Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 46 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 13 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
8 votes
8 votes
8 votes
9 votes
7 votes
2 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
7 / 2 votes
3 votes
5 votes
3 votes
6 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 59 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 28 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
9 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
9 / 0 votes
9 votes
9 votes
6 votes
1 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
6 / 1 votes
7 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.
7 / 2 votes
6 votes
2 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
6 / 2 votes
6 votes
2 votes
4 votes
3 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.
4 / 3 votes
1 votes
5 votes
1 votes
6 votes
1 votes
7 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 / 7 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 18 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 37 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
6 votes
2 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.
6 / 2 votes
5 votes
2 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme
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You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.
5 / 2 votes
4 votes
4 votes
2 votes
6 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.
2 / 6 votes
1 votes
7 votes
8 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 8 votes
8 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 8 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 27 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 23 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
7 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.
7 / 1 votes
7 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
7 / 1 votes
4 votes
2 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
4 / 2 votes
4 votes
3 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
4 / 3 votes
3 votes
4 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
3 / 4 votes
1 votes
6 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 / 6 votes
1 votes
6 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
1 / 6 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.50) with 72,966 votes. |
| Google Play: | (4.36) with 1,363,876 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Social Obligation / Guilds reported on Oct 4, 2022
You can give 2 hearts a day to each of your friends. Valuable currency for starters, pretty worthless at my level even though I spend 90 of them every day
Playing by Appointment reported on Oct 4, 2022
Some events take 10 days and either you're a long time player and very dedicated and you can save 3 days, or you aren't so you need the 10 days, and maybe even need to wake up at night once every hour and a half. The 3 days events are even worse, no room for error and you can't sleep more than 7 hours.
Social Pyramid Scheme reported on Oct 4, 2022
Being a mentor allows you 10 gems when your mentored (you can choose one mentor and can enter them only until you're level 10) reach levels 10, 25, 50 and 100. You can send them notifications to remind them to play
Daily Rewards reported on Oct 4, 2022
Not every day, but sometimes they make a 10 to 30 days (it depends) calendar reward so if you miss one day you miss the final reward, generally a character
Invested / Endowed Value reported on Oct 4, 2022
I bet there could be (or is) a market for accounts. I have very rare ponies and I completed the free storyline, and unlocked the 1000 gems storyline
Grinding reported on Oct 4, 2022
Collecting the shops, sending the characters to tasks, building, setting and collecting the totems, playing the mini games for competitive events...
Advertisements reported on Oct 4, 2022
I don't have them but in other countries they have a small ad window on the bottom.
Pay to Win reported on Oct 4, 2022
Every event has helpers, 10 days event's full helpers bundles are between 30 and 90€. You can grind gems to buy them individually but it takes forever.
Infinite Treadmill reported on Oct 4, 2022
Always new content. We're at 1200 characters I think? I'm playing free for a long time and daily since 2018 and I'm not even at 600.
Premium Currency reported on Oct 4, 2022
Gems, bits, sapphires, magic coins (those 2 for events), tokens...
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