“Fun but no options — The game was fun at first. But I’ve been stuck on a level for a while. You can’t watch an ad for any power ups and all the power ups cost a lot of coins. They either need to come down on the coins that have to be used…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 504 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.5 ★12,049 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
454 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Welcome to Hot Pot Go, the tasty way to test your brain with logic, flavor, and fast-paced fun! If you're a foodie who loves cooking games, match puzzles, and free food games, you're in for a delicious treat. Pick up and serve everything, including all kinds of seafood, veggie, meat and fish cake, from the boiling jam hotpot in this juicy 3D puzzle game. Inspired by hit cooking games, Hot Pot Go brings the perfect blend of addictive food sorting game mechanics and satisfying taste match action — all in one delicious game!
Gameplay Overview:
You’ll need to collect tasty pieces of food from a mix in the hot pot and place them into matching plates. Think carefully before picking up pieces into temporary slots, or you’ll use up those slots quickly and lose the game! Let's sort all out of the jam!
Juicy 3D Puzzle Game Style:…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.33 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.33, updated 2026-08-28.
What we measured
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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
65–79% five-star
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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 3
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 19 distinct reviewers (3.8% of 504 reviews scanned)
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 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 504 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 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 504 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Like it, but too many issues — Too many ads and cause system crash a lot, damage”
“Keeps freezing and doesn’t allow me to watch ads anymore? — Before the update, I was having trouble with it, freezing up and kicking me out altogether. So I did the update but now I can’t even watch an ad for boosters anymore? furthermore…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.33.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.