Appworthy
Pay to progress
Reported by 66 usersPay to progress: raised by 66 distinct reviewers (12.8% of 516 reviews scanned)
Definition
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Pay to progress — Reported by users: Pay to progress
App Store rating4.5★95.9K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age12+Store age rating
Size1,021 MBiPhone download
CategoryGames
DeveloperMYGAMES MENA FZ LLC
At a glance
Full reportThings to watch for 1
Positives 0
No specific positive published.
From our automated analysis, 8 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 38.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-08 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 38.0, updated 2026-09-30.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
Welcome to the Isle of Rhandum - a realm of tower defense, clans, magic and mayhem! Collect units, assemble a deck for base defense and get ready to meet one of the mobile legends and the most unique TD games - Rush Royale!
Mighty warriors are ready for a TD clash! You have plenty of cute but fearsome units at your disposal, from keen-eyed Archers and crafty Trappers to angry Bruisers and graceful Blade Dancers! Merge units and manage your mana carefully - devise a strategy around your deck’s strengths in a castle defense! And don’t forget about Heroes - these mighty champions have the most powerful abilities!…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
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
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyMisleading advertising: raised by 11 distinct reviewers (2.1% of 516 reviews scanned)
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.
Usable without an account
One source onlyThe store privacy disclosure (7 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Definition
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What reviewers report
516 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Pay to progress
Published findingRaised by 66 distinct reviewers — 12.8% of the 516 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
A little p2w-ish, but great overall!! — As the title says, you kinda gotta spend a little to actually make any solid progression (so, like, 3$ for experiment tokens) but if you’re fine with some grinding then that should be the only…
Pay to win to the max — Fun game, but unless your looking to spend $200-300 dollars just to have a chance at competing, this isn’t your game. You have to pay just to be a contender. Worst part is it’s all WAY overpriced.
Too much chance and not balanced — It is entertaining but it depends on too much chance and it’s not balanced and it’s hard to improve your deck without paying money , and it’s kind of pay to win game
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Shown, not confirmedFalse Advertising — This game falsely tells you it has multiple features that are never shown, not to mention they completely copied clash royales system this game is actual trash.
Nothing like the ads or the App store video — In the game you build a deck of 5 cards and you spawn in a random card using mana ( recourse you get from killing ) you can only merge 2 of the same card and it gives bonus damage or attack…
Add be lying 😭 — Nothing like the adds but a solid game
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
Measurements
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
From store data and reviews
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
2 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
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 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
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
Versions and dates analysed
This analysis describes version 38.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-08 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 38.0, updated 2026-09-30.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
App Store
Version 38.0 · 2026-09-30
Update 38.0 is here: World Bosses: a new clan PvE event with unique rewards – the Banners, a new source power for your heroes. The Festival of Talents: meet Archmage, the new legendary unit! Access to artifacts: additional slots unlocked for the PvP battles you play. Masters’ Tournament: event’s decks updated! Cosmetics: a new chest with 400+ emoji and avatars Other changes: added Reincarnations of Level 4 and 5 See you on the Isle of Rhandum!
Assessment record
- Status
- Automated analysis
- App identifier
rush-royale-apple-1526121033- Assessment date
- 8 Oct 2026
- Sources used
- 3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
- Reviews read
- 516
- Package examined
- No package scan
- Measurement vocabulary
- 1.4
- Human inspection
- Not completed
Assessed 2026-10-08 from 516 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 this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-08 Version analyzed: 38.03 independent signals516 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology 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.
App Store
- Store rating
- 4.52 ★ · 95,867 ratings
- Version
- 38.0
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2026
- Price
- Free
- Age rating
- 12+
- Size
- 1,021 MB
- Developer
- MYGAMES MENA FZ LLC
- Category
- Games
- Listing price
- Free
No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.
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 subscription bills weekly; 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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