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Analyzed automatically. Assessed 2026-10-04 from 556 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.

Analyzed automaticallyConfidence: Medium3 signal sources556 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-04
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 3.26.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 3.26.2, updated 2026-09-08.

What the analysis found

Each finding shows what agreed and how strongly. Automated analysis

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: Aggressive ad load
Reported by 80 usersReported by users, not measured — nothing we can inspect could show this either wayview evidence
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 80 distinct reviewers — 14.4% of the 556 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).

Positive evidence 1

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
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 1

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: Pay to progress
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 556 reviews scanned)

What reviewers said

Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.

Aggressive ad load

Currently experiencing a soft-lock bug and reached out through in game support and no received any help. Ignoring the bug, I would still just rate it a 3 star at most. The ads in the game really disrupts the flow. On top of that, if you…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-23

This is a fun game. I've put up with the ridiculous amount of ads BECAUSE it's a good app. The amounts of $ required to: turn off SOME ads, etc. You can buy just about anything in the game if you're wealthy 🤑. Prices are insane. AND NOW…

3★ · Google Play · 2026-09-05

game has been unplayable for 5 days now due to a resource production bug. devs say they are aware but no fix yet. too many ads anyway, not worth waiting for a fix. uninstalled

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-15

Pay to progress

Very much a pay to win game. Everything is asking for more and more money which is a shame. It has great animation and art work but just too many pay walls

2★ · Google Play · 2026-09-15

well so basically the game is over when you build the bone altar (couple of hours in the game?). the eyes are nowhere to be found, because the spider pot doesn't recharge, so you also can't upgrade buildings. at max capacity you make 2-3k…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-14

the sadly just like every other game I know there's ads in games like this but you should not be adding multiple ads every 24/7 especially during mid-game this is why it kind of fails maybe you should focus on less ads and more about the…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-25

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

How the automated analysis works

Automated, corroborated, and never human-reviewed without a person.

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.

 Not yet human-reviewed

Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.

Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

 How this page was produced
Analyzed 2026-10-04 Version analyzed: 3.26.23 independent signals556 reviews scannedConfidence: MediumNot 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.