Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 0 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 7 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
1 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 0 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 11 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
1 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
0 / 1 votes
1 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.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 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.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 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 / 1 votes
1 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
0 / 1 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 0 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 7 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
1 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme
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You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.
0 / 1 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.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 1 votes
1 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.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 1 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 6 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
1 / 0 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.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
0 / 1 votes
1 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.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
0 / 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.
0 / 1 votes
App Store Ratings
| Google Play: | (4.14) with 815 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Complete the Collection reported on Sep 14, 2023
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Just like with the first app in the Toca Lab Series, Toca Lab: Elements, your curiosity will lead the way. Choose your plant, then visit five different locations in the lab:Grow light: Shine the light on your plant and watch what happens! Does your plant bask and happily sigh in the light, or groan and wriggle away? What happens when you turn the light up a notch or two?
Watering tank: Put your plant in the tank and fill it up with water. Will your plant float? How does your plant behave when its soaking wet?
Nutrition station: Whats the optimal diet for your plant? Try the three different nutrition formulas and discover which ones your plant character likes!
Cloning machine: Spin the wheel on the cloning machine and before you know it, youll have five little versions of your plant. Wonder what the clones can do? Experiment and find out!
Crossbreeding apparatus: Here you can mix two plants to create something unexpected. Try it and see what happens!
Have fun experimenting at each station to see how the plants evolve. Keep experimenting until youve collected all 35 plant characters in the app. Once youve collected a plant, keep experimenting to continue to evolve it! Who says kids cant be scientists? Toca Lab: Plants brings out the budding botanist in everybody!
FEATURES
- Start with one plant and experiment your way to 35 different plant characters, each with its own unique personality!
- Continue to evolve existing plants through experimentation!
- Evolve plants with five lab tools: grow light, watering tank, nutrition station, cloning machine and the crossbreeding apparatus.
- Discover plants from five groups: green algae, mosses, ferns, trees and flowering plants.
- Learn the names and Latin names of real-life plants!
With no rules or time limits, this fun science app is perfect for boys and girls of all ages. Science has never been more enjoyable as youll have all different types of plants and fun scientific tools to play and learn with. Nothing but hours of fun in the laboratory awaits, so play in the lab and explore the world of science and botany now!
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