Travel Town - Merge Adventure Reviews

First off, I do really enjoy this game, and I don’t mind the new update too much. Even though we had to start over, you gave us all our diamonds back, and it was kind of nice to start with a fresh board again. HOWEVER, you said it was to give smoother progresss for everyone and less instances of getting stuck and that’s NOT what’s happening for me. I’m at level 16 and progress has pretty much halted completely. Tasks that offer supplies as rewards are not often enough to continue upgrading the buildings so I have 3 buildings just sitting there waiting for me to get more cement mixers, brick walls, and boxes of nails. So progress has almost completely stopped for me and I am unable to play the game as intended. I get what you were trying to do but you need another update to accomplish it. Right now I am just disappointed and frustrated. (Side note, the amount you get for selling high level items is ridiculous. For example, the large bacota sandwich is level 13, but when you sell it you only get 12 back, which is borderline insulting! You get 1 for the mix of olives that is level 2 in the same category so we should be getting A LOT more back for the sandwich considering it takes 2,048 olives to create it…just something to think about as this is always something about your game that has always rubbed me the wrong way.)

Thie game started off really fun and I really enjoy it especially considering theres little to no ads interrupting everything. It takes so much time and energy now to actually accomplish anything and even if I use gems to replenish my energy half the time it gives me things I don't need. My board has become so full and overwhelming that I can barely tell what I have on it anymore. And random stacks of cookies now? What am I supposed to do with these? I have resorted to selling them which only gives me like 2 energy. Selling high quality items barely gives you anything. And im now stuck on trying to get enough coins and building materials. I'm pretty far along but thats because I give a lot of time between to build up energy. And also the daily challenges are near impossible, you would have you spend basically 24/7 on the game to get all of them considering it asks you to collect coins most of the time. I also hate the tile/pottery thing, takes so much energy to use it and it never gives you want you want. This game is based on luck now. Stop adding random stuff and cluttering everything. If we complete one of the producers and max everything out in it we should be able to put it away indefinitely so there's more space, allow easier daily tasks, make maxed out items worth more. And get rid of the useless items that build up.

When I first started playing it, my thought was finally a merge-game I really like. There were a bunch of goals to complete. A nice flow of energy to play with - the items were cute. I really liked the “board” concept. Well, I made it to level 13 and suddenly the pace just stopped. I have only 2 goals to complete. One is an artifact fish that people on the FB page tell me they had to reach a much higher level to ever achieve it. The other goal is a picture portrait and the backpack to make cameras and then the cameras themselves take forever to recharge. So I am at a standstill - I typically stop playing these energy-based games for this reason because I always run out of energy in a matter of minutes. Now I have energy, but no reason to use it until my backpack charges. Tapping my foot wondering when the game will get fun again. Next day playing the game - waiting for the boat to recharge is taking forever - recharge times will definitely kill this game for me. Ending on a positive note - I really enjoyed the special safari event with the tigers - that’s about how long it should take for items to recharge, IMHO. After several weeks of opening this game to play it, things have only gotten worst with the recharge times. It’s taking days to weeks to complete a single task. Never got to play the special safari event again, the one thing about the game I liked, so made this game a one star, at best.

Hello developers. Getting straight to the point. Either the recharge time needs to be lowered or give more opportunities to gain blue gems to buy energy. The shop is useless to me because i never have blue gems to spend. Why cant things in the shop be bought with smileys instead? Certain orders take entirely too long to fulfill. This drives you to have to try to merge other items in the meantime which quickly fills the board with items you cant sell because theyre needed. With each source at least give enough items to make half the order. Also when leveling up the energy level should rise. 100 is not alot of energy when your whole top row is a source object. The seashells and silverware takes forever!
In closing, dont take this as a negative review. Love the game and latest update. Not asking for a simplified game but more of a balance. I play daily every chance i get. But make it worth my effort . I shouldnt be merging for weeks to get one high level food item. Its pointless to use the whole 100 energy to try and get one high leveled food item thats still not completed after using the next 100 after waiting on a recharge. Work with me please. Im level 24 and only have 4 areas unlocked. Come on!

