Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 11 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 2 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
2 votes
2 votes
1 votes
2 votes
2 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.
1 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 12 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 2 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
2 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
2 / 0 votes
2 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 / 0 votes
2 votes
2 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.
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
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
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
0 / 1 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 2 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 0 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
2 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 5 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 0 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
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
Illusion of Control
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The game cheats or hides information to make you think you're better than you actually are.
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
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
1 / 0 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.62) with 6,493 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Can't Pause or Save reported on May 28, 2024
If the app is exited for long enough the player will have to start the level from the beginning. There's no visible pause button.
Competition reported on May 28, 2024
Lots of the mini-games that encourage players to play the main game (e.g., get three levels in a row and you win!) are against supposedly real players.
Aesthetic Manipulations reported on May 28, 2024
If a game is lost it REALLY rubs it in and emphasises all the things you will lose if you don't attempt to pay to win.
Anchoring Tricks reported on May 28, 2024
Free items unlocked by "keys" (earned when playing levels) are put next to
Waste Aversion reported on May 28, 2024
Maybe 70% of the coins that the player can get from completing a level gets put in a "piggy-bank" which needs around $8 of real money to be unlocked.
Illusion of Control reported on May 28, 2024
Kind of.. most of the levels in the game rely on the random chance (levels can contain pipes and barrels, both of which mean you can't see the colour of the next block inside), and the blocks within the level are always randomised. It means that whenever you pass a level without using special items you feel very talented, but a lot of the time some levels have to be repeated over and over again for a good randomisation of colours that allows a player to win.
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on May 28, 2024
Players are awarded multiple things (trophies, keys and coins) with each item having it's own unique "purpose"; trophies indicate how you compare to other players on leaderboards, keys unlock items and coins are used as an in-game currency.
Accidental Purchases reported on May 28, 2024
When a player loses all their hearts and they're not actively playing in a level, the pop-up that allows them to get more hearts can be misleading; they can watch only ONE ad and if they try to watch another one for a heart they're immediately directed to pay money.
Pay to Skip reported on May 28, 2024
You can pay money to get more lives in order to avoid either watching ads to replenish lives or waiting 25 minutes to gain a life. The lives (shown as hearts) allow you to keep playing the games.
Wait To Play reported on May 28, 2024
If you don't have any hearts left and you don't want to watch any ads to get more hearts, you will have to wait for your hearts to be replenished (25 minutes per heart) or pay for more. Sometimes when the clock ticks over, the player isn't given a new life.
Report a Dark Pattern
Sharpen your brain in this block matching puzzle game.- Tap blocks that aren't trapped to unblock them.
- Match 3 colors to clear them.
- Don't let your tray run out of space.