Pearl’s Peril
is a Facebook hidden object game that despite not having unique
features, uses simplicity to actually work like a casual game, not
flooding you with quests and multiple tasks. Below you will find the
complete walkthrough guide for beginners, and also a few tips at the end
of the article.
Currencies and Point System
- Coins: Coins are obtained as a reward for playing scenes and can also be collected from buildings. Coins are used to purchase buildings and decors.
- Cash: This is the game’s hard currency, you can only obtain it by purchasing it with real money
- Prestige [hibiscus flower]: Prestige is not spent, but rather accumulated, just like XP points and levels in other games. These are used to unlock new scenes and unlock some buildings.
- Energy: Energy points is what you need to play scenes. Each scene play costs 1 energy point. You can get more energy by asking friends or waiting for the energy bar to replenish itself (max 5 energy points.). Each point of energy takes 20 minutes to replenish
- Badges: Badges are obtained by playing scenes. They work like prestige since they are only collected, and allow you to unlock buildings.
Scenes
You can access the scenes menu through the magnifying glass at the
bottom. Scenes are divided into chapters, each one having 5 regular
hidden-object scenes and 1 puzzle scene. So far there are 6 chapters to
investigate. When you position the mouse over each scene, you will see
how many points you are missing for the next badge to be obtained.
- Each locked chapter requires a certain amount of prestige to get unlocked, click on the chapter number in the scenes menu to see what is the prestige requirement.
- Each scene played costs 1 energy
- Each point of energy takes more than 15 minutes to replenish, and that’s the main reason people complain, since once you empty your energy bar, you do have to wait a lot of time to come back and play again, unless you actually buy energy packs with cash that is.
Puzzle Scenes
Puzzle scenes are the last scene of each chapter to be unlocked.
These scenes are not time-based and you need to complete them in order
to open the following chapter. You need to find different pieces and
create working objects, making them interact with other objects in the
scene. By completing these scenes, you will get to complete a mini-game
within Pearl’s Journal that rewards you with cash when finished.
Scenes Gameplay
Your objective when playing scenes is to get as many points as
possible by finding objects, this will allow you to reach badge
thresholds sooner which is why you are playing the scene afterall.
The rewards for successfully finishing the scene are not only badges, but also coins and sometimes materials.
Objects will get added to the scene as you obtain more badges, you
start out with a pretty simple scene and it becomes quite flooded with
new objects once you get the fourth badge
If you can’t manage to find an object by yourself, you can use the
magnifying glass, which can be used repeated times, but you need to wait
some time in order for it to fully reload and become available again.
If you find two or more objects in a row, you will activate the bonus
bar, which grants you bonus points. You need to keep finding objects
without the bonus bar resetting to keep getting greater bonuses. Missing
a click does not reset the bar, neither does using the hint (unlike
other hidden-object games)
There are three parameters that determine your score on each scene play;
- Base Score: this is determined not only by the objects you find on each scene, but also obtained through the bonus multiplier when you start finding multiple objects in a row withouth letting the bonus bar reset.
- Hint Bonus: the less you use hints, the more points you get.
- Time Bonus: although you do not have a timer when playing the scene, it does matter how long you take to finish the scene, it counts as a bonus towards your score.
- Accuracy Bonus: the less miss clicks when trying to find an object, the better, do not click if you are not sure
Special Missing Objects
Each scene, besides the regular objects, has a total of 3 special
missing objects, your character will appear randomly, for a total of 3
times, asking you to find a special hidden object, by doing so, you help
her complete her journal. Finding these objects does not yield any
special reward though, it’s merely to complete the storyline.
The Island
The island is where the rest of the game takes place, and is key to
your progress, since all objects placed here let you unlock new scenes
and complete the journal. Besides the buildings you construct here,
there’s nothing else that you can interact with.
Buildings
Buildings Yield Coins. If you position the mouse over any given
building, you will notice a counter. Once it reaches zero, you can
collect coins from it and reset it for another round. We suggest that
you first focus on buildings, and once you have plenty of them, start
with the decorations, this is because buildings give you coins, which
creates a virtous circle, otherwise you will find yourself having enough
prestige but not having enough coins to purchase the unlocked
buildings.
You can move or sell/delete a building by using the “arrow” tool, located at the bottom bar.
Upgrading Buildings. All buildings, after being
installed, can be upgraded a total of 3 times, but you need to gather
all materials specified within the building’s menu to actually upgraded.
Materials
Materials required for buildings are collected from scenes. The
items are obtained randomly from each finished scene as a reward,
besides coins of course. Expect to play lots of times without seeing
any material though.
Expanding – Exploring Regions
You will eventually run out of space to put buildings, this is where
you should unlocking new regions, which are locked areas covered by
mist. Each locked region has a set of 3 requisites which are; Coins,
Badges and Compasses (these drop from scenes as well)
Prestige
Prestige points let you unlock new scenes, they are obtained by
building stuff on the island, your pretige points are shown at the top
middle bar, you cannot purchase Prestige points. All the things you can
buy are located at the Shop menu, which is accessed through the
old-fashioned checkout counter at the bottom bar. Prestige, just like
Badges, are not actually spent, they are sort of an equivalent to levels
and XP points in other games, once you reach a certain threshold, new
scenes are unlocked.
The Shop
The Shop is divided into 4 categories, Paths and Rivers, Decorations,
Buildings and Energy. Although Paths, Rivers and Decorations do not
require materials to be built, they yield less prestige points than
buildings. All objects in the shop are unlock once you gather the
amount of badges indicated on each item. All objects can be purchased
with coins (obtained by playing scenes). The energy at the shop can
only be bought with cash.
Pearl’s Peril FAQs
- How to Get Free Energy?. You can click on the small tab below the energy bar and send an energy request to all your facebook contacts. Unfortunately, you cannot filter people who actually play Pearl’s Peril than those who don’t.
- Cheats or Hacks to Unlock Scenes or get free Prestige Points?. Unfortunately, there’s no way around to unlock scenes than gathering enough prestige, and prestige cannot be incremented artificially through any hack or cheat. Don’t get fooled by fake hacking tools.
