“Totally misleading ads — Seriously.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 537 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.0 ★179,851 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
785 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Shoot and engage in battles！ Build your cities. Train your troops. Expand your empire. Be the king of 7 kingdoms! All in Evony: The King's Return, the hottest real-time strategy MMO of 2024!
Unique gameplay features: ◆ Challenge a variety of Survivor Levels ◆ Move, shoot, evolve weapons ◆ Use flexible finger controls ◆ Experience the joy of puzzle solving
THE EXCEPTIONALLY RICH AND AMAZING SET OF FEATURES: ◆ YOU ARE THE SURVIVOR! Move, dodge, shoot, acquire weapons, and fight to the last moment!
◆ Choose from 7 civilizations to customize your game’s architectural style: American, Chinese, European, Russian, Korean, Arabia and Japanese!
◆ YOU ARE THE DIPLOMAT! Join a strong Alliance where you can make friends, communicate in real-time via voice and text with auto-translations so you can improve strategies and win epic battles.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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 5.35.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.35.1, updated 2026-09-24.
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
3 or more 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
Under 65% 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.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
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.
What we saw: Raised by 97 distinct reviewers — 18.1% of the 537 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 0.99 to USD 99.99 — a 101x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 537 reviews scanned)
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 24 distinct reviewers (4.5% of 537 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Scam — The game is nothing like the ad. Its just another bait and switch.”
“Off advertisement — This game looks nothing like the ad. I download it and it’s completely fake even though the ad says that it isn’t fake. It’s one of those terrible games.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.35.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$0.99
Highest$99.99
Rally Monthly Card$9.99
Super Value Activity Package$4.99
2,500 Gems$9.99
200 Gems$0.99
5,000 Gems$19.99
Show 4 more purchases
Super Value Gem Package!$4.99
1,000 Gems$4.99
25,000 Germs$99.99
Blessing of Flame$4.99