Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 63 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 10 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
11 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
11 / 0 votes
11 votes
11 votes
11 votes
9 votes
1 votes
7 votes
3 votes
3 votes
6 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 62 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 32 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
10 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
10 / 0 votes
9 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.
9 / 0 votes
11 votes
11 votes
6 votes
1 votes
6 votes
1 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
6 / 1 votes
5 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.
5 / 3 votes
4 votes
3 votes
8 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
0 / 8 votes
8 votes
8 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 / 8 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 27 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 28 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
8 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.
8 / 0 votes
10 votes
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
2 votes
5 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 / 5 votes
2 votes
8 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
2 / 8 votes
1 votes
7 votes
6 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 6 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 43 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 14 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
10 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.
10 / 0 votes
7 votes
1 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
7 / 1 votes
6 votes
2 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
6 / 2 votes
7 votes
2 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
7 / 2 votes
4 votes
3 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
4 / 3 votes
5 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.
5 / 3 votes
4 votes
3 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
4 / 3 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.50) with 692,758 votes. |
| Google Play: | (4.37) with 1,519,880 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Artificial Scarcity reported on Oct 4, 2022
Many limited time offers and events, there's almost always something.
Competition reported on Oct 4, 2022
Limited time events sometimes has competition with other players, but not always.
Power Creep reported on Oct 4, 2022
Some parts of the gameplay require more in-game currency than before as the story progresses.
Wait To Play reported on Oct 4, 2022
All lessons and a majority of the quests require you to use energy during a timer of 1, 3 or 8 hours. When a timer has been started, you cannot start another timer until it has finished. Some times you have to wait a certain amount of hours before you can start another part of the quest.
Can't Pause or Save reported on Oct 4, 2022
If you start a lesson or a part of a quest that has a timer, you cannot pause the timer. You can exit your game, but if you do not come back to use the required energy in time, the quest will fail and you'll have to do it again.
Premium Currency reported on Oct 4, 2022
You can spend real money on energy, gems and in-game currency which are needed to progress in the game.
Infinite Treadmill reported on Oct 4, 2022
It does end eventually, but the more you progress in the story it takes longer to complete each in-game year, and you are given a variety of side quests as well.
Grinding reported on Oct 4, 2022
The vast majority of gameplay is very repetitive and tedious. More variety would be more enjoyable.
Playing by Appointment reported on Oct 4, 2022
To complete quests and progress on the story you need to return to the game before a timer runs out - set for either 1, 3 or 8 hours.
Daily Rewards reported on Oct 4, 2022
The rewards are not mandatory, but if you play every day you get greater rewards that help with progress.
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