Slightly Bad
Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 96 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 35 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
19 votes
1 votes
18 votes
1 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
18 / 1 votes
18 votes
1 votes
17 votes
1 votes
15 votes
4 votes
9 votes
10 votes
17 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 139 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 57 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
19 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
19 / 0 votes
19 votes
20 votes
17 votes
1 votes
16 votes
1 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
16 / 1 votes
14 votes
4 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.
14 / 4 votes
13 votes
4 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
13 / 4 votes
11 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.
11 / 7 votes
6 votes
10 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.
6 / 10 votes
4 votes
13 votes
Power Creep
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A permanently purchased item in the game becomes less valuable over time.
4 / 13 votes
17 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 22 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 108 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
11 votes
7 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.
11 / 7 votes
10 votes
9 votes
1 votes
18 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
1 / 18 votes
18 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 / 18 votes
18 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 / 18 votes
19 votes
Reciprocity
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Feeling obligated to return a favor, share resources, trade an item, etc.
0 / 19 votes
19 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
0 / 19 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 69 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 59 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
18 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.
18 / 1 votes
16 votes
2 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
16 / 2 votes
17 votes
2 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
17 / 2 votes
16 votes
2 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
16 / 2 votes
1 votes
17 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 / 17 votes
1 votes
17 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
1 / 17 votes
18 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
0 / 18 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.50) with 17,957 votes. |
| Google Play: | (4.51) with 253,319 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Grinding reported on Apr 9, 2024
Treasures, Zombie levels, every XP, catfruit, and ticket stage...
Artificial Scarcity reported on Apr 9, 2024
as I am typing this, they have an event where you can get a cat just by buying it
Power Creep reported on Apr 9, 2024
THe cats can be power crept pretty hard, but to PONOS' credit they tend to go back to underpowered cats and attempt to buff them with things like talents
Invested / Endowed Value reported on Apr 9, 2024
More cats, higher level cats, sometimes limited event cats...
Pay to Win reported on Apr 9, 2024
Everything related to the gatcha, even if they bith have the same luck, the spender has more plus levels on their rare caats just by having more tickets to spend.
Gambling / Loot Boxes reported on Apr 9, 2024
they have multiple
Premium Currency reported on Apr 9, 2024
cat food
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on Apr 9, 2024
mostly progresssion achievementes, they are not limited by time though.
Infinite Treadmill reported on Apr 9, 2024
The game is so large that it always expands faster than I can complete it
Playing by Appointment reported on Apr 9, 2024
Grinding for XP, grinding for catfruit, grinding for parts to upgrade cannon all require limited time events
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=Super Simple Battle System=
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Fire the Cat Cannon to blast baddies getting too close to your base! Overcome weird enemies with the right Cat squad and take down the enemy base!
=Super Simple Leveling System=
Clear stages to get XP and items to level up the Cats! What will they evolve to at level 10? Can you unlock their True Form?
=Super Simple Fun!=
Collect glorious treasures while you take over the world!
Recruit dozens of rare and exotic Cats(?) and create the ultimate feline army!!
Hundreds of stages across three Story Mode adventures and the Legend challenges.
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