Merge Dragons! Reviews

by Morganmarie3

Okay I just want to start off by saying, I used to love this game. I love the merging aspect and all the dragons are so cute. However, I am currently a very high level with only one space not unlocked on my home island. I know a lot of others have also expressed what I’m about to say but, we haven’t gotten any new maps in a very long time, so we have to keep redoing the old ones over and over. Also recently for the events on weekends, which I used to look forward to, I hate. The last several events I have gotten two rock dragons to use, which are extremely slow, and my point value system is lowered. I haven’t be able to complete the maps like I used to because I don’t have the time to sit on the game all weekend to farm. I wish the creators would pay attention to all the people who have been trying to voice their opinions on how to make this game more enjoyable. I know it’s probably expensive and time consuming but a new map system would be nice. Like maybe a way to have like a second version of all the islands for us to redo with different rewards. Another thing the weekend events would probably be much more enjoyable for everyone if you would give us better dragons. Even if the point system is docked with better dragons we can work faster and it wouldn’t be such a pain. That’s all I have to say, like I said I used to really love this game but I dread it now.

by Evilsavant

It's a fun game, but there are glaring issues that distract from it being great. Mainly, the cost of items is on the high side. As well, the drop rates are nice at first, then become all about making you spend money. Latest patch only made things more expensive. They give you so many premium currency chests without ways to really gain that currency after the first portion of the game so your camp is full of stuff you have to sell for nothing or pay handsomely for in real world money. $6.99 for a starter island... Well you can see where it's going. If you want to get people spending money in the game so they continue to spend, you need some low-price high value feeders.

Edit: Also, now the $6.99 island at least shows what you get, but it also says it's -58% off? Uhmm, you can't just say something is on sale when it was never higher to begin with, there are laws against that. I know they could say it costs 58% less than if you bought gems and got that stuff, but given that it's a unique area it's not comparable to other items/prices and the way it's displayed is not indicative of that. As it stands, it's pretty badly designed and potentially illegal in some localtiies.

Edit: an update, bringing more free stuff! Except no... just more ways to spend gems. Everything free is locked by gems. Coincidence that even less gem stars seem to fall? Should rename it from Gram games to Grab games as in money grab.

by Devylyn

Love this game. Love my Dragons. Spend many hours and much money playing. I would give 5 solid stars except for the following. Im honestly I’m about to delete it. I’ve been stuck on the same Chalice Challenge and no longer go out “into the world” There is no way to bypass and I am severely frustrated every time I attempt it. Now I solely farm my camp. But now that’s getting boring due to the unrealistic goals given. I cannot heal land due to the ASTRONOMICAL amount of dragon power needed. I have a large quantity of solo eggs that I can only get more by purchasing nests or Mystery Egg Nests. On the special events you can never get to far healing land. I mean 5000 points to heal and only 2 little hatchlings to aid you. And some locks only opened by spending even more money and some I haven’t figured out what item will actually unlock and remove the mist. I’m getting bored with just farming and even my cutesy dragons are getting not worth the money I have to spend to increase my dragon power. Lower the levels to be more obtainable so the cams can progress and remain a challenge. Let people know you can turn off “auto merge” so you stop accidentally merging items before you are ready. I tool me MONTHS to find that feature. Please fix because I will truly miss this game if something isn’t done soon. Thanks!!

by Gemmasmom

Pros - very fun if ya like collecting things or dragons perhaps (everybody does)? I like the event quests and the normal quests. And I like collecting dragons and merging them. There’s a lot to work on so it could keep you busy for a while. And on some normal quests you can defeat goblins!

Cons - they want to much money, say you want to open a dragon vault? PAY! buy one of kala’s deals? PAY! And in the shop there need to be more things you can buy with coins cause most of the things need gems. Another thing they could work on is that the dragons mine the smaller things, say you have a two level life flower and a nine level life flower, they choose the two level life flower and you only have so much chances (if you don’t let them rest) but if ya wanna wake them up with spicy tacos? PAY! There’s too much paying so I request that waking two dragons up should be 50 coins no less no more. of course not paying could be an option but not if you want to move at a satisfying pace.

