# Merge Defense! — user reviews > 30 indexed App Store user reviews of Merge Defense! by Tatem Games Ltd, rated 3.40/5 from 27 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-defense/id1473122527/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-defense/id1473122527.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 14 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 8 ## Newest reviews (10 of 30) ### 2/5 — Good game ruined by ads every ten moves *2020-02-16* I played this game for almost a year and have found myself coming back when I’ve got a few minutes of downtime to spare. I always enjoyed coming back to it until now. Lo and behold the devs have decided to spam ads, and not just between rounds, but mid game. I can live with ads, I understand that a developer needs a source of income, but when I get an ad every ten moves, the game isn’t worth my time. I’ll be coming back to this game in a few months and checking to see if you’ve left this terrible ad frequency in place. A five star game, but the recent ad policy forces me to rate it harshly. ### 2/5 — Glitch *2019-11-13* The game is fun, but there is a very annoying glitch, there needs to be some sort of way to sell towers, as this glitch make it so that you are left with a tower that is a lower level than the rest, you can’t merge it and there is no way to sell it, so it just sits there ### 2/5 — うーん *2019-11-11* ゲームとして面白いんだけど玉打たない事 めちゃくちゃ多いし消したブロックに着弾 して次のブロックにダメージ通らないって事が多すぎてやる気なくす。。。 しかもレベル13までしか上がらないのに ブロックの体力が高くなりすぎて ムーブ600から物理的に無理ゲーに なってくる。もったいない面白いのに。 ### 3/5 — Good, but needs more *2019-11-02* It’s a fun game, recommend, but I got to the maximum possible defense. Could use an update to go further. If anyone wishes to know, the max is 13. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, Actually the max level of defenders if much higher than 13 ;-) Try new version with re-balanced end-game to test your defender's skills! ### 3/5 — BUGGY but not as much as before *2019-08-19* Every once in a while it’ll freeze, especially when I’m doing well. It freezes and I have to restart the app and then my progress gets deleted. Edit: fixed the freezing issue, appreciate it and thanks. But now your defenders max out at level 13 and eventually some weird thing will happen where even if you have 2 rows of level 13 defenders only 1 will fire from that row. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! We've fixed all issues, and improved even more. I dare you to try new version of the game :) ### 2/5 — Heads up for the Devs *2019-08-15* Not hard enough I maxed out all of the towers to level 13 by level 214 I can no longer merge them idrk what to do anymore so any updates to increase max level would be nice so I could keep playing Now after that, this is less important and probably annoying for you devs but it’ll probably take a while to scale levels so I would lower the dmg of each towers that or get points for how far you get to upgrade tower dmg but towers should be nerfed a lot before that. Thanks for your time!! **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, We consider your experience and made a lot of balance changes, please try new version to test your skills! ### 2/5 — Dying inside *2019-08-15* So is there more to the game? All my turrets are level 13 and I can’t level them anymore and I’ve been able to sweep the game without a since issue since level 50ish.... it’s saying my next goal is level 512 but I’m curious to why I need to keep swapping my turrets to make the round go even though I can’t level them anymore **Developer response:** Thanks for feedback, we made a lot of changes recently, you can check it out in the newest version of the game! ### 3/5 — Potential *2019-08-09* The game right now is pretty buggy, it’s a lot of fun still, it needs balance changes though, after probably 20 games I still can’t get past 50, if you get multiple keys in a round it’s like you only get one making it so you lose so much damage, if they fix this though it would be a 5 star game, atm it’s way too hard and luck based. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, We're sorry about the inconvenience, and we made a lot of improvements in the recent update, you can check it out! ### 3/5 — Has potential. *2019-08-04* Today I got a high score of 390, not because I lost, but because the game froze. A bit buggy. Around level 200, the game gets really stale. The blocks get to be more of an afterthought, since at that point you destroy every block automatically before the next round anyway. There’s also a bug where you still have, say, a single rank 5 blaster, but your new blasters get upgraded to rank 6. This means that at later levels, you have a single rank 5 among the rest of your rank 11s and 12s that’s impossible to upgrade. The game has potential, and I hope they update it to be more dynamic and fun. