“Nice Game — This game is pretty nice for a farm game. I don’t like how it’s p2w sometimes though. Also feels extremely Grundy”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 1,749 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-07.
4.4 ★13,755,299 ratings
100M+Downloads
4+Age rating
862 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Welcome to Hay Day, the fun farm simulator game! Build a farm, go fishing, raise animals, and explore the Valley. Farm with friends and decorate your own slice of country paradise.
Farming has never been easier! Grow crops like wheat and corn in this farm simulator, and even though it never rains, they never die. Harvest and replant seeds to multiply crops, then make goods to sell. Feed your animals to produce eggs, bacon, dairy, and more to trade with neighbors or fill truck orders for coins. This farming simulator is perfect for players who love animals, farming, and trade!
Grow your farm simulator empire like a true tycoon. Expand with a Bakery, BBQ Grill or Sugar Mill to sell more goods. Build a Sewing Machine and Loom to create cute outfits or a Cake Oven to bake delicious cakes.
Customize your farm and decorate with a wide variety of items.…
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.
App Store
This analysis describes version 1.73.81 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-07 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.73.81, updated 2026-10-05.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 1.73.81 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.73.81, updated 2026-10-01.
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
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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 1.73.81, scanned 2026-10-06.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; 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.
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.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
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.
What we saw: 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
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 5 distinct reviewers (0.4% of 1150 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Manipulative to the core — Users must spend money to advance. Ads are manipulated to show what is not needed and purchasing from ads frequently results in item being “sold”. Lies all lies.”
“Greed at its best — Just like most games they care more about the money then the game. I have been playing for at least 10 years and have seen the game get progressively more focused on the money. You can’t progress without spending lots…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.73.81.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.