10 Soulless Video Games That Are Just Slot-Machines

3. Littlest Pet Shop

The part of your brain most responsible for quick decision making is thought to only be fully formed by the time you turn 25. Which means that the treacherous swamp-dwellers who make their millions exploiting children for profit have plenty of time to cash in. Few developers do it better than Gameloft, one of the big players who have really got the hang of this whole "Your customers are idiots, and wish to be treated as such" business model. Peddling their septic wares to impressionable youths and their desperate parents for years, Gameloft knows their market and knows how to milk them hard. Once again we're faced with a cheerful, seemingly innocent game, as sweet as a bucket of rehydrated cotton candy. Once again, it's free. And once again, by the time your witless minor has become wildly addicted, it's too late. You're selling the family heirlooms to be able to keep your precious little tot up to his or her ears in digital kitty glitter. There is something inherently wrong when you're dishing out dollops of cash in exchange for a "Huge Twinkliest Heap of Bling" so that your child can buy a shiny hat for a hedgehog named Russell.