# Critter Coast: Merge Adventure — user reviews

> 154 indexed App Store user reviews of Critter Coast by Extra Dimension Games Inc., rated 4.85/5 from 2,354 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/critter-coast-merge-adventure/id1561343270/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/critter-coast-merge-adventure/id1561343270.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,153 · 4★ 126 · 3★ 31 · 2★ 14 · 1★ 31

## What do users think of Critter Coast?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Cute art style
- 🎨 Calming and relaxing gameplay
- 💰 Generous with free resources
- 🕹️ Unique and enjoyable mechanics
- 🐦 Lovely sound design (bird noises)
- 🤩 Charming characters and personalities

**Cons**

- 🐛 Bugs and glitches (freezing, resetting progress)
- 🔁 Limited replayability after completing content
- 🔍 Difficulty finding certain resources (silk, honey)
- ⏱️ Long recharge times for resources
- 🔒 Inability to revisit previously cleared islands
- 🔌 Lack of energy replenishment options (ads)

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Progress reset after reaching higher levels
- Inability to leave certain areas/islands
- Chests/resources not functioning properly
- Notification bugs (market, etc.)
- Graphical issues (overlapping images)

**Most requested features**

- More islands and content to explore
- Ability to revisit cleared islands
- Timers for resource recharge
- Option to watch ads for energy/resources
- Improved house customization and functionality
- Better guidance on crafting recipes

## Newest reviews (16 of 154)

### 4/5 — Awesome, but I’m completely stuck

*2026-01-10, version 4.10.0*

It’s a great game I’ve loved playing, even if it can get a touch tedious at times the art is lovely and is really nice! However, I’m working on a shrine and it needs this like yellow elixir that isn’t found on the island and the main home island has no missions for me or anything else to do. So now I’m just stuck with nothing else to do  :(

### 3/5 — Fun but glitches

*2025-09-17, version 4.10.0*

Game is really fun, but I can’t get the butterfly net to load. I’ve crafted it a hundred times but it just disappears afterwards.

### 4/5 — Love it, but please update it!

*2025-09-04, version 4.10.0*

I really like this game, and finished all of what’s available because of how much I love it!… but, like others, I’ve hit that wall where I can’t get any further and I want to continue! I find the fact that you can walk around and get stuff from the environment really engaging and I’d love to see more!… please?

### 4/5 — Content missing?

*2025-05-21, version 4.10.0*

I’m at a point in the game where there doesn’t appear to be any more travel content, nor do the clouds appear to be able to be moved. I’d love to finish clearing my island but I fear this is the end.

### 4/5 — Amazing needs more content

*2025-01-11, version 4.10.0*

I love the game but I finished all the content and I’m only doing the otters orders now please update

### 3/5 — Stuck

*2024-12-30, version 4.10.0*

Good game but I can’t make posies for task so I’m stuck. Also I’m unable to contact you directly because the “contact us” button in settings doesn’t work. Cute art style but I can’t progress:(

### 4/5 — Love this game but it broke

*2024-09-09, version 4.10.0*

I closed the app on the ghost dog island during one of the lantern merge games. I just tried to open it one day and it couldn’t get past the loading screen. It’s been like this for around a week now. If the devs are seeing this please help I wanna play this game again so bad

### 3/5 — Stuck

*2024-08-30, version 4.10.0*

I’ve been really enjoying this game but I’m currently stuck on the whispering waves island. It’s telling me to make a fishing rod, saying it has given me the recipe, yet the game is not showing any materials I need to make it. Anybody know how to make one?

### 3/5 — Fun but takes too long without paying

*2024-08-06, version 4.10.0*

I’ve even bought a few things in the app but some missions take way too much energy and it makes me just want to quit playing. The sunshine boxes and trapped goo items are too much and I’ve only been playing for a week.

### 3/5 — Fun game, needs updates

*2024-07-26, version 4.10.0*

Truly I’d give it a 3.5, but that’s not an option on the App Store. I loved this game, it was so much fun. I really like the mechanic of going between the islands to collect things and being able to collect more on the original island because of your experience. Then I hit the Otter Trading Post section. There’s so much more that could be done with this game, I really hope it hasn’t been abandoned but I’m getting tired of doing the same thing for the last 7 months

### 3/5 — Amazing graphics and super unique merge game, however hard to complete tasks

*2024-07-19, version 4.10.0*

I’ve played almost every merge game. I delete most after a day of trying it out because it becomes boring and too difficult. For awhile I absolutely adored this game (would’ve given give stars). The tasks were manageable and I loved having a house that I could decorate. However, I am on level 15 right now and it takes me a couples of days to complete a singular task. I don’t mind watching ads to get energy however it stops offering ads after u watch them about six times. I would watch way more ads to get energy. Also, the recharge time on some materials is wayyyyy too long. This results in me not being as motivated to play the game because i only will be on in it for like two minutes merging due to the fact that materials need recharging so quickly. I’m debating deleting it now simply for these reasons.