I used to really enjoy this game. Then the daily challenges became unattainable unless you play the game alllllllllll day or pay loads of money to continue adding energy. I don’t even want to play it anymore. The goals are just too hard and I liked that I could still make the goal and get my orders done casually throughout the day. Now I can’t even do one. Why should I even bother playing if there is no reward?
Also, the fossil that you get an order for at the beginning is also unattainable. I’ve done everything I can to look for it and still nothing. I am on level 27 and got the order for the fossil on level 1 or 2. I also can’t find any more maps to continue merging my treasure maps. I haven’t seen a treasure map since like level 10 or 11, so they are just taking up space that I don’t have.
AND you merge the suppliers that spit items out which should give you higher leveled items more frequently, but 99% of the items that come out are level 1 items, even though the supplier is at max level. So again, what is even the point if it is this hard and no reward?
I tried it, I loved it. They changed the game and I gave it a shot, but I don’t enjoy it anymore. It feels more like a chore now so I will be deleting it.

Minor update: to give credit where it’s due, a lot of people were talking about how the generators were clogging up our inventory, and they went and added in a special generator inventory which freed up a lot of space. So, great move. Still weird they have so many (and don’t even use all of the parts within them - unless we revisit them way later) but, hey, small victories

They keep adding new ones and you have to store away the old ones. And there is no way to get inventory slots with the basic currency like in EVERY OTHER GAME OF THIS TYPE. It’s still a good merge game though. However, these few things will keep it from being better than some of the others in the genre. But yea, someone else mentioned either adding a generator tab for storage, or, you know… stop adding a million generators/have future orders use the old generators. Of course, I’m sure it’s like this to con you into spending more money to add storage slots. I won’t fall for that, but I will keep playing until it becomes too much of a hassle (at this time I’m level 63 and it’s still manageable). Updated from 3 to 2 after multiple changes to make playing free even less friendly.

Update: I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt, but I can’t waste my time anymore. I can’t get the items I need to level up and the rest of the time it takes me forever to get the items to get tool chests. This isn’t fun anymore it’s become like a job. Thanks for the pointless updates that don’t help. The other day I finally complete a task that gave me 6 large toolboxes….I still wasn’t able to update any of the 5 outstanding buildings I have. I’m done. I loved this game. However I don’t think I can continue. I play the challenges to get toolboxes and meet the daily goal every day. Yet I still don’t get the parts I need to level up. The algorithm is not fair based on the needs you have. I have a million brick walls and yet zero wallpapers. This needs a better update and with all the tasks I complete I should have another option of leveling up. It’s frustrating to work towards so,etching for so long just to be disappointed. What is the point of an update with new buildings if I can’t even get to the buildings I have!! Also completely blocked from leveling up. I was a beta user and in half the time was a higher level than I am now after the reset. The tool boxes are way too random and don’t give what I need. I’ve been waiting on a plug for at least a month. I’m over this.

I really like this game. It is simple and fun. There are natural slow-down mechanisms designed to get you to spend money, but they aren’t very bad and don’t interrupt the game in a way that detracts from it, in my opinion.

However, I can’t give it five stars due to a specific problem. At the top of the game there are 4-5 community members with orders you need to fulfill. These orders tend to be the most important way of moving forward / making progress in the town. But early on one of the orders is for a fossil. And this fossil is basically impossible to get! And there is no way to dismiss / move on from that order. So I’m basically down to 3 orders for the rest of the game instead of 4. I did write to TravelTown developer about the fossil, and they impressively responded rather quickly. But the way they said to try to get it is ineffective (I’ve clicked the relevant thing 500 times, so I did give it a chance) and for some reason the joker (which is supposed to merge with *anything*) won’t merge here either.

So: overall very happy with the game. Don’t like this one thing that is detracting from my experience.

I, like many others, had my progress reset with The Update. I thought it was fun at first, there were new resources to get, and it was much easier to get the higher level item spawners compared to before. The idea of having building materials was also interesting.

However, they completely nerfed the drop rate of higher level items from the spawners. For example, previously, at a level 7-8 sand bucket, you could occasionally spawn max level sand castles and starfish. Now, you can only spawn level 3 castles and shells, max. Same with the picnic basket, and I imagine every other spawner. The devs claim that this new update will smooth the progression, so you don't have to be stuck on a level for days. That's not the case. Orders are MUCH higher level, asking for items at the end of the merge chain, and you have to spend days grinding for orders and building supplies. Do I think this is a ploy to get players to spend more money? Probably. Bad move, devs.