Words from me - I could hope merge dragons becomes bigger with the improvements people request, the game is fun overall and could keep me busy all day but of course slicing through skittle mush with my hair strand is more entertaining than waiting 12 minutes for a dragon to come out of the sleep cave. And as your can see the cons list is bigger that the pros list. That is all and I wish everybody a wonderful morning.

by Granola Queen

I love this game. I really do. It’s quite lovely to look at, and the premise is simple and endearing. The levels are fun and gradually become more challenging, and the camp can keep one occupied for hours. The story-despite being presented in a cutesy manner-is subtly dark enough for an older player to appreciate. However, I have two problems. Starting with the more trivial one: trophies. Needing them to play levels is fine, and even the time it takes for them to refill them is no real issue. But the fact that the max number you can have at one time is seven? I don’t know, I think it would be better at ten. Seven just seems like such a random number, and lets you play maybe one or two levels-ten is a more sensible number, and would allow you to get through three or so before running out. But that isn’t enough to ruin this game. What really bothers me is the gems. I really hate the fact that there is no reliable way to get gems. You will never have enough to take advantage of all the cool gem-based features like the royal hatchery or the zen temple. I love those features-but I can’t use them because the only way to get gems is through purchase with real money. I understand that money needs to be made somehow-so rather than charging for a crucial part of gameplay, it would improve the game infinitely if a price of two, three, even four bucks was charged for MergeDragons , and a way to collect gems within the game was added.

by Micci Snowfall

Pros - The premise of this game is a lot of fun if you like collecting things, puzzles, or dragons (who doesn’t!?). There are different kinds of game play with different challenges and rewards (camp v. world map levels). It’s fun to level up the items, especially the dragons.

Cons - The problem comes in that at every turn the game is hungry for real cash (dragon greed?) to buy the in game currency. Want to open a (maybe useful) chest? Pay! (Rewards from chest stink? Pay more!) The mining aspect is cool, but beware that the dragons don’t necessarily mine from the highest level things (i.e., level 2 flowers and level 9 flowers... and they’ll pick the level 2 flowers). It’s annoying when the difference between the result of mining from a low level or high level item is dramatic, and you only have so many moves without letting the dragons sleep to recharge (of course, you can pay to wake them).

Not spending money is an option... just not if you want to move along at a satisfying pace. Would be a lot more fun IMO if the dragons defaulted to mine highest level things; less consumables or more in-game currency rewarded for achievements; or at least make it so that when one does spend money the “reward” is fair (try opening a low level egg chest? Think it’ll be better to open the big one, right? Well... maybe... though a bunch of rain puddles and some random low level junk didn’t seem worth the equivalent cash).

by A Humble Game Reviewer

Seeing the ads that constantly ruined my gaming in other apps, and noting the simple yet addicting mechanic, concept, and DRAGONS, I thought huh, this looks like something I ought’a try. So, I went and downloaded it, and my feedback is as follows. The “word bubbles”, for lack of better description, and the text therein were horribly cluttered and somewhat annoying. I couldn’t help but hear them read in a terrible, cliché protaganist voice. The naming might need work, but that’s just my opinion. Yes, the dragging is an absolute drag, but so are the wait times. Wait for your dragons to sleep, wait for more chalices, wait for things to pick up the pace... The game has great bones, I’ll give you guys that, but it still feels like a beta playthrough. It only needs some polishing, but when it gets that, I can promise a lot of people will consider picking it up again.
*EDIT*
After going through a bit, the drag time was so much smoother. Wait times remain annoying, but leaving the game and revisiting later is the remedy. However, dragon gems remain a pain to collect. (Not to mention some of the prices for in-game items. If dragon gems were easier to obtain, they might be reasonable, but the pricing gets pretty absurd. Maybe a coin-to-gem transaction could exist? Just a suggestion.) Good game overall!

