Legends of Idleon -- Idle MMO

-2.95
Bad
Price: Free
Ads: No
In App Purchases: Yes

Google Play App Store

Temporal Dark PatternsTemporal Dark Patterns

This game has 19 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 5 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.

-3.29

3 votes
Playing by Appointment -
3 / 0 votes
Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.

4 votes
Daily Rewards -
4 / 0 votes
Encourages return visits every day and punishes you for missing a day.

4 votes
Grinding -
4 / 0 votes
Being required to perform repetitive and tedious tasks to advance.

4 votes
Infinite Treadmill -
4 / 0 votes
Impossible to win or complete the game.

4 votes
Wait To Play -
4 / 0 votes
In-game timers that make you arbitrarily wait for something.

3 votes
Advertisements -
0 / 3 votes
Forced to watch ads or given rewards for watching ads.

2 votes
Can't Pause or Save -
0 / 2 votes
The game does not allow you to stop playing whenever you want.

Monetary Dark PatternsMonetary Dark Patterns

This game has 27 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 9 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.

-2.93

4 votes
Premium Currency -
4 / 0 votes
Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.

4 votes
Pay to Win -
4 / 0 votes
A player can spend real money to purchase something that gives them an advantage in the game.

3 votes
Artificial Scarcity -
3 / 0 votes
Limited time offers with unnecessary urgency.

4 votes
Pay to Skip -
4 / 0 votes
Spend money to avoid waiting for a timer to expire.

3 votes
Gambling / Loot Boxes -
3 / 0 votes
Spending real money to play a game of chance for a reward.

4 votes
Waste Aversion -
4 / 0 votes
Capped inventory forces you to destroy items or upgrade inventory. Also, having small amounts of left over premium currency.

3 votes
Anchoring Tricks -
3 / 0 votes
Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.

1 votes
2 votes
Accidental Purchases -
1 / 2 votes
Making it easy to accidentally spend money with no confirmation or ability to undo or refund the action.

1 votes
2 votes
Power Creep -
1 / 2 votes
A permanently purchased item in the game becomes less valuable over time.

3 votes
Recurring Fee -
0 / 3 votes
Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.

2 votes
Pay Wall -
0 / 2 votes
The game becomes impossible to continue playing without payment.

Social Dark PatternsSocial Dark Patterns

This game has 9 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 11 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.

-0.78

4 votes
Fear of Missing Out -
4 / 0 votes
If you stop playing you'll miss out on something or be left behind and unable to catch up.

2 votes
1 votes
Social Obligation / Guilds -
2 / 1 votes
To avoid letting down your friends, you are obligated to play when you don't want to.

2 votes
2 votes
Competition -
2 / 2 votes
The game makes you compete against other players.

1 votes
2 votes
Reciprocity -
1 / 2 votes
Feeling obligated to return a favor, share resources, trade an item, etc.

2 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme -
0 / 2 votes
You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.

2 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation -
0 / 2 votes
The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.

2 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior -
0 / 2 votes
The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.

Psychological Dark PatternsPsychological Dark Patterns

This game has 20 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 4 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.

-3.57

4 votes
Invested / Endowed Value -
4 / 0 votes
Having already spent time and money to improve your status in the game, it's difficult to throw it away.

4 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress -
4 / 0 votes
Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.

3 votes
Complete the Collection -
3 / 0 votes
The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.

4 votes
Variable Rewards -
4 / 0 votes
Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.

2 votes
1 votes
Illusion of Control -
2 / 1 votes
The game cheats or hides information to make you think you're better than you actually are.

2 votes
1 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations -
2 / 1 votes
Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.

1 votes
2 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases -
1 / 2 votes
Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.

App Store Ratings

Google Play:  (4.72) with 1,026 votes.



