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Published at December 6Level Up or Game Over: Exploring How Dark Patterns Shape Mobile Games
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H.1.2; K.4.1
Released Date: December 6, 2024
Authors: Sam Niknejad1, Thomas Mildner1, Nima Zargham1, Susanne Putze1, Rainer Malaka1
Aff.: 1University of Bremen

| Healthy Games (N=653) | Dark Games (N=843) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Total | Average | SD | Total | Average | SD |
| Temporal | 3167 | 4,85 | 23,82 | 18,630 | 22,09 | 69,67 |
| Monetary | 2781 | 4,26 | 23,67 | 26,330 | 31,24 | 97,66 |
| Social | 990 | 1,52 | 10,42 | 11,835 | 14,04 | 55,10 |
| Psychological | 3296 | 5,05 | 22,34 | 18,359 | 21,78 | 74,93 |
| Total | 10,234 | 75,154 | ||||