Appworthy

Stick War: Saga

RTS 1v1 2v2 & Epic Campaigns!

Max Games Studios
Download on theApp StoreGet it onGoogle Play
App Store rating4.8★14.7K ratings
Google Play rating4.8★127.3K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app $0.99–$19.99
Age12+ · 9+App Store · Google Play
Size698 MBiPhone download
CategoryGames
DeveloperMax Games Studios

What we found

Full report

Some warnings 15 users report having to pay to progress; 2 things we found but could not confirm. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 1,080 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.

Money

Positives

From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 2026.5.7288 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .

The store currently lists version 2026.5.7288, updated 2026-10-16.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Real-Time Multiplayer Strategy

PVP Matches.

• Take control of any unit at any time!

• No “Pay for Power”!

Team up with friends!

• 2v2 Matches

• Add your friends and battle it out!

Single Player Modes:

• Huge ever expanding campaign!

• Practice your strategies vs AI’s

Custom Armies

Build your own Battle Decks

• Collect and unlock from a growing selection of Army types.

• Add Upgrades to your deck and research powerful army bonuses.

• Enhancements such as the “Rune of Reanimation”: will cause any poisoned enemy units to respawn as Zombies! Or as you will know them “Deads!”.

• Choose from spells such as a giant bubble that blocks incoming projectiles, or “Snow Squall” to freeze entire legions!

• Generals of each of the major nations are now available to add. Play as “Prince Atreyos” leader of the Speartons or “Princess Kytchu” bowmaster of the Archidons.…

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

2 published · 3 shown, not confirmed

Positives 2

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

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

Sources
The store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
From the Google Play listing
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.

Open evidence

No advertising SDKs

Measured

No advertising or mediation SDK among the 6 SDKs detected in the package

Sources
SDKs in the app package
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package
Definition

No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:91a297679ec27d4432b7123cfb60190eb0ae0af337de2f668818178f38d3d24f

One source only — shown, not confirmed 3

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Paywall with no way past it

One source only

Ships a purchase screen ("Paywall intent is not provided.") with no dismiss, skip or "continue free" text anywhere in the package

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

A paywall screen ships with no dismiss, skip or 'maybe later' affordance anywhere in the package, so the app's own text offers no way in without paying.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:91a297679ec27d4432b7123cfb60190eb0ae0af337de2f668818178f38d3d24f

Hard to cancel

One source only

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

Sources
The app's own on-screen text
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.

How we know

Package artefact

sha256:91a297679ec27d4432b7123cfb60190eb0ae0af337de2f668818178f38d3d24f

Pay to progress

One source only

Pay to progress: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 72 reviews we read)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.

Open evidence
How we know
Share and sample
1.4% of the 1,080 reviews read.

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

1,080 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

1,080 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Pay to progress

Shown, not confirmed

sooo much pay to win

1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-22

the game is very p2w and Entirely depends on what team has more money

1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-20

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

8 measured · 0 not assessed

“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 fewer than 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
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
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 app package we scanned

Android package 2026.5.7288, scanned 20 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.

Sensitive permissions
None requested
Counted against a fixed list of eighteen sensitive Android permissions: sixteen runtime permissions, among them location, camera, microphone, contacts and SMS, and two the user must switch on in system settings, drawing over other apps and usage access. Requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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

Assessed 30 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 2026.5.7288 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .

The store currently lists version 2026.5.7288, updated 2026-10-16.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 2026.5.7576 · 2026-10-25
- New co-op mode, 7 Deadly Nights: team up and survive a new horde each week - Post-match stats: army, miners, gold and crystal over time - Custom Match: set each bot's difficulty, more bot decks - New setting: take control of your front unit (Tab on PC) - Campaign: stronger controlled units, bigger headshots - PC: choose where the game is installed - Ranked: fairer matches for new accounts. New gem animation - Faster loading. Fixes: Mac menu freeze, Grasp of Zilaros training wrong card

Google Play

Version 2026.5.7288 · 2026-10-16

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 2026.5.6960 · 2026-09-20

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
stick-war-apple-1548764863
Assessment date
30 Oct 2026
Sources used
6 independent signals: 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
Reviews read
1,080
Package examined
Android · 2026.5.7288 · scanned 20 Oct 2026
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-30 from 1,080 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.

How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-30 Version analyzed: 2026.5.72886 independent signals1,080 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.14Methodology v1.3
Signals run: 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.

Store facts

App Store · Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.79 ★ · 14,701 ratings
Version
2026.5.7576
Updated
25 Oct 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
12+
Size
698 MB
Open in App Store

Google Play

Store rating
4.76 ★ · 127,345 ratings
Version
2026.5.7288
Updated
16 Oct 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
9+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Max Games Studios
Category
Games
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices. The list below covers the other store only.
One-off packs4
1200 GemsPack$9.99
80 GemsPack$0.99
500 GemsPack$5.49
2500 GemsPack$19.99
Show 6 more purchases we couldn’t categorise

These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.

Unlock Giantlord SightlessTerm not stated$4.99
10 Golden ChestsTerm not stated$6.99
Unlock General MarrowkaiTerm not stated$4.99
Unlock General AtreyosTerm not stated$4.99
Unlock General WrathnarTerm not stated$4.99
10 Wooden ChestsTerm not stated$3.99
This list is cut off. Apple shows at most 10 in-app purchases, and this app is at the limit — so it very likely sells more than we can see.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

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 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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