### 2/5 — Why did they stop updating this?

*2024-07-12, version 4.10.0*

The game badly needs an update for bug fixes and more content, I’m confused why they are no longer supporting it

### 4/5 — No more quests

*2024-06-21, version 4.10.0*

I love this game a lot but recently, the game gradually becomes boring. Can only find orders at Otter the Merchant but he never gives me maps, just diamonds. Now I have to heal an island to unlock the next orders but there are no maps for me to heal one and I can’t even heal any parts of my island ):

### 4/5 — Pretty neato

*2024-04-17*

The only merge game i have played with a manageable amount of ads, but considering the last update was 7 months ago i think it might be abandoned :(

### 2/5 — Wish I could play

*2024-04-03, version 4.10.0*

I really like this game but I feel like I can’t rate it very high considering it allowed me to enter an area I can’t leave and now I can’t get get to any resources :(

### 5/5 — Great

*2024-03-31, version 4.10.0*

I wasn’t sure what to expect with this game. I had good reviews but the game play is a bit unfamiliar to me. I have really, really enjoyed it. The story is cute, the dialogue has made me laugh a number of times (“you throw an unreasonable number of coins down the well” 😄) and it is really enjoyable to develop the main island and surrounding ones. I enjoy the mini games in the caves and shrines. The rewards are very good, and the generators level up pretty easily. I really like that most of the generators are not on the board but in various places around the islands. This game is actually really enjoyable to play and I look forward to opening it and uncovering and developing more. Thank you!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — STUCK

*2024-12-10, version 4.10.0*

i used to love this game and i think it's really cute, but now it's glitching and i can't play. i'm on the foggy island "level" and i did the quest where you once you complete it, you travel back to your island. what i didn't know was that i needed to build the dock before traveling back to my home island. i went back to the home island, and realized the only quest i could complete was the dock quest. i went back to foggy island, thinking i could finish it, but it completely reset and i can't go past the entrance. i tried to go back to my island, but the map at the bottom is gone and i'm stuck. nothing in the game told me i needed to build the dock first and now i can't play anymore. PLEASE FIX IT!!!

### 1/5 — Game is dead

*2024-10-12, version 4.10.0*

There’s been zero updates in about a year. You max out at level 24 or so. No new quests, maps, or events. Nothing seasonal, even. It’s an absolute shame because the game is cute.

### 1/5 — MORE CONTENT

*2024-06-22, version 4.10.0*

the game hasn’t been updated in 9 months and there is no new content. The developers need to update and add new content!

### 1/5 — Got stuck in a rock

*2024-04-18, version 4.10.0*

IM STUCK IN A ROCK CUZ I HAD TO GET STONE BUT NOW I CANT MOVE I LEFT THE GAME ABD REJOINED BUT IM STILL STUCK I DONT WANNA REDOWNLOAD THE GAME WHEN I SPENT MONEY ON IT AND IM ALREADY AT THE END BRO IDK WHAT TO DO

### 1/5 — Badly-paced and lacking game

*2024-03-02, version 4.10.0*

This game was madly frustrating and underwhelming for me. There’s not enough in-game energy, money or resources to play the game for a good time. Usually i’m in the game 5/10 minutes before all the resources run out and I’m forced to rely on “gems” (in-app purchases) to buy more resources. Nothing is provided generously either which is sad. Obviously a money-grabbing game. It was fun for 3 days but I’ve lost interest and patience.

### 1/5 — Love this game but feel its been abandoned (will edit review stars if devs respond)

*2023-12-22, version 4.10.0*

I love this game is it very relaxing and fun. Looking at reviews it seems others have been facing similar glitches like the level breaking around lvl 25. I really love this game but it has not been updated in 3 months (with the last substantial update being 6 months ago), is this because of the new game this studio recently released? It makes me sad to see this game no longer being updated because i was invested in the story and characters. The addition of fishing was awesome but i was sad that there was no fishing available on the main island, and the end of game tasks are very repetitive (which i still do to calm nerves but i would love to see more).
Please update this game or be transparent about no longer updating the game.

### 1/5 — Incomplete or lazy?

*2023-09-21, version 4.10.0*

I kept waiting for the game to start… nope that’s it 😭😂
Why do you still have 5 stars even though there is only 2 ratings and one is 1 star? Obviously just proving this company is shiesty.

