“Great game. Graphics, voice overs, the puzzles. All awesome. But I haven't seen a game this greedy before. Energy takes forever to refill but is emptied in under a minute. I'm starting to get extremely bored with the lack of progress. The…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 469 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.4 ★1,000,513 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Murder in the Alps is a unique adventure story game! 🔍 It's a fully interactive criminal case novel with amazing Hidden Object games features. ✈️ Journey back to the 1930s, solve countless unsolved mysteries and experience an adventure in the authentic atmosphere of the time! The game's story is set in a hotel tucked away in one of the most beautiful locations in the Alps. 🏔️ But the happy adventure quickly reverses into criminal case. The tale begins when one of the guests goes missing, and it is not long before other strange events start to occur and fill the game with riddles and mystery games. The main protagonist, Anna Myers, is a journalist from Zurich who wants to spend her holidays in a quiet and peaceful hotel.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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 11.2.0 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 11.2.0, updated 2026-02-10.
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
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
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 package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 11.2.0, scanned 2026-09-24.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
None 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
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.
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 9 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), ironSource / Unity LevelPlay and 5 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 1
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: Progress pauses until you wait or pay
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
What we saw: Energy / timer gating: raised by 43 distinct reviewers (9.2% of 469 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“The one thing I can't stand is liars. I love the game, but when I run out of energy, I choose to watch a video for ten points. Often I'll watch four or five in a row and it won't give me anything until after. A cheap trick to get you to…”
“The game itself is fun, but the energy runs out so quickly. It takes 8 minutes to earn 1 unit of energy, and 5 just to find 1 hidden item, 10 to to a mini game or get a hint, and just moving through the comic story takes I think 20 units…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 11.2.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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