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Kingdom Guard: Tower Defense

Titan has invaded our kingdom, and our guardian dragons have all but disappea…

Tap4fun (Hong Kong) Limited
Multiple ad networks — Code from multiple ad networksDeletion (dev says) — Developer says you can request data deletion
Google Play rating4.4★393.2K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age9+Store age rating
CategoryGames

At a glance

Full report

From our automated analysis, 14 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 1.0.593 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-14 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.0.595, updated 2026-09-30.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 1.0.593, not the version now listed on the store.

The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Titan has invaded our kingdom, and our guardian dragons have all but disappeared.

Finally, you discovered the fabled, last dragon egg, just as Titan descends upon you with his dark legions.

Come train and merge your soldiers, and protect the dragon egg to save the world!

1. Merge to upgrade

A brand new way of upgrading that doesn't involve boring city building and troop production. Now you have total control over your units! Merge two units of the same level and type to create a higher level unit!

2. Tower Defense

Train and merge your soldiers to defend against the enemy. Different defense formations will always yield distinct and surprising results!

3. Strategy Sandbox Game

Join an alliance, take over the dark throne, revive the guardian dragon, and achieve glory in this brutal world. Let your name live by becoming the ultimate ruler of the new age!

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 · 3 shown, not confirmed

Things to watch for 1

Findings that met the published evidence standard.

Multiple ad networks bundled

Measured

Bundles 6 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Chartboost, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager) and 2 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.

Package artefact

sha256:fef82dfddc7094f0458ac28181aee4eb258a96143d16946a9ee4fdefd116bb35

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 store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
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 3

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

One source only

Misleading advertising: raised by 24 distinct reviewers (5.6% of 431 reviews scanned)

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

Aggressive ad load

One source only

Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch a video to earn a reward!"

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.

Package artefact

sha256:fef82dfddc7094f0458ac28181aee4eb258a96143d16946a9ee4fdefd116bb35

Pay to progress

One source only

Pay to progress: raised by 21 distinct reviewers (4.9% of 431 reviews scanned)

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

What reviewers report

431 reviews read · 2 review-based observations

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

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app

Shown, not confirmed

huge download size, and game has way too many micro transactions that make no sense. gameplay is nothing like the ad and 80% of the time your playing something more like 8 different pokie machines at the same time to up the levels to play…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-03-19

Nothing like the ads

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-15

False advertisement made this a 1 star. The advertisement i saw looked ao fun and then I get this boring game instead? nah thats so lame and makes me not want to play

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-10

Pay to progress

Shown, not confirmed

Despite the ads, this is primarily an MMO wargame. They have added a snake game on new servers, replacing the tower defense game. The tower defense game is a very small part of the whole thing. It turns out that there actually is a bit of…

5★ · Google Play · 2026-07-09

Absolutely pay to win, got instantly destroyed by a lvl 200 when I'm lvl 800. Performance is terrible, my phones battery is drained and game crashes or really slows my phone. I don't even do the Goddess trials as they ALWAYS crash the…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-06-23

build and battle without build times. 0 research times. its pay to win for sure but you can be competitive with activity and minimal smart spends. akito the ssr hero can solo snake lvls so get her early and youll be fine

5★ · Google Play · 2026-03-01

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

Measurements

8 measured · 0 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, 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
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
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 1.0.593, scanned 14 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.

Sensitive permissions
3–5 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
3–9 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 14 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 1.0.593 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-14 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.0.595, updated 2026-09-30.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 1.0.593, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 1.0.595 · 2026-09-30

No release notes were provided for this version.

Store update history

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

Google Play

Version 1.0.595 · 2026-09-30

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 1.0.593 · 2026-09-23

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
kingdom-guard-google-com-tap4fun-odin-kingdomguard
Assessment date
14 Oct 2026
Sources used
4 independent signals: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest
Reviews read
431
Package examined
Android · 1.0.593 · scanned 14 Oct 2026
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-14 from 431 user reviews and the app's package.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-14 Version analyzed: 1.0.5934 independent signals431 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 and the app manifest. Not yet checked: 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
4.37 ★ · 393,212 ratings
Version
1.0.595
Updated
30 Sep 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
9+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Tap4fun (Hong Kong) Limited
Category
Games
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

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