by Zippy The Merciless

I love playing this game and it’s really rewarding, but when ever I go on, there are times that I find I have lost dragons in my camp, they are mostly the event dragons or the owl griffons, this is the second time I have gotten on and found that an entire species of dragon is just gone. I worked hard for those. There are also times when I will be playing and my hand will brush against the sell or delete button and then it’s gone. I am asked about the big things, if I am sure but the smaller things that are still hard to get, I am not asked about and they are just gone. Like with the event challenges, if you are not really careful you can delete your only way of obtaining the objects you need. There are also times when I think I need to get rid of chests because I cannot open them without paying money to get a small amount of gems first. I don’t know about everyone else but I don’t feel like paying an obscene amount of money for only a few gems. The the purple crystal nest chests, I am fine getting rid of the others but those chests don’t come around a lot and I am running out of room. If there was just a little more room at your camp or an easier way of obtaining the room so you could keep those chests till you could open them, I would love that. Or a way of consolidating them for a different prize or something would also be welcome.

by Bigshow18

Ok I’ve been playing for a couple of months and have a few opinions. I had been playing war strategy games for years and wanted to find a “free” to play game that didn’t involve spending a fortune on. All of these games are developed to make money...nothing else. With that said and understood I was determined to spend as little as possible but still have a good time. I’ve spent around $200 so far and sitting at 13 million points. Dragon power is approx 4500. I’m not spending anymore. Lol they are serious in tempting you to spend! They spit out chests and vaults non-stop and the only way to open them is to buy jewels/chalices. I’m telling you it’s ridiculous how many they give you. There’s no way to turn the chests function off. If you opened all of them you’d spend a fortune. $200 is actually more then i wanted to spend. Trust me I did spend thousands on those war games. So I sell every chest/vault that pops up for coins. Every one of them. It is hysterical. It’s almost like they’ve got an algorithm that will keep popping out chests out until you open them. The game is fun and I enjoy it. You don’t have to spend much money at all if any. All of the different dragons look and function nicely. They have events often which I like. I do recommend the game but remember you don’t have to open the chests/vaults to have fun and progress. Take your time.

by Craytato

First off, I don’t play mobile games for very long because I get bored but Merge Dragons is one of those games that have withstood that. It’s such a soothing game and a great time killer I love playing it every now and then. Theres so many different types of dragons and it’s cool that they offer people a chance to get the premium dragons through events.

The only thing that makes it a tiny bit hard is the higher you get, the more harder the quests get and some of them are a bit too hard to do and require dragon gems to do. I wish Merge Dragons gave some ways to earn gems in addition to micro transactions. Some games I’ve seen, have an exchange system and it would be cool to see that in the game. Maybe like 1000coins to 10gems or something and vise versa. Before the game would allow players to work up to a dragon star (which gives gems) during events but they don’t do that anymore... it’s exceedingly hard to collect gems without purchasing micro transactions. I’m stuck on a mission that requires me to open 12 egg chests which the smallest egg chest costs 9 gems to open. And it takes gems to skip a quest too... so I’m stuck with these quests until I somehow get enough gems to finish or skip.

Point being, if there was an exchange system for coins to gems and etc, or even just watching videos for gems that would be perfect!

by Windows 8 Much?

I've been playing this game pretty much since it first came out, and I love it! Years later and I still play it. I know on one review I left some suggestions and eventually the developers added them in, so I have another consideration to improve the game: storage. Like, for anything, not just coin/silver storage. I have trees, flowers, eggs, buildings, chests, dead trees, coins, rare items, rewards, etc that I like to complete the merge chains on but either don't have space to do, or my dragons harvest the wrong item because they're on screen at the same time (I.e, harvesting from life flowers instead of stone sources when I'm trying to build dragon homes.) I don't want to delete or sell these items, but they take up a lot of space (especially the wonders!) Having a storage option, or the wonders going to their own island when they're unlocked, would be helpful. You could even make it so people can spend gems on increasing general storage after an initial level (five-twenty items,) so the game isn't losing money in anyway. Or you could let storage stack items without it taking a space, like 5x life flower sprout only takes 1 storage space and 1x pear tree takes 1 storage space and 23x life orbs takes 1 storage space up to an upper stack limit.

