# Merge Cartoon : Renovate Town — user reviews > 43 indexed App Store user reviews of Merge Cartoon by 1GRAM, rated 4.80/5 from 461 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-cartoon-renovate-town/id1666476396/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-cartoon-renovate-town/id1666476396.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 393 · 4★ 46 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## What do users think of Merge Cartoon? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💕 Cute and relaxing - 👍 Addictive and fun - 🎨 Beautiful art style - 🎶 Calming music - 🎉 No ads **Cons** - ⏱️ Long wait times - 🔋 Energy system issues - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🔒 Privacy concerns **Commonly reported bugs** - Ad watching not working - Energy usage inconsistencies - Crashes on launch **Most requested features** - More levels and areas to explore - Faster energy recharge - Easier ways to obtain energy - More events and updates ## Newest reviews (14 of 43) ### 5/5 — Обожаю эту игру *2023-09-28* Просто вау. Играю не первый месяц и это единственная мобильная игра, которая настолько меня затянула 💓 ### 5/5 — Adorable and fun *2023-09-25* A great, simple merge game. Very cute art style and it’s very fun to clear debris and restore the village. Although the board is relatively small, it’s easy to keep it organized and clear up space. There’s not too many production blocks and it’s fairly easy to buy more storage space. ### 4/5 — Love but please add more events and levels *2023-09-15* To the developers, this is one of my favorite games and my favorite merge game by far, it’s popular to others as well and I think it would be a smart decision to increase the amount of levels and use more events. Please add more to the game ### 5/5 — Finished the goals *2023-09-07* Love this game. Played all consistently and I think I beat all the areas they currently have open. The mini-game with the wolf is fun I’m the mean time. ### 5/5 — :) *2023-09-04* i love this game. i love that when i get bored of something i can open my phone up and look at cute cartoons and play a little game. i love that i can’t play forever and it reminds me to do actually productive things. i love this game!!! ### 5/5 — Great!!! *2023-09-01* I love this game! The art is adorable, and it's super addictive. I just wish the energy system was a little bit better, in that you either have more or it's easier to find. ### 5/5 — love it *2023-08-17, version 1.2.2* absolutely love it, but nothings sort of happened after i finished the pig house, is that the end? i don’t want it be to the end💔💔 ### 5/5 — Finished! *2023-08-14* So cute, finally finished this game after months of playing each night or whenever I get bored. I usually play until the energy runs out. It’s perfectly paced and a great way to relax! ### 4/5 — Relaxing game! *2023-08-09* I love to play this game in my free time. Really relaxing!!!10/10 would recommend. ### 4/5 — Glitch *2023-08-08* I actually really like this game. It’s fun and I’m always coming on to check my stuff. It is a bit pricey but that doesn’t bother me. My issue is the time for the energy. I was checking and noticed my energy wastes so quick. When I went to see how much each item was using. I would press it once and it’ll take up one. But if I press it quick it’ll take up 2. I had 2 energy left and it wouldn’t even let me press it because it said I didn’t have any left.. I tried with other items and I feel it’s just at random but I don’t know if it’s supposed to do that. No clue if I made any sense- ### 5/5 — Love! *2023-07-31* I love, love, love this game!!!!!! I’ve finished all of the areas they have so far and I hope so much that they update soon with more areas to work on, until then I’ll focus on the apple events so I can get some more decorations and stuff. It’s such a simple and cute game that isn’t overstimulating like most games on the appstore. It has calming colors and pleasant gameplay that’s never too hard to get past. I really like it, it’s one of my favorites on my phone. (Please update I can’t get enough 🥲) ### 5/5 — The only merge game I like! *2023-07-26* I don’t usually write reviews on apps but I love this game. I’ve tried at least 6 or 7 other merge games but none have ever held my attention like this one. Just hoping for more levels soon! ### 5/5 — wanna moooore *2023-07-17* Is there gonna be new zones? Cause I passed all of the available ones:( Really love the game though ❤️ ### 4/5 — Jogo bacana *2023-06-29* O jogo é legal, mas já conclui todos os espaços, não vai liberar Mais? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Privacy concerns! *2023-12-02* So, this game looked really cute and fun, as a way to unwind from long and stressful days. But then I looked at the privacy policy before I opened it. This is copied directly from the developer’s privacy policy: “Phone permission Used for accessing a host of typical features associated with telephony. This enables, for instance, read-only access to the “phone state”, which means it enables access to the phone number of the device, current mobile network information, or the status of any ongoing calls.“ I’m sorry, but no reason is given for this information being needed, let alone a legitimate one. Combine this with the fact that they will share your info with third parties for “legitimate reasons,” (they totally promise!) and I’m out. Make your money from in app purchases, ads, and premium version upgrades. I do not need more spam and nonsense in my life. **Developer response:** We do not access or collect data such as phone numbers, mobile network information, or call status without the consent of our customers. On the iOS system, it is also not possible to collect such information without consent. Our privacy policy is publicly available at https://www.1gramgames.com/policy/privacy.html. Please let us know via the email below. We would appreciate it.The link does not contain the mentioned details about phone data. Could you please specify where you found the information regarding phone data that you mentioned? We would like to verify this as well. support@1gramgames.com ### 1/5 — Takes way to many time *2023-05-30* This game is very cute, but the numerical design is AWFUL! Have the developers even played this game?? The apple festival require a lot of high level items which required hundreds and thousands times of merging, while the award is not matching the effort at all. In a merging game, every level increase meaning doubling the effort, so it’s increasing exponentially, not linearly! Have you guys ever calculated the time needed to collect all of the festival’s outfits? Don’t make games out of imagination, use your brain!! ### 1/5 — Too hard *2023-04-21* I used to love this game but now that I am at level 12 it takes me DAYS to get one item that I need even if I play multiple times a day. It was fun in the beginning but now high levels items take too long to obtain. ### 1/5 — Can’t play *2023-03-23* I really wanted to play this game but it keeps crashing when I open it. ### 2/5 — No Updates *2023-07-10* You can only play the game to a certain point and then I guess it’s over. I really enjoyed the game and the design, although it only has one special event that is the exact same over and over, so that is kind of boring. I feel like there is a new trend where an app is introduced and the developer tries to make money through the initial release and does not invest anymore time or content. Maybe that’s just me though. If you are familiar with merge games then the following will make sense to you, you finish the game before you get a chance to merge the tools to their highest level. ### 3/5 — Waiting *2025-02-16* Cute game, but you have to wait to long for everything, definitely not “stress free”. I would like it better if I could actually play the game and not spend most of my time waiting. ### 3/5 — cute game but has some bugs *2024-09-27* i love this game, wish there was an easier way to get energy instead of waiting… the option to watch ads to get energy doesnt work. it just shows a black screen. please fix this, and maybe lesson the waiting time to watch more ads. i’ve tried many times to watch an ad and its always a black screen ### 3/5 — love it but please make it quicker *2023-09-23, version 1.3.2* such a good and fun game the cartoon autumn style is amazing and so cute but it takes so long to play again you play for a minuite and have to wait another 30 to play again i woudk even watch adverts to skip it but there so option sadly x ### 3/5 — It’s great but one issue *2023-03-16, version 1.1.0* It’s a really fun game and I wanna keep playing it but the energy restores really slowly and you use it really quickly, which means I play for a minute and wait a few hours to be able to do anything again. If energy restore was reduced from 2 minutes to 30 seconds or I can buy energy more easily (but just the one energy box that restores each day), it would be more fun ### 4/5 — Kurd *2025-04-21* I love the game specially these combing games my favvv waiting for y’all to add new things 😍 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Gorgeous game! *2026-03-16, version 1.5.5* This game is so cute, cozy, fun, and relaxing. My favorite of this type of game. I wrote the first review of this game, and I ended up coming back. To my absolute delight, all the issues were fixed, and the game is easy to understand and the board is so pretty. Just a suggestion: I think this game would have way more downloads with a punchier thumbnail