Recent Dark Pattern Reviews

Playing by Appointment reported on May 30, 2022
Multiple quests that require you to log in after an exact duration has passed (exact times = 4 hours 10 mins, 9 hours 33 mins, 21 hrs 51 mins) and you can only be off by ~5 minutes. Skills with diminishing returns that make you check anywhere from multiple days to every 30 minutes. Buffs that punish you if you idle too long (any gains received after the 10-hour mark are withheld from you). Lack of inventory space means if you idle too long, 90% of your gains can't be picked up.
Daily Rewards reported on May 30, 2022
Many features of the game have 24-hr reset timers (shops, skills, bars that fill up). You don't have to necessarily play every day, but if you take too long to come back, the game has bugs that make it freeze when you try to collect too much loot.
Infinite Treadmill reported on May 30, 2022
Dev literally plans to make a feature for end-game players to "infinitely grind."
Artificial Scarcity reported on May 30, 2022
There is always a limited time offer in the shop.
Pay to Skip reported on May 30, 2022
There are free ones in the game, but you can spend money for "AFK gain candies" that let you collect a certain hour amount of idling gains.


Report a Dark Pattern

Screenshot [Releasing November 8th]
Legends of Idleon is a 2d Idle MMO, where you build your own guild of unique characters, who all work together to gather resources, craft items, and defeat bosses!

At first, you'll create characters for mining, smithing, and fighting monsters, but as you complete each World, MORE skills will unlock -- like fishing, alchemy, construction -- which all give bonuses across all your entire guild! And of course, you'll be specializing new characters into each of these new skills!

Eventually, you'll be controlling dozens of characters, all with unique classes, equipment, and abilities that YOU chose! Each one will work while you're Offline too, so progression never stops!

GAME FEATURES --------
* 22 unique classes to specialize into!
Maybe you'll make a Barbarian Fisherman who catches the best fish, for your Druid Alchemist to make permanent potions, that boost the critical damage of your Hunter Assassin so he can defeat the World Boss!

* 12 unique skills and sub-systems!
Mine ores, chop logs, smith those into equipment! Go fishing, catch bugs, brew those into potions! Complete Post Office Orders, collect and upgrade Stamps, deposit Statues, hunt rare monster for special crafting recipes, pray at the Obol Altar, and compete in minigames!

* 100% character control!
You get to move around as your characters, and personally interract with the world in meaningful ways! Will you spend your time completing quests, or finding hidden secrets for bonus abilities?

* Idle Gains, all the time!
Your characters continue working where you left them, no matter how long you're away for! 20 hours, 500 hours? Your characters have ALL been working the ENTIRE time, and you'll come back to MASSIVE GAINS!

In-Depth Gameplay:
Lets say your Battle Mage can't defeat the world boss. Go on your Mining warrior and collect some Iron and Gold ore. Using your Guild Storage chest, transfer the ores to your Smithing Bowman, who can craft new weapons for your Battle Mage to go wreck that boss!
Beating a boss unlocks the next world, which has a new set of different activities to learn and master. Eventually, there are dozens of activities, and you have 14 different characters you're micromanaging in order to progress through each world, which only makes things more and more complex! The more you play, the more activities you'll find, and the more characters you'll be managing! This loop goes on for a few months or so until I add new content.


CONTENT LIST:
* Train and customize 20+ unique characters
* Spend points in 300 unique Talent Abilities!
* Level up 12 unique Skills -- Mining, Smithing, Alchemy, Fishing, Woodcutting and more!
* Talk to 50+ NPC's, all with hand-drawn animations
* Witness first hand the mental decline of the developer that went to the trouble of making this game all by themself! And, since I am that developer, might I also say he is very cool ;)
* Complete 200+ unique quests, some of which are pretty dang easy and others are just crazy hard!
* Craft 120+ unique Equipment, like Helmets, Rings, uh, weapons... you know, all the normal stuff in RPGs
* Brew 40 different Cauldrons Bonuses, and collect over 50 Vials and Stamps!
* Talk with other REAL people! Kind of like how I'm talking to you right now, except you'll get to talk back!
* Get HYPED for new content coming in the future by joining my discord at: Discord.gg/idleon
* Yo man, life is too short to spend reading entire Mobile Game descriptions like this one. You made it this far, so you either REALLY need to go download the game, or you just scrolled down to the bottom out of curiosity to see whats here. If so, there's nothing here except a smiley face with a nose :-)