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Quack Bag: Duck Mafia
NOODLE GAMES LIMITED · Lifestyle

Analyzed automatically. Assessed 2026-10-04 from 628 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: Low3 signal sources628 reviews scannedNot human-reviewedas of 2026-10-04
 Which version this describes

This analysis describes version 1.252.267 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 1.252.267, updated 2026-09-30.

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 59 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 59 distinct reviewers — 9.4% of the 628 reviews scanned on this store leg (Google Play).

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 6 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 628 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

Cute graphics, fun gameplay, nice music. HOWEVER! With each update, it makes the game harder & harder to play. It's near impossible to beat each stage without watching ads. Final verdict, although it's a fun game, but how the developer…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-29

I'm really enjoying playing the game. It's well balanced, and haven't needed to pay anything yet to keep enjoying it. An ad will play after every level you beat, which is annoying, but to be expected from a free game. My only complaint…

4★ · Google Play · 2026-09-10

do you like ads every single turn? than this is the game for you 👍 played it to try and grind gems for an offerwall deal for currency in a far better game. idle brick breaker if your curious, it wasn't good for that either.. anyway try…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-24

Pay to progress

The most recent update severely impacted the damage of your weapons, sped the enemies up at the start of each wave and introduced a ton of new p2w options. Hopefully they rebalance some and don't keep leaning into p2w to advance.

3★ · Google Play · 2026-09-02

Like most pay to win games, start is pretty smooth then it suddenly ramps up difficulty, few upgrades you get without paying money don't impact the game that much, at round 5 you can barely fight back.

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-13

I love it!! keep up the updates! and less pay to win prizes plz

5★ · Google Play · 2026-09-12

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: 1.252.2673 independent signals628 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot 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.