This game has 65 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 35 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
This game has 87 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 64 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
This game has 4 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 86 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
This game has 47 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 40 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
iOS: | (3.23) with 26 votes. |
Google Play: | (4.42) with 1,892 votes. |
You can only collect a certain amount of items before having to wait a timer
Constant time-limited events are running in-game.
A Battle Pass type monthly pass
You can sometimes purchase "Chests" which have a random change to give parts for "producers" which consume "Energy" and create parts to progress with. Producer parts create higher level Producers which give higher level parts and hold more parts at a time.
Though you can in theory catch up to the game, the developers try to halt your progress by constantly having events that don't progress your main board, but instead give small boosts. These are optional, but they are constantly running and clearly the developers try to make it slower to progress.
Since you merge stuff. (A+A=B, B+B=C etc.) The progress takes exponentially longer for each tier of item.
Daily Shop items. Claim a "Piggy Bank" 8 times to get the maximum amount of premium currency "Gems".
Yes, you have to wait for timers to play. You are also forced to play constantly to finish time-limited events.
There is an energy system, which recharges every 2 minutes and maxes out at 100 (unless you stack energy), and generators that you can tap on to get the items you need to complete tasks, which can take from an hour to 8 hours to refresh.
Every time you max out a merge chain you get an achievement.