# Merge Train Battle — user reviews > 36 indexed App Store user reviews of Merge Train Battle by BIG BEAR ENTERTAINMENT JOINT STOCK COMPANY, rated 4.41/5 from 271 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-train-battle/id6473728334/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-train-battle/id6473728334.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 200 · 4★ 35 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 25 ## What do users think of Merge Train Battle? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎮 Engaging and addictive gameplay mechanics - ⏱️ Great time killer for waiting or downtime - 🎨 Visually interesting and appealing design - 📱 Works offline without WiFi requirement - 💰 No ads option available for purchase - 🔄 Frequent updates with new content - 🎯 Fun side quests and mini-games **Cons** - 📺 Excessive and forced ads throughout gameplay - 🐛 Frequent game crashes and freezing - ⚠️ Constant progress resets to early stages - 🎮 Difficulty scaling feels unfair and punishing - 💸 Pay-to-win mechanics and expensive upgrades - 🔐 No cloud save or account linking system - 🎵 Unwanted music interrupts device audio - 🎯 Progression gates locked behind specific stages - 💔 Loss of currency and items after resets **Commonly reported bugs** - Random progress resets to early stages - Game crashes when switching between areas - Rescue mission completion not registering - Damage not registering on zombies after reopening - Boss levels getting stuck with infinite running - Ad system freezing the game - Train damage bonuses not applying correctly - Zombies phasing through fences - Research not completing - Wagon purchase limit exceeded after upgrades - Daily quest notifications persisting after events end **Most requested features** - Cloud save or account linking system - Better difficulty balancing - Reduced ad frequency - Option to disable game music without muting device - Better progression system without hard gates ## Newest reviews (14 of 36) ### 2/5 — A bunch of wasted time *2024-07-08* When I was playing in the game I got stuck because I ran out of spaces to add a slot and nothing to merge so I couldn’t progress in the game ### 2/5 — Gameplay is fun but resets break game *2024-05-03* Played to stage 45 just for everyone to be reset to stage 6. Finally got to stage 46 just for another reset back to 6. The problem with this is that it causes the loss of any unspent merge coins and research genes, while also locking those features until stage 12. Also can’t get the most out of daily events until you can back up to stage 21. ### 3/5 — Reset bugs *2024-04-12* I give three stars because I do love the game, but these reset bugs are making me want to delete the game! I have had to restart multiple times. I was up to level 20.3 got off for like a hour, got back on and was back to level 6.3. Then one time I log in and I have this map section to build and the next time it’s gone. Please fix these bug!! ### 1/5 — Forced ads *2024-03-08* After a little bit of gameplay the game will force you to watch ads if u want to upgrade your train ez 1 star ### 1/5 — Game is a HUGE Ad Farm, with Bugs and No Ethics *2024-03-05* Update: Per below, the game increases Zombie difficulty when closing and reopening the game, even on the stage you were previously able to kill them on. At this point, the game has made the zombies so difficult that I can’t even kill a single one, which means that I can’t make money, which means I can’t upgrade my train. Too bad, because this has made the game so broken that it’s completely unplayable now. Uninstalled, and glad I didn’t spend money on this garbage. As the title implies, this game is trash. For starters, this game is one giant ad farm; there’s ads constantly. Sometimes the ads more frequent than other times as well. Sometimes you load up the game, and you might get an ad every few levels/retries, and other times you get an ad every level/retry. Then, of course, they pull the whole thing of giving you the option of 1X reward, or for watching an ad, you can have 3X rewards, which I generally do not mind, but most of the time the 1X reward option also has an ad. When I choose the 1X reward to avoid the ad, I do not expect to see an ad anyway, else I would have chosen the 3X reward. Second, there’s SOOOO MANY bugs! The game gets stuck on certain levels, like boss levels, where you’ll go in and kill the boss, but the people continue running, and it never completes, so you have to “give up.” Sometimes, you’ll load the game, go to watch an ad for 3X idle rewards, then you aren’t rewarded with 3X rewards. Sometimes the ads completely break, making it so you can’t leave the ad at all, forcing you to have to close and restart the game. The next complaint will explain why this is such a problem, but I’ll just say that I think these broken ads are actually planted to force you to restart the game. Finally, the game is very sneaky. What I mean by this is that you can level and merge your train, so that the zombies are being killed very easily, but once you close and reopen the game, the zombies on the same stage you were on when you closed the game will now be impossible to kill, requiring you spend hours re-running the same level, watching dozens of ads, spending tons and tons of gold, just trying to be able to clear that level. In short, the zombies’ difficulty is not tied to the level you’re on; it seems to scale up with your train power. My theory is that this is intentional, so that you’ll be forced to watch a boatload of ads to try to get back to killing zombies, which is extremely unethical. Do yourself a favor and don’t download this game, and if you do, do yourself a different favor by turning off WiFi, and then shutting off cellular data for the game. Not only will this block all ads, but you’ll probably find the zombies easier to kill too. And, to top it off, it basically gives you the paid version for free, keeping this greedy developer from cashing in on which a shady game. ### 3/5 — Was fun until I’m stuck *2024-03-05* You can upgrade how many wagons you can buy at once, but now I can’t buy more wagons because my upgrades go over the limit. So ironically you shouldn’t upgrade your “buy wagon” or you’ll be prevented from buying more ### 1/5 — Game is a HUGE Ad Farm, with Bugs and No Ethics *2024-03-04* As the title implies, this game is trash. For starters, this game is one giant ad farm; there’s ads constantly. Sometimes the ads more frequent than other times as well. Sometimes you load up the game, and you might get an ad every few levels/retries, and other times you get an ad every level/retry. Then, of course, they pull the whole thing of giving you the option of 1X reward, or for watching an ad, you can have 3X rewards, which I generally do not mind, but most of the time the 1X reward option also has an ad. When I choose the 1X reward to avoid the ad, I do not expect to see an ad anyway, else I would have chosen the 3X reward. Second, there’s SOOOO MANY bugs! The game gets stuck on certain levels, like boss levels, where you’ll go in and kill the boss, but the people continue running, and it never completes, so you have to “give up.” Sometimes, you’ll load the game, go to watch an ad for 3X idle rewards, then you aren’t rewarded with 3X rewards. Sometimes the ads completely break, making it so you can’t leave the ad at all, forcing you to have to close and restart the game. The next complaint will explain why this is such a problem, but I’ll just say that I think these broken ads are actually planted to force you to restart the game. Finally, the game is very sneaky. What I mean by this is that you can level and merge your train, so that the zombies are being killed very easily, but once you close and reopen the game, the zombies on the same stage you were on when you closed the game will now be impossible to kill, requiring you spend hours re-running the same level, watching dozens of ads, spending tons and tons of gold, just trying to be able to clear that level. In short, the zombies’ difficulty is not tied to the level you’re on; it seems to scale up with your train power. My theory is that this is intentional, so that you’ll be forced to watch a boatload of ads to try to get back to killing zombies, which is extremely unethical. Do yourself a favor and don’t download this game, and if you do, do yourself a different favor by turning off WiFi, and then shutting off cellular data for the game. Not only will this block all ads, but you’ll probably find the zombies easier to kill too. And, to top it off, it basically gives you the paid version for free, keeping this greedy developer from cashing in on which a shady game. ### 1/5 — Bad *2024-02-28* Set me back almost 24-1 to 10-4 ### 2/5 — Love this game but it has some problems that need fixing *2024-02-17* I want this to be a 5 star review but there’s a lot of fixes. Like the rescue citizens continually messed up on level 24. I’m getting citizens before I even get near them and even though I have 25/25 it says a failed to rescue them. And when the game resets each day sometimes it gives me my possible free uses and then sometimes it doesn’t. Please fix this I love this game so much! ### 3/5 — Randomly reset my progress *2024-02-16* I opened the game and was back at stage 1 all my cars are still at the correct lvl and my bots. Now I have to grind back up to where I left off and can’t buy any upgrades or do research until I make some progress. Overall the game is fun but that really doesn’t matter if you lose all your progress. Maybe it was a one time bug. Going to keep playing but if it happens again will uninstall. Not worth the hassle ### 1/5 — Bad game *2024-02-08* I spend more time watching pop up ads than actually gettin to play everything has a video you have to watch it's pointless ### 1/5 — Bugs, glitches and constant crashing *2024-02-07* Highly undeveloped and constant glitches. Wasted my money on a game designed by a toddler. ### 1/5 — Stops music and podcasts when you launch it *2024-02-05* That is a game breaking feature. I don’t want to listen to the hokey music you had someone knock up on fiverr. ### 1/5 — Garbage *2024-01-29* This game is garbage. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Random Resets and Lots of Crashing *2024-06-06* This game has had multiple times were everyone is reset back to the early stages of the game which causes many of the features to become locked again. Any time you switch between one area of the game to another it is a 70:30 chance of whether the game will crash or not. That is with the crashing being the more likely scenario. ### 1/5 — Good app to past the time until… *2024-05-20* Good app to past the time away while waiting for a doctor’s app, waiting in line, or just bored. I have been playing for months until I logged on today to see everything had been reset from stage 38 to 6. From the reviews, this is a ongoing issue, and hasn’t been fixed. Until they fix it, the one and only star will they get. ### 1/5 — Game is ridiculous *2024-05-02* I wasn’t able to pass a level for weeks, then when I go back on after around a week, almost everything was reset ### 1/5 — Forced Ads = Immediate uninstall. *2024-05-01* Don’t waste your time on games with forced ads. This game gives you about 30 minutes of optional ads for power ups. After that it starts forcing ads after a level. Don’t let any game disrespect your time like this. ### 1/5 — Fix me *2024-04-25* I was steady in first on the rankings. Then it stopped registering any damage. It has been 4 days of me upgrading everything I can and still no damage registered can’t kill a single zombie. I have fallen to 7th place in the rankings and continuing to drop. Fix this and I’ll make 5 stars. ### 1/5 — Game froze *2024-04-21* Game froze after getting to #1 in the game and now the train just goes around but doesn’t kill anything. Waste of time ### 1/5 — Fun game, way to many ads *2024-04-15* I really enjoy the game mechanics. The side quests are full on games themselves. What I don’t like is ad after ad after ad. It’s like after you switch tabs so many times or beat so many mini games, ad. Then there is the issue that the game doesn’t link up to any of your gaming profiles so if you uninstall the game All progress is lost ### 1/5 — Progress lost! *2024-04-01* The game reset ALL my progress. I was lvl 29 and was put back to lvl 4. I was somewhere past stage 11-2 and was pushed back to 5-3. I’m deleting the game. ### 1/5 — Bad *2024-03-23* Can’t get past 70-3 due to kicking me out every time I try to pass it already spent 30 dollars and a lot of time ### 1/5 — The game keeps freezing on ads *2024-03-09* The game keeps freezing on ads and I lose where I am at in the game so I am deleting it. Not happy!!!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun fun fun! *2024-02-21* Great time killer and when you buy no ads you get no ads! Don’t really have a issue with it sure lags as of recently and have to restart the app but just happy when you buy no ads you get 0 none unlike other idle games ### 5/5 — Love the game but have an issue *2024-01-26* I absolutely love this game and have spent hours on it. However, I am experiencing a glitch while playing. Whenever I attempt the rescue mission and complete it, the game tells me I failed, even though I rescued all the people required. ### 5/5 — The game is really awesome *2024-01-02* I love the game so much because one of my fav parts of it is that there is no pop up adds and the most best fav thing in the game is that the game does not require wifi to play unlike rollic games they say in their adds that they don’t require wifi but when the player plays it it requires wifi. ### 5/5 — This game should be so much more popular *2023-12-23* I’ve already deleted the game twice to start it over from the beginning because of how much fun it is. I also love the new things that keep being added to the game. Every update brings more fun :) ### 5/5 — Good *2023-12-19* Good game to relax ### 4/5 — New Update Bugs *2024-03-14* Good game I definitely enjoy playing it but I just wanna make you aware of a few bugs I encountered in the new update. One bug doesn't effect the gameplay but it causes some of the zombies in the stage mode to just phase through the fences which cause them to just sit on the train tracks. Another bug is that the different trains get sort of buggy. Sometimes they just stop accounting for their damage add on and it only uses the base damage. Sometimes the damage add on from the trains just don't work at all and it causes it to be harder to clear levels. I will be sure to list any more bugs if I run into any. EDIT: Just got on the game to find out i went from being on stage 13-1 to being sent all the way back down to stage 3-2 and now i barely make any coins. ### 4/5 — Better ad amount *2024-02-22* Don’t write reviews but for this game I felt I should I’ve been playing for a while and the ads are pretty uncommon compared to most free games overall mechanics or ok can’t say their bad though but yea it’s a good game and I would recommend 👌 ### 4/5 — Great game, minor bugs *2024-02-09* Absolutely love the game, only critiques I have is that the boss on stage 39-5 glitched and wouldn’t die the first time so I had to wait till the time limit was over then retry and then he died immediately, second critique is boss hunt bosses glitching sometimes and they have no health but won’t die so you have to wait out the time and kill him again. ### 4/5 — Great game *2024-01-31* Great game. Visually interesting. Highly addicting. Loses a star because it’s basically unplayable without paying $10 to remove all ads; also a reason to lose star, some parts of the game are unfunctional. Can’t complete the daily quests with unfunctional parts. ### 4/5 — Fun! *2024-01-21* Game is fun but theres a few bugs: -Rescue missions are freezing upon completion -Research will not complete -Notifications for event, which is now over But otherwise, its fun :) --- *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 2026-06-10.*