Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 4 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 3 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.
1 / 0 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 8 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 3 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.
1 / 0 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.
1 / 0 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
1 / 0 votes
1 votes
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.
1 / 0 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
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
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 3 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 4 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
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.
1 / 0 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.
1 / 0 votes
1 votes
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
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
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 2 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 5 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
1 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
1 / 0 votes
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
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: | (4.17) with 575,150 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Pay to Skip reported on Jan 4, 2023
You can buy coins to speed up buildings or buy energy.
Competition reported on Jan 4, 2023
Tournaments are the main attraction of the game.
Fear of Missing Out reported on Jan 4, 2023
Battle passes, free gifts/pulls, etc.
Anchoring Tricks reported on Jan 4, 2023
There's a lot of differently priced offers.
Complete the Collection reported on Jan 4, 2023
There are collections that you can complete by having certain specific characters.
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on Jan 4, 2023
Very few achievements, you can mostly complete them by playing normally without spending anything.
Power Creep reported on Jan 4, 2023
When this game released, you could only have characters up to 5 stars (the best characters available). After some time, they released 6 star characters, then S-class characters, then mythic characters, and then limit break for mythic characters. It is important to note that mythic characters made almost all other types of characters obsolete.
Gambling / Loot Boxes reported on Jan 4, 2023
All pulls are random. Odds are listed. You can buy boxes which can give you something at random related to a specific thing, such as gold tokens for pulls or trainers, the quantity depends on the item's odds. Odds are listed as well.
Recurring Fee reported on Jan 4, 2023
There's a 'Survivor's club'. This has a monthly fee (kind of high) and allows you to get more food and materials in-game, as well as give you free daily, weekly, and monthly pulls.
Playing by Appointment reported on Jan 4, 2023
The game has events throughout the whole week (tournaments), some events are daily.
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