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Forced to watch ads or given rewards for watching ads.

Many games, especially free-to-play games, contain advertising. Instead of paying for the game with money, you pay for it with your attention. People are more willing to part with their attention than with their money, and often aren't aware of how much time they are giving to these in-game advertisements.

Advertisements by themselves are not necessarily a Dark Pattern, but they can become one if they are made too intrusive and interrupt normal gameplay too frequently. For example:

1) Ads that cannot be skipped.
2) Giving rewards for watching ads.
3) Tricking you into clicking on an ad by placing it in a place where you might accidentally click on it.
3) Disguising an ad to make it look like part of the game.

Games can sometimes treat watching an ad as a form of in-app currency to enable other dark patterns. For example, some games allow you to replenish your energy by watching an ad. This is a form of Pay to Skip where you are paying with your attention instead of money.
Citations and SourcesUXP2 Dark Patterns
Disguised Ads


Examples

Temple Run Temple Run
"There are ads in this game, you can watch them as a reward to keep going, if you say no you watch one anyway with no reward. You have to spend real money for there to be no ads. You can also watch an ad to get a free resurrection"

Polysphere Polysphere
"One after every single puzzle, without a way to escape them other than restarting the app, which has a slow startup time"

Purrfect Tale Purrfect Tale
"Yeah there's options to watch ads, but then it'll also just randomly play them"

GunboundM GunboundM
"you can turn it off by disabling tracking, but in game rewards/currency are forfeited"

HATSUNE MIKU: COLORFUL STAGE! HATSUNE MIKU: COLORFUL STAGE!
"You can choose to watch advertisements to gain rewards a limited amount of times a day. You will never have an ad forced on you."

Last Fortress Last Fortress
"The Boys collab including buying all The Boys heroes"

Daily Themed Crossword - A Fun crossword game Daily Themed Crossword - A Fun crossword game
"Watch ads to get coins and power ups"

Dream Hopper Dream Hopper
"Yes, it isn't as bad because it's chosen advertisement but you can get wishes or gold or crystals if you watch ads and because your wish cap is 3, a lot of the time you'll have to watch ads to get more"

Water Sort Puzzle - Sort Color Water Sort Puzzle - Sort Color
"when restarting a level or if you want any bonus help for a level it is only given after watching an ad"

Real Racing 3 Real Racing 3
"Ads are consensual. They are used as a way to directly earn premium currency or skip cooldowns. The player has the option to select an ad to do these things."