Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 4 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 3 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 7 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 4 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
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 / 0 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.
1 / 0 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
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 0 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 7 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
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
Social Obligation / Guilds
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To avoid letting down your friends, you are obligated to play when you don't want to.
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
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.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 3 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 4 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
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.
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
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
1 / 0 votes
1 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
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
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
| iOS: | (4.36) with 55 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Grinding reported on Apr 15, 2023
Like merge mansion A more popular game you have to merge times the change into more things. The problem with this is that you have “ energy” this runs out over time and of course you can pay to recharge and occasionally you get it for free or you have to watch adds to recharge.
Advertisements reported on Apr 15, 2023
It has so many advertisements and that includes random pop ups and watching adds for rewards
Infinite Treadmill reported on Apr 15, 2023
Not 100% sure if levels are added but you probably like play this game for a good year or if your older then 16 probably a lot faster
Premium Currency reported on Apr 15, 2023
In game money Is a blue gem or diamond…. Never actually found the name for it. Cost are lower then other merge games but arguably could make you spend more money because of the low cost
Pay to Win reported on Apr 15, 2023
You can buy items to merge and or items to help you get through the game. Sometimes given for free
Invested / Endowed Value reported on Apr 15, 2023
Over time you level up!
Artificial Scarcity reported on Apr 15, 2023
Special offers are in this game
Wait To Play reported on Apr 15, 2023
You get items to merge from boxes to that cost you energy that will run out eventually. You have to wait, pay, or watch adds to get more energy and it’s the same things for the box’s in which you get your items to merge from.
Pay to Skip reported on Apr 15, 2023
Game include energy and timers
Accidental Purchases reported on Apr 15, 2023
I would argue that this could be easy for children because of the pop ups but for anyone over the age of 15 you probably won’t
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