Niantic’s next game involves caring for and breeding fictional creatures – but it’s nothing to do with Pokémon. Instead, Peridot is a brand new creation by Niantic itself – the company’s first for many years – and one it’s aiming at an even wider audience.
With Peridot, Niantic seems to be gunning for the now-vacant Neopets market (RIP Neopets), with cutesy Pixar-esque characters, Tamagotchi-style gameplay and – because this is a Niantic game – a good old nudge every so often to get you off your sofa.
“We want it to be a standalone pet simulation game,” producer Ziah Fogel told Eurogamer this week via Zoom call, when asked why it was building a new app separate to Pokémon Go. Niantic’s mission here, she continued, was to iterate on and improve the popular pet simulation genre.
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