[saint_angels]

I think the website would be more useful, if you can select what patterns you personally consider "dark" and filter by those. For example, I don't consider "Variable Rewards" as a dark pattern and don't want it to affect game scores in a list.

[wantsanagent]

Ironically variable reward schedules are the most powerful reward schedules for maintaining behavior in the absence of further rewards. I know you're not a rat/pidgeon but it's just funny you picked the one that classical behavioral psychology would say is close to the most influential.

[p1necone]

It's also crucial to some genres working at all though. Can you imagine a roguelike /without/ randomized loot?