# Brave Merge - Battle & Defense — user reviews > 105 indexed App Store user reviews of Brave Merge by SayGames LTD, rated 4.70/5 from 5,482 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brave-merge-battle-and-defense/id6444832814/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brave-merge-battle-and-defense/id6444832814.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,390 · 4★ 625 · 3★ 267 · 2★ 73 · 1★ 127 ## What do users think of Brave Merge? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💡 Interesting gameplay concept - 👍 Fun and addictive game **Cons** - 🤬 Forced ads - 💰 Progression blocked by paywalls - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🕰️ Slow progression and tedious gameplay **Commonly reported bugs** - Ads freezing or not working properly - Progression and save data issues - Crashes and performance problems **Most requested features** - Remove all ads, not just some - Improve progression and balance economy - Fix bugs and glitches - Enhance gameplay to reduce tedium ## Newest reviews (14 of 105) ### 2/5 — They ruined it. *2026-01-03, version 1.6.14* Had a great time playing this game, but now the gameplay screen has too much ads and they actually interfere with the smooth gameplay. I have uninstalled it because of the overlay ad they added a bit ago. ### 3/5 — Forced ads :( *2024-07-29, version 1.5.2* Gameplay itself is pretty fun. I really enjoy it. I play a LOT of mobile games, and normally end up making purchases to support the devs, however if a game has forced ads I have to delete it. Absolutely cannot stand forced ads. I along with many others are happy to have the choice to watch ads to help progress faster or obtain bonuses. ### 3/5 — Ads *2024-05-19, version 1.5.2* I love me some ad rewards, but ads just for playing so many minutes or because you pick up resources are dumb. This is a fun game and keep on reopening it, but the ads make me close it not long after. ### 3/5 — Good game but frustrating *2023-12-25, version 1.5.0* Good addictive game but levels become very boring. Beginning of levels is fun but not enough gold given, so completing each level becomes long and boring. You have to watch a lot of adverts to summon the mage. ### 3/5 — Ok but boring *2023-12-14, version 1.5.0* Well made game but easily tedious ### 2/5 — meh *2023-10-31, version 1.4.1* it's seems like a spin off from goblin and gold. too many ads and the levels seem to quick ### 1/5 — I love this game *2023-09-24, version 1.4.0* I love playing this game but hate how many ads you need to watch to get anything good. Give me a out of the ads and id play it more ### 1/5 — Another forced ads game *2023-08-17, version 1.3.0* Useless ### 1/5 — Refund my money *2023-08-01, version 1.2.1* Fix your ads. ### 2/5 — It’s ok but *2023-07-26, version 1.2.1* Yet another game where you have to watch ads 4 or 5 times per level! More time watching ads than just laying the game ### 2/5 — I use to love the game *2023-07-25, version 1.2.1* My game no longer recives offline currency nor ingame the only money i recieve in game is from defeating the mobs my building no longer generate currency ingame fix this issue and it’ll be back to a 5 star but right now im tempted to delete ### 2/5 — Fix it! *2023-07-07, version 1.2.1* Game was great. Now ads don’t load properly so you can’t exit them. Would be happy to pay to remove ads altogether. ### 3/5 — Star shine *2023-06-24, version 1.1.1* Unique. Produced a great desire to raise the power of the players. Shall see how this progresses. ### 2/5 — Could be amazing *2023-06-23, version 1.1.1* I paid for no ads but still have to watch as many as I did before paying for no ads . It takes forever to get your team to high numbers . I like the game but the ads are getting old ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Forced ads *2025-06-16, version 1.6.7* Another five star game ruined by forced ads. Have ads be optional but don’t ever have them forced. And what’s the point? I can just close the game, reopen and be right back to where I was… it’s just stupid. I don’t mind spending on games like this but once there’s any forced ads, you lose my business. Having an option to pay to remove the optional ads is fine, but it’s not worth the price they’re charging just to get rid of forced ads, something that shouldn’t be there in the first place. ### 1/5 — Forced ads, forced uninstall. *2024-08-21, version 1.5.2* Forced ads