Merge County Reviews

was looking for some mindless stuff to occupy my time, and this one was by far the worst decision. this game wants you to spend money so bad you can’t go five minutes without it giving you a pop up trying to sell you things. i didn’t touch the screen for a few minutes bc i was responding to someone talking to me in real life and when i looked back there was ANOTHER bundle offer on my screen. you can literally sit there and do NOTHING and they still come at you like a pack of jehovah’s witnesses high on the scent of nonbelievers.

also it treats you like you’re stupid. the amount of times the game stopped to teach me the same mechanics i already knew was infuriating. the events are especially guilty of this. it slows down everything you’re doing to highlight an item and show you exactly where to put it instead of having any faith in you to have literally any amount of brain cells to know what’s going on. maybe i just have too much faith in the intelligence of the general public, but having my brain off game constantly interrupt me to tell me how to do the same thing ive already been doing for days is annoying. they really think ur so dumb u can’t figure out anything on your own. they show you putting the square peg in the square hole before just letting you do it as if you’re a toddler.

0/10 as a person above the age of 6. if you’re 6 or under i dunno maybe this will do some cocomelon to your brain or something i don’t know how toddlers work

I am a Merge County player - currently at LEGEND level - who made A LOT of in-app purchases. I *WAS* addicted to this game - but not anymore. The game owners are about to lose a paying customer. In fact, I actually enjoyed this game more when I played at less advanced (and free) levels. Not a great business model.

Here is one of the biggest problems out of several big problems. The amount of pinwheels it takes to open new locations in the “County” is unbalanced and unfair, especially in comparison to all other aspects of the game. Superficially, it seems logical (and profitable for the game developers); the more a player advances the more difficult advancement gets - a challenge to encourage more playing. However, in reality, I am having to SLOW my building speed down just to wait on pinwheel accumulation. I literally have “bouncing” buildings waiting for the platforms, which is distracting, takes up valuable space and prevents the ability to build more. I have achieved several new characters but no “home(s)” for them. This makes absolutely NO sense.

It is EXTREMELY frustrating, and I am no longer enjoying the game. It has become monotonous to play instead of fun and challenging. This flaw, among others, will now cause a loss of profit for the game owners. Sadly, the same is about to be true of my play in Merge Fables. Other game companies are now profiting.

It’s truly sad to see how far this game has fallen. It used to be so much fun, but now it’s just another cash grab. The new side missions are a joke—poorly designed and clearly created to milk players for money. You can’t even progress without mining on the island, which is clearly just a ploy to drain your energy and push you to spend cash to refill it.

Then there are the “races” on event islands, which don’t even start until you’re down to 15 energy—seriously? They basically force you to spend at least 100 energy, with no option to skip. It’s exhausting how every feature is built to squeeze your wallet.

And don’t get me started on the endless tutorials. After 40 times of doing the same mission, why am I still forced into a tutorial I can’t skip? It’s especially frustrating during timed objectives—which, by the way, they’ve added a ridiculous amount of. The game isn’t fun anymore; it’s a chore designed to rob you blind.

I previously wrote a review about there needing to be a skip option for the tutorial due to it not being functionally any different from other merge games and too long. Well, I’m taking another star off for the excessive number of pop ups. I open the game and I’m bombarded with all of these screen pop ups about this or that event. I spent several minutes just clicking through them all. This event has ended! Ok. Want to pay for the next item you didn’t reach? No. Are you sure you don’t want it? YES IM SURE!!! Rinse repeat that about 3-4 more times. Then there’s the constant banners for each quest completion and new objectives and the “buy this for real money” things that again ask “Are you sure?” When you click no thank you.

Really people, it’s too much. I’m deleting the game because it’s all so intrusive. I want to just play and enjoy the game, not to have to click repeatedly through pop up’s and prompts to buy XYZ thing for real money. I CAN’T be the only person feeling this. Give us the option to turn all of that off, opt out of all these “events”, and yes skip the cut scenes/tutorials. Better yet calm that all the way down. I really wanted to enjoy this game but nope.

I like the game for the most part but there are a few things I don’t like. 1. I get very annoyed by the ads I see for this game while playing other games. The game is nothing like the ads and I hate the deception. 2. There is an event board immediately after the previous event board is done. I like the events but give us a day in between them. It’s too much. 3. Today you dropped 5 new items in the main board. I like new things but 5 at once when I am already struggling for space to put things. Too much. I am having to merge at three instead of 5 sometimes because there is just no room for 5 new items. (I play a lot of merge games and I’m pretty good at managing space). One change I really like is the event board digging being One dig. I like being able to do it all at once instead of several digs for less energy. Saves time and much better I think.

