and function AR video games Ingress Prime and Peridot.
Beginning as we speak, all in-app purchases shall be disabled and gadgets within the in-game store shall be accessible with remaining in-game forex. The app shall be faraway from the App Retailer and Google Play on Might 14, 2026, and our servers will formally shut on August 31, 2026. Between every now and then, you’ll take the time to be along with your Dots one final time. Use your gadgets, go on walks, and have fun the creatures you’ve raised.
“Once we got down to construct Peridot cellular, we wished to create one thing that had by no means existed earlier than. Not only a recreation, however a dwelling, respiration world layered on high of your personal, the place creatures felt genuinely actual, navigating your streets, recognizing your environment, and rising alongside you.
We imagine we did that. Peridot pushed the boundaries of what augmented actuality might do on a cellular gadget, and in doing so, created a completely new class of spatial experiences. That we might construct one thing so bold, so pioneering, and so genuinely magical is one thing we’re pleased with.
We constructed Peridot for the longer term. From the very starting, we dreamed of experiences that went far past what a telephone display might provide. However we didn’t need to anticipate that world to reach. We wished to convey Peridot to life proper then, assembly our group the place they had been and pushing cellular so far as it might probably go.
Constructing Peridot the best way we constructed it was a deliberate selection. We designed it to push absolutely the limits of what the expertise might do: real-time mapping, occlusion, semantic segmentation, generative AI, options that made your Dot really feel prefer it actually belonged in your world. That degree of ambition got here with tradeoffs. An always-on AR expertise is likely one of the most technically demanding issues you possibly can construct, and retaining it working properly, at scale, for therefore lengthy, requires monumental funding.
Over time, and with the developments in spatial computing, our authentic imaginative and prescient started to take form. As our crew’s priorities developed, the Peridot franchise expanded past cellular, into blended actuality with Good day, Dot on headsets and into true outside AR wearables with Peridot Past on Snap Spectacles. In some ways, that is precisely what we got down to construct. And with that progress, it grew to become more and more troublesome to spend money on the cellular recreation in a manner that felt worthy of the sport you fell in love with.
That is the precise choice for our crew and for the way forward for the Peridot franchise. And nonetheless, it’s not one we got here to simply, or with out a whole lot of love for what this recreation meant to us and to you.”
It’s value noting, that whereas the cellular recreation is winding down, Peridot will not be. The cellular recreation has not been the one strategy to be part of Peridot, with Good day, Dot permitting you to work together with Dots by way of VR headsets. Peridot Past and Venture Jade each took the journey open air, into the world, by your facet. Peridot Past introduced Peridot to Snap’s AR glasses, the Spectacles, utilizing the AI expertise of Venture Jade.
Niantic Spatial have shared “that they don’t know precisely what comes subsequent, solely that we’re not prepared to shut the door on this franchise.”.
I performed Peridot for a short time, discovering it to be an lovely recreation, however one which was fairly expensive, and made my telephone overheat in a dramatic vogue after I performed it for any size of time. Enjoying a real AR recreation out within the wild will be difficult and made me self aware, and I can think about that a whole lot of the participant base discovered it arduous to get out and about and play with it with out attracting undesirable consideration.
I personally assume one of many largest errors the sport made was proper on the debut, with the one strategy to get new Dots being by way of microtransactions. I Whereas this modified after a couple of months, it broken the fame and level of the sport proper from the beginning. As somebody who follows Niantic Spatial on social media, I didn’t really feel like I noticed many updates about Peridot, and it rapidly fell by the wayside as a result of it was their very own mental property. It didn’t include an present fan base like Pokémon GO, Harry Potter or Monster Hunter Now. Even with the Harry Potter fanbase, they sunsetted the cellular app after a few years.
We felt Niantic Spatial stored maintain of Peridot within the Scopely acquisition for the AR growth, actual world scanning, and for the IP. It will likely be fascinating to see how they intend to make use of the property going ahead, and the way the development of AR expertise modifications their plans.
Q: What are the important thing dates for the Peridot cellular shutdown?
Right here’s a abstract of the vital dates to know:
- At present, April 23, 2026: All in-app purchases shall be disabled and gadgets within the in-game store shall be accessible with remaining in-game forex.
- Might 14, 2026: The Peridot app shall be faraway from the App Retailer and Google Play. If you have already got the app put in, you’ll nonetheless be capable of play till the servers shut. When you delete the app or get a brand new gadget after this date, you’ll not be unable to re-download it, so we advocate retaining the app put in till the very finish.
- August 31, 2026: The Peridot servers will formally shut. All options shall be turned off and the sport will not be accessible.
Q: Can I exploit my in-game forex and the whole lot I’ve collected? Will I get a refund on purchases?
- Globally: Gamers won’t be able to obtain a refund on previous purchases, besides the place in any other case required by legislation. It is possible for you to to spend your remaining Peridough and use your remaining gadgets earlier than the servers shut.
- Japan: It is possible for you to to spend your remaining Peridough and use your remaining gadgets earlier than the servers shut.
Q: What occurs to my Dots when the servers shut?
When the servers shut, you’ll not be capable of entry your Dots by the cellular recreation. Niantic Spatial are encouraging you to save lots of your Dot Playing cards, screenshots and movies of your creatures and the recollections you’ve made with them earlier than the servers shut. Additionally they share that they exploring potentialities for a way your creatures would possibly carry ahead into future experiences, however don’t have any particular bulletins to make presently.
Q: Will there be any remaining in-game occasions earlier than the servers shut?
Current recreation occasions will run as regular.
Q: Will Peridot be accessible on some other platforms after the cellular recreation ends?
Sure. The Peridot franchise exists past cellular. Good day, Dot is offered on Meta Quest 3 and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, and Peridot Past is offered on Snap Spectacles (fifth Era). Go to playperidot.com to maintain updated on the franchise.
Q: Is Ingress being impacted by this choice?
No. This choice was made independently and has no bearing on Ingress. Ingress stays lively and won’t be impacted in any manner by the winding down of Peridot cellular.