is a deal breaker ### 1/5 — Mandatory ads *2024-05-06, version 1.5.2* Mandatory ads popping ! Game to avoid ### 1/5 — Impossible to play higher levels without paid upgrades *2024-03-25, version 1.5.2* Once you get to a certain point, the game is impossible to play without paid upgrades. Eliminating the max level on cards and bringing back some of the old features might help this. It is really frustrating. I’ve also never gotten a response from support. There are multiple bugs it in the game. ### 1/5 — Too much add *2024-03-25, version 1.5.2* Enjoyed the game until I realized that whenever I want to do something I have an add to watch, super annoying. ### 1/5 — No ads means no ads *2024-01-14, version 1.5.0* So for 7bucks I get 10 ads for free? That’s not how it is presented ### 1/5 — Ads all the dang time *2024-01-01, version 1.5.0* Ads every 30 seconds ### 1/5 — Ad just freeze *2023-12-20, version 1.5.0* Same old problem with ads Call of Dragons ad - “reward granted X” that appears after 30 seconds, won’t return to the game when you click the “X” so you have to reboot, then open the game to return, and hence you lose the reward whilst the developer gets the click. Deleted. Thankfully. ### 1/5 — Really ads? *2023-11-22, version 1.5.0* Go download gold and goblins, same game but better without forced ads. Any game with forced ads should be deleted. ### 1/5 — Removing ads *2023-11-08, version 1.4.1* Buying remove ads only works for base game and not things such as the wheel or and bonuses that pop up that requires you to watch a video even though the remove ad is supposed to, well remove ads ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2026-04-01, version 1.6.16* Is good ### 5/5 — The Best Game Ever *2025-04-26, version 1.6.4* The best game ever made. ### 5/5 — GOAT *2023-11-21, version 1.5.0* A amazing little game and a lot of fun fantastic ### 5/5 — real time idle strategy! enjoy *2023-04-05, version 1.0.9* merge them all! ### 5/5 — Fun game! *2023-03-24, version 1.0.9* Very fun game to pass the time! ### 5/5 — Amazing game with new features *2023-03-22, version 1.0.9* As of 3/22/2023 So the game updated today and I noticed several quality of life changes that just made the game so much better. 1. Down to the exact second timers. This was a great add. It used to be rounded up to the nearest 5 second interval while below 1 minute, and rounded to the nearest minute otherwise. While this didn’t impact gameplay much it’s a nice QoL improvement 2. The most important thing I’ve noticed with this update, they revamped the upgrade cards and separated into more building types. This adds more variety to the game and also fixes a bug where upgrading the same building at different rarity levels didn’t always impact the gold earned. A future note, and this is just an ask. Maybe an actual update list of changes in the patch notes. Just so players know what to expect with new updates and can provide better feedback. ### 5/5 — Great concept that I would enjoy more if . *2023-02-09* Incredibly easy to understand fun to play and though its slow at first I’m assuming that as you advance the game will speed up and if it does this game will be great. ### 4/5 — Fun game but *2023-09-27, version 1.4.0* Fun game but i see a slot still locked for like events are gonna happen does this game have events or they coming what? ### 4/5 — Bring back old princess *2023-08-23, version 1.3.0* Before the latest update the princess was actually good and lasted a while. There are cards that boosted her time. Now we have to either use gems for a set 10 or 20 minutes or watch an ad for “5 minutes”. Use quotations because the timer starts as soon as you click watch ad. The longest time I’ve had was 4 minutes and the shortest was 30 seconds! This is the only mechanic that is truly broken, please fix ASAP ### 4/5 — Wow Ads *2023-07-04, version 1.1.1* Listen the game is good but GOD are you committing murder by throwing surprise ads into the mix, it makes the game unplayable!!! I’m not talking about the ads for higher soldiers or 2x coin or special offers, I’m talking about getting a chest on the field and opening it then getting smacked with a surprise ad, please please please stop this 🙏 this is a interesting game. I would give it five stars but the ads are just to much just be straight with the players and this could be a very popular game --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-06.*