Some warnings 1 confirmed warning. Checked: 175 reviews and the Android app’s code.
From our automated analysis, 31 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 0.8.3152 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 0.8.3211, updated 2026-10-24.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
The legendary Dead Ahead universe is back! 10M+ players have already hit the road, but most ended up as zombie bait. Can you make it past the next mile?
Key Features:
- Chill & Savage
The apocalypse at your own pace. Master the idle loop day by day with seamless controls: pick your perks, sit back and watch your hero carve through the horde.
- Choice & Consequence
Every day on the road brings a new decision. Risk it all for a rare reward or play it safe and move on? Your choices in random encounters shape every run.
- Perks & Builds
Unlock game-changing perks and craft a lethal build for every encounter. Experiment with synergies on the fly — every run is a new combination.
- Roam & Ruin
Each run takes you deeper into the ruined world. Push through wrecked cities, highways and swamps and adapt to shifting threats — no two runs are ever the same.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:c848f6e53b09a92ec0c67b79727c0fa887e207c7b431f1afad773c79091485baOpen observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:c848f6e53b09a92ec0c67b79727c0fa887e207c7b431f1afad773c79091485baDeadline pressure in the app's own copy: "no last chance offer"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.
Package artefact
sha256:c848f6e53b09a92ec0c67b79727c0fa887e207c7b431f1afad773c79091485baThe app's own text says: "Thanks for your interest. We will share more once you're back online."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:c848f6e53b09a92ec0c67b79727c0fa887e207c7b431f1afad773c79091485baNo review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 0.8.3152, scanned 30 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 0.8.3152 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 0.8.3211, updated 2026-10-24.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
- Added Battle Stats: tap the new Stats button on the results screen after a run, an Office tower floor or a Lair attempt to see each party member's Damage (with their share of the team's total), Healing, Shield, Crits and Kills. - In Battle Stats, tap the hero's row to see his numbers split by skill: Basic Attack, the skills picked during the run whose effects dealt damage or healed, and Other. - The run with the Saw's chainsaw ambush now has its own spooky Halloween soundtrack from start to finish. - The Saw's Ragged Wounds skill now also heals the Saw for 2-6% of the damage it deals, depending on the skill's level, and the skill description shows the exact amount. - Fixed the menu…
Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.
No release notes were provided for this version.
dead-ahead-apple-6741141103Assessed 2026-10-31 from 175 user reviews and the app's package.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — 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 recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; 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.
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