Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 19 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 110 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
9 votes
10 votes
7 votes
12 votes
3 votes
16 votes
18 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
0 / 18 votes
18 votes
18 votes
18 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 0 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 187 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
17 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
0 / 17 votes
17 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 / 17 votes
17 votes
17 votes
17 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 / 17 votes
17 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
0 / 17 votes
17 votes
17 votes
Power Creep
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A permanently purchased item in the game becomes less valuable over time.
0 / 17 votes
17 votes
17 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 / 17 votes
17 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
0 / 17 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 3 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 116 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
3 votes
14 votes
Reciprocity
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Feeling obligated to return a favor, share resources, trade an item, etc.
3 / 14 votes
17 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 / 17 votes
17 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 / 17 votes
17 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 17 votes
17 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 17 votes
17 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 / 17 votes
17 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 37 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 88 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
13 votes
6 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
13 / 6 votes
9 votes
9 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
9 / 9 votes
8 votes
10 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.
8 / 10 votes
5 votes
12 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
5 / 12 votes
2 votes
16 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
2 / 16 votes
18 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 / 18 votes
17 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
0 / 17 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.50) with 10,966 votes. |
| Google Play: | (4.68) with 18,041 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Invested / Endowed Value reported on Aug 27, 2023
A farm with many amenities and cooler animals takes time investment to build
Infinite Treadmill reported on Aug 19, 2023
It has a contained story, technically you could play forever but why would you?? I'm putting Yes but mean Yes (No). Like would you consider minecraft to be an infinite treadmill? thats like Stardew
Grinding reported on Jul 29, 2023
Skills, quests, earning money, caring for animals/farm/npc relationship gauges, etc. You are always chasing a half dozen things and even if you like some of them you almost certainly will not enjoy or be good at all of them, making some degree of the game a frustrating slog.
Infinite Treadmill reported on Jul 29, 2023
Technically speaking most if not all of the major questlines and town storyline can be finished, but the game does not end and the basic gameplay loop always remains.
Can't Pause or Save reported on Jul 29, 2023
There is technically an ability to save mid-day instead of when the in-game day ends, but the state you return to is not entirely accurate to what you did before leaving, encouraging finishing out the remainder of the day cycle rather than utilize quicksaves.
Complete the Collection reported on Jul 29, 2023
In more recent updates there are special items and quests you can only access by increasing your 'Perfection' rating aka moving closer to 100% complete.
Can't Pause or Save reported on Apr 2, 2023
the only way to save your progress in this game is by going to sleep at any time and progressing to the next day. 6am-12am in game lasts about 12 minutes, so you can only really save your progress every 12 minutes
Reciprocity reported on Mar 22, 2023
in a way? you can have a multiplayer world with others, but you can't join anyone else's world without communicating between yourselves first
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