“I've stopped playing it. Obnoxious unskippable Temu ads have ruined it. Even watching the whole advert then clicking on the X on the new screen to close the advert just takes you to Temu. It happens after literally every game, even though…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 922 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.7 ★305,177 ratings
1M+Downloads
4+Age rating
380 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Castle Solitaire is a free and fun new card game from MobilityWare, the maker of all your favorite solitaire games. In this fast and easy to learn game, you can build your castles and fly your banner high!
== How to Play == To win at Castle Solitaire, fill the four castles from Ace to King. Tap to arrange cards of the same suit in descending order below the castles. If you get stuck, just tap the stockpile to reveal more cards to use. Castle Solitaire is similar to Vanishing Cross or King’s Corner, but with it’s own special twist.
== Features == - Customize your experience with different backgrounds and cards. You can even use one of your own photos as the background! - Progress through the levels and earn new titles from Serf up to Town Crier and beyond! - Celebrate your wins with exciting winning animations!…
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 2.4.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.4.0, updated 2026-09-24.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2.4.0.1973 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.4.0.1973, updated 2026-09-21.
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 at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 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
80–89% 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 1
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 49 distinct reviewers — 9.7% of the 504 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
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 10 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 418 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Game is great, but the Google game ads are ridiculous! You have to click the "Next -->" button a dozen times before it lets you go to the 2nd screen, then you click on that one for a dozen more times, before it lets you move on, and…”
“Like this game but the ads after every game is now too much. Some last for over two mins, some practically want you to play the game. The cost of getting rid of the ads even with 50% is more than some games charge to get rid completely…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.4.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown6
Lowest$0.79
Highest$9.99
Premium Status 1 Month$1.99
Premium Status 3 Months$4.99
Premium Status 6 Months$2.99
Premium Status 12 Months$9.99
Premium Pass$0.79
Show 1 more purchase
Premium Pass$0.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.