“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.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 516 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★53,978 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
2985 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
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.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 32.40.00 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 32.40.00, updated 2026-09-14.
What we measured
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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
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In the package we scanned
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Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
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The catch list 1
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Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Raised by 34 distinct reviewers — 6.6% of the 516 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
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 we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 516 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
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“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…”
“Very fun but extremely pay to win — I have been playing this game for over 2 years now, I love the strategy it takes and no ads. The gameplay is very good, has intricate track designs, and a massive amount of cars to obtain. The bad side…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 32.40.00.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.