by Kgumby

I enjoy playing this game but there are few things that need improvement - like customer service. I received a purple star that wouldn’t open. I contacted cs and they blamed it on my not keeping MergeDragons updated. I have it on auto update and told them so. I asked for reimbursement and they said that if they did, the new purple star may not open as well. But, they didn’t try that, so we’ll never know! Then they closed the case file and and reminded me to update MergeDragons again. I felt insulted and unsatisfied with their “help”. Another aspect of the game that needs improvement is their events. They were fun for a while, but they never change much. I think they should change it up a bit. Also, it is difficult to see sometimes what keys are required and I have inadvertently tapped on a key I needed to open land, or merged it before using it. A picture of the keys needed for the event put somewhere would be helpful. I would also like to see more and/or different items available to purchase with something other than gems. Lastly, an “undo” button is needed. It is too easy to tap on a Wonder inadvertently and sell it. You can enable in settings a feature to safeguard tapping other items, but it doesn’t work for everything.

by Dauphin9674

I do LOVE this game! BUT.... like the majority of the reviews say, everything is extremely high. There are few opportunities to earn gems. Also, if I work for weeks or months to get my chest to the highest level... I should be able to open the egg chests that emerge from it for FREE instead of having to pay a ridiculously high amount of gems to open them. The hard work in this game is NOT WORTH IT! There also needs to be a revamp in the chalice system. If I beat a level, I should be able to replay the levels for maybe 1 chalice. There should be a way, like most games, to level up your max amount of chalices. Maybe when you unlock a new piece of land? It takes 50 minutes to restore 1 chalice and some levels are all 7 chalices to play, which results in 1 level in 5 1/2 hours. I have beaten all of the levels, now I’m trying to get all stars and the challenges are hard to complete. But I lose interest when I can’t beat it and I have to wait several hours to play again. Considering every review has something along these lines, there will clearly not be a change unless perhaps someone else creates a similar game for competition. I bought one of the islands because it was 1.99. But I’m not spending 7 bucks for something that will only be stretched just a little ways.

by Woundrn1992

Has dragon chests that require hundreds of gems to open available immediately and taking up room in your spot cannot be merged unless identical but no instruction is given on how to merge gems to create more so therefore it is impossible to get more gems without buying them. That being said coins are fairly easy to obtain by just playing the game and not investing any actual real life world dollars. My personal policy is not to spend any money on a free game until played it for at least six months. When you decide to start this game make sure you link with FB to save especially if you have invested any money. I also recommend taking screenshots as wide as possible and occasional pictures of your dragon book pages. The development team is EXTRAORDINARILY HELPFUL AND SUPPORTIVE in helping you recover if you have the data and save your game often. Also Google Merge Dragons Wiki for great tips and tricks. So on one hand I find the beginning game too slow to live unless you spend money on gems. If you get through the beginning one way or another the game begins to get momentum and is more playable. Last criticism is beware of overused superlative language in game and trust wiki Merge Dragons instead.

by -.*Random Person*.-

This game is honestly amazing and super fun to play. The levels get harder as you keep playing, and the camp can keep me busy for hours. One thing that annoys me slightly is the fact that you can accidentally tap your life essences, or you coins, or other things, and you can never get them back. I was working really hard to make the highest level of the life essence, the wonder, when I accidentally tapped my level 8 life essence. It was the highest one I had, and I had to restart, though all of my dead land in the camp was no longer dead. Another issue is with the events. The events are always extremely fun and I loved the recent Froopyland event (I think that’s what it was called? I forget) but I always make the mistake where I never tap the event points and instead keep merging them for the highest level, and in the end, the event is over before I can tap it. There should be like a thing where you can collect the event points after the event that you didn’t collect during the event. A last suggestion that I have is that there should be more things you can buy with coins. Almost all of the things in the shop are for gems, and the only way you can get them is to either buy them with real money, or get the gem star. All in all, this game is awesome and I highly recommend it.

by DragonStan

I have adored merge dragons for years. I loved the game as it was years ago but even more things have been added to make it awesome and more engaging. My one and only wish right now is that I wish it could be possible to turn off automatic harvesting. Especially in events. For example, the frozen seas event, things that you want to keep for merges later ( because you haven’t gotten to unlock the tiles with the other pieces you need to merge) get harvested when you’re not paying attention to your dragons. This also happens in levels which has forced me to have to restart (frustrating because of how long it takes for chalices to renew) It would be nice in general to just be able to turn it off. i have found the only thing i like about automatic harvesting is when dragons harvest life essence and really I only like that in things like the frozen seas event because you need a lot of life essence to get the high level rewards. In my camp i find it overwhelming when all your dragons come out and just start automatically harvesting. Putting this in as an option- like how “turn off chain actions” is an option in the game menu. This game is so unbelievably well made and well kept and fun and engadging that i recommend it to everyone. I have rarely had complaints about the game it is truly fantastic!

by Tina0471

This game can quickly become addicting. However, once the newness wears away, you notice how stacked certain things are. Dragon egg prices as well as most of the items in the store increase with each purchase. That’s frustrating.

