“Great Game!! — I have played this game since I was younger and continued to play into adulthood. It is such a good game and always was to decrompress and relax for the day. Its entertaining and there are many dragons to collect. Another…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 510 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★99,904 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
561 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Breed two dragons. Find out what hatches. Then do it hundreds of times over!
DragonVale is the original dragon-breeding park builder, raise mythical creatures from egg to elder and build a floating island paradise in the clouds. Fifteen years on, players still haven't hatched everything.
---- BREED & DISCOVER ---- Every pairing is a question. Combine two dragons, wait for the egg, and find out what their elements produce together. Some results take minutes. Some take seasons. A few have taken the community years to crack.…
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.
This analysis describes version 4.42.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.42.0, updated 2026-08-31.
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 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
1 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
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.
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: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 510 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“charged me WAY too much — I've been playing dragonvale since I was a little kid, and I just recently downloaded it again because my family members still play it, and I was bored. I made a purchase of $4.99, and obviously tax comes with it…”
“Pay to win — They like to limit rewards you can earn in a single day “to encourage players to keep coming back” but have no issue with you paying to advance. Could PROBABLY beat the game in less than 4-5 hours with unlimited money…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.42.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.