“Too many ads of other games that force open play store by its own, and no way to escape it. 👎”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 2,946 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.3 ★298,211 ratings
10M+Downloads
9+Age rating
654 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
SMASH EVERY CASTLE. RULE EVERY ARENA.
Build your defenses, choose your crew, and smash your opponent's hard work to pieces in Castle Busters, a turn-based online PvP battle game.
Just you, your rival, and two castles that won't both survive the match intact. And you'd only just finished decorating!
MAKE EVERY SHOT COUNT
Take aim and fire. Your crew brought the firepower. Your opponent kindly supplied the target.
In fast 1v1 battles, every shot changes what happens next. Blast through walls to open new angles and collapse towers to expose enemy heroes. Win by taking out their entire crew or turning their castle into rubble.
With physics-based artillery and a battlefield that falls apart, you'll need to think on your feet. They can't hide behind a wall you've already demolished.
DRAFT YOUR CREW
Some heroes bring the damage. Others rally the crew to hit even harder.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 1.19.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.19.0, updated 2026-09-29.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 1.19.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.19.0, updated 2026-10-02.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 2
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 77 distinct reviewers — 3.9% of the 1,973 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).
Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Raised by 55 distinct reviewers — 5.7% of the 973 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 0.99 to USD 19.99 — a 20x spread across 10 items
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (0.7% of 973 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“great game it has potential to be on top but the ads ruined it for me .if it was one ads every 4-5 match also it would be ok but there is ads after every match.🙃🙃”
“to much ads”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.19.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$0.99
Highest$19.99
No RV - Weekly$9.99
Battle Pass$14.99
Resources Pack$4.99
Small Gem Pack$4.99
Medium Gem Pack$9.99
Show 5 more purchases
Large Gem Pack$19.99
Event Pack_4.99$4.99
Special Offer$2.99
Loss Offer$0.99
Forge Pass - Biweekly$14.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.