Some warnings 6 users report having to pay to progress; 49 users report ads that misrepresent the app and 2 things we found but could not confirm. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 186 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.2.95 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 1.2.95, updated 2026-10-29.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
The great Dragon is gone, sacrificed to stop the Demon King. Now, only a hidden dragon egg holds the last hope for the magical continent. But the enemy is returning—and they will stop at nothing to destroy it.
The egg’s light flickers. The enemy gathers. Will you be the shield or the sword?
▶ Tower Duel
* Defeat tower enemies to gain levels.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
No advertising or mediation SDK among the 7 SDKs detected in the package
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:ba8ab1d50df6f267d886c445384430b74b6b06537be91adb4d0d659bded65dcaThe 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
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 observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Ships a purchase screen ("Already purchased") with no dismiss, skip or "continue free" text anywhere in the package
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.
Package artefact
sha256:ba8ab1d50df6f267d886c445384430b74b6b06537be91adb4d0d659bded65dcaSells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:ba8ab1d50df6f267d886c445384430b74b6b06537be91adb4d0d659bded65dcaMisleading advertising: raised by 49 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 4 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Pay to progress: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 31 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
The app's own text says: "Continue as %1$s"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:ba8ab1d50df6f267d886c445384430b74b6b06537be91adb4d0d659bded65dcaThe app's own text says: "Network checking is in progress. If you exit now, the checking will be interrupted."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:ba8ab1d50df6f267d886c445384430b74b6b06537be91adb4d0d659bded65dcaNothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
186 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
False ad per usual, its a BTD style game with heros and gatcha elements. On initial download it is the advertised game which was not even as complex as the ads just enough to say they are advertising the game, after that it will…
Hides a typical base builder game with pvp and map elements. The bee gameplay is just bait for a few levels before the real game comes. Scummy bait and switch.
95% Fake ad. 5% for the 5 levels you can play. they only lets you play 5 level and throws you to play strategy Game.
full of bugs. pay to win game
I love the game. There are maybe some improvements to be done here and there, but it's very nice to play. don't have to pay to win and have no ads, so it's definitely a need to play
fun game but 100% pay to win
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.2.95, scanned 30 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 1.2.95 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 1.2.95, updated 2026-10-29.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
magic-war-google-com-magicwar-gp-nasaAssessed 2026-10-30 from 186 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — 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 recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; 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.
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