“the recharge time is ridiculous. 1 minute 20 seconds per energy with a max of 100. mid game items take 5 each. so I get to play for 5 minutes at a time. and if you accidentally hit an item again after you run out of energy 3 pop-up appear…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 1,208 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★577,888 ratings
10M+Downloads
17+Age rating
316 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Explore Travel Town, where you can combine everything into better and more useful items while you travel the world!
Reveal secrets as you discover yourself and help the friendly people of Travel Town!
TRAVEL TOWN FEATURES:
== Match Objects == • Discover over 500 fantastic objects through hundreds of levels! • Freely drag objects around the beautiful world and match 2 of a kind evolve them into more superior items! • Fulfil the missions of the townsfolk to unlock more amazing items!
== Meet New Villagers == • Discover 55 villagers who live in Travel Town, and help them restore their seaside town! • Match objects to upgrade them and unlock more and more items to support you on your journey!…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2.12.1761 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.12.1761, updated 2026-09-27.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2.12.1761 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.12.1761, updated 2026-09-27.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 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
3 or more 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 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 about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Progress pauses until you wait or pay
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
What we saw: Raised by 38 distinct reviewers — 7.2% of the 525 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
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.
What we saw: 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
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 525 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (1.9% of 525 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
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.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“This game is highly addictive and satisfying to play once you get past all the ads of mini games and optional purchases they have available. Then you get about 15 minutes of play until you run out of energy and have to watch ads or make a…”
“It's your typical merge game, with all the caveats that comes with that: starts out easy to accomplish orders and gets quickly worse, to the point where you need multiple top ups of energy and tens or hundreds of merges before you get the…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.12.1761.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$1.99
Highest$17.99
Mega amazing offer 41$1.99
Mega amazing offer 1001$2.99
Mega amazing offer 1076$3.99
Mega amazing offer 42$4.99
Mega amazing offer 1016$7.99
Show 5 more purchases
Mega amazing offer 1006$4.99
Mega amazing offer 1126$1.99
Mega amazing offer 1011$5.99
Mega amazing offer 1036$17.99
Mega amazing offer 1031$14.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.