Subscribe Escape, presented as Escape the Subscription, challenges players to cancel a fictional subscription while navigating deceptive interface patterns.
The experience demonstrates buried cancellation controls, misleading confirmations, preselected extras, fake urgency, retention offers, and other obstacles. Fictional charges make the consequences of choices visible, while explanations connect the tactics to research on dark patterns and manipulative choice architecture.
Built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, the challenge runs in the browser. The subscription, spending, and service interactions are simulated.