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, so I'll keep the game until the next update comes out. Maybe this new version just needs to be balanced better. I think the devs should've just made a sequel, tbh, instead of resetting long-time players.

The newer update made it much harder to get energy. Before the extra drops were bubbles that turned into energy when unpopped, now they are coin. I have over $300k in coin but have almost no room on my board, and cannot move forward in the game because I need more energy to merge. At level 136 it takes weeks or months to get enough resources to build and move forward. Changing the way we received energy was a huge mistake, now I am stuck at this level and is no longer fun. I use to pay money for gems when energy was in the bubbles, because it meant I could play awhile. Now I barely play and refuse to spend any money on this game now. I’ve tried a few times since the changes with the bubbles, and not worth. Shame the game had to be so greedy. You went from someone spending money weekly to never again because of your greed.

Also, all the storage slots are all used by useless generators. So all that time and money spent getting full storage is wasted by 70% of it being occupied by generators I have not been asked to use in months. Ridiculous.

I really love this game. Usually I'm bored to death by the plot lines in games but I love the conversations and the little people and always want to read more. The matching game is a good balance of thought, luck, and persistence. But I completely agree with the reviewer who says the game peters out after level 41. I've limped along to level 47 hoping it would pick up again, but I'm about to give up. I've only got 3 goals at a time, and they're all for items that take a really long time to recharge, so I check in, tap the items a few times, and that's pretty much all that's worth doing. Sometimes I make a bunch of seashells and sell them but you really don't get much money for that. When I fulfill a goal I get another, but it's the same situation. One of my goals is for a level 2 key, and I've only gotten 1 key ever so I just keep waiting. Maybe I'll check back in a few months and see if it's recovered.

I’ve been playing this game for more than a couple of months and really got hooked to it. I like it so much I actually bought energy & gems for this game.
I was on Level 51!! I wasn’t even done with all of the unlocking of the buildings. When I updated the newest version June 2021. They put me back to level 1!! Yes you guys gave me a lot of Gems back , but it didn’t last too long & I needed them for energy #newupdate!
Why this update?? so TravelTown update has new and exciting different things?? It’s actually harder to level up now. Yes you have new things, but in order to build houses you also Now need more “🙂” smiley faces & supplies in the game verse before where only needed game coins. On top Of that you waste more energy with this new upgrade. So after this I’m on level 17 and I’m struggling, it’s not that fun anymore. Sorry to say I lost interest in this game and now will delete. I’m very disappointed & sad this game is no longer my favorite. The makers got too carried away in this update making it harder for us “Gamers” . When I mean harder you have to spend more $$ on gems and energy to level up!! It’s not worth it!!
I love Merge games this is app was in my Top 5!! Not anymore!!

I really like the game. I think overall it has great designs and I like how most of the generators regenerate at a quick speed. In other merging games I have played some items take hours to regenerate. My problem with the game and the reason I did not give five stars is the order fulfilling part of the game. We are given a fair amount of generators as we progress through the game. Basically one for each building we are leveling up. However all of the orders I have to fulfill is for items from recently obtained generators. For example, right now I have only had orders for date treats, surf items, pottery items, and museum items. It is extremely hard to move forward when the orders are so limited and for only rarer items. It would be nice to have more orders for older generators like the beach bucket, picnic basket, and others, so they are not just sitting in our inventory disused and taking up valuable space. Also, it would be nice to have have more than just three orders at a time.

Just like the other reviewers experiences, I found this game fun and engaging at first but it quickly gets bogged down with impossible tasks and almost zero direction to progress forward. The game starts well, briskly moving through tasks, but without any direction at all, the board becomes over assorted with items that are useless rendering it impossible to advance. I see reviewers here that are ten to fifteen levels beyond me saying the very same thing, so obviously this is a persistent theme no matter your level of experience. Those reviewers are hardier than myself. I won’t be playing that long to find out I don’t like the game, I already know. The way items are produced, stopping just one item short of what you need to complete a task, is a clear effort to force the players hand into making in app purchases. This leads me to believe the developers main intention was not to make a game so engaging you’d want to spend money to enhance your experience, but rather a pretty brazen money grab before the player realizes the game isn’t worth their time, much less their money. Pretty graphics and greed don’t make a fun game. It all seems rather sloppy to me.

