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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is 废柴修仙-文字经典挂机游戏 censored by Apple?

Gone.

废柴修仙-文字经典挂机游戏 is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Dec 8, 2020.

163 tests on record·last checked 31 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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废柴修仙-文字经典挂机游戏

Developer: yanhao Li · Category: Games · Released: Dec 6, 2018 · Rating: 3.8★

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0stores where available
42stores where blocked
2.86Bpeople behind the block
42of 175 stores tested
163tests on record

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Life of this app

  1. Dec 6, 2018Released on the App Store
  2. Dec 8, 2020First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Dec 8, 2020Last seen available anywhere
  4. Sep 14, 2022Gone from 42 storefronts
  5. Aug 19, 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.

2020-122026-08

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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ArgentinaARUnavailableApr 28, 20222 years ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableApr 18, 202210 months ago
ColombiaCOUnavailableAug 13, 20242 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableApr 29, 20222 years ago
DR CongoCDUnavailableSep 14, 20224 years ago
FijiFJUnavailableMar 11, 20266 months ago
FranceFRUnavailableAug 26, 20233 years ago
GabonGAUnavailableJul 7, 20222 years ago
GeorgiaGEUnavailableFeb 11, 20252 years ago
GreeceGRUnavailableApr 4, 20233 years ago
GuyanaGYUnavailableJan 17, 20252 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableApr 22, 20222 years ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableAug 12, 20224 years ago
LatviaLVUnavailableJun 29, 20224 years ago
MalawiMWUnavailableMay 7, 20233 years ago
MauritiusMUUnavailableApr 29, 20222 years ago
MoroccoMAUnavailableJul 13, 20224 years ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableApr 15, 20233 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableJul 20, 202431 days ago
NepalNPUnavailableApr 28, 20223 years ago
North MacedoniaMKUnavailableSep 14, 20224 years ago
NorwayNOUnavailableMar 15, 20252 years ago
PakistanPKUnavailableJul 31, 20242 years ago
PalauPWUnavailableNov 5, 202510 months ago
PanamaPAUnavailableApr 18, 20222 years ago
PeruPEUnavailableApr 18, 20222 years ago
PhilippinesPHUnavailableMar 2, 20267 months ago
RomaniaROUnavailableJul 20, 20242 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableApr 18, 20223 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableAug 12, 20224 years ago
SerbiaRSUnavailableAug 12, 20242 years ago
SingaporeSGUnavailableSep 23, 20224 years ago
Solomon IslandsSBUnavailableApr 22, 20222 years ago
Sri LankaLKUnavailableJul 7, 20224 years ago
St. Kitts & NevisKNUnavailableOct 16, 20224 years ago
SwedenSEUnavailableAug 26, 20242 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableJul 13, 20224 years ago
TanzaniaTZUnavailableFeb 25, 202331 days ago
TongaTOUnavailableJun 29, 20224 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableApr 18, 20223 years ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableFeb 25, 202331 days ago
United StatesUSUnavailableApr 18, 202231 days ago
AfghanistanAFNot tested——0
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
BahamasBSNot tested——0
BahrainBHNot tested——0
BarbadosBBNot tested——0
BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
BelizeBZNot tested——0
BeninBJNot tested——0
BermudaBMNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
BotswanaBWNot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
CameroonCMNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cape VerdeCVNot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ChileCLNot 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
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GhanaGHNot tested——0
GrenadaGDNot tested——0
GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested——0
HondurasHNNot tested——0
HungaryHUNot tested——0
IcelandISNot tested——0
IndiaINNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IraqIQNot tested——0
IrelandIENot tested——0
IsraelILNot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JapanJPNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KenyaKENot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KuwaitKWNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaldivesMVNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
MicronesiaFMNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MontenegroMENot tested——0
MontserratMSNot tested——0
MozambiqueMZNot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
New ZealandNZNot tested——0
NicaraguaNINot tested——0
NigerNENot tested——0
NigeriaNGNot tested——0
OmanOMNot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
QatarQANot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
São Tomé & PríncipeSTNot tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested——0
SenegalSNNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SlovakiaSKNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
South AfricaZANot tested——0
South KoreaKRNot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwitzerlandCHNot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot 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
ZambiaZMNot 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.