“The ads ruin it. It's not so much the ads its how long the ads are 2 min is way too long. Edit- Although the ads especially the ones over 30 secs suck and despite the bugs customer service is top notch! Literally the fastest response time…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 425 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Idle Outpost: Upgrade Games
AppQuantumIdle business simulator and tycoon game with a post-apocalyptic and zombie su…
4.5 ★167,440 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Idle business simulator and tycoon game with a post-apocalyptic and zombie survival theme. The world has ended, and you're running a post-apocalyptic trading post!
Your management skills will make the difference between survival and extinction. Build your outpost, trade with survivors, and expand your empire in this thrilling mega-simple 2D game with a gritty, immersive atmosphere.
When the night comes, fight off silly zombies!
Start with a small scrapyard outpost and grow your trading empire!
Begin with just a basic outpost in the desert, then upgrade and expand as you earn resources and profits. As you progress, discover new locations, from abandoned gas stations to underground vaults, and build the most prosperous post-apocalyptic trading network in the world!…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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 2.1.5 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.1.5, updated 2026-08-04.
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 at least 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
80–89% 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.
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 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 14 distinct reviewers (3.3% of 425 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 9 distinct reviewers (2.1% of 425 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 11 distinct reviewers (2.6% of 425 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“the game is just an ad watching simulator, everything you do requires you to watch 30 to 90 second ads which is ridiculous. You'll be watching more ads than you will playing. And the events are terrible, you're spammed with purchase packs…”
“Fairly typical idler game - see numbers go up, but: I downloaded the game to play on an airplane as it advertised itself as an offline game. After launching the game it turned out to be not true. Yes it has offline progression, but you…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.1.5.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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