First of all I really love your game and I find it super entertaining, but I do have a couple things to add. First is that you should spend coins to buy items you need not gems. Second, You should add more orders for different producers we’ve already unlocked. Third, when there is a special game mode for a different holiday or season, if you get any building materials they should go to your board in the other game mode. Fourth, items that are ordered should be worth more coins, for example something on stage 8 should be worth 6,000 coins or so not 2,000. Fifth, we should get more storage or a bigger board to merge things. Lastly, you should be able to buy building materials like concrete and bricks with coins. Thank you so much and I hope this helped and you could possibly add some of this to the game!!

Story and game pieces are great. But each building that makes items can only produce a few until it stops and recharges. This is the worst part of the game. I'm on level 42 and the orders can take days of work to fill. Thus it's really hard to do anything. I've got 1200 energy because of the energy crates and I can only use 20 energy a day because all of the buildings lock up. Many don't unlock for 20 minutes. Very frustrating. Someone compared it to Merge Mansion, so I downloaded that one to compare. It works so much better. The game play is way better and it's almost identical to travel town.
More review......some buildings never get orders so they just sit. If you want to use your energy to make stuff randomly your board gets full and you need to sell stuff for very few coins. Items that took you days to make are sold for almost nothing. If your lucky and can fill an order the price paid doesn't match how long it took you to make it. I've had items I've made in the beginning that are never ordered. Some orders are for really rare items you never get and the orders just sit. Refreshing the orders would be nice. Like other games there are slots and if you refresh an order you don't get another for 24hrs. That's fair.
Each item should show a value so you can decide if you want to sell.

I'm really hoping an update is in the next week. Or I'll delete game.

I don't recommend playing. It's very frustrating.

Let me start by saying that I have played probably 75-80% of the merge games out there and this is in my top 5! With that said, I do agree with what many others said (and it’s like that in a lot of merge games) once you get to the higher levels…it gets a bit boring. The game say there for months for me, I deleted it, and just downloaded it again. They added quite a bit of new stuff, which has made it fun for me again. I will update my review once I get to higher levels again. :)

My request for the developer - I have tried my usual fixes for this - my countdowns are not functioning properly. I have a 24 hour chest that has been opening for three days. And my bag to get camera parts has been stuck since yesterday. I’m not sure if anyone else is having this problem. I’m not having the same issue in the event…

Also, kudos to the developers for making a great game! Small bugs and good feedback can do wonders everyone! :)

I had just maxed all the buildings when the update came along and reset everything back to level 1. I was happy to give this game another go from scratch, but quickly got stuck at level 17, for weeks. I went 2 solid weeks without any screws to advance one of the buildings. As upgrading buildings is the only way to advance levels, it was quickly no longer fun. The requirement to spend gems for the daily tool boxes is impossible. The amount if gems given for free to play, is negligible. It makes it seem like a cash grab to force people to buy gems. The only way to get gems free are from level up chests (see concern above on time required to level up,) and from the mystery island, which takes even longer to obtain the rare pieces to create. Even with these you get maybe 20 gems if you are lucky. Very disappointed in this update, and they beed to offer more ways to get toolboxes if they want to “smooth out” the level progression. Past level 15 progress us non-existant.

I’m not a fan of the new UPDATE. It definitely came out of left field! I try to play several times a day which is mostly out of determination and frustration. I am at level 37 and have dwelled there for what seems like a lifetime. Too dramatic? Maybe. Going up the chain to capture the very last dessert spawned my determination and frustration!! Obtaining building materials is akin to watching paint dry. It is insane for a 60 year old Kindergarten teacher to obsess over a game, especially when I am an advocate for much less screen time for children and more active play.
I can afford to pay to play when it helps my perspective to enhance the game and have more fun. Spending money on Travel Town does nothing to enhance the game nor make it anymore fun. I just see it as a disguised subscription fee.
I sincerely hope the developers will seriously reflect on these reviews. If said developers have any help suggestions, please share. Any and all advice from other players would be most appreciated.

