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Cube Topia 3D

3D Arrow Puzzle Escape

Lumen Studio
Aggressive ads — Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
App Store rating4.9★20.1K ratings
Google Play rating4.3★7.7K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size336 MBiPhone download
CategoryGames
DeveloperLumen Studio

At a glance

Full report

From our automated analysis, 14 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 1.18.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-14 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.19.1, updated 2026-10-12.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 1.18.0, not the version now listed on the store.

The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Welcome to Cube Topia 3D, a relaxing and engaging 3D puzzle experience where observation, timing, and planning come together.

Rotate the cube, release arrows, and clear surfaces gradually. Careful observation and thoughtful decisions help create smooth clearing sequences and solve spatial challenges that gradually become more complex.

The controls are simple to understand, while puzzle layouts continue to encourage deeper thinking as progress continues.

- A fully rotatable 3D puzzle environment

Cube Topia 3D takes place on an interactive three-dimensional cube. Unlike flat puzzle designs, every face contributes to the overall solution. At times, the answer may be located on the opposite side, requiring rotation and observation from different angles.

Players can rotate the cube freely, zoom in to inspect details, and study each surface before choosing the next move.…

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 · 1 shown, not confirmed

Things to watch for 1

Findings that met the published evidence standard.

Aggressive ad load

Reported by 37 users

Aggressive ad load: raised by 37 distinct reviewers (3.9% of 943 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
User reports only. Published because the review evidence cleared this label’s own reviewer threshold.
Where measured
From App Store reviews
Reported by
Raised by 37 distinct reviewers — 3.9% of the 943 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Published threshold
27 reviewers and 2.12% of at least 500 reviews
Definition

Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.

Open evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 1

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

One source only

Misleading advertising: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 943 reviews scanned)

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

What reviewers report

943 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

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

Aggressive ad load

Published finding

Raised by 37 distinct reviewers — 3.9% of the 943 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).

the ads is too much and too long, it keeps playing the same ads every time I finished the level, and it lasts for over 2 minutes, even though I clicked on NOT INTERSTED on the ads, but it repeatedly loops, that's too much, I give up…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-23

very relaxing. ads don't keep popping up after each level like the other one rated almost as highly as this one (how?). That one was so annoying I had to uninstall it; found this one and what a difference! I can just play and relax and…

5★ · Google Play · 2026-09-11

The usual fun game of removing arrows in a certain order without colliding with one another. But an ad after EVERY level is downright evil. The ads sometime take more time than the level itself. And with no paid option of removing the…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-23

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Shown, not confirmed

Nothing like the ads. Just cubes. And after awhile deja vu. Same puzzles over and over. Doesn't get harder. If you like the same kind of puzzles over and over, this is the game for you. If you don't care about it being like the ads, this…

3★ · Google Play · 2026-08-17

Falsely advertised as no ads but there are ads after every game.

3★ · Google Play · 2026-09-04

I downloaded this game because it was advertised as having no ads, but as soon as I hit level 10, I got an ad! I will be uninstalling this despite enjoying the actual puzzles.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-10

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

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, 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
States no price and 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 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

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 14 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 1.18.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-14 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.19.1, updated 2026-10-12.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 1.18.0, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 1.19.1 · 2026-10-12
Performance improvement.

Store update history

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

App Store

Version 1.19.1 · 2026-10-12
Performance improvement.
Version 1.18.0 · 2026-10-01
Performance improvement.

Google Play

Version 1.19.1 · 2026-10-15

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 1.18.0 · 2026-10-10

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 1.17.2 · 2026-09-30

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
cube-topia-3d
Assessment date
14 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
943
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-14 from 943 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-14 Version analyzed: 1.18.03 independent signals943 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store · Google Play

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

App Store

Store rating
4.93 ★ · 20,068 ratings
Version
1.19.1
Updated
12 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
336 MB
Open in App Store

Google Play

Store rating
4.26 ★ · 7,740 ratings
Version
1.19.1
Updated
15 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Lumen Studio
Category
Games
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support 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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