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Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 909 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.

Overgeared Hero: Merge RPG

5minlab Co., Ltd.

Pixel Roguelike Auto-Battler

4.6 ★76,096 ratings
1M+Downloads
12+Age rating
327 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

Pack your backpack, build your power - Overgeared Hero is the pixel roguelike auto-battler where every item placement decides the fight.

In Overgeared Hero, you collect rare, epic, and legendary gear, merge duplicates into stronger versions, and arrange them in your backpack to unlock powerful synergies. Then your hero auto-battles based on the build you designed. Every run is different, every backpack tells a different story.

Pro tips before you start: - Item placement is everything. Plan your backpack like a chessboard. - Train your pets. They pull their weight in every fight. - Chase the epic and legendary items. Class-specific gear changes everything.

KEY FEATURES…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

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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 1.40.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.40.1, updated 2026-09-29.

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 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
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

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.

Reported by users: Pay to progress
Reported by 79 usersReported by users, not measured — nothing we can inspect could show this either wayview evidence
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Raised by 79 distinct reviewers — 8.7% of the 909 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).

Positive evidence 1

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
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: Paywall blocks the basics
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.7% of 909 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 18 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 909 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

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

Pay to progress
“clearly p2w game. can't pass stage 3 because the boss HP is too high, also he got vampire skill that recover 1400 HP per attack. Even though I got necklace to remove that buff, but the cooldown is too long. so the boss recover is faster…”
1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-11
Pay to progress
“Just p2w lol”
1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-12
Pay to progress
“disgrace to the rogue like genre. horrendously pay to win. the biggest backpack upgrade is not earnable through gameplay and is a $5 perchase. you can watch ads to get more money mod run. there are a million better rogue likes with this…”
1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-12

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 1.40.1.

What this app sells

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