Pearl's Peril

If you play Pearl's Peril on Facebook, this is the only part of this page that is urgent.

Wooga announced on 1 July 2026 that the Facebook web version shuts down globally on 30 September 2026. This is a consequence of Meta's changes to Facebook Web Games, formerly Canvas Games, rather than a decision to end the game. The game itself continues on mobile.

What happens to your progress

It is preserved, but not automatically. You need to install the game on iOS or Android and log in with the same Facebook account. Do that and your progress, your Adventure Club and your friend list all come across.

The thing to avoid is leaving it until October, discovering the web version is gone, and installing the mobile app fresh without linking Facebook. That starts you at Chapter 1.

This also ends the game's original platform after more than 13 years. The official Facebook page stays up and keeps posting gifts; it is only the playable web version that closes.

Pearl's Peril is a free-to-play hidden object game wrapped around a 1930s mystery. You play Pearl Wallace, an heiress and pilot who does not accept the official account of her father's death, and the investigation runs across more than 90 episodic chapters.

Each scene is a richly illustrated static image with a list of objects to find. Finding them earns badges, coins and story progress. That is one half of the game.

The other half is Artemis Island, the family estate you rebuild and decorate. This is not decoration for its own sake: the Prestige your buildings generate is one of the gates on story progression, so the two halves feed each other.

It was made by Wooga in Berlin, launched on Facebook on 5 March 2013, and had passed 40 million players by 2016. Playtika acquired Wooga in 2018.

Everything about how this game feels comes down to one number, and it is worth being precise about it because most write-ups are vague.

• Regeneration: 1 Energy every 20 minutes.
• Cap: 10 Energy. Once you are full, the timer stops giving you anything.
• Cost: 1 Energy per hidden object scene.
• Full bar: Around 3 hours 20 minutes from empty to full.

So a full tank is ten scenes, and if you play them back to back you are done for the next three hours. That is a slower refill than most of the genre, and it is the single most common complaint about the game.

The practical read is that Pearl's Peril rewards short visits spread through the day rather than long sessions. Sitting at a full bar for hours is the only real way to waste anything here.

Ways around it

You can request Energy from Facebook friends, or from your Adventure Club members once the migration is behind you. Adventure Clubs also hand out unlimited-energy tokens in 5, 10 and 15 minute lengths, which are worth saving for a chapter push rather than spending idly.

Wooga also sells a Sunday offer of one hour of unlimited energy for 100 Greens, which is roughly what three hours of natural regeneration would have given you.

• Energy: Spent on scenes, one per scene, and the thing that actually limits your play.
• Coins: The soft currency, earned from scenes, buildings and gifts, and spent on buildings and decorations.
• Greens: The premium currency, often written as Cash or Greens. Bought with real money, and also handed out in small amounts by gifts, the Daily Puzzle, chests and events.
• Tickets: Feed the Captain's Challenge for bonus rewards.

A note on naming, since it causes confusion and we had it wrong ourselves previously: the premium currency is called Greens, or Cash. It is not called Pearl Cash, and searching for that term will mostly turn up sites that have copied the error from each other.

There is no player level in Pearl's Peril, which surprises people coming from other Wooga games. Two parallel systems do that job instead.

• Badges: Earned per scene, up to five each with replay bonuses. You need 20 from the previous chapter before the next one opens.
• Prestige: Accumulated by building and decorating on Artemis Island. It is never spent, it just rises, and it acts as a threshold on chapters and some shop items.

So the island is not optional if you want the story. A player who ignores decoration will hit a Prestige wall regardless of how many scenes they have cleared.

Other gates worth knowing: island regions unlock on a mix of badges, coins and compasses; Adventure Clubs open at Chapter 5; and Vitality, earned from Iris's Eyes acts, is what upgrades Margaret's Memorial and other island areas.

Facebook players have historically needed three friends to form a flight crew before a chapter would open, which is one more reason the migration to mobile and clubs is worth doing properly.

There is a redemption mechanism, which makes this a more interesting question than it is for most games we cover.

A gift code field exists in the game: open Settings from the gear icon, then Help, or tap the gift icon on the blue bar under your ID number, and there is a box to enter a code. Wooga's own support pages document it, and codes do get distributed through the official Facebook page and the in-game mailbox. Typical rewards are small: a few Energy, some Coins, a handful of Greens, sometimes Tickets.

Why we do not publish a code list

Because the codes circulating are not verifiable. The ones aggregated on third-party sites are long hexadecimal strings with rewards listed only as unspecified, they are not confirmed by Wooga, and they may be expired, region-locked or single-use.

Publishing a list like that would mean sending readers to try strings that mostly will not work. The mechanism is real and worth knowing about, so watch the official page and your in-game mailbox, which is where genuine codes actually arrive.

Pearl's Peril is free to play and monetises through purchases of Energy and Greens. There is no subscription and no battle pass. The game predates that pattern and never adopted it, which is either refreshing or a sign of its age depending on your view.

No drop rates or odds are published for chests and random rewards. The game launched in 2013, before most of the disclosure rules that would apply to a newer title, and Wooga has not published them voluntarily.

The friction points are exactly where you would expect: the 10-Energy cap, the Prestige requirement on chapters, and the Vitality needed for island upgrades, all of which can be bypassed with Greens.

Honestly, in careful maintenance rather than active development. The last tracked version dates to September 2024, and monthly downloads are estimated below 5,000, which is a long way from the 40 million players the game reached in 2016.

Ratings remain strong at around 4.5 on both stores, from more than 56,000 iOS ratings and over 10 million Google Play downloads. The people still playing rate it highly; there are just fewer of them arriving.

Wooga's attention has largely moved to June's Journey, which took the same episodic-story-plus-decoration formula further. Pearl's Peril remains the original, and the September 2026 migration is being handled with proper support documentation rather than being quietly dropped, which is a reasonable signal about how it will be treated from here.

Common complaints, for balance: the energy gating, and objects that some players find genuinely too obscure to spot in the busier scenes.

Nothing else we cover is a hidden object game, so the useful comparisons are other story-and-progress games with a similar daily rhythm.

• Diggy's Adventure: Puzzle-driven exploration with a long story and a similar energy-gated pace.
• Klondike: Vizor's frontier builder, if the estate-building half is what appeals to you.
• Family Farm: Another long-running build-and-decorate game with a steady daily loop.
• Solitaire Grand Harvest: Card play wrapped around a farm progression metagame.
• Tiki Solitaire TriPeaks: A lighter daily session if the energy waits are what put you off.
• Bejeweled Blitz: Pure puzzle with no story or energy system at all.

None of these will scratch the hidden object itch specifically. Wooga's own June's Journey is the closest successor to this formula, though it is not a game we cover. Within our list, Diggy's Adventure and Klondike are the nearest in feel: a long story, a gated daily pace, and something you are steadily building.