Slightly Bad
Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 50 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 45 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
13 votes
2 votes
12 votes
3 votes
10 votes
4 votes
7 votes
5 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
7 / 5 votes
7 votes
5 votes
1 votes
13 votes
13 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 80 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 64 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
14 votes
14 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.
14 / 0 votes
12 votes
1 votes
14 votes
1 votes
Power Creep
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A permanently purchased item in the game becomes less valuable over time.
14 / 1 votes
8 votes
2 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
8 / 2 votes
9 votes
4 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
9 / 4 votes
3 votes
9 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
3 / 9 votes
3 votes
11 votes
3 votes
10 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.
3 / 10 votes
13 votes
13 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.
0 / 13 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 39 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 57 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
14 votes
11 votes
3 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.
11 / 3 votes
5 votes
8 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme
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You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.
5 / 8 votes
5 votes
9 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
5 / 9 votes
3 votes
11 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.
3 / 11 votes
1 votes
12 votes
Reciprocity
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Feeling obligated to return a favor, share resources, trade an item, etc.
1 / 12 votes
14 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 14 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 67 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 30 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
13 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.
13 / 1 votes
13 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
13 / 1 votes
12 votes
3 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
12 / 3 votes
10 votes
3 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
10 / 3 votes
8 votes
5 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
8 / 5 votes
6 votes
8 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.
6 / 8 votes
5 votes
9 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
5 / 9 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.00) with 53,432 votes. |
| Google Play: | (4.35) with 1,587,376 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Premium Currency reported on Jun 6, 2022
The game has real money exchange for cards; boosters; skins; card backs; card art.
Artificial Scarcity reported on Jun 6, 2022
The game has many limited offer events such as: Expansion Pre-Order(which awards extra boosters for your money); Limited offers on the shop(For mini-sets; skins; card backs; etc) and Battle pass upgrade(which grants you extra rewards for completing steps of the battle pass for that period).
Recurring Fee reported on Jun 6, 2022
The game has contant fees in the way of battle passes; expansions; mini-sets; etc.
Illusion of Control reported on Jun 6, 2022
Single player content is extremely easy. Also, random effects are not random at all. There is a much higher percentage of specific things happening compared to other.
Accidental Purchases reported on Jun 6, 2022
There are multiple reports of people who have clicked on items to check prices and accidentally bought them with gold and real money.
Competition reported on Jun 6, 2022
The game has a very toxic ranking system. Due to the extreme grindy nature, players will always play the most meta deck possible by searching online. This happens from a very low rank, all the way to the top. This purposeful lack of balance makes for a very unhealthy game state.
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior reported on Jun 6, 2022
The grindy competitive nature encourages bad manners in order to get an edge. It's common for players to waste their turns when they are about to lose; cheat if they discover some exploit; and constantly search for an edge in the way of meta-decks.
Social Obligation / Guilds reported on Jun 6, 2022
If you don't play frequently enough, your ranking might be too low compared to your friend's. Not having the most recent cards and Sets might discourage you to play against them on friendly matches.
Fear of Missing Out reported on Jun 6, 2022
You feel that your purchased cards will lose value when the yearly rotation happens. You also feel like you've been left behind by not playing throughout the year and collecting cards from the previous expansions; battle passes; etc.
Infinite Treadmill reported on Jun 6, 2022
It releases 3 expansions a year, plus 2 mini-expansions. Not only that, but the old cards rotate yearly, making only the last 3 expansions be relevant at the end of each cycle.
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