### 1/5 — Manque le français

*2023-09-19, version 4.10.0*

Manque le choix des langues, dommage

### 1/5 — Took my money

*2023-09-12, version 4.9.0*

I had tried to make a few in-game purchases and I kept getting that my “payment went through”followed immediately with “trouble processing your payment”. They TOOK my money, almost $100 worth, never got the in game purchases (cuz I tried again a few times) but the money was still taken out of my bank account. And Apple won’t issue me a refund because it doesn’t “meet the requirements”. I never got what I paid for! What more requirements do they need? I am VERY mad right now and I want my money back from the in game purchases I made on Sept 10th and Sept 11th.

### 1/5 — New Update Sucks

*2023-04-20, version 4.1.0*

I honestly really enjoyed this game. It was fun and i love the art style. But the new update ruined it for me. why is my whole map gone? Why does it only show orders at the top? I liked when i could see everything i needed to finish in the list or at the top bar but it doesn’t show it anymore. And why can i get different things from different items like the wash cloth and candles? whats with that? its so stupid how it works now and its not enjoyable anymore. 

The update also reset my house they i had designed all cute and stuff. And changed orders i was almost finished. It feels like a update that came out to early and was never meant to be released. Uninstalled.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Get

*2026-01-13, version 4.10.0*

Tiff

### 5/5 — 5 sao

*2025-09-02, version 4.10.0*

Game dễ thương, chơi vui. Có điều năng lượng lên chậm quá :((

### 5/5 — Excellent cozy puzzle game, but is it abandoned?

*2025-03-03, version 4.10.0*

It’s been a minute since this game was updated. Has it been abandoned? I’ve emailed Support, but haven’t received a reply. Support used to reply. Anyone still there, dev team?

### 5/5 — Love it

*2025-01-06, version 4.10.0*

This game is amazing! The quality is amazing and there's no random adds 5 star 5 star

### 5/5 — Game vui thật

*2024-10-16, version 4.10.0*

Chơi vui lắm nha mà đợi năng lượng 2 phút hơi lâu ấy , cho 1 phút rưỡi thôi được không :)))) Đùa thôi, game dễ thương và thú vị lắm .4.9 sao nhé !

### 5/5 — Genuinely so happy to have found this game

*2024-10-08, version 4.10.0*

I know it’s just another merge game, but I really like their other game Merge Meadow because of the cute art and was reccomended this in the App Store. The music is really lovely (especially the bird noises!) and calming. I do find sometimes I wish I had more ways to watch ads and get more stamina. I’m surprised there’s not a bigger community online for this game… the characters have really cute and almost human-like personalities, I’d say. I like when the main character makes a grossed out face lol. I’ll definitely be getting some in app purchases when I have some more $$ to support. I hope you can go further with advertising with this game so more people can try it. :) Thank you for the lovely game!

### 5/5 — Add more updates please 😢

*2024-10-03, version 4.10.0*

Hey there can you guys please update this game it’s a really a good game and I want to see more of this game (you guys are the best)

### 5/5 — Please update

*2024-09-25, version 4.10.0*

Update it now

### 5/5 — Please continue updating!

*2024-08-12, version 4.10.0*

TLDR: You will reach an end point with no more added content. While you can continue to “play” by fulfilling orders, it achieves nothing but coins, and becomes boring. Bugs only add to the disappointment.

I absolutely love this game tbh. It’s simple and doesn’t require $$$ to play - I HIGHLY RECOMMEND NOT SPENDING $$$ ON THIS GAME. The graphics are cute, the mechanisms are clear and smart. I completed all of the available content and continued fulfilling orders to pass my time, but unfortunately the bugs have started to appear. I made it all the way to level 23 before I ran into issues… it is clear the developers have given up on this app and it saddens me greatly! ):
Once you try to level up to 24, it breaks and takes you all the way back to level 3, showing you halfway to 4. No matter how many stars you match and redeem, you are permanently stuck here. While this doesn’t affect MUCH, it does decrease the amount of chests you can earn over time, and that is frustrating. Chests guarantee you coins, gems, and stars - less chests, less opportunity for growth.
I have reached out to support with no response. Judging from the last update being over 10 months ago, I am pretty certain this is a dead game. Should they continue to update and add new content, I will be in the front of the line to continue!

### 5/5 — Great but confused

*2024-08-12, version 4.10.0*

So I love this game, let’s start with that. The art is adorable and everything is pretty enjoyable! I do wish I had more stamina but I’m fine playing it as is. However, I got to an island titled Fort Endeavor. I made my way into a cave and then I suddenly couldn’t do anymore. I’m not sure if this is a bug or if the game doesn’t go any further just yet but I hope this could be clarified.

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