Slightly Good
Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 7 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 63 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
3 votes
7 votes
2 votes
8 votes
1 votes
9 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
1 / 9 votes
1 votes
9 votes
10 votes
10 votes
10 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 21 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 82 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
8 votes
1 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
8 / 1 votes
4 votes
7 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.
4 / 7 votes
3 votes
7 votes
2 votes
5 votes
2 votes
7 votes
1 votes
9 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.
1 / 9 votes
1 votes
7 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
1 / 7 votes
10 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
0 / 10 votes
9 votes
10 votes
10 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 / 10 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 10 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 59 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
8 votes
2 votes
2 votes
8 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.
2 / 8 votes
9 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme
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You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.
0 / 9 votes
10 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 10 votes
10 votes
Reciprocity
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Feeling obligated to return a favor, share resources, trade an item, etc.
0 / 10 votes
10 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 10 votes
10 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.
0 / 10 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 12 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 53 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
8 votes
2 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
8 / 2 votes
2 votes
7 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.
2 / 7 votes
1 votes
8 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
1 / 8 votes
1 votes
8 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
1 / 8 votes
10 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.
0 / 10 votes
10 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
0 / 10 votes
8 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
0 / 8 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (5.00) with 44,892 votes. |
| Google Play: | (4.65) with 65,712 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Playing by Appointment reported on Dec 31, 2022
The event "Contested Territory" allow you to gain points from capturing tiles and give you special advantages called "relics". These tiles expire after 28 hours, if the player wants to win, they must recapture a tile as soon as it expires to maximize their points, forcing them to play at a certain time.
Competition reported on Dec 5, 2022
Bosses, races, and contested territory are ultimately competitive. Bosses and races have you compete for better times, not going directly against other players. Contested territory is more directly competitive but is mostly your team trying to beat local records from other teams.
Daily Rewards reported on Dec 5, 2022
The daily rewards are extremely forgiving. You cannot lose your streak and it resets at a consistent time daily. The rewards are also rather minimal, which means missing a day is not a big deal. There are also daily challenges, but these are a minimal time investment and do not have any sort of streak system, just individual rewards for clearing each one.
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on Dec 5, 2022
Achievements and level medals are mostly irrelevant; achievements are usually arbitrary and offer some in-game currency (which is overabundant anyway) and medals are just a shiny thing to show what difficulty of level you've cleared. Events also have medals, with separate tiers based on how high you placed in boss events, races, and contested territory. All medals are permanently tallied on your profile, but are purely cosmetic.
Pay to Win reported on Dec 5, 2022
Technically yes, but since it's predominantly a singleplayer game, you have no reason to purchase these. Bypassing the leveling to buy out the skill tree is a massive waste of money given how easy it is to level up. You're effectively paying to not play.
Pay to Skip reported on Dec 5, 2022
The race event gives you one free entry every three hours or allows you to spend a low amount of in-game currency to play again instantly. You can also buy a race pass, which gives you unlimited free tries for a given week's race. No other areas of the game contain such timers.
Premium Currency reported on Dec 5, 2022
You can purchase in-game currency, but there is no reason to; simply playing the game will earn you a lot of the currency, enough that it barely if at all constitutes grinding.
Invested / Endowed Value reported on Oct 29, 2022
Game has a leveling system, which unlocks new towers and Monkey Knowledge points, which can be used for a skill tree system.
Wait To Play reported on Oct 29, 2022
Race events can only be played once every 3 hours, unless Monkey Money (or a Race Pass, bought with real money) is used to skip the timer.
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on Oct 29, 2022
The game gives a badge for each time you complete a gamemode on a map, as well as badges for getting to certain places in ranked events.
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