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, We consider your experience and made a lot of balance changes, please try new version to test your skills! ### 3/5 — Super buggy *2019-07-30* Every once in awhile they’ll be a stray line that’ll shoot from an open slot which in turn will freeze the progression of the blocks moving down which means the game froze. That being said the game will just freeze randomly time to time if you’ve been playing for like 5-10 minutes doesn’t mater what level you’re on it’ll just freeze and you’ll lose all your progress. Except the high score. Once you move on to level 6+ for your defenders you’ll have one remaining level 5 defender and you can’t progress past level 6 meaning if you want to have a row of level 10 defenders you have to merge everything to level 10 not just progress normally. Devs please add a trash can to drop out a defenders like that or a progression bar to know when it is a good time set down another defender or if you’re just gonna screw yourself. **Developer response:** Thanks for your extended feedback and for playing our games. We're sorry you had some troubles playing it last time. We've fixed all major problems, and make balance changes in the recent update, so we'd be happy if you could give it another try! Thanks ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Copy cat *2021-07-07* Legit copy of the real game ### 1/5 — Unresponsive *2020-12-09* Gave it a go and it’s ver unresponsive to movements trying to drag it 1 square over and it always goes 2 ... the game is very basic but if it was more fluid I’d probably be happy playing it ### 1/5 — 広告を見てるのかゲームをしてるのか *2020-05-14* わからないほど広告が多すぎて消した。 どんなに広告が多いゲームも一面ごとだったりするけど、これは違う もっと多い ### 1/5 — Read this first *2020-05-13* The fact that I felt the need to write a review is all that you need to know as a potential downloader of this app. The game itself is a blast, but the amount of ads in this game make it genuinely unplayable and quite frankly are frustrating as hell. ### 1/5 — Trash and boring *2020-01-16* No way you would play this game it’s just stupid and will waste time and not in the good way ### 1/5 — Можете даже не скачивать *2019-12-26* Если хотите посмотреть рекламы, то удачи ### 1/5 — Faulty game *2019-08-06* Keeps freezing not allowing me to keep my progress **Developer response:** Thanks for feedback, and sorry about the inconvenience! We've fixed all (well, almost all) known issues, so we'd be happy if you could give it another try! Thanks ### 1/5 — Freeze constantly *2019-08-05* The game will freeze randomly and you lose your progress which ultimately makes the game unplayable and not fun I will delete it if this bug isn’t fixed **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, We've fixed a lot of bugs and freezing issues, and we've added proper save system, so you won't lose your progress anymore. And also, we've improved this game a lot. You can give it another try, to test it on your own. ### 1/5 — Fix Please *2019-08-02* I really enjoy the game... when it works. I usually can play for a couple minutes before the game will freeze. This is not only frustrating, but the game also doesn’t save any data. I once made it to level 68 and then the game froze... I was very upset. Please fix the game and I’ll take down my bad review. **Developer response:** Thanks Austin, For your feedback and for playing our games. We're sorry you had some troubles playing it last time. We've fixed all major problems, and make balance changes in the recent update, so we'd be happy if you could give it another try! Thanks ### 1/5 — Bad *2019-08-01* Every third game froze and every fifth game I stopped being able to control the units and the difficulty escalation seemed a bit too high **Developer response:** Thanks for feedback, and sorry about the inconvenience! We've fixed all major problems, and make balance changes in the recent update, so we'd be happy if you could give it another try! Thanks ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Max level *2020-01-18* Does the game go beyond level 20 towers? I am currently sitting with two rows of max level 20 towers. Does it just continue like this forever? Had fun playing the game regardless. Combines math and strategy so I feel a little more productive when I play. ### 5/5 — Убийца времени *2020-01-03* Хорошая игра, лично я люблю подобный жанр, но без рекламных бонусов не пройти (как мне кажется), я рекламу смотрел - прошёл😄 дошёл до всех пушек 20-го уровня, дальше они не соединяются, жду обновлений) (может новых режимов или больше уровня пушек) ### 5/5 — Good game *2019-12-11* Only problem with the game is the guns only go up to level 20. ### 5/5 — Osom! *2019-11-24* Bestest best strategy in my pocket ### 5/5 — Well *2019-11-01, version 1.4* Well when the game first came out it took about 200 levels to realize you weren't gonna lose. Now after the update it takes until maybe round 400-500, depending how lucky/good you are. I understand it's gonna be pretty hard to make it balanced so I'll leave the 5 star rating because I do still really like the game and it is possible to lose, I would say about 1 in every 4-5 times I play I can get where I don't lose ### 5/5 — Addictive *2019-10-31* It’s like a new type of chess. Super addictive as fun to play. Strongly recommended! **Developer response:** Your karma points just got increased <3 ### 5/5 — Fun time waster *2019-08-14* It was fun for the time I played. I ended up beating it a little too quick. Cannons only upgrade to lvl 13 and then stop. **Developer response:** Thanks! You can try most recent updated version for a fresh experience! ### 3/5 — Can be improved. *2020-03-30* Great game, but when a turret randomly stops functioning for no apparent reason it can get rather frustrating. More content would also be much appreciated, I can ‘win’ in under 30 minutes. ### 3/5 — Annoying bugs *2019-11-14* This game is fun but these bugs can be really irritating. Sometimes the game freezes and the blocks move and my turrets won't even shoot, another bug is when the turret just stops shooting for no reason. Please fix!!!!! ### 3/5 — Great concept but buggy *2019-11-11* Great game except sometimes your turrets will not shoot which can has caused me to lose quite a few times. Other than that addicting game. 5 stars if turrets would shoot all the time. --- *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 2026-09-12.*