“I enjoy the game experience, but I'm not a 'pay to win' player, and that makes it hard to get ahead in the game. I'm tired of spending two weeks building up resources to improve my city, only to have a brutish lout come in and ransack my…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 448 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.4 ★1,827,728 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
One World, One Server
Real Time Nation vs. Nation medieval strategy war game. Join now! Train your troops and go to war!
Rise of Castles is a Massive Multi-Player, Real-Time strategy war game. The player will take on the role of a leader in a small town devastated by the invasion of the Eastern Dynasty and the mysterious appearance of the legendary Death Harbingers who now has corrupted and have full control of the ancient powers of the dragons. Build your castle once again from the ruins, train your troops, tame dragons, recruit legendary heroes and join your allies in the non-ending war. To befriend or to plunder, the choice is yours!
Unique Features
-World Wide War Real-time combat against players across the world, lead your country to greatness…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
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.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 26.902.1 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 26.902.1, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
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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 26.902.1, scanned 2026-09-25.
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
1–2 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.
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: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.7% of 448 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“This game is heavily pay-to-win. If you don't spend money, it's very difficult to stay competitive, especially at higher castle levels. Progress depends more on buying heroes and resources than on skill or strategy. The free rewards are…”
“Ad claims the game isn't pay to win, but it definitely is. It is also almost identical to the dozens of other games in this genre.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 26.902.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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