First off, I saved a bunch of cash 799 for that little island and what’s on the island is definitely NOT worth what’s on it. I think there should be a lot more on it. And think I should get something for it. I used a bunch of things like the rainbow rocks just to get enough cash for it. And went through a bunch of stuff just to save up for it and it’s ridiculous. I also have a suggestion with the characters. They take up spots and I don’t see why. You could make them invisible I’m not sure how to put it. You can just go the side bar to collect the pinwheels and coins or a collect all that are ready to be collects. There’s not enough room for anything. I have to keep using the shovel just to clear one spot and do that over and over and I’m just loosing items. Everything too expensive and not worth it at that point. It’s just frustrating especially the pop ups. Introducing new events and saying old ones ended right after each other I’m in such a hurry to click all them off I don’t get to collect my stuff from that event because I forget and just to hurry through. This is my favorite game but I’m starting to think I’m wasting my time and energy on this game. You need to actually fix stuff and make it better. I have MANY more problems and suggestions I’m sure other people do too. So do better please.

There are many good aspects to this game. The graphics are nice, the merging action is good, the game gives you ‘floats’ which help with resources, and keeps the game moving forward.

You have the ability to open new land (more room for money or if you merge enough items.) This feature I do not like because you have to merge so many items for such a small amount, that the land you unlock just gets in the way. There should be a greater reward, or perhaps rethink the approach to unlocking land for merging.

The only reason I did not give 5 stars was the help desk. When I say something is not working, I expect to be treated kindly & perhaps have the process explained so I see what is happening. I do not expect to be told “pay attention” as a sign off from customer service. I liked this game enough to pay for some of the deals offered, but I don’t like it enough to be disrespected.

this game is better than other merge games due to the fact that the time/energy it takes to mine/build/upgrade the buildings is more balanced. in other games, it takes a very very long time to build and upgrade buildings so its a total grind. u also earn the instant builder guys faster to help u build more quickly.

however, the events in separate locations that have separate event energy to build event items, is not balanced. its actually very hard to get all the pieces for events without spending in game currency and/or real money. as a suggestion to the developers, it does not make sense to use in game energy to both mine and build ALL final pieces. it would be more balanced if energy was used for mining & for the main event pieces, but not for all of the smaller pieces as well as the energy cost to build these is quite high (ie. for in “new in town”, using energy for just the crib pieces)

I love this game but I rated it 4 stars because the events only last a couple of days and I can never get through the whole event before it changes to a new one. I feel incomplete not being able to finish these events especially because I log into this game 3-4 times a day and can never properly finish events in time. Also I feel very stuck in the fish and animal place because there’s not much I can do to develop the habitat for them. Good game though I will continuously keep logging in but it’s hard to get the urge to play when I know the only constant place is the main island and I can’t really progress to different parts on the island because I don’t get the blue water flowers anymore and the pinwheels are only obtained when I feed the people of the island. Which does make the game progress slow but it also elongates the experience.

I would have given this 5 stars, BUT there are definitely some issues that are turning this from being my favorite game to one I’m about ready to delete! Main complaints are, guess what? NO ROOM! After you play this game for a while it gets very frustrating. There’s never enough room!! I spend my time simply trying to find enough room for everything they keep adding! They’ll do these little additions to the game, not side mini games mind you, but ones they drop limited time mines in the main area. These add what seem to be useless items. I call them ‘space wasters’! And the speedy guys take up MORE space. The solution is to keep spending real money. I would, but I have developed a “you make this game playable in the higher levels and I’ll spend some money”. But, not when it just makes me frustrated every time I enter the game. Please fix it or I’ll have no choice but to delete it. And please don’t answer me by telling me to spend my money! Could be a very good game, but it’s too frustrating. 😣

After playing or a while, I’ve notice this game is a knockoff of EverMerge but with some improvements. The game still has bugs, like bonus videos don’t workout all the time but even if your frustrated, you’ll get over it. My only issues are as follows: 1 in the Article Island the Feed icons are too big and they cover the next block unable to see what’s behind ( make them smaller or disappear) 2. The event island is the worst, after 3-4 clearing you use us all your energy. It’s almost like they want you to spend all your energy just to complete this island. I play this island for short time then leave never to compete nor complete. Something needs to be done. 3. Bonus energy video never work’s frustrating all the time, then when it works it’s 45 to 60 seconds video that’s unheard of. Insane. Make the bug fixes and this game will be great. Jojo

I realize that you all need to live, but so do we! I love this game and I am enjoying building the town. However the side games use up the energy so fast that even when I spend money on it I still can’t make it through. I can’t afford to purchase the ticket every 3 days and even when I have I wasn’t able to finish the quest! The side quests are too expensive and too short. Because of that I have been thinking of deleting MergeCounty !

I have decided to delete this game! I just spent $50 in about 15 minutes and still ran out of energy before I could even get through the side quest! I was also trying to get all the things that the boat captain. All the new mines have been fun but they are distracting from building the town. This is the only merge game that I have truly enjoyed but I can’t keep taking money from the family just to play a game!!

I never leave reviews for games but I have decided to because of the creativity of Merge County. Continuous updates with different modes. Awards for everything you participate in. This isn’t a pay to play type of game if you have patience. My only complaint for this game is how quick energy is used up. Again you are awarded for using energy. The only thing I would change is the amount of energy you can accrue over time. 1 energy at a time means I’m having to wait for hours to get back on to do one simple task and slowing the pace of the game down. Meaning you need to now spend money to progress quicker or to even have a chance at winning tournaments. If the energy issue would be tweaked with the next update I would be astatic. I will continue to play and recommend this game to my friends. 5 stars! Thanks Merge County!!

