Appworthy
Pay to progress
Reported by 94 usersPay to progress: raised by 94 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 13 reviews we read)
Definition
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Rush Arena: PvP Tower Defense
Clash against enemy forces, defend your castle and come up with a victorious…
KEYSTORM HOLDINGS LTDGoogle Play rating4.0★19.2K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age9+Store age rating
CategoryGames
DeveloperKEYSTORM HOLDINGS LTD
What we found
Full reportSerious warnings 1 confirmed warning, and users report 2 more things. Checked: 1,200 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.
Money
- Free to download · in-app purchases. Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.
- Pay to progressConfirmed · reported by 94 users
- If you subscribe through the store, cancel in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.
Pressure and ad claims
Ads
From our automated analysis, 31 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 16.0.18980 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 16.0.18980, updated 2026-03-17.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
Clash against enemy forces, defend your castle and come up with a victorious strategy! Rush Arena is here!
Rush Arena is a new Tower Defense game set in the world of famous Rush Royale! You’re back on the Isle of Rhandum… but it’s not the same! The TD mechanics are completely new – easy to learn, exciting to master!
Conquer the PvP arena! Enemy defenses are strong… But you will win these TD games! The battle goes over land and air!
Assemble a collection of units and use them to summon might warriors on the field! Merge and combine to make your army unstoppable and win at Tower Defense!
Complete quests to gain powerful bonuses and unlock new warriors for TD games!
Clash, merge, win! This brand new TD arena is yours!
Follow us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/RushArena/
Join our Discord:
https://discord.gg/c5STFwzJxC…
From the developer’s store description.
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The full report
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings and evidence
Things to watch for 1
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Open evidence
Positives 1
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
MeasuredThe 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
Definition
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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Aggressive ad load
One source onlyAggressive ad load: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 200 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Definition
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
How we know
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyMisleading advertising: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 109 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Definition
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.
How we know
What reviewers report
1,200 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Pay to progress
Published findingRaised by 94 distinct reviewers — about 1 in 13 reviews we read on this store leg (Google Play).
It's a pay to win!! Skill based match play is awful I have level 7 8 and 9 troops you try to push to the next reward and bang your hit with an opponent with max level troops or near max in back to back games and any progress you made you…
Game becomes unbalanced after arena 4. You're actually playing opponents 20000 to 30000 points above you who you cannot beat. This is obviously pay to win.
Another pay to win game from the developer totall dissatisfaction
Aggressive ad load
Shown, not confirmedNo sampled quote is attached to this observation.
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Shown, not confirmedThey use false advertising videos of a non existent game to promote this game. Besides that, it's similar to rush royal in a different format.. collect enough cards and you are more powerful than others with a tremendous advantage given…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
Measurements
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
From store data and reviews
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
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
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the app 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, not a finding.
Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
Versions and dates analysed
This analysis describes version 16.0.18980 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 16.0.18980, updated 2026-03-17.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Google Play
Version 16.0.18980 · 2026-03-17
No release notes were provided for this version.
Assessment record
- Status
- Automated analysis
- App identifier
rush-arena-google-rush-arena-td- Assessment date
- 31 Oct 2026
- Sources used
- 3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
- Reviews read
- 1,200
- Package examined
- No package scan
- Human inspection
- Not completed
Assessed 2026-10-31 from 1,200 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
How we know
- Measurement vocabulary
- 1.4
How this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-31 Version analyzed: 16.0.189803 independent signals1,200 reviews scannedConfidence: MediumNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.14Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.
Store facts
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
Google Play
- Store rating
- 4.02 ★ · 19,201 ratings
- Version
- 16.0.18980
- Updated
- 17 Mar 2026
- Price
- Free · In-app purchases
- Age rating
- 9+
- Size
- Not supplied
- Developer
- KEYSTORM HOLDINGS LTD
- Category
- Games
- Listing price
- Free · In-app purchases
Purchases the store lists
What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.
Method and limits
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, 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.
Limits of this report
- A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
- Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
- Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
- A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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