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Hidden Lake Games LLC · Games

Review signals only — 4 user-reported signals — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.

Review signals only — 4 user-reported signalsConfidence: High458 reviews scannedas of 2026-10-06

Reported by users

Recurring themes across scanned reviews — a signal, not a finding. User reports
Pay to progress28 reviews · 6.1% of scanned
Aggressive ad load22 reviews · 4.8% of scanned
Energy / timer gating16 reviews · 3.5% of scanned
Paywall blocks the basics11 reviews · 2.4% of 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

Too many ads — Not worth playing with the amount of ads and interface

2★ · App Store · 2026-09-01

AI, weekly subscription. — Title explains all. The game is clearly made with AI and demands either a weekly subscription or forces you to watch a massive amounts of ads to continue.

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-27

Too many ads — Every choice you are forced to watch an ad. Play for 5 minutes and wait for an hour or watch an ad to reduce time by 10 minutes. Or pay to remove ads.

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-26

Pay to progress

Don’t download this game — Don’t download this game worse game ever you have to watch ads on top of that you have to pay to continue play

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-06

Fun game but 1 massive problem — I do enjoy this game, but there’s one insurmountable problem and that is you literally have to spend real money to advance the story, you’ll run out of funds in the game and it becomes unplayable.

2★ · App Store · 2026-08-18

Pay to play — It’s fun until you get to the laws and you have to pay to continue. Y’all really can’t add some ads that we can click on so we can earn some extra cash so we can pick a law. You completely lost me knowing that you didn’t…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-15

Energy / timer gating

Pay 2 Play — After becoming engaged and excited to play, in the beginning the game will require you to wait 45 minutes to continue with the story missions. You can avoid the wait with some more waiting watching ads or you waste hard…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-28

GAME IS PAY TO PLAY — after about 3 minutes of actual gameplay, the game makes you wait an hour to continue playing (or watch an ad of course) thats fine no problem. what is not okay is: if you run out of in game currency there is no way…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-22

Never in a game — NEVER in every mobile game NEVER have i had to pay to even continue the game, this game is just a huge cashgrab. At first i started to like it but then i get hit with a massive paywall to even play the game when im…

3★ · App Store · 2026-08-06

Paywall blocks the basics

Forces You To Pay! — This game is fun and has a lot of potential, but after a few minutes of playing, you are forced to pay real money (minimum $1.99) to continue the story. The game isn’t that good to be locked behind a paywall to even…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-16

Picture of Greed — Absolute dog dung. This is the pinnacle of greed from a developer. After playing for about 8 minutes this game packs behind a ridiculous paywall. Not 5 or even 10 dollars to play it but a WEEKLY CHARGE. Delete…Do…

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-01

My review — Hidden behind a paywall after 10 minutes

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-01

How a review signal works

Automated, review-derived, and always superseded by a human review.

A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.

A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.

It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.

 Not yet human-reviewed

A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.

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