“Not worth playing. Most properties that are worth having you need coins to purchase. Large percentage ownerships of these could cost over $100+ in coins. Everywhere I turn is an ad to buy packages. This is a clear pay to win game…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 434 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Landlord: Idle Business Empire
Reality Games LTD💼 Welcome to Landlord Tycoon – The Ultimate Tycoon Game to Build Your Busine…
4.0 ★486,245 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
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Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
💼 Welcome to Landlord Tycoon – The Ultimate Tycoon Game to Build Your Business Empire! Step into the shoes of a modern-day landlord and start your journey to financial domination. This tycoon game transforms real-world locations into virtual properties you can buy, sell, and upgrade. Build your business empire, grow your wealth, and climb to the top of the real estate world.
📍 Buy Real Places. Grow Real Wealth. Be a Landlord! Every neighborhood spot is a chance to invest! From gas stations to stadiums, use GPS data to purchase properties near you. As a savvy landlord, collect rent when real people check in. In this tycoon game, strategy meets fun—and it’s all about creating your own business empire.
🏙️ Expand from Local Business to Global Business. Real Business Empire! Start small, but think big.…
Preview
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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 4.21.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.21.0, updated 2026-09-18.
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
Under 65% 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 4.21.0, scanned 2026-09-24.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 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 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.
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 (1.2% of 434 reviews scanned)
In the app's own text: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I've been playing for a year or so and I've pretty much loved the game other than *some* specific stuff. I gave it 4 stars because I think it might slightly be pay to win, but you can completely play and be on the leaderboards without…”
“Landlord Real Estate Tycoon has a fantastic concept—using GPS to buy real-world local spots is genuinely fun and addictive at first. However, the game quickly hits a pay-to-win wall where high-tier properties, upgrades, and long paperwork…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.21.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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