UPDATE: want to update this to say that i can’t even play it now. at all. not sure what the point is of a game that i can’t even open. it was frustrating enough to have to struggle for a while to get it to work but now it doesn’t work at all. opens, loads, crashes, closes. and starts to overheat my phone in the process.

i’ll start to say i love this game. it keeps me occupied for a good amount of time and although it’s simple i really do like it. the biggest problem is that it keeps crashing! sometimes i have to close and open it multiple times before i can actually play the game. once it stops crashing it’s usually fine for a good while but it can be really frustrating getting to that point. and it overheats my phone terribly. no other game or app that i have makes my phone overheat like this. i don’t know why. i also wish i could get more energy chests but that may just be because i’m impatient and want to play when i’m in the mood to, not when the game allows me.

I used to like this game because it gave you the opportunity of playing a while with the chests and energy it would give you constantly. It was fun until major updates that happened since 2022 were there’s barely any chests given (unless you pay), barely any energy is given, and NOW in a recent update you can’t even level up and you only give half of the energy (out of 100) you used to give???? Like how do you expect people at higher levels/harder levels (I’m level 56 so I think I have played enough to know) to WANT to play if there’s barely any motivation/rewards/energy you give? Ofc UNLESS YOU PAY..its almost like it’s being forced without telling you to do it. It’s kind of disappointing because I loved this game not bc it was easy but bc the rewards kept me playing…now it’s either I wait hours to play or pay. I don’t know if after this update I want to keep playing. My last straw was this latest update of only getting 50 energy after leveling up. That was the ONLY time you could get a decent chance to keep playing. It should’ve at least stayed the same as before to keep players motivated. Such a disappointment.

I do enjoy this game but not enough to keep it. The game is unfair and expensive. First off, it takes a lot of diamonds to purchase items in the store and even top up on energy. Buying energy with diamonds starts off at 10 diamonds and then doubles from there (should have started with 5, 10, 20 and so on). Also when you pay for diamonds the amount you pay is way more than the diamonds you get. One simple item in the store can cost over 100 diamonds. Also, the game seems rigged. One producer can give you multiple items. When you need a beverage for example you get a bunch of tomatoes. You can use all of your 100 energy to get beverages and only receive 2. Ridiculous. You get the items when you don’t need them and run out of energy so fast. That stupid tile maker takes about 5 moves just to get one tile and even then it’s not guaranteed. You can get a stupid dud. I really hate this game. Not fair and not worth it. The creators are more concerned with making money and getting you to spend than they are with you enjoying the game. I will be deleting this game. Not worth it!

I was okay and i was very Interested in the game. Until now you have 100 energy but the pots and items run out of energy before you do. It’s a waste of time bc you can’t get the items needed by the customers bc the ones they want the pots always have to recharge. It wasn’t doing that before the update. Now your board is filled with unnecessary items that you can “sell” for pennys . I just hate that games look so interesting on the add then u download and it’s boof!! Not to mention u get stuck for days bc the pot doesn’t give you the items your needing to complete a single order. Especially the good watch’s and the gold monkeys … you literally waste all your energy trying to get a watch when it only gives monkeys and magical pots. Then when I need a monkey I only get magiCal pots and watches.. it’s almost rigged. I even bought some diamonds thinking it will help me pass some levels. But I’m starting to get bored waiting for the energy to come back to not get what I need out the pots.

So I love to play this game with my 5yo. It is good for him to spot the difference and use fine motor skills to drag items to the correct place. I don’t usually spend money in the first month of owning a game. Mainly because if I can’t play it or it is not an effective tool for me. However, we came on vacation and we have had more time waiting I was convinced to get one of the 4th of July specials. It’s been 2 days and no receipt. Another thing I find frustrating is there is zero consistency in orders so we go through so much more energy and a full board because 2+ 4= 6 combinations possible. I understand it prompts the spend money goal of the company but it’s not necessary. The game is very addictive and fun and having those stall moments does get a more impatient buyer to hit the pay button. Which brings me to tool boxes and jewelry boxes and ice cream stands which never recharge at reasonable or playable level. I’ll end my rants with lack of instructions or game information being unavailable is one of things that drives me to look for a different game with similar play but with the rules, instructions and transparency in purchases continues. Overall, this is about 5-10 minutes of gameplay every 2 hours or so without making purchases. It’s fun and you get little bits of happiness for every “combination” you make! It has a cute story so we read and play. So if you have good self control and like to game and read with your kids I highly recommend it.