image in the App Store and a better name. The thumbnail doesn’t stand out among other apps when you are scrolling through. The image is too small to see what it is, and as much as I love the look of the cottage in the game, this image isn’t standing out. Like, keep it beautiful, but more noticeable in the search results. I suggest the name “Merge Cottage” or “Cottagecore Merge: Renovate Cottage and Gardens” or similar. Cottage style aka cottagecore is popular and more descriptive of what this is. Cartoon is too generic and the name didn’t draw me in. I only found this game because I dig deep in the App Store to find these hidden gems lol. I actually played through a good while ago, but the App Store was broken and I couldn’t leave a review, so sorry for the delay! This game is so precious. Thank you for the enjoyment I got playing it ❤️ PREVIOUS REVIEW: Beautiful, but too complicated There is so much potential in this game. The little cottage/land you are renovating is so adorable and the concept is great. However, the matching board part of the game is way too complicated. It’s too hard to figure out what items come from which bucket. Some are color coded, but others aren’t. Too many different pieces coming from too many types of buckets. The items that come out aren’t necessarily related to each other. It’s too hard to figure out which bucket makes what item, especially if there’s a secondary bucket like first making seed bags then making flowers. Then some buckets are too similar. Like, there are the seed bags that make flowers, but then there’s also a tree that gives off seeds that does what exactly?? And just too many types of items overall, especially to start out with. Usually games start with a few buckets and then add more later, so you can figure out what they do without being overwhelmed. I’ve played other similar games and never felt they were too complicated. I currently play Longleaf Valley, and they’ve done a good job of making the board comprehensible if you want an example of what I’m talking about. And also, while the cottage part of the game is pretty and light, the matching board is drab and dark. I just found I didn’t enjoy spending time on the matching board, which is most of the game. I’ve personally stopped playing after a few days because although I love the cottage part, I just dislike the matching part (usually my favorite part of the game). Still, I’ll rate it 5 stars because there is huge potential and it looks like this game is new with few reviews so I want to leave a good rating for the first written review to encourage you. I would absolutely love to love this game and I’ll keep it and check back in periodically. ### 5/5 — needs new update *2024-09-14* i finished this game a long time ago, probably close to 2 years. i still play it every day because of the apple event, but it’s been getting boring just doing that. i love the fact that it has no ads!!! easily best part of the game ### 5/5 — Over too soon *2024-07-14, version 1.4.2* I’ve really enjoyed playing this game for a while, but it seems that I’ve now finished it? I finished the 3rd pigs house and there’s nothing else left to do :( Would love the developers to work on further gameplay as this has been a really enjoyable game! ### 5/5 — Addictive !!! *2024-03-24* I just downloaded this game and another one from the same game developer and I got to say this one is amazing!!! I love the design the animations and the music. It’s all great!!! ### 5/5 — Great *2024-01-30, version 1.3.5* Love this game it’s pretty awesome ### 5/5 — Cute and relaxing:) *2023-12-14, version 1.3.4* Absolutely love the game I hope to see more like this in the future:) ### 5/5 — ;) *2023-10-20, version 1.3.3* Love it ### 5/5 — Voll süß! *2023-10-09* Kann gar nicht verstehen, dass nicht mehr Leute das Spiel spielen. ### 5/5 — best game ever. *2023-10-06* i searched since i was 12 for a game this good, normally when i find a game i get bored in 1 week. now its been months and i haven’t gotten bored yet and i think that speaks volumes. thank you merge cartoon creators. you are one of a kind ### 5/5 — Игра супер *2023-10-02* Единственна игра за последнее время, в которую хочется заходить постоянно. Была очень рада, когда увидела обновление с более сбалансированными миссиями, но по итогу вышло не совсем так. Единственное, что не нравится в игре так это застревания на миссиях, где приходится очень долго крафтить, у меня сейчас 6 активных заданий с сложным крафтом и это выматывает, порой хочется забросить, когда приходится несколько дней делать бесконечно одно и то же, чтобы скрафтить один предмет :( Надеюсь, что разработчики сделают чуть меньше сложного крафта, а так все супер :) Успехов команде! --- *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 2026-09-05.*