History VideoGame / ZookeeperBattle

* StandardStatusEffects: Two of them. You can only counter one kind per match with limited-use items.

* AchievementMockery: The game records what was your worst chain of loses, but only displays it on your personal profile menu.

** Players are so at the mercy of the RandomNumberGod, such that it rarely feels fair whether one wins or loses. The game frequently plays itself for one player while being unwinnable for the other.

** Players are ultimately at the mercy of the RandomNumberGod. Sometimes the game plays itself, but on the other hand the board can have next to no possible matches and still never award a No More Moves bonus. Items can show up to either player and change the tides of battle.

* PlayEveryDay: Encouraged by the daily bonus and the various timed events. Fortunately, the player only needs to play for 25 days, and it doesn't need to be in a row.

** The No More Moves bonus boosts both attack and defense by 30 and spawns a SP tile, but it rarely, if '''ever''', compensates for the worthless board that let it happen. Plus, if it happens after the turn ends it doesn't count!

** From the Bingo mission: "''Let's Challenge!'' Put your heart into the challenge!" That particular use of "let's" is an instance of GratuitousEnglish.

** From the Bingo mission: "Let's challenge! Put your heart into the challenge!" That particular use of "let's" is an instance of GratuitousEnglish.

* SequentialBoss: The Chain Battle event required the player to play a modified version of the Disturbing Mecha Boss game five times in a row. You can interrupt the event between rounds to spin a roulette of increasingly better prizes, and you should stop before the horribly difficult fifth round unless you're REALLY confident about yourself.

** If a play session lasts for too long, the music suddenly shuts down. Upon loading the next match, you'll see that all avatar graphics have been corrupted and replaced by the basic ones all across the game. After restarting the app, it will then re-download all the damaged files.
** It is possible for Zoo Vandals to not spawn ever again for no apparent reason.

** The drunken Boss status makes Curator tiles appear on the board. They're worth no points or combos and stay for the rest of the damn turn unless the No More Moves bonus is triggered.

* {{Combos}}: You should keep a chain going for as long as possible to rack up points.

* EpicFail: Whenever the player scores what seems like a very good chain only to look up and see their stats somehow have barely increased at all.

** It is possible for Zoo Vandals to not spawn ever again.

** Sometimes Zoo Vandals will fail to spawn for the rest of a given event. This can happen even in the first few days for no apparent reason, depriving you of all the rewards for beating them.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The CPU on boss fights has pre-set large amounts of attack and defense regardless of which lucky animal is on, plus a chance of triggering either or both status effects. Beating a level 3 or rare boss without spending power bottles is a matter of luck.

* GameBreakingBug: If a play session lasts for too long, the music suddenly shuts down. Upon loading the next match, you'll see that all avatar graphics have been corrupted and replaced by the basic ones all across the game. After restarting the app, it will then re-download all the damaged files.

** Most of the unique mission modes are luck-based. Like the "Disturbing Mecha Boss" game, in which the target will nearly always produce a situation that makes it impossible to hit it. The only exceptions are the minigame that asks you to clear ten increasingly large stacks in a single chain each or the one that requires you to place blocks on empty spots in a stack. Those just require quick thinking.