Fun match game, similar to other games out there. What makes this one unique is the town development aspect and the various producers that you get as you move through the game. Some are regular tap for an item, some spit the items out at a certain interval, and some need to be tapped multiple times to produce the item. Those last ones are the most frustrating, but I like the additional challenge of having to ration your energy and plan your moves to optimize order completion.

I do have a few *minor* critiques. After a certain point, you stop using some producers all together. The game has a kind of cold storage for the obsolete producers to get them out of the way. However, I do wish the game would circle back to them sometimes. Just to mix it up. Also, the frequency of energy and gem drops is rather low compared to other similar games; it would be nice to have more of a chance to get energy and gems. In the same vein, the cost of energy feels high and I dislike that the item shop only offers gems prices.

Overall, this is a nice game that keeps me returning daily. It’s relaxingly simple while providing a slight challenge in terms of resource management. The special events are always a fun bonus, too.

It’s fun but there are so many different types of items needed or collected that produce other things and the board fills up way too fast trying to merge little items to become larger requested items. With producers at maximum level you still only start receiving the second lowest items to merge so it takes FOREVER to create anything requested and then the rewards are small. You can purchase gems (no thanks) or earn them (difficult) to buy storage space but it’s not worth it because you still won’t ever have enough room. Also, you easily run out of energy and you have to wait for producing items to recharge when you do have energy or again, spend gems. Many producing items are not really needed and can be stored after a certain level but you earn one storage slot at a time in certain levels. Unlimited storage should be given considering many if not most producing items aren’t used after certain levels unless you can created & store 3 maxed out items such as 3 crowns/tiaras. I turned off the chat after each building was upgraded since I didn’t care about the pretend conversations. Wish it were better as it’s a cute idea. The game is not really like their advertisements seen on other apps.

I originally downloaded from watching the ad in another app. I enjoy the game however you get stuck with no energy unless you spend real money and I’m not about to do that on this silly game. I am willing to watch ads for energy but the option is RARELY there. Seems like everyone’s giving you the same feedback and have been for over a year… change the way we earn energy and the recharge rate!! Also you have to combine so many objects just to get to one thing and they’re always basic items poppin out. There are hardly any already merged items which wastes all your energy. It gets old and boring. The board is small so the further along you get the less items you can create because you have to merge a bunch of single stones to get to a stupid shell !!! TravelTown won’t be fun or used much longer with that system. All of you using your money and still unsatisfied —-quit spending your hard earned money on TravelTown—— they just want your money and couldn’t care less about fixing the issues. As long as you spend they won’t fix it. Also I watch your stupid ads for bubble items and it doesn’t even pop them half the time. So unhappy with your app it’s ridiculous especially reading the reviews - Greedy greedy developers !

I enjoyed a lot of aspects of this game, but the ratio of “energy” to items is severely lopsided. You will get maybe a minute or two of free play on a very limited board before waiting 2 minutes for 1 single energy that is used to produce one low level product that comes from a producer item (that also takes up space on the board) that pops out multiple strands of items. So if you’re trying to make a salad, you’ll get sushi and desserts. And then the second you merge up the sushi cause you are out of space, the next thing the game will request is the sushi that you just merged that took 3 days of play just to make…it’s SUPER frustrating. I ended up deleting the game after a week because the rate of play to wait and frustration was not worth it.

The town that you’re “building” doesn’t progress quickly at all. It will be days before you can do the next step unless you’re spending TONS of money. Most games offer in-app purchases for $1-5 but this wants $7.99 for the opportunity to have another 10 minutes of play…I don’t know who would actually spend money on this thing.

