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Fun at first but grows Frustrating
Merged is a simple, fun and addictive game. Excellent UI and sound effects.
But the first thing you notice are the incessant ads, even during the game play. You can pay a dollar to remove the ads, but only on one device. If you switch phones or own an iPad, you have to plunk down another $.
Next, you notice that the levels don’t present any new challenges. The game grows boring quickly.
Because the game chooses the next tiles pseudo-randomly, you can’t really improve your score either. The algorithm limits your game play deliberately. You can buy coins to offer more choices, but you quickly run through all of your coins.
Ultimately, you reach a wall where you can’t get ahead and you wind up spending more and more money to play longer or better your score.Show lessEssGeeEll
Like it, could love it
Fun game. Requires thinking, planning and strategy so NOT a mindless game, which is great. But, it’s way to difficult to get higher scores on this game. If the algorithm allowed for fewer doubles-especially once the board fills up-to give you a chance to actually achieve a high score it would be so much more fun to play. Unfortunately the way it is now, the less space available on the board it seems like the more doubles you get so you are basically screwed once the board is over half full. Also, could be user error but I have played for a while now and have not been able to improve my score over time. That ends up making the game a bit boring after a while.Show lessAnnie PhD
great game could use some improvement
my main thing about this game is that i will never know what pieces i have next, so when i put a piece somewhere and i realize that the next piece would have fit better, it sort of ruins the progress I made. so my recommendation is to do an up next sort of thing that shows what tile is next. ai think that’d be great. oh and maybe adding more tile numbers even though that might mess with the dice theme so to speak but maybe something to consider. but overall i do like the game and it gets addictive.Show lessGoodygirl4545
Changed the game :/
My favorite part of merged used to be merging 4+ blocks of the same kind together but now it only merges three at a time even if it ends up connecting 4 or more which is kind of annoying because instinctively it should just merge all of them. (Only happens sometimes like when there are four 2s- it’ll merge only three of them and leave one)
Ads are kind of annoying because even when I just go into the settings for a hot sec an ad comes up.
Also weird touch response on iPhone XR when picking up the blocks, not sure if it’s intentional or not. But I would probably rather have block jump up right as I pick it up rather when I’m hovering it over the board because it’s faster that way.Show lessmar-tes
Can’t even purchase to avoid ads
The ads as everyone has mentioned are terrible, frequent, and loud. Forget playing this game anywhere with people, you seem like an inconsiderate buffoon.
But the button to remove ads is greyed out - should be $1.99 but is not possible to click. I emailed the developers, and alas, no reply.
This is a shame because I loved this game when it first came out (I was an avid 1010 player), and when I redownloaded it, it just made me sad how bad it has gotten. If I could at least pay the $2 to stop being harassed by ads, I could deal with it, but no luck.Show lessjennyy867
Forgot Why I Deleted; 1 game in reminded me
I love the concept and play of this game, but it isn’t a good enough game for the annoyance of the ads.
1. They know we don’t like this, and there’s no way to leave a review through the game.
2. Ads — so many issues. After every game you have at least 10 seconds of video ads to watch.
3. Video ads all play sound by default and sometimes the mute button doesn’t work.
4. After your video ad, you are required to sit on a pop up ad for an additional 5 seconds.
5. Once you click the x on the ad, it takes you to the page to download it, not back to the game.
6. Sometimes you have to hit the x 15+ times to even be sent to the ad’s download page so you can go back and ACTUALLY PLAY THEIR GAME.
I understand making the ads annoying enough for us to want to buy to have them removed, but all this practice has encouraged me to do is uninstall. Your game is not developed or intense enough to make it worth it.
I had this downloaded a long time ago, and uninstalled because of the ads. When I got my new phone, I downloaded it, remembering that I enjoyed the game. Unfortunately, the ads have actually GOTTEN WORSE, not better.
Not only would I never download any ap advertised through this game on principle alone, but I’ve actually refused to even try games that do look interesting just because of the abusive ad tactics of this game.
Uninstalled.Show lessLorethea
Why all the ads suddenly!?!
I have had this game for almost 2 years and it is my favorite game. BUT, Gram games you have ruined it! Last game I played in a 30 min span I had 4 pop up ads that caused me to misplace blocks bc I was in the middle of a move. This game was not like this when I downloaded it. I understand you have to make a profit. I don’t mind a couple ads, but what you guys have done is ridiculous! You can’t make money if no one plays the game. Please fix this before I am forced to delete your app.Show lessJball32
Used to love it. Not anymore.
I first played this app a few years ago and loved the simplicity of it. There were ads back then. I get it. Free app, gotta have ads. I understand. But they weren’t the way they are now.
Now the ads after a game are super long. To the point where it’s faster to just close the app and reopen it. Closing the app after every game is really annoying. And there’s no way I’m sitting through a 60 second ad! And I’m not talking about the “earn and extra 60 coins?” optional ads. I’m talking about the ones you can’t skip and that play after every game.
PLUS there’s ads during the game. This alone wouldn’t bother me but they make the game lag really bad. I haven’t had issues with my phone heating up or crashing like others have, but the lag is more than enough for the developers to know there’s something wrong.
All in all, a great little game. But a horrible HORRIBLE app. It’s a shame to see how far it’s sunk since I last played. Really unfortunate.Show lessJohn Dave Canon
Used to enjoy but....
I used to really enjoy this game. However, after running it today for the first time in a long time, upon launch I had to ok updated user agreements and privacy policies. Not unusual as almost all sites and apps have been doing this recently. Here’s where it gets weird. Suddenly, after agreeing to these and playing for a bit, after I shut down I started getting calls from random phone numbers. Each one I answered said my phone number had called them regarding credit card debt collection. What?!?! Imagine my surprise. Bye Merged. It’s been fun but this is unacceptable.Show lesspuck_stopper71
Nice game but ads are annoying
I like the game but sometimes I stop playing because the ads are too intrusive. The ads will stop the music I’m listening to without any prompt. Sometimes in the middle of the game safari will open up with an ad originating from merged. I get that the app developers need money but when your ads are that annoying I just want to stop playing the game and delete the app. Please find a way to fix this.Show lessCrystalclear0788