This game is so addicting I love it. I just cant stop playing this game there always throwing little side things to do like a boat yesterday where you could win all kinds of stuff ive played thousands of games and this is by far the best The only thing is you need to create more characters like esther,raymond,prisha i have collected 25 suitcases and have no use for them i was buying a 9.99 that came with other things but i did not know i had no more use for suitcases im saving them hopefully soon i can use them i love this game im sure you can see how many hours i have and how much money ive spent thank you

Any idea when new. Characters will be coming i just have way too many suitcases most purchases include a suitcase i dont want anymore how about you folks buy them back then when new characters come outi,,

I’M too old to be playing this and I’m MUCH TOO OLD to be enjoying it this much! I can’t believe how much fun this game is. I was playing the other game(seaside escape) that I like, but I keep running out of energy (which you must have to continue play) so it suddenly suggests you download this game to win/ redeem energy so I obviously did it and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS ONE MORE! I started playing it 3 hrs. ago and I can’t stop though! So, you’ve been warned, lol. It’s addictive and FUN! It doesn’t matter how old you are bc I’m old!, and I LOVE IT! It keeps giving you stuff so you can keep playing and keeps you busy and interested. Every time I’m just about to stop and leave… it gives me something new and exciting so I have to stay! It’s great seriously, go check it out! You won’t regret it, well I haven’t so far!

This is honestly my favorite game! The best part of the game is you get enough rewards you don’t actually have to spend money if you don’t want to - which is huge factor for me. The only down side I would say is the additional games they add into the “main” part of the game take waaayyy too much energy to participate in. You'll go go go, but then all of sudden need 50 energy to get anything. To get the good rewards you don’t ever have enough energy or you are pretty much screwing your self over for anything else you’re trying to do.
Lastly, the additional bonus areas are impossible to get the main reward if you’re a normal person that doesn’t focus on this game 24/7. They’re still fun and a great way to keep playing if you’re out of energy in another area. Ultimately though a great game! Still lots of opportunity to win rewards & continue on within the game. Hardly any ads unless you choose to watch them for bonuses.

So, this game is awesome. But when it comes to these types of merge games I’m an addict. The characters are cute, and the graphics are awesome. I would say that this game runs into the same problem the others do. The merge evolutions are too high. And when it to comes to the side games it makes it impossible to finish, and the character and buildings just seem to take that much longer. All, in all though, it’s an enjoyable game. I play it every day!

Side note for the developers. Who ever is doing your advertisement, tell them to stop. The whole mom, dad, daughter thing. It’s not even part of the story line. I don’t even understand why there’s a need to throw in that kind of story to get people to play your game. Although it seems it’s the same one being used for many. It’s just sad.

I don’t typically stick with merge games or even really *most* game apps bc I get bored quickly. But I enjoy this one partly because of its charm and hometown feel, nice characters, and adorable graphics. I’ve always wanted a farmhouse on a tract of land, but it isn’t feasible with my teaching job and the commitment it would take to keep up with everything when my favorite way to unwind is to lie in bed and play on my iPhone and iPad. lol

Also, this forces me to organize my space, which periodically becomes an issue in real life. I go through phases where I just don’t give a crap and stuff is everywhere. But I hate messes! So when I keep things tidy in the game, it stays on my mind irl. LOL

I will keep MergeCounty and prob play it everyday. Few apps make that list from lack of time alone!

I have had this game for probably over a year now And I love everything about it except with the bonus energy, which can sometimes be missed and that’s okay. you have other chances through out the day but there are just so many spaces to choose for your “random energy” up to 250 bonus energy is apparently somewhere in the mix, I personally have never received anything higher than 150 over the year and the lowest I’ve received is 40(the one I get most often) even if I had already gotten 40 for the previous chance. You only get like 4 or 5 and there’s I believe 15 spaces to choose from. I think it would just be nice to get a different one every time you go to claim your bonus energy. Like you can’t click on the one you did before? Obviously would reset next day. And just maybe once get a decent number… I have only received anything over 100 MAYBE 5 times through the entire time of me playing! Still love the game and would never delete it lol 5 stars from me that’s the only thing I wish they’d change!

I pretty much never write reviews bu for this game I had too. It is most def a merge game worth playing. The mechanics of the game are pretty much the same. Match and merge to bigger and better. But this game is not just myth and magic. It adds missions based on the reality of the player with a hint of imagination thrown in for fun. You see it in the post office the fire dept, the dairy farm and more. That realism a player can relate to that creates an environment in which the want to keep playing to see what else they can create that is familiar. It encourages without being in your face the desire to complete missions, open more places, gather more, complete daily tasks, etc. And it all flows so well that unless you consciously pay attention to each cog like I did so I could write this review. I played for 3 1/2 hours before I even realized all the nuances happening. And the music relaxes without jarring your senses. I find this game to be fun and enjoyable across the board. Appropriate for 7 and up. It is sure to tantalize one with hours and hours of fun. Kudos to the creators and staff for an excellent job imo