Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 42 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 13 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
8 votes
7 votes
8 votes
8 votes
6 votes
2 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
6 / 2 votes
3 votes
5 votes
2 votes
6 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 52 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 25 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
8 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
8 / 0 votes
8 votes
8 votes
6 votes
1 votes
6 votes
2 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.
6 / 2 votes
5 votes
1 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
5 / 1 votes
5 votes
2 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
5 / 2 votes
3 votes
3 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 / 3 votes
1 votes
5 votes
1 votes
5 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
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 15 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 33 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
4 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.
4 / 2 votes
5 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.
5 / 2 votes
4 votes
3 votes
1 votes
6 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 / 6 votes
1 votes
6 votes
7 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 7 votes
7 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 7 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 23 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 21 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
6 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.
6 / 1 votes
6 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
6 / 1 votes
4 votes
2 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
4 / 2 votes
3 votes
3 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
3 / 3 votes
2 votes
4 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
2 / 4 votes
1 votes
5 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 / 5 votes
1 votes
5 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
1 / 5 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.50) with 72,966 votes. |
| Google Play: | (4.36) with 1,363,876 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on Oct 4, 2022
Google play games
Artificial Scarcity reported on Oct 4, 2022
"what's hot" collections make you buy a whole set of characters to have one character that you won't find elsewhere. You won't see every what's hot every year. The hotel characters are available 5 days generally. Weekly competitive events, too.
Can't Pause or Save reported on Oct 4, 2022
In the case of the memory card the timer still runs, to prevent people to cheat with screenshots. In the siege/maze event combats too.
Wait To Play reported on Oct 4, 2022
The tasks, the group quests, the shops and totem's ready time
Pay to Skip reported on Oct 4, 2022
The characters star level can be raised with mini games, but once you play with one pony you need to wait before you can play again. You can skip that. You can skip the time for a task, a group quest, a building being built, a shop being ready to collect, the magnet that automatically collects shops, an obstacle being destroyed, a dance to be ready again, a siege event community helper to be available, ballon pop, clear the sky energy...
Accidental Purchases reported on Oct 4, 2022
Pay to skip, pay to unlock a zone... And the button's position is right where you could tap it if you're doing something too fast. Plus the pop ups for bundle. I can't thank enough Google for needing me to confirm my purchases or else I'd have spent easily 150€
Recurring Fee reported on Oct 4, 2022
The "royal subscription". I think it's 10€? It gives access to some skips
Gambling / Loot Boxes reported on Oct 4, 2022
Balloon pop
Power Creep reported on Oct 4, 2022
Sales
Playing by Appointment reported on Oct 4, 2022
Some events take 10 days and either you're a long time player and very dedicated and you can save 3 days, or you aren't so you need the 10 days, and maybe even need to wake up at night once every hour and a half. The 3 days events are even worse, no room for error and you can't sleep more than 7 hours.
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