Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 41 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 6 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
7 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
7 / 0 votes
7 votes
6 votes
7 votes
7 votes
7 votes
6 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 56 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 21 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
8 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
8 / 0 votes
7 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.
7 / 0 votes
8 votes
7 votes
8 votes
7 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
7 / 0 votes
3 votes
2 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 / 2 votes
4 votes
3 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.
2 / 3 votes
2 votes
5 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.
2 / 5 votes
8 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 36 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 15 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
6 votes
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
8 votes
6 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.
6 / 1 votes
7 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.
7 / 1 votes
1 votes
6 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
1 / 6 votes
7 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 7 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 41 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 12 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
7 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.
7 / 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
7 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
7 / 1 votes
7 votes
1 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
7 / 1 votes
5 votes
2 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
5 / 2 votes
5 votes
3 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
5 / 3 votes
3 votes
4 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.
3 / 4 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.50) with 578,061 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on Aug 31, 2023
Game rewards anything for hatching dragons with certain type combinations to rewards for defeating a certain ammount of dragons with a dragon of a certain rarity.
Social Obligation / Guilds reported on Aug 31, 2023
Alliances in the game are extremely competitive, despite the rewards for active participation being lackluster and the activities needed for alliance rewards oftentimes clashing with the activities required for events. Players will either be stuck in inactive alliances or immediately kicked out of active ones if they're unable to play and contribute for even just a day.
Invested / Endowed Value reported on Aug 31, 2023
More effort and more money spent typically equals better dragons, better chance at clearing events and better ranking in PVP.
Wait To Play reported on Aug 31, 2023
YES. If it exists in the game, there's a timer for it. Growing food, generating gold, playing events, leveling dragons, empowering dragons, fighting in either PVE or PVP modes, breeding dragons, hatching eggs, etc. There's even timers for watching advertisements.
Pay to Skip reported on Aug 31, 2023
Players can purchase gems that can be used to skip the myriad of timers in the game.
Accidental Purchases reported on Aug 31, 2023
When you open the game, several pop-ups with offers will appear in succession. Some of these are offers that accept gems as currency, making it possible for players to accidentally purchase something with the scarce premium currency.
Recurring Fee reported on Aug 31, 2023
Its version of the season pass has a regular and an "elite" version which is extremely expensive.
Gambling / Loot Boxes reported on Aug 31, 2023
There is a shop where players can spend gems and real currency on chests with various different rewards. These chests have very low pull rates for useful resources and rare dragons.
Reciprocity reported on Aug 31, 2023
The most effective way of getting dragons a player desires is by the trading of orbs with other players.
Artificial Scarcity reported on Aug 31, 2023
Nearly everything in this game is urgent. The worst example is the events, as their timeframes are on average 2 days long. F2P players are guaranteed to never be able to complete these in full, and even players who spend money on in-app purchases aren't guaranteed success, either, as many events are based on luck.
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