When I started I loved playing the game! I watched every video I could, joined the Facebook group. I went all out for this game and I’ll admit I’ve spent a couple bucks on energy when I’ve been bored 😂 but recently the game is either not working right or just being rude when you get to a certain level. I takes so much money to upgrade one thing, and the orders don’t give me a lot of money compared to how long it takes to fill them. Because when you need to place and order, the baskets never give you the items you need, it gives you the exact opposite. Also for the card collections, it always gives me old cards and never new ones. I have almost competed every single one, and now I don’t get new cards. It’s just starting to take forever to do anything. So I’m on the fence of whether to keep playing or not 🤷🏼‍♀️

Edit: I still love this game, but when playing the special events and getting to level 14 I never get the prizes. It always glitches and I don’t get rewarded. This has happened twice now and it’s frustrating. I love playing but I hate not getting any rewards for playing. I just wish the game was a little more fair. Also no matter what I do, if I buy it or win it the amount of duplicate cards is insane. I have 8/9 for so many!!! Never can complete them. I have no more money and I just want to play a game to distract from everything. I just want an easy fair game.

UPDATE:

I'm on level 33 and I'm beginning to enjoy the game less. The orders are only for the higher items that take forever to get so I'm constantly out of lives in a matter of minutes and I barely get to fulfill any orders. I ended up having to spend $8 to beat the side quest in time and that's annoying. There are some producers and items that don't even get used anymore which is annoying because they're taking up board space. I don't want to sell the items in case I will need them and I don't have my full storage for producers yet. Not sure how it determines when you get a new space to store a producer? Also, the cost of new storage places for items goes up with each one you get which is ridiculous. I just feel like the game doesn't allow you to ever have enough energy. It caps it at 100 when you're not active (dislike) and it takes soooo much energy when merging to get the higher items. And you only get 1 every 2 minutes!? Come on. So frustrating. I feel like there could be a better balance so the game is still challenging but also still fun to play.

It's sad because I was seriously loving this game and now I feel like I probably won't be playing for much longer unless the developers make some changes. :(

ORIGINAL POST:

I don't usually leave reviews, especially for games, but this game is so addicting! I love it. And I love the short little side quests that happen every now and then.

This game is great. Other merge games I've tried are either too slow, or impossible to play without spending money. There's obviously effort being put into this game, it's not something made for a quick buck. There's no interruption ads, though there are many popup prompts for purchases. The pace you can move at isn't too fast or slow. I've had the game for about 3 weeks and I'm on level 28.

My main problem with this game, is the energy system. I know there's meant to be some idle features on this game, but this is too much. It takes almost 4 hours to get full energy. I feel like I never actually get to play the game because I'm constantly waiting for the game to let me play. And there's hardly any others ways to get it without spending money. $4 for only 200 energy? That's not worth it at all. I wish there was a way to eliminate the energy feature, so I can actually play the game for more than 3 minutes at a time. I'd be willing to pay for that, it would be like playing a full version of the game. I just wish there was less waiting for the game and more actually ppaying the game.

5 stars! I really really enjoy this game, HOWEVER… I could see myself losing interest and moving on to another game. It takes FOREVER to regenerate energy!

For perspective: it’s taken me 2 days to merge items to get to the last item in the large dinner basket, and I have EXCLUSIVELY only used my accrued energy on the large dinner basket! This is all to complete 1 task. Thats crazy to me! How long it takes to regenerate energy and days to get to a higher tiered item. NOTE: keep in mind I have been opening TravelTown non-stop all day and using my energy even before it has a chance to fully recharge to the max.

Maybe instead of taking 2 minutes to get 1 energy, it could be less time. And I hate to say it, but there could be more adds to watch to get more energy quickly?! Or an ability to accrue more gems, to be exchanged for energy?! Just some ideas to keep people playing this great game.. I would hate to have to move on to a new game..

