# Merge & Shoot! — user reviews > 16 indexed App Store user reviews of Merge & Shoot! by Macaca Games Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 318 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-and-shoot/id1625879244/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-and-shoot/id1625879244.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 271 · 4★ 23 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Merge & Shoot!? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay - 👍 Impressive playability without paying - 👍 Reasonable in-app purchases - 👍 Enjoyable arena mode - 👍 Good improvements with updates - 👍 No forced ads (mostly) - 👍 Aesthetically pleasing designs (suggested) **Cons** - 💸 High prices for passes - 😴 Monotonous gameplay - 🚫 Forced ads - 👎 New turret designs disliked - 🧊 Endless tower won't load - 💸 Boring cash grab - 📉 Simple gameplay, repetitive levels **Commonly reported bugs** - Endless tower freezes - Bug: duplicate turret after merge - Bug: merge doesn't consume item from bag - Bug: arena won't let player progress - Bug: incorrect opponent level in arena **Most requested features** - Remove daily arena cap - Add ability to buy merge stones - Add waves game mode - Add co-op mode - Add real-time PvP with infinite tiles - Add player names in ranked - Add player icons - Add ranked rewards - Remove limit on ranked matches - Add more rarities (legendary, mythical) - Rework gem mines - Add special effects for weapons - Fix spelling and grammar - Add ability to replay story levels - Add quests beyond daily - Show merge increase stats - Option to buy no ads - Change background color/designs - Change block designs ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Forced Ads *2022-09-05* Don't bother, forced ads after beating certain levels with no option to purchase an option to remove them. Got two in the first 11 levels (10 minutes of play). Game would be fun otherwise. ### 1/5 — New update is bad. *2022-08-23* Hate the new turret designs. ### 1/5 — Buggy *2022-07-18* The game is full of bugs. Watch an add to double coins and you don’t get the merge stone. Drag from bag to merge on table and it doesn’t consume the turret from the bag. High school level dev skills = quick money grab. ### 1/5 — Boring cash grab *2022-07-15* The game is so simple that the first level is the same as every other level. Literally all you do is move your ship left and right. Which you barely even need to do. The numbers on the blocks and the types of turrets don’t matter because it doesn’t change the gameplay at all. You’ll just be sliding left and right no matter what. Levels are over quick, and at least every other level there’s a popup ad, in addition to a ton of other optional ads. Why would I waste time watching ads to progress in a game when even I know that every level is going to be just as boring as the first one? ### 2/5 — Endless tower won’t load *2022-08-19* Fun game. Have issues loading the first stage of endless tower, it just freezes… ### 3/5 — Kinda addicting and totally monotonous *2022-09-21* It’s a nice little diversion. Don’t expect any real type of strategizing or anything on your part. It’s just a disguised shump with blocks. And of course you will have to merge you guns to make ‘em stronger. After getting to 97% in relation to other players, I have decided to delete it. ### 3/5 — PLEASE READ Amazing game with so much potential *2022-07-16* The game is addicting and at its core is fun , but here are some things that will make the game much more enjoyable. -add the ability to buy merge stones in shop -Add waves game mode (start wave 1 until you lose) - Add co-op - Add another version of pvp where you get infinite tiles and you see the player next to you real time. whoever gets farthest wins -Add the ability to ask for player names so you see who’s in ranked -Add player icons -Add ranked rewards -Don’t do a limit to ranked . (20 matches a day limits if you can finish the battle pass or not) - ADD MORE RARITIES( legendary then maybe mythical) - PLEASE REWORK THE GEM MINES (i like how you have to think about spaces but 3 gems is useless when you passively gain, make it something else) - Add more special effects for some weapons(ex: legendary items have a fire animation or a red glow, blue glow , add some cool animation to the weapon square) -fix various spelling and grammar issues -i assure you if you fix all these things this -once you get stuck in story there’s not much to do add the ability to keep doing the same level over and over -Add quests not only daily quests -when you merge weapons show what it will increase by , the stats don’t show and you have to guess if it’s worth it or not . Thus game will be top leaderboards and attract many more players . PLEASE add my suggestions ### 5/5 — Great game, has room for improvement *2022-10-16* The games is loads of fun but 2 things seems a bit much, the daily cap on arena and the outrageous prices for passes. Other then that perfect game!!! ### 5/5 — Fun little distraction! *2022-08-20* This is such a fun and addictive little game. I’m honestly impressed at how much of the game is playable and fun without paying or ads, and the purchases seem reasonable. I haven’t bought any yet, but I’m tempted to just to support the devs. I really enjoy the arena, and if I would change anything I’d love the arena matches to charge throughout the day instead of all at once. I can’t help myself but do them all first thing in the morning and I’m bummed I can’t do more! ### 5/5 — It gets better with every update *2022-07-26* Amazing improvements to an already very fun game **Developer response:** Thanks for reporting the bug, we'll fix it in next update! ## Most praised reviews (6 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — ADDICTIVE *2022-07-19* I love this game I’m addicted i really recommend playing ### 5/5 — Great game but have a bug *2022-07-16* The game is great but there’s a bug, When I merge a turret from my inventory, I have 1 more turret, example, 1 star laser merge to 1 star laser, I get a 2 star laser and a 1 star laser in my inventory, can you fix it please. ### 5/5 — Awesome game. Fix arena though *2022-06-23* Awesome game I love it no ford s ads unless want to watch them for gifts. Only downfall I have seen is the arena it won’t let me go higher levels. I am 89. It won’t let me challenge 88 or below. Plus if you battle say a level 95 and you a 80. You end up in level 95. Wrong. Fix please. Fame is fun. Great fun just need arena fixed. ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2022-06-19* Great ### 5/5 — Pretty good game! Just a few suggestions *2022-06-18* Honestly wasn’t expecting much because it looked like some merge shooter random knock off thing but I was wrong. It’s a lot of fun and the mechanics for upgrades and whatnot is pretty well done. A few things that would be neat would be the ability to buy a no ads thing for like $1 or something. There aren’t really any ads at all but every now and then they’ll pop up and it’d be nice to be able to get rid of those. Another thing would be the background, as far as I know it’s just the same color throughout most of the game so being able to change the background color or even have different background designs would be pretty sick. Being able to change the block design as well would be a neat addition and be very aesthetically pleasing, would definitely get people to stay on the game longer. ### 5/5 — Great Game! *2022-06-10* I didn’t expect much when I downloaded it, but its a pretty fun 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 2026-08-28.*