Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 14 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 6 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
3 votes
3 votes
3 votes
2 votes
1 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
2 / 1 votes
2 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
3 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 17 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 11 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
3 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
3 / 0 votes
3 votes
3 votes
2 votes
2 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.
2 / 0 votes
2 votes
1 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
2 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 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.
1 / 1 votes
1 votes
2 votes
2 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 / 2 votes
2 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
0 / 2 votes
3 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 4 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 17 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
1 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.
1 / 2 votes
1 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.
1 / 2 votes
1 votes
2 votes
1 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.
1 / 2 votes
3 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 3 votes
3 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 3 votes
3 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 12 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 9 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
3 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.
3 / 0 votes
3 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
3 / 0 votes
2 votes
1 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
2 / 1 votes
2 votes
1 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
2 / 1 votes
1 votes
2 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.
1 / 2 votes
1 votes
2 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
1 / 2 votes
3 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
0 / 3 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.61) with 1,705 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Artificial Scarcity reported on Jul 3, 2024
The shop often have cycling limited time subjects.
Fear of Missing Out reported on Jul 3, 2024
Events are frequent, and almost impossibly hard to complete even if you begin participation as soon as it starts, many exclusive moths and items are obtained this way. Certain moths have to be lured at certain days or months, and can't be lured without premium currency or until up to the next year.
Waste Aversion reported on Jul 3, 2024
You can run out of space for collected moths, both in the main area and storage, it can be expanded for free but the costs get large and time consuming enough to just encourage using premium currency.
Complete the Collection reported on Jul 3, 2024
Some collections have a quest to prefect them, all collections give you cosmetic items for completion. The compendium counts what you have vs. the total.
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on Jul 3, 2024
The compendium records collections, achievements, and quest completion. Some achievements require total completion of some collections, some collections require completions of quests, some quests require certain moths in collections.
Reciprocity reported on Jul 3, 2024
Randomized free gifts can be sent to up to 5 players you have friended a day (or more with premium currency), sending these gifts gives you points for rewards you get which are not insignificant for completion.
Power Creep reported on Jul 3, 2024
Some premium currency items that give you things can run out, normal currency becomes almost useless once all items that are purchased with them are claimed. This encourages buying more premium currency since the things it purchases does not run out.
Wait To Play reported on Jul 3, 2024
It is pretty much an idle game, you do a small amount of tasks and wait for their cooldowns, you wait for many things in the game. Timers are chopped up so you have to come back for the timer to resume.
Playing by Appointment reported on Jul 3, 2024
Events that happen every week for ~5 days that, if you want to get far in them, require you to come back every 1.5 to 2 hours. Finishing these events is near impossible since you need to return almost every time you get the chance, especially when sacrificing sleep is not discouraged.
Invested / Endowed Value reported on Jul 3, 2024
Because completion of the game takes so long, time investment and collection can make it feel valuable. A completion score as well as a compendium in game makes this feel like it is quantified.
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