• KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    From the link:

    Definition: A gaming dark pattern is something that is deliberately added to a game to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player with a positive outcome for the game developer.

    • Æther@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Keep in mind that the recommendations are likely influenced by being in the top 200, which is where they look for games to review. Careful of correlation fallacy

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    im glad it also highlights the ones that have less of these patterns, some really good games there

  • Zacryon@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    I’ve always wanted to make a website like this. But then I got too addicted to some game and spent all my time on that instead. /j

    Only partly joking, I really wanted to make a website similar to this. But then stuff happened. You know how it is.

    (Here was an entire wall of text, where I detailed the idea, before I decided to delete it all again.)