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Desert Worm: Idle Survival RPG

Rise from beneath the dunes in Desert Worm: Idle Survival RPG.

MULTICAST GAMES
Review signals only
Get it onGoogle Play
Google Play rating4.3★4.1K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age12+Store age rating
CategoryGames
DeveloperMULTICAST GAMES

At a glance

Full report

Review signals only — 1 user-reported signal. Review signals, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.

Review signals 1

From review signals only, 18 Oct 2026.

The store currently lists version 0.7.2, updated 2026-09-20.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Rise from beneath the dunes in Desert Worm: Idle Survival RPG. Control a colossal sandworm in a fast action RPG about hunting, monster evolution, exploration and rewarding progression.

HUNT, EAT AND GROW

Burst through the sand, chase prey and devour enemies. Every hunt helps the underground monster grow stronger and climb the desert food chain.

DEATH FROM BELOW

Ambush enemies, smash armored machines and turn every battlefield into your hunting ground. Grow from a hungry creature into the sand shark of the dunes.

EVOLVE AND SURVIVE

Earn XP, upgrade each body segment, unlock powerful abilities and shape your build for the next fight. Become the unlikely hero of a monster survival adventure.

FIGHT ENEMY WAVES AND BOSSES

Cross ancient ruins, toxic wastelands and an insect hive from another planet.…

From the developer’s store description.

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The full report

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

Findings and evidence

No findings published
No findings are published for this listing. These are review signals, not findings: nothing here is an assessment.

Review signals 1

Recurring themes across the reviews we scanned. Each links to what reviewers report.

What reviewers report

289 reviews read · 1 review signal

289 reviews scanned. These are signals from public reviews, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.

Aggressive ad load

Review signal, not a finding

9 reviews · 3.1% of reviews scanned

Game for sure has potential. But.... it is an ads theater. After 10 min into game you starting to see that only way to progress os to watch ad after ad after ad. SOME OF THEM ARE 3 MIN LONG!!! And they those ads are every on average 1min…

2★ · Google Play · 2026-08-16

The game itself is ok. It is an EXTREMELY slow grind. Their resolution is just constant ads for mats, making it significantly more efficient to just watch ads and not play the game. As I don't play a game to do nothing but watch ads, this…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-05-26

Full of Ads

1★ · Google Play · 2026-04-05

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 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
No theme 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

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Review signals only

Review signals only. No automated analysis of the app itself has been run, so there is no analysed version to report; the signals were read from public reviews on 18 Oct 2026.

Store update history

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

Google Play

Version 0.7.2 · 2026-09-20

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 0.7.2 · 2026-07-09

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 0.6.2 · 2026-07-09

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Review signals only
App identifier
desert-worm
Review signals scanned
18 Oct 2026
Sources used
User reviews
Reviews read
289
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

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
4.34 ★ · 4,059 ratings
Version
0.7.2
Updated
20 Sep 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
12+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
MULTICAST 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, so this list covers the other store only.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How a review signal works

A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.

A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.

It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.

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 human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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