Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 35 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 5 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
6 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
6 / 0 votes
6 votes
5 votes
6 votes
6 votes
6 votes
5 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 48 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 18 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
7 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
7 / 0 votes
6 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.
6 / 0 votes
7 votes
6 votes
7 votes
6 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
6 / 0 votes
4 votes
2 votes
2 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.
2 / 2 votes
1 votes
3 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
1 / 3 votes
2 votes
4 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 / 4 votes
7 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 31 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 13 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
5 votes
7 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.
7 / 0 votes
7 votes
6 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.
6 / 1 votes
5 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.
5 / 1 votes
1 votes
5 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
1 / 5 votes
6 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 6 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 34 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 12 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
6 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.
6 / 0 votes
6 votes
1 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
6 / 1 votes
6 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
6 / 1 votes
6 votes
1 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
6 / 1 votes
4 votes
2 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
4 / 2 votes
4 votes
3 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
4 / 3 votes
2 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.
2 / 4 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.50) with 578,061 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Playing by Appointment reported on Sep 27, 2022
Collecting free rewards in a certain time window, league battles are every 6 hours, etc. In events called "heroic races", where they randomly put 8 players together to complete tasks as quickly as possible, there are things called pools, which is a limit to how quickly you can complete nodes or tasks without spending in game currency.
Social Obligation / Guilds reported on Sep 27, 2022
When you're in an alliance, there's an obligation to contribute to chests, and many alliances kick out members if you don't get enough points for them.
Wait To Play reported on Sep 27, 2022
Everything is timed. Literally everything. I cannot think of a single thing you can play infinitely without using in game currency.
Pay to Win reported on Sep 27, 2022
You can buy better dragons, buy more gems to skip things, etc
Premium Currency reported on Sep 27, 2022
Gems and event coins are so useful in the game, but quite hard to get.
Infinite Treadmill reported on Sep 27, 2022
They're always adding new dragons, new events, and when you do reach the highest arena it resets every time there's a new season and a new required element.
Advertisements reported on Sep 27, 2022
SO MANY ADS OMFG There's a whole floating thing where you can watch up to 45 ads over a period of time for rewards, and you can use ads to speed up things like breeding, hatching, habitats, and sometimes food.
Daily Rewards reported on Sep 27, 2022
There's a daily rewards chest, there's a calendar, there's a limit to how much gold a habitat can produce so you need to check back periodically to collect those, and so on.
Power Creep reported on May 24, 2022
Newer, stronger dragons are introduced over time. Previously, category 5 dragons were the strongest available. Then, it was category 9 dragons. (Category number is a general ranking of strength). Now, there are Heroic dragons (category 11) and Mythical dragons (of the legendary rarity, category 10, technically strongest because of the way empowerment works). Dragon skills and shields were introduced. Plans for introducing additional levels of empowerment have been discussed by SocialPoint.
Reciprocity reported on May 24, 2022
Players can trade dragon orbs. Doing so costs trade essences and the orbs you are giving to the other player. Players can only trade if they are in the same alliance.
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- Complete the Dragon Book! There are over 500 dragons to breed and collect to make your city grow!
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