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Price: Free
Ads: Yes
In App Purchases: Yes
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Ads: Yes
In App Purchases: Yes
iOS App Store
Google Play App Store
Official Link
Wikipedia
Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 72 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 64 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
24 votes
1 votes
14 votes
2 votes
15 votes
2 votes
14 votes
3 votes
3 votes
17 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
3 / 17 votes
1 votes
18 votes
1 votes
21 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 94 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 99 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
17 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
17 / 0 votes
27 votes
20 votes
3 votes
Pay to Win
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A player can spend real money to purchase something that gives them an advantage in the game.
20 / 3 votes
13 votes
2 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
13 / 2 votes
6 votes
12 votes
2 votes
5 votes
2 votes
5 votes
5 votes
16 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
5 / 16 votes
1 votes
6 votes
Waste Aversion
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Capped inventory forces you to destroy items or upgrade inventory. Also, having small amounts of left over premium currency.
1 / 6 votes
1 votes
26 votes
24 votes
Accidental Purchases
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Making it easy to accidentally spend money with no confirmation or ability to undo or refund the action.
0 / 24 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 93 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 59 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
19 votes
19 votes
2 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme
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You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.
19 / 2 votes
19 votes
2 votes
Social Obligation / Guilds
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To avoid letting down your friends, you are obligated to play when you don't want to.
19 / 2 votes
16 votes
2 votes
Fear of Missing Out
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If you stop playing you'll miss out on something or be left behind and unable to catch up.
16 / 2 votes
16 votes
4 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
16 / 4 votes
4 votes
23 votes
Reciprocity
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Feeling obligated to return a favor, share resources, trade an item, etc.
4 / 23 votes
26 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 26 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 117 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 37 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
21 votes
1 votes
Invested / Endowed Value
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Having already spent time and money to improve your status in the game, it's difficult to throw it away.
21 / 1 votes
25 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
25 / 0 votes
17 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
17 / 1 votes
23 votes
3 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
23 / 3 votes
23 votes
3 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
23 / 3 votes
5 votes
13 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
5 / 13 votes
3 votes
16 votes
Illusion of Control
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The game cheats or hides information to make you think you're better than you actually are.
3 / 16 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.50) with 223,711 votes. |
| Google Play: | (4.34) with 12,733,777 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Optimism and Frequency Biases reported on May 2, 2024
But you can hide it tho to be fair
Fear of Missing Out reported on May 2, 2024
Limited time event
Can't Pause or Save reported on May 1, 2024
THIS is the most annoying thing about the game. You can NOT pause or even go AFK during a match, even to get freaking water. It's an online game, so duh, you can't pause it. But, yeah, it can force you to sit in a place, ignore calls, without even having time to drink water in the middle of a match.
Playing by Appointment reported on May 1, 2024
There's a constant stream of events that just don't seem to give me a break. And every event usually gives you these tokens, that you can use to collect free stuff, by logging in and completing minuscule tasks like "Play 1 game with friends", "Win 2 games", and so on. So, yeah, it makes it so that I'm forced to play 2 games even on my hardest days, just to make sure i dont miss any tokens, thus missing my free stuff.
Artificial Scarcity reported on May 1, 2024
Limited skins are a real culprit of this. You can usually buy them later on when they bring it back, but some costly skins are not possible to be acquired after missing them.
Recurring Fee reported on May 1, 2024
There's a lot of monthly passes in this game, everything completely optional. It doesn't really provide much value for a casual player either. It's just there for spenders to spend more. However, there's a "Weekly diamond pass" that is advertised as a "Super mega alternative" to buying normal diamonds. It forces you to log in everyday, and gives you like 300% more diamonds than an equally priced normal diamond bundle.
Invested / Endowed Value reported on May 1, 2024
You can grind for heroes and skins. You can equip these skins to look real cool, so yes.
Gambling / Loot Boxes reported on May 1, 2024
Rolling for skins using diamonds is very common in this game. They also give you tokens that you can use to roll for skins. You can get an insanely priced skin at the very first roll (I got one like that), or roll for like 600 bucks and get the skin. It's just plain gambling at that rate.
Social Obligation / Guilds reported on May 1, 2024
There are squads, that they recently made free to create (you needed diamonds to create one before), which you and your friends can join. There's an activity rating which fills up with every match, and some squads watch this to make sure you are playing the game.
Social Pyramid Scheme reported on May 1, 2024
There's a little invite bundle you can get for free by getting new players to play. It's not that impactful.
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