Appworthy
Pay to progress
2 independent sources agreePay to progress: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 40 reviews we read)
Definition
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
Google Play rating4.1★6.1K ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age9+Store age rating
CategoryGames
DeveloperGamezaaa
What we found
Full reportSerious warnings 1 confirmed warning, and users report 1 more thing. Checked: 400 reviews and the Android app’s code.
Money
- Free to download · in-app purchases. Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.
- Pay to progressConfirmed
- If you subscribe through the store, cancel in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.
Pressure and ad claims
From our automated analysis, 31 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 2.3.330 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 2.3.330, updated 2026-01-20.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
[Elemental Torrent: Clear the Screen!]
Experience the thrill of massive skill flows as mages clear the screen, summon tough tankers, and provide powerful buffs, while archers unleash burst damage.
[Diverse Towers: Infinite Evolution!]
Choose from various functional defense towers to bolster your city’s defense. Freezing towers slow down enemies, fire towers deal area damage, lightning towers unleash endless bursts, and elemental towers summon tanks. Upgrading these towers enhances their attributes and applies bonuses to heroes.
[Multiverse Fusion: East Meets West!]
In addition to familiar heroes from traditional Chinese culture such as Wukong, Bajie, Nezha, you'll also find heroes from Western culture like Zeus, Spartan, Medusa. Multi-culture offers endless fun, and your favorite hero could appear in the themed events!…
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 5
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Aggressive ad load
One source onlyThe app's own text says: "s left to be rewarded"
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
Package artefact
sha256:7c940dbb8bf23ff85f8ad1609e652d293d15ac68e3bb6182d8c54c89ee9b8ad1Hard to cancel
One source onlyThe app's own text says: "Account Cancellation Agreement"
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
sha256:7c940dbb8bf23ff85f8ad1609e652d293d15ac68e3bb6182d8c54c89ee9b8ad1Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
One source onlyMisleading advertising: raised by 17 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 24 reviews we read)
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.
How we know
Usable without an account
One source onlyThe app's own text says: "Guest"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Definition
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.
How we know
Package artefact
sha256:7c940dbb8bf23ff85f8ad1609e652d293d15ac68e3bb6182d8c54c89ee9b8ad1Works offline
One source onlyThe app's own text says: "View the ad you saved when you were offline"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Definition
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
How we know
Package artefact
sha256:7c940dbb8bf23ff85f8ad1609e652d293d15ac68e3bb6182d8c54c89ee9b8ad1What reviewers report
400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Pay to progress
Published findingP2W 100%. Fun of you like character building, but be ready to spend lots of money if you want to be near the top. They limit critical item purchasing with in game currency, so it's real money or fall behind. People at the top are spending…
So far it's awesome and you get a ton of rewards! I just hope it stays that way. Fingers crossed! I'll update the rating as I get farther into the game and let you know if they stop the rewards and it turns into a p2w game. So far, so…
Started off okay, getting bogged down when advancing through the adventure levels. Too many events and the buttons are not optimized for a quick gameplay. And the most important part that I don't like is the pay to win aspect. You can…
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
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 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
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
65–79% 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 2.3.330, scanned 31 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Sensitive permissions
3–5 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
1–2 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
This analysis describes version 2.3.330 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-31 .
The store currently lists version 2.3.330, updated 2026-01-20.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Google Play
Version 2.3.330 · 2026-01-20
No release notes were provided for this version.
Assessment record
- Status
- Automated analysis
- App identifier
wacky-squad-google-com-gwgcyw-gpgat- Assessment date
- 31 Oct 2026
- Sources used
- 4 independent signals: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest
- Reviews read
- 400
- Package examined
- Android · 2.3.330 · scanned 31 Oct 2026
- Human inspection
- Not completed
Assessed 2026-10-31 from 400 user reviews and the app's package.
How we know
- Measurement vocabulary
- 1.4
How this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-31 Version analyzed: 2.3.3304 independent signals400 reviews scannedConfidence: MediumNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.14Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest. Not yet checked: the store listing and the store privacy disclosure.
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
- 4.13 ★ · 6,083 ratings
- Version
- 2.3.330
- Updated
- 20 Jan 2026
- Price
- Free · In-app purchases
- Age rating
- 9+
- Size
- Not supplied
- Developer
- Gamezaaa
- 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. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — 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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