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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Nosferatu 2 - Run from the Sun censored by Apple?

Gone.

Nosferatu 2 - Run from the Sun is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Apr 21, 2022.

188 tests on record·last checked 28 days ago

Why it is unavailable

Five things can put an app out of one App Store. Each is weighed below against what can be seen from outside — open a card for the reasoning.

  • A government or a court demanded itLikely

    and Apple complied. Apple publishes a count of these per country each year and never says which apps they were. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

  • Apple applied a rule, unaskedLikely

    either its own review guidelines, or its own reading of a local law, with nobody having demanded anything. This is the largest category in Apple's own removal figures by a wide margin, and it covers distribution permits as well as content — Apple kept a free Bible app out of mainland China in 2021 for want of one. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

  • The developer withheld itUnlikely

    freely, or under legal advice of their own, or because Apple's guidelines require that kind of app to be limited to certain countries. Switching a country off is easy for a developer to do in Apple's own tools: it needs no new version of the app, and it leaves no public trace other than the app being unavailable.

  • Something brokeUnlikely

    a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.

  • A local rule about paying for itRuled out

    gambling licences, financial rules, tax — the kind of law that governs a transaction. Apple can obey every one of them by refusing the payment, which is why this is the only restriction we would accept and the only one that cannot touch a free app.

    • It is free, so Apple sells nothing here.
How this is weighed, and what it cannot tell you

Weighed from the evidence under each card, not from a model. There is no published figure for how Apple's removals divide up, so these are ordered words rather than percentages. For scale on the same-day counts: across the whole record an app leaves a storefront with fewer than two others, so a dozen at once is not a dozen coincidences.

None of this is certain, and a citation does not make it so: Apple naming a Chinese agency tells you what Apple said, not everything that happened. What can be said is that the readings alone cannot separate these five — a developer switching off a country and a government ordering it removed arrive at Apple's catalogue looking identical — and that nobody has ever measured how they divide across the App Store. The one careful study of the question was done on Google's store, using an error message Apple does not emit.

Apple publishes no record of which apps are unavailable in which of its App Stores. For the removals it makes on a government's demand it publishes the agency and the law behind every one — 2,045 of the 166,899 apps it removed during 2025 — and never which app. Where a reason reaches the public at all, it is usually because a developer chose to say so. Apple's App Store Transparency Report

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Nosferatu 2 - Run from the Sun

Developer: Smuttlewerk Interactive · Category: Games · Released: Jul 28, 2015 · Rating: 1.3★

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0stores where available
40stores where blocked
3.84Bpeople behind the block
40of 175 stores tested
188tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Jul 28, 2015Released on the App Store
  2. Apr 21, 2022First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Apr 21, 2022Last seen available anywhere
  4. Apr 7, 2024Gone from 40 storefronts
  5. Sep 8, 2026Most recent test

Testing history

One column per month, every month from the first reading to the last. Height follows how many readings we took that month; red is the share of them that found the app unavailable. An empty month is one nobody tested.

2022-042026-09

Found availableFound unavailable

Availability by storefront

Every storefront we test, current status first. Data is a measurement, not a promise: each row carries its own date.

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AfghanistanAFUnavailableMar 8, 20267 months ago
ArgentinaARUnavailableDec 9, 20222 months ago
BahamasBSUnavailableDec 9, 20224 years ago
BarbadosBBUnavailableJun 9, 20233 years ago
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBAUnavailableJan 28, 20243 years ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableDec 9, 20223 months ago
CambodiaKHUnavailableNov 11, 20242 years ago
Cayman IslandsKYUnavailableApr 4, 20266 months ago
ChileCLUnavailableSep 8, 202628 days ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableApr 21, 20222 years ago
El SalvadorSVUnavailableJan 30, 20268 months ago
FranceFRUnavailableNov 30, 20242 years ago
GeorgiaGEUnavailableJan 2, 20269 months ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableApr 25, 20242 years ago
IndiaINUnavailableSep 28, 20233 years ago
IrelandIEUnavailableJun 4, 20242 years ago
KuwaitKWUnavailableAug 24, 20242 years ago
LatviaLVUnavailableDec 5, 20224 years ago
LebanonLBUnavailableMar 13, 20234 years ago
LuxembourgLUUnavailableMay 12, 20265 months ago
MacaoMOUnavailableJul 18, 20263 months ago
MaltaMTUnavailableDec 15, 202510 months ago
MicronesiaFMUnavailableDec 31, 20233 years ago
MontserratMSUnavailableMar 19, 20252 years ago
MoroccoMAUnavailableJun 1, 20233 years ago
MozambiqueMZUnavailableMay 8, 20242 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 27, 202428 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableDec 9, 20222 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableApr 22, 20265 months ago
RomaniaROUnavailableFeb 9, 20234 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableDec 9, 20222 years ago
Saudi ArabiaSAUnavailableDec 20, 20224 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableSep 2, 20252 months ago
South AfricaZAUnavailableAug 25, 20242 years ago
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCUnavailableJul 22, 20233 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableApr 7, 20242 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableDec 9, 20222 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableDec 9, 202228 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableDec 9, 202228 days ago
ZambiaZMUnavailableDec 3, 20232 years ago
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AngolaAONot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
Antigua & BarbudaAGNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustraliaAUNot tested——0
AustriaATNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
BahrainBHNot tested——0
BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
BelizeBZNot tested——0
BeninBJNot tested——0
BermudaBMNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CameroonCMNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
Costa RicaCRNot tested——0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested——0
CroatiaHRNot tested——0
CyprusCYNot tested——0
CzechiaCZNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
DominicaDMNot tested——0
Dominican RepublicDONot tested——0
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
FijiFJNot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
GabonGANot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GhanaGHNot tested——0
GreeceGRNot tested——0
GrenadaGDNot tested——0
GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested——0
GuyanaGYNot tested——0
HondurasHNNot tested——0
HungaryHUNot tested——0
IcelandISNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IraqIQNot tested——0
IsraelILNot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JapanJPNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KazakhstanKZNot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MontenegroMENot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NamibiaNANot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
New ZealandNZNot tested——0
NicaraguaNINot tested——0
NigerNENot tested——0
NigeriaNGNot tested——0
North MacedoniaMKNot tested——0
NorwayNONot tested——0
OmanOMNot tested——0
PakistanPKNot tested——0
PalauPWNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RwandaRWNot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
SerbiaRSNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SlovakiaSKNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
South KoreaKRNot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
UruguayUYNot tested——0
UzbekistanUZNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
VietnamVNNot tested——0
YemenYENot tested——0
ZimbabweZWNot tested——0

Testing asks Apple whether it will sell this app in that storefront, right now, by the same method the crawler has used since 2019. Your browser asks Apple directly, so the answer describes what Apple serves your connection — and if your browser cannot reach Apple at all, we ask on your behalf and say so. The result is a link: open it to see Apple's own answer and check ours. Readings are added to the record above; roughly a quarter of the readings taken each day come from people testing.

How we test

Availability is checked against Apple's own catalog servers for every storefront, the same way the App Store app asks. "Unavailable" means Apple's servers say the app cannot be offered in that country — it does not say who asked for the removal. Removals initiated by the developer and removals demanded by governments look the same from outside; the history and context on this page are how we tell them apart.