Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings, and users report 1 more thing. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.17.5-release+227 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 1.18.2-release+242, updated 2026-10-23.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Hi there! Let us introduce Ellie to you!
Ellie was an ordinary girl from a beautiful small island with green valleys, surrounded by blue harbors and inhabited by wonderful kind people.
And she dreamed of fame, wealth, and love... and in order to achieve these ambitious goals, she left her friends, her grandfather who raised her, and her incredible island Paradise.
The criterion of success for Ellie was to travel to a big city, attend a prestigious university and join a powerful Corporation. Her dream was also to meet and fall in love with a cool successful guy. She worked hard, and her dreams began to come true — she was able to achieve it all!…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:8021e045a31a77c4b06cfc1f8f28fe99200a82a634faaddcdea3c1fed56964dfAggressive ad load: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 57 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
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
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.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Energy / timer gating: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 31 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:8021e045a31a77c4b06cfc1f8f28fe99200a82a634faaddcdea3c1fed56964dfThe app's own text says: "No thanks"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
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.
Package artefact
sha256:8021e045a31a77c4b06cfc1f8f28fe99200a82a634faaddcdea3c1fed56964dfThe app's own text says: "Open ad when you're back online."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:8021e045a31a77c4b06cfc1f8f28fe99200a82a634faaddcdea3c1fed56964df400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
The interruptions for ALL the MANY ads are so annoying! I have been trying to stay with this game but it is no longer relaxing and fun with an ad about every 90 seconds. Sad to leave but there are other choices.
pretty fun, and no forced ads which is nice. I hate games that have ads every minute or so ir after each level. I've played for a few hours and haven't seen 1 ad. the merge part is fun and the story line is cool. I'll definitely keep…
Cute game. To many ads and putting them in the middle of merging is frustrating.
the game has a fatal design. the location of the 'buy energy using diamond' button is bad, without a further confirmation if i really want to buy the energy. so i've been spending diamonds accidentally. usually i don't mind spending money…
great game story only downfall is the energy generated way to slow and run out to quickly don't want to play in bits waiting for long periods of time I still looking for games without energy use
Meh, im at level 30 and have had no issues with ads or annoying pop-ups or in app purchases. what I do have an issue with is the energy. 100 is enough for a while and we get a few chances to get more in a day, but not always. And all of…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 1.17.5-release+227, scanned 27 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 1.17.5-release+227 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 1.18.2-release+242, updated 2026-10-23.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
secrets-of-paradise-merge-gameAssessed 2026-10-27 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, 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.
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