Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 17 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 2 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
2 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
2 / 0 votes
3 votes
3 votes
3 votes
3 votes
3 votes
2 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 18 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 8 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
3 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
3 / 0 votes
3 votes
3 votes
3 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
2 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.
2 / 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.
1 / 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 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
2 votes
2 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 / 2 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 8 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 11 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
2 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.
2 / 0 votes
3 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.
1 / 1 votes
1 votes
2 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 / 2 votes
1 votes
2 votes
3 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 3 votes
3 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 3 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 5 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 8 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
2 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.
2 / 0 votes
2 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
2 / 0 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
1 / 1 votes
2 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
0 / 2 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
0 / 1 votes
2 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 / 2 votes
2 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
0 / 2 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.86) with 7 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Playing by Appointment reported on Aug 18, 2023
everything revolved around time locked tokens/energy. nothing can simply be enjoyed to your content. tournament at odd hours inconvenient for half the worlds timezones
Grinding reported on Aug 18, 2023
farming hundreds of the same item to upgrade just a few characters, no fun way to achieve this just mashing the raid button until you are out of daily attempts
Advertisements reported on Aug 18, 2023
daily energy refresh, additional tournament attacks, multiple shops have ads to refresh them
Infinite Treadmill reported on Aug 18, 2023
takes more than a year to finish grinding just the free starting characters, roster has expanded by over 30 characters since. no feasible way to finish grinding without spending thousands of dollars on RNG pulls
Pay to Win reported on Aug 18, 2023
cash shop locked characters
Wait To Play reported on Aug 18, 2023
everything revolves around in game timers
Recurring Fee reported on Aug 18, 2023
battle pass
Gambling / Loot Boxes reported on Aug 18, 2023
rng pulls
Competition reported on Aug 18, 2023
unbalanced tournament every few weeks, strength of characters is only marginally normalized but is still influence by how far you have upgraded them. cash shop characters are allowed to be used
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