I spent a pretty penny on this game ($200+ USD.) What I noticed is that the daily challenges for events give you either a 3 star or 4 star card pack, which usually won’t give any new cards after the 5th one you open. The chest only containing 2 star or 3 star card packs isn’t beneficial for progression in the events. Having several duplicates is irritating, especially since I can only give out 2 per day, and by the time I finish with the daily tasks I have already gotten 2+ duplicates. You can’t usually get golden cards, and having to pay for packs just to get a chance at getting them is annoying. Not being able to trade them is even more so, as I have gotten duplicates of the golden cards. Making card packs more expensive has turned me off on purchasing any. It has gotten harder to progress in the game itself as everything takes longer to complete. The coins is not the issue, but rather the toolbox. In the beginning, you could get 2-3 toolboxes, however now it’s only 1-2. If it takes more energy to complete, I think it should give more (ie 4-5 toolboxes). I’m hoping that the next update will bring some big improvements.

I would literally play this game all day long if it wasn't for the ridiculously fast rate at which you run out of energy and then everything is behind a pay wall or ads. I don't mind watching the ads but after 3, the option disappears and you're left with spending real money as your only option. For now, I'm game to wait until my energy refills and come back to play again but I keep wondering how long before I get annoyed enough to stop. I've spent some real money on the game but overall really try to avoid doing that so I feel I'll be done with it sooner than later.

I agree with some of the other reviews that talk about how difficult it becomes to make higher level items once you reach a certain level and how maxed out creator items rarely give you what you actually need. These two things lead to a very crowded and overwhelming board which makes it a little less fun and more anxiety-producing.

I think it's a great game and is definitely super fun and addicting but just wish I could play longer without running out of energy and/or having to spend actual money to play for more than 5min.

This game would be so fun if it weren’t pretty much impossible to fill orders without spending actual real money. Their algorithm seems to be set to give you the items you don’t need when trying to fill an order. At first I thought this was just in my head but it keeps happening so that I use all of my energy and I have filled my board with items I don’t need. Then, when I delete some of those items to make space on my board, suddenly I get a customer that is ordering the very things I deleted. It is incredibly frustrating. The events are impossible to complete and can be somewhat confusing. They make it so you get super close to winning the event but in the end you either end up paying money to get more energy or you lose the event. Some people still lose after purchasing. Don’t even get me started on the cards. I will get lots of cards on any given day, none of which will be what I need to complete sets and win prizes. I will sit with being one away from completing a set on like 3 or 4 sets, get 10 cards and they’re all cards I already have. This game is impossible. Beautiful, vibrant graphics though. Takes too much of my time for me to never win anything. Will probably end up deleting it along with so many other players on this game.

I love the story line and all of the different generators - it’s less boring because of that. I also really like that you can store some of your lesser used generators so they don’t take up space, and that the building supplies don’t cost energy to free them from the tool boxes. However, for many of the generators you get maybe one special item for every maybe 15-20 regular items, so when a customer asks for higher level special item, it takes many cycles of energy to get it. It’s probably quite literally impossible to complete all daily tasks without spending gems and/or real money. Opportunities to collect gems are sparse. Finally, customers rarely, if ever ask for lesser-valued items once you have a given generator more developed/completed. Except for newly discovered generators, the customers only ask for high level items. Ultimately it is the energy expense of order fulfillment that will cause me to delete this game, I just haven’t…yet. I understand that these developers need the players to spend real money in order for the developers to make money, but when they make it this much of a hassle to progress that I delete the game, what did they really gain?

Over the years I’ve played a few mobile games and not many have been merge games. However, I will say most merge games that I have played contain a very extensive wait time in between tasks, which can feel very tedious when most would like to play games to pass time.

Travel Town manages to have a system that seems more effective in allowing further progression at a quicker rate than most. What I also enjoy is the fact that ADs aren’t thrown around all will nilly; They usually have a purpose. Most of the time it’s to get items or energy to keep playing and that option along with easy ways to get the in game currency have me seeing more positives in this game compared to others similar to it. I will say as I’ve kept playing that in-app purchase pop-ups have been showing up a lot more frequently versus when I first started, but the fact that energy doesn’t take very long to build up makes it a little more tolerable than it would if it felt like I had no other options. And that’s the way I feel most free games should be - free without making you feel like your arm is twisted to gain further enjoyment from playing.

Simple concept, simple mechanics and progression does indeed get more complex as you move forward, but not to the point of a complete standstill and over-reliance on in-app purchases, something that made me turn away from a lot of mobile games that I once enjoyed