Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 1 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 6 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
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
1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 0 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 11 votes indicating the absense 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.
0 / 1 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.
0 / 1 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.
0 / 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
1 votes
1 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.
0 / 1 votes
1 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
0 / 1 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 0 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 7 votes indicating the absense 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 2 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 5 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
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
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
1 / 0 votes
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.
0 / 1 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
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
| Google Play: | (4.52) with 9,828 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Grinding reported on Nov 28, 2021
The gameplay involves repeatedly completing adventures using your team of investigators in order to obtain elder signs to defeat the Ancient One of the player's choosing. Depending on the Ancient One chosen, this can range from needing as little as 10 elder signs, up to 16 for the most difficult campaigns, meaning the time needed to defeat one will vary between playthroughs.
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on Nov 28, 2021
When the player defeats certain Ancient Ones, they unlock an additional playable investigator as a reward.
Variable Rewards reported on Nov 28, 2021
Whenever the player has an investigator complete an adventure during gameplay, certain items (such as common, unique and spells) are chosen from a pool at random. The only information the player knows ahead of time are the type and quantity (two unique items for completion, for example) of these rewards.
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The tense excitement of Elder Sign is now available for Android! Elder Sign: Omens places you in control of up to four intrepid investigators, as they fight to keep all-powerful Ancient Ones from invading our world through a museums arcane exhibits!
*Build a team of unique investigators*
*Explore an ever-changing museum*
*Face challenging arcane tasks*
*Save the world from absolute destruction*
*Expand the horror with two exciting in-app purchases*
Can you stand against the impending arrival of a malevolent Ancient One?
While Elder Sign: Omens brilliantly conveys the spirit of the Elder Sign dice game, a few noteworthy differences were adopted to optimize the mobile play experience:
-A limited number of available Ancient Ones streamlines the game play experience while offering adjustable levels of difficulty. Face Yig in normal mode, Azathoth or Tsathoggua in hard mode, or Cthulhu or Ithaqua in very hard mode (in-app purchases required to face Cthulhu and Ithaqua).
-A number of subtle changes increase the peril of defending humanity. For example, the random negative effects drawn every midnight are more challenging, and the frequency of no effect results has been decreased. Monsters have likewise been altered to make them more difficult.
-Finally, there are no Ally cards in Elder Sign: Omens, which further streamlines play while increasing the overall challenge.