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Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 507 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.

Mystery Matters Puzzle Games

Playrix

Unsolved Cases & Adventures

4.8 ★33,462 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
297 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

Life was peaceful in Gardenville until a curious archaeologist crossed paths with a tough detective. Or was the city in fact far less dull than it seemed?

Kidnappings, murders, secret societies, engineered viruses, and time loops are just a few of the challenges you'll face while solving crimes with our characters!

There's also an old manor brimming with its own mysteries. Solve them while you renovate its house and garden! And be sure to visit the local hospital, police station, and museum—the people there are all hiding something.

Find items in hidden object scenes, beat match-3 levels, play mini-games, and solve puzzles alongside the characters of our game!

Watch as romantic stories unfold and love triangles emerge. The characters are ready to fight tooth and nail for their love!…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

6 screenshots
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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.

Automated analysis in progress

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

This analysis describes version 4.1.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 4.1.0, updated 2026-09-14.

What we measured

Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.

How these are measured

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
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.

Methodology

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: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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 27 distinct reviewers (5.3% of 507 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Progress pauses until you wait or pay
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 507 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Pay to progress
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 507 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
“Nothing like the ad — Ad shows selling fruit, but the game is actually a match 3. False advertising.”
1★ · App Store · 2025-04-24
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
“Advertising is not the same — The advertisement it shows is not the actual game I wanna play. Advertise the real game”
1★ · App Store · 2025-04-05
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
“Not what the ad says it is! I’ve been playing for months now and I’ve NEVER seen these “games”! — Deceptive Advertising!!!!!”
1★ · App Store · 2025-01-17

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 4.1.0.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Business modelFree

Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.