“Forced Ads — Would be cool if there weren’t forced ads.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 527 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★51,413 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
595 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Goodville is a relaxing, story-driven farm game for players looking to unwind. It combines cozy farming and exploration with thoughtful content about emotional wellbeing. Follow Jane, a young journalist from the city, as she comes to Goodville in search of her father. While looking for clues, she restores his farm, helps local residents, and uncovers the town’s secrets.
BUILD YOUR OWN PEACEFUL FARM
Restore and customize the farm at your own pace. Grow crops, care for animals, produce fresh goods, fulfill orders, and create a welcoming place to call home.
EXPLORE THE WORLD OF GOODVILLE
Meet colorful characters, help them solve their problems, and discover their stories. Complete quests, explore new locations, and set off on expeditions beyond the farm.
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING THROUGH PLAY…
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 11.3.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 11.3.0, updated 2026-09-30.
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 a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says 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
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 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 2
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 51 distinct reviewers — 9.7% of the 527 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Reported by users: Progress pauses until you wait or pay
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
What we saw: Raised by 30 distinct reviewers — 5.7% of the 527 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
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.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
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.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
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: Misleading advertising: raised by 25 distinct reviewers (4.7% of 527 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too many pop-up ads — Game is fun but promises no ads then you are spammed with a huge amount of ads.”
“Not enough energy to make it worth your time — This could’ve been a great game. The main problem is energy. The max over time is 50, that’s ridiculous. You can use that in a single dig. The constant bombardment to buy this or that, greed…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 11.3.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.