Appworthy
Pay to progress
Reported by 34 usersPay to progress: raised by 34 distinct reviewers (6.6% 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 rating4.7★54K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size2,986 MBiPhone download
CategoryGames
DeveloperHutch Games Ltd
At a glance
Full reportThings to watch for 1
Positives 0
No specific positive published.
From our automated analysis, 9 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 32.40.00 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-09 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 32.50.00, updated 2026-10-05.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 32.40.00, not the version now listed on the store.
The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
Petrol-heads, motor-heads, turn to Top Drives, the high octane driving challenge - test your skills and knowledge to the limit. Think you know cars? Top Drives is a new card collecting game with over 6000 real life cars to collect, compare and compete in racing battles with other players.
Build a garage of the best customized cars and create your very own perfect racing deck for supercharged action against your friends or other drivers. Whether you prefer a tuned up American muscle, a feisty Japanese hot rod or go turbo with European and agile, you’ll find a car that gets your motor running in Top Drives - the FREE car racing card collection game.
Top Drives is about racing cars across a variety of roads, tracks and challenges. If you like your driving fast and furious, you’ll love Top Drives.…
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 1
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyMisleading advertising: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% 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.
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 34 distinct reviewers — 6.6% of the 516 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
P2W — It’s pretty pay to win, and doing some events/challenges takes forever
Pay to win — Game used to be good but now its just pay to win. Challenges suck. Always getting people with maxed out 100rq cars. spent well over $1k and still struggle in matches.
Turns into a pay-to-win over time. — I had previously played Top Drives on both Android and iOS on and off for several years. I finally understood the game a lot better (after my ancient save was proven to have worthless cars). I also had…
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Shown, not confirmedDo not play this. No support or play testing — Welcome to Top Drives, where you the player are the play tester. Multiple times over the last year has the developer launched untested events which later lead to mass players being punished…
False advertising — 1* for completely falsifying your ad to make it look good. Edit to dev response: Are you fluent in English? Your advertisements are fake. They do NOT depict the game you have. That is against the law and you are…
False advertising and scamming — Trying to buy a $2 bundle and it tried to charge my card $105 instead
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
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
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 32.40.00 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-09 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 32.50.00, updated 2026-10-05.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 32.40.00, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 32.50.00 · 2026-10-05
Update 32.5 - Nightmare on the Tarmac! The Torn Bestiary - 13 accursed variants are unleashed upon the track. Hunt them down to complete the set and bring their reign of terror to a halt! Trick or Treat tokens will be hidden throughout Top Drives - each one earns you a killer reward... or a handful of dust! Shriek Week Rivals - Legrand and Leoni return - though you may not recognise them... Halloween offers available in the store! Various bug fixes and improvements.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
App Store
Version 32.50.00 · 2026-10-05
Update 32.5 - Nightmare on the Tarmac! The Torn Bestiary - 13 accursed variants are unleashed upon the track. Hunt them down to complete the set and bring their reign of terror to a halt! Trick or Treat tokens will be hidden throughout Top Drives - each one earns you a killer reward... or a handful of dust! Shriek Week Rivals - Legrand and Leoni return - though you may not recognise them... Halloween offers available in the store! Various bug fixes and improvements.
Version 32.40.00 · 2026-09-14
Update 32.4 Has Arrived in Top Drives! Gear up for a pulse-pounding season with the Audi Sport Collection Series! Dive into special game content and hunt down 8 exclusive Audi cars for your collection as you play! A New Rivals Battle Is Just Around The Corner! Toronto’s Ethan faces off against San Francisco’s Naomi in a thrilling cross-country clash. Push your limits to glory and race to victory! Various bug fixes.
Assessment record
- Status
- Automated analysis
- App identifier
top-drives-apple-1069370674- Assessment date
- 9 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 2026-10-09 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 2026-10-09 Version analyzed: 32.40.003 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
- 4.66 ★ · 54,024 ratings
- Version
- 32.50.00
- Updated
- 5 Oct 2026
- Price
- Free
- Age rating
- 4+
- Size
- 2,986 MB
- Developer
- Hutch Games Ltd
- 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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