What’s the catch? Pay to progress — reported by 43 users.
Analyzed automatically from 6 independent signals that had to agree — not a hands-on test, and not human-reviewed.
This analysis describes version 1.1.12.20 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.1.12.20, updated 2026-09-17.
What the analysis found
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.
Positive evidence 2
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
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.
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.
Pay to progress
Updated review! Only play Rise of Kingdoms if you are willing to Pay To Win or have a great deal of time to play in order to gain more power. Kings in most kingdoms are dictators and will steal your resources, kill your troops and drive…
It's a very GOOD game you can practice your sportsmanship and bravery here because of how war works.The only think I'm Frustrated is how biased this game to Pay to Win players like you two started at the same time you play free he plays…
The game is so fun and all but the p2w is something else bro , the huge gap between p2w players and f2p players is huge in my country the 5 usd u want me to pay is like 250 of my country currency , i can't afford that so i can't be a p2w…
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
despite the false advertisement this game is actually fun. you can either be free to play or pay to win. you can chat with others and make long term friends I game. many events give you rewards to further your development in your city…
This was advertised as a STRATEGY game, but it's just mindless bases building.
gameplay is nothing like the advertisement
What this app sells
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, 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.
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.