Frozen City

A city-building simulation game set in an ice and snow apocalypse.

Century Games PTE. LTD.
Google Play rating4.2★295.1K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age9+Store age rating
CategoryGames

What we found

Full report

Some warnings 1 confirmed warning, and users report 2 more things. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.

Money

Pressure and ad claims

Ads

From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 2.4.12 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 2.4.12, updated 2026-09-29.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

A city-building simulation game set in an ice and snow apocalypse. As the chief of the last town on Earth, you have to gather resources and rebuild society.

Collect resources, assign workers, explore the wilderness, conquer tough surroundings, and use various methods in order to survive.

Game features:

🔻Survival simulation

Survivors are the basic characters in the game. They are the important work force who keep the urban area running. Assign your survivors to collect materials and work in various facilities. Mind the survivors' physical and mental health. If the food ration is in shortage or the temperature drops below freezing, the survivors may get sick; And there may be protests if the work mode or the living environment is dissatisfying.

🔻Explore in the wild

The town sits in the wide wild frozen place. There will be exploratory teams as the survivor teams grow.…

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

2 published · 4 shown, not confirmed

Things to watch for 1

Findings that met the published evidence standard.

Multiple ad networks bundled

Measured

Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more

Sources
SDKs in the app package
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package
Definition

The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:19849b0da30c2dee5182d5ff50f5cf0bf33bde2a8d93f2e3d5aa5711131e418a

Positives 1

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text

Sources
The app's own on-screen text and the store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package. From the Google Play listing
Definition

The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.

Open evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 4

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Pay to progress

One source only

Pay to progress: raised by 19 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 21 reviews we read)

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

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
4.8% of the 400 reviews read.

Usable without an account

One source only

The app's own text says: "Guest"

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:19849b0da30c2dee5182d5ff50f5cf0bf33bde2a8d93f2e3d5aa5711131e418a

Aggressive ad load

One source only

The app's own text says: "Reward will not be received before video completion."

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

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

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:19849b0da30c2dee5182d5ff50f5cf0bf33bde2a8d93f2e3d5aa5711131e418a

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

One source only

Misleading advertising: raised by 22 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 18 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play 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
How we know
Share and sample
5.5% of the 400 reviews read.

What reviewers report

400 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

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

Pay to progress

Shown, not confirmed

only 3 stars because you guys became a p2w game pretty darn fast (talking about the weekend events). in the beginning, this WAS a 5 plus star game, and then you got greedy. New update 8/27/23 lowered to 1 star. The cost to upgrade heroes…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-11-06

Game is definitely fun, no doubt. But that ends somewhere around the 11th or 12th area. Turns into a pay to win real fast after that. UPDATE: ON TOP OF PAY TO WIN, I JUST GOT MY FIRST 80 SECOND AD!!! 80 SECOND AD?!?!?!?!?!?! I WILL BE…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-02-02

Game was decent at first. But now I'm at "Volcano Foothills" and I'm unable to progress unless I pay to upgrade Heros. I'm not spending another penny. Frozen City is 100% a "Pay to Win" game. I'm deleting the game after this review.

1★ · Google Play · 2024-12-25

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Shown, not confirmed

Nothing like the ad, but I continued to play it for the past few days. It was nice enough at the beginning - the graphics and music were great. However, I can't progress past a certain point because without "heroes", the production line…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-01-26

The photos above as showing in game play is not real, false advertisements is a serious crime. Display the actual gameplay because the first 6 photos don't exist in this game, I know I been playing this for 3 years. 😌 I give 5 stars…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-12-23

Fake advertising and play store screenshots.

1★ · Google Play · 2024-10-09

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

Measurements

8 measured · 0 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and 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
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
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
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

Android package 2.4.12, scanned 27 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.

Sensitive permissions
1–2 requested
Counted against a fixed list of eighteen sensitive Android permissions: sixteen runtime permissions, among them location, camera, microphone, contacts and SMS, and two the user must switch on in system settings, drawing over other apps and usage access. Requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 27 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 2.4.12 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-27 .

The store currently lists version 2.4.12, updated 2026-09-29.

Store update history

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

Google Play

Version 2.4.12 · 2026-09-29

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
frozen-city
Assessment date
27 Oct 2026
Sources used
6 independent signals: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
400
Package examined
Android · 2.4.12 · scanned 27 Oct 2026
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-27 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-27 Version analyzed: 2.4.126 independent signals400 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure.

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
4.24 ★ · 295,092 ratings
Version
2.4.12
Updated
29 Sep 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
9+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Century Games PTE. LTD.
Category
Games
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, 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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