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Catch & Build: Land of Pals

The very air shimmers with potential, into the boundless horizons...

Joy Nice Games
Get it onGoogle Play
Google Play rating4.5★9.4K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age9+Store age rating
CategoryGames
DeveloperJoy Nice Games

What we found

Full report

Some warnings 13 users report having to pay to progress; 5 users report ads that misrepresent the app. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 400 reviews.

Money

Pressure and ad claims

From our automated analysis, 26 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 1.24.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .

The store currently lists version 1.24.3, updated 2026-10-16.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

The very air shimmers with potential, into the boundless horizons... for Pals await!

It's a free-roaming, exploring, monster-catching, Pal-raising adventure! Will you bask in the rural idyll of farming life? Or embrace the thrill of being a Trainer? Pals can battle, but they can work alongside you too—so the choice is yours!

[Terrain of All Kinds—Catch Pals and Explore]

Explore every corner of a vast, sprawling world! Across 8 major terrains you'll find almost 100 different Pal types. Traverse beaches, mountaintops, forests and more in your search for them!

[Home Construction—Battle or Work, Your Choice]

Pick and choose from over 10 classes including Plumber, Miner, and Chef. Pals each have a role to play, and have their own strengths—working together to build your Home!…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

1 published · 2 shown, not confirmed

Positives 1

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

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

Sources
The store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
From the Google Play listing
Definition

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.

Open evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

One source only

Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 80 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

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.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
1.3% of the 400 reviews read.

Pay to progress

One source only

Pay to progress: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 31 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
3.3% of the 400 reviews read.

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

400 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Shown, not confirmed

shows clips in landscape when in game it's portrait. my response to the developers response is:- so what if it's good to play with one hand. The fact is, you've shown the game on the outside as being in landscape mode when its portrait. I…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-01-19

Game quickly overheats phone, freezes, then crashes. It's a cozy afk game but as a new player, likely not long as PvP is supposedly the core despite ads making one think otherwise. As a result I probably won't play for long, not my style…

4★ · Google Play · 2026-06-18

seriously screw you guys with your misleading ads. so sick of games that look like a blast then they all turn into these stupid 4x games. like how do you sleep at night making such misleading ads?

1★ · Google Play · 2026-02-01

Pay to progress

Shown, not confirmed

I wanted to defend this game. I love the community. Joining a guild and helping it get stronger together. It's fun. But as the game updates, it's becoming more P2W in the most predatory way. The current event is the perfect example. There…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-02-07

This game has a potential... As long as you don't make it too P2W, this game will survive for a long time... If you might consider, I think it will be better if we can farm items for gacha, not exclusively for top up players. I'm P2W…

5★ · Google Play · 2026-01-31

I love this game!. Its overall more interactive than any other pal themed mobile game. Wonderful execution, doesn't kill your battery, and no ads every 15 minutes. They don't bombard you with passes that you have to pay for to get…

5★ · Google Play · 2026-01-19

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
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
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 app 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, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 26 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 1.24.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-26 .

The store currently lists version 1.24.3, updated 2026-10-16.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 1.24.3 · 2026-10-16

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
catch-and-build
Assessment date
26 Oct 2026
Sources used
1 independent signal: user reviews
Reviews read
400
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-26 from 400 user reviews. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-26 Version analyzed: 1.24.31 independent signal400 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating
4.49 ★ · 9,358 ratings
Version
1.24.3
Updated
16 Oct 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
9+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Joy Nice Games
Category
Games
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. One independent signal is read — user reviews — and each candidate finding is filed under the source that supports it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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