Appworthy
Pay to progress
Reported by 204 usersPay to progress: raised by 204 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 10 reviews we read)
Definition
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Stormbound: PVP Card Battle
Stormbound: PVP Card Battle - Where deck building for Collectible Cards and S…
Stormbound GamesGoogle Play rating4.2★84.3K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age9+Store age rating
CategoryGames
DeveloperStormbound Games
What we found
Full reportSerious warnings 1 confirmed warning, and users report 1 more thing. Checked: 2,000 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 204 users
- If you subscribe through the store, cancel in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.
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From our automated analysis, 31 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 1.10.120.4134 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 1.10.120.4134, updated 2026-10-15.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
Stormbound: PVP Card Battle - Where deck building for Collectible Cards and Strategic gameplay collide in unique PVP Turn-based Tactical battles.
Embark on an epic journey in Stormbound, where the clash of four kingdoms unfolds in a strategic battle for dominance. Craft and build a powerful deck, engage in real-time PVP card battles against players worldwide!
Ultimate Card Battle: Watch Your Deck Shine
Dive into the thrill of collecting dozens of cards to craft your powerful deck! Experience the magic as each card transforms the board into the battle on a battlefield! Strategically play your cards to outsmart your opponent in this tactical PVP battle.
Dominate the board
Discover the powers of four mighty kingdoms, each with its own cool advantages and playstyles. Uncover the strengths that set them apart, and shape your effective strategy accordingly to dominate the board.…
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
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 1
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 333 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
What reviewers report
2,000 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Pay to progress
Published findingRaised by 204 distinct reviewers — about 1 in 10 reviews we read on this store leg (Google Play).
the game is fun and straight forward, no unsolicited adds, no pop up after each interaction. The art style is unique and really pleasing, same for the animation. I wish there were more apps like this. the only problems are that the game…
Largely pay-to-win. They've hidden it behind a "random-reward" chest system, where you can, supposedly, win better cards by getting higher up the ladder of the 'Brawl' mode. The thing is, you get a seriously good reward at 70-80 stars or…
First up, gorgeous and fun; card playing combined with a mini-chessboard style of tactical gameplay. Unfortunately hampered by a lootbox / gacha / P2W approach to monetisation.
Aggressive ad load
Shown, not confirmedNo sampled quote is attached to this observation.
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
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
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 1.10.120.4134 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 1.10.120.4134, updated 2026-10-15.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Google Play
Version 1.10.120.4134 · 2026-10-15
No release notes were provided for this version.
Assessment record
- Status
- Automated analysis
- App identifier
stormbound-google-com-kongregate-mobile-stormbound-google- Assessment date
- 31 Oct 2026
- Sources used
- 3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
- Reviews read
- 2,000
- Package examined
- No package scan
- Human inspection
- Not completed
Assessed 2026-10-31 from 2,000 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: 1.10.120.41343 independent signals2,000 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
- 4.22 ★ · 84,331 ratings
- Version
- 1.10.120.4134
- Updated
- 15 Oct 2026
- Price
- Free · In-app purchases
- Age rating
- 9+
- Size
- Not supplied
- Developer
- Stormbound Games
- 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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