Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 20 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 5 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
2 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
2 / 0 votes
4 votes
3 votes
4 votes
4 votes
3 votes
1 votes
4 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 27 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 9 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
Pay to Win
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A player can spend real money to purchase something that gives them an advantage in the game.
3 / 0 votes
4 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 / 0 votes
4 votes
3 votes
3 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
3 / 0 votes
1 votes
2 votes
3 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
0 / 3 votes
4 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 / 4 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 16 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 9 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
3 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme
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You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.
3 / 0 votes
4 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.
4 / 0 votes
4 votes
2 votes
1 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 / 1 votes
2 votes
1 votes
1 votes
3 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
1 / 3 votes
4 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 4 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 17 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 8 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
4 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.
4 / 0 votes
4 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
4 / 0 votes
3 votes
1 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
3 / 1 votes
3 votes
1 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
3 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
1 / 1 votes
1 votes
3 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 / 3 votes
1 votes
2 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
1 / 2 votes
App Store Ratings
| Google Play: | (4.58) with 7,050,104 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Daily Rewards reported on Jun 18, 2022
There’s a daily calendar that has penalties for missing a day and the habitats of the dragons will only hold so much gold, forcing you to visit as much as possible to get the most value out of this never ending production.
Competition reported on Jun 18, 2022
It’s insufferable once you get to a point where everybody has the same dragons because they bought them in the recent bundle and have paid so much to level them up and just leaves them as a road block in the tournament. When you lose a round, you must replace your dragons so it eventually incentivizes you to stop, but these farts are just pooping their Heroic dragons in there with no regard for element advantages or just trying and I still lose because my “legendary” has less health.
Fear of Missing Out reported on Jun 18, 2022
Every Week there’s some new event, a variety of which includes a race! And by winning this race, you get prizes, and that’s how I’ve stayed afloat in this game, by sometimes stumbling into a group of players in the race event who aren’t bothering, and getting that free dragon that’s actually decent, but otherwise, this brings people to check every day so they don’t fall behind in that race and lose.
Aesthetic Manipulations reported on Jun 18, 2022
“We Missed You, Dragon Master!”
Anchoring Tricks reported on Jun 18, 2022
Spot on with the bundles, the ads are obsessed with that. Buy three of your favorite dragons for a price of 29.99 today?!!
Variable Rewards reported on Jun 18, 2022
All the time, but my favorite is the “Your dragon’s missed you! Here’s a free dragon to make you feel better and stay!” Which is why I check in every few weeks for fun and laughs.
Illusion of Control reported on Jun 18, 2022
At some point the rewards for the events just completely plowed over the level of difficulty the Colosseum faces. The disconnect makes every level an auto mode button (there’s literally a button to let the game play itself for you at 3Xs speed).
Complete the Collection reported on Jun 18, 2022
Get Dragons
Reciprocity reported on Jun 18, 2022
Hey didn’t expect this on here. Yeah if you enter a guild, you can trade dragons’ essence (things you can use to summon a dragon [you still have to wait ages]) for another dragon’s.
Power Creep reported on Jun 18, 2022
New events arrive weekly and dragons loose out in the face of the next lot of OP truckers.
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Ready to take on the hottest dragon game and collect tons of adorable fire-breathing dragons? Train them to your will, grow your collection, and prove your might to claim the title of top Dragon Master in the world? Build a Dragon City on floating islands and fill it with farms, habitats, buildingsand tons of dragons! Treat your collection of cute, baby dragons well and feed and evolve them into stunning beasts to expand your collection and battle them in the PvP Arenas!
Join forces with other Dragon Masters in the game by joining an Alliance! Interact in the chat, participate in Alliance events, trade Orbs, and unlock special rewards.
Combine dragons of Fire, Nature, Pure, Legend, and lots of other elements, to hatch adorable, unique hybrids to expand your collection. You can also obtain dragons from events in the game!
FEATURES
- Complete the Dragon Book! There are over 1000 awesome dragons to breed and collect to make your Dragon City grow!
- New dragons join the game every week through breeding events and special islands.
- Decorate your dragons with cool Dragon Skins from special events.
- Enjoy the adventure in the Dragon Quests and play against other Dragon Masters in the games PvP Arenas to collect one-of-a-kind dragons, claim Warriors Chests, and climb up the leaderboards!
- Summon dragons from a magical world in the Tree Of Life and try their skills.
- Collect Orbs and empower your dragons: You'll see how their strength in battle grows!
- Unlock advanced game features like the Ancient World and the Guardian Dragons.
- Be social: Join Alliances to play and battle with other Dragon Masters, chat with them, trade Orbs in the Trading Hub, share in Alliance Gift Events, and open Alliance Chests.
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