Worse are the bonus games that run for about three days. I don’t bother anymore. You cannot get ahead without buying chests to unlock the shadow keys. So I either spend hours upon hours creating large life orbs and can barely clear the first area or I try to mine whatever it is that gets me points for prizes. Again, extremely tedious work that consumes most of your day.

I understand that this is a game for us and a business however when you spend weeks saving your yellow stars up to final merge to the biggest star and you get one flower, one small blue life orb, and a ton of locked boxes that cost a lot of gems, it feels greedy. I’m willing to spend money on the game but I can’t afford $100 a pop just to open a few boxes or to get somewhere in the bonus games. I think the buildup and excitement to the star and receiving virtually nothing is has pushed me away from this game. Saddens me because the concept is awesome.

by Zazril

I have been playing for quite some time now, the kids even say to me mom your playing merge dragons aren't you. They even helped me play my game when I would hand them my phone to keep occupied if they forgot there tablets. I like the chances of being able to get premium dragons and items with the events. I really like that you can place things the way you want it and make it your own style. I have kept my at least 7 wonders in my dragon camp, and working on getting a bunch more. They give wonderful rewards when completing them and continuously. The friend gifting experience has even gotten better where you can see if a gift is waiting for you. It would be nice if the link to Facebook was better, I haven’t been able to do it for some time now. I wish there was a contest for dragon ideas, best dragon drawn maybe gets the final stage of that dragon as a reward and the choice of its name like if you wanted to call it Penelope or what ever they wanted to name it. So many likes and so many ideas. I don’t write many reviews so I am sorry that I have gone long or off topic. It the bottom line is this game is good and has been on my phone all the time since the first download of it and have enjoyed it ever since for the most part.

by CocoP88

This is my go to game it is so fun but there are so many consumables there’s way too many jewels that need to be had and if you like me you don’t want to spend your money harder and money on a game. I just don’t understand. So there’s a lot of things that are wrong with this game the chess for one they frustrate me I mine and mine and mine and my poor little dragons only have two and three actions to be had. So now I can’t do much with these chests because for one they’re locked and require you guessed it jams. Then they lose their actions because they cannot go on any longer. Two and three actions for a level III Dragon is not enough especially when I paid so much for their eggs to hatch which by the way requires three of them which is fine but now I spent all my money for two actions. Fun game dragons are adorable and the chalices are horrible like why do I have five houses and the energy waiting of the game makes me not even want to go back because or makes me not even want to play because now I don’t wanna lose all my chalices so it’s play now and wait sixHours. Or wait and play one time for three Chelsea’s and then don’t play again for the rest of the day and wait again lots of fun but lots of changes that could be made to improve on this game

by Dayonemerger

I’ve been playing this game for years and have mostly enjoyed it. I’ve seen a lot of cool updates, but there are still some pretty basic features that are frustrating. During weekend events you have to harvest and collect a special item to earn points towards the event. (ie: pet food, during the most recent event) However no matter how much time you put into harvesting all weekend, you have to manually collect it or you lose everything. During these events you obviously keep what you have harvested to merge instead of collecting every piece immediately after harvest. If the event ends before you have manually collected everything you lose absolutely all of it. This means hours and hours of merging go to waste. There should definitely be an auto collect feature at the end of events if you do not have the chance to collect manually all your event earnings off of the board. I try so hard some weekends just to be at work and lose it all. It’s also remarkably easy to sell very highly value items on accident. I have tried to sell an emerald grass and accidentally sold a wise dragon. I recommend a more clear and direct pop up box asking to confirm a sell especially for dragons.