Townscaper

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Price: $4.99
Ads: No
In App Purchases: No

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Temporal Dark Patterns

This game has 0 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 7 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.

1 votes

Playing by Appointment -

0 / 1 votes

Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.

1 votes

Daily Rewards -

0 / 1 votes

Encourages return visits every day and punishes you for missing a day.

1 votes

Grinding -

0 / 1 votes

Being required to perform repetitive and tedious tasks to advance.

1 votes

Advertisements -

0 / 1 votes

Forced to watch ads or given rewards for watching ads.

1 votes

Infinite Treadmill -

0 / 1 votes

Impossible to win or complete the game.

1 votes

Can't Pause or Save -

0 / 1 votes

The game does not allow you to stop playing whenever you want.

1 votes

Wait To Play -

0 / 1 votes

In-game timers that make you arbitrarily wait for something.

Monetary Dark Patterns

This game has 0 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 11 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.

1 votes

Premium Currency -

0 / 1 votes

Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.

1 votes

Pay to Win -

0 / 1 votes

A player can spend real money to purchase something that gives them an advantage in the game.

1 votes

Artificial Scarcity -

0 / 1 votes

Limited time offers with unnecessary urgency.

1 votes

Pay to Skip -

0 / 1 votes

Spend money to avoid waiting for a timer to expire.

1 votes

Accidental Purchases -

0 / 1 votes

Making it easy to accidentally spend money with no confirmation or ability to undo or refund the action.

1 votes

Recurring Fee -

0 / 1 votes

Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.

1 votes

Gambling / Loot Boxes -

0 / 1 votes

Spending real money to play a game of chance for a reward.

1 votes

Power Creep -

0 / 1 votes

A permanently purchased item in the game becomes less valuable over time.

1 votes

Pay Wall -

0 / 1 votes

The game becomes impossible to continue playing without payment.

1 votes

Waste Aversion -

0 / 1 votes

Capped inventory forces you to destroy items or upgrade inventory. Also, having small amounts of left over premium currency.

1 votes

Anchoring Tricks -

0 / 1 votes

Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.

Social Dark Patterns

This game has 0 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 7 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.

1 votes

Social Pyramid Scheme -

0 / 1 votes

You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.

1 votes

Social Obligation / Guilds -

0 / 1 votes

To avoid letting down your friends, you are obligated to play when you don't want to.

1 votes

Friend Spam / Impersonation -

0 / 1 votes

The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.

1 votes

Reciprocity -

0 / 1 votes

Feeling obligated to return a favor, share resources, trade an item, etc.

1 votes

Encourages Anti-Social Behavior -

0 / 1 votes

The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.

1 votes

Fear of Missing Out -

0 / 1 votes

If you stop playing you'll miss out on something or be left behind and unable to catch up.

1 votes

Competition -

0 / 1 votes

The game makes you compete against other players.

Psychological Dark Patterns

This game has 0 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 7 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.

1 votes

Invested / Endowed Value -

0 / 1 votes

Having already spent time and money to improve your status in the game, it's difficult to throw it away.

1 votes

Badges / Endowed Progress -

0 / 1 votes

Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.

1 votes

Complete the Collection -

0 / 1 votes

The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.

1 votes

Illusion of Control -

0 / 1 votes

The game cheats or hides information to make you think you're better than you actually are.

1 votes

Variable Rewards -

0 / 1 votes

Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.

1 votes

Aesthetic Manipulations -

0 / 1 votes

Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.

1 votes

Optimism and Frequency Biases -

0 / 1 votes

Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.

App Store Ratings

iOS:	(4.92) with 12 votes.
Google Play:	(4.58) with 940 votes.

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Build quaint island towns with curvy streets. Build small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts. Block by block.

No goal. No real gameplay. Just plenty of building and plenty of beauty. That's it.

Townscaper is an experimental passion project. More of a toy than a game. Pick colors from the palette, plop down colored blocks of house on the irregular grid, and watch Townscaper's underlying algorithm automatically turn those blocks into cute little houses, arches, stairways, bridges and lush backyards, depending on their configuration.