# Mini Merge Champions — user reviews > 218 indexed App Store user reviews of Mini Merge Champions by Popcore GmbH, rated 4.20/5 from 1,082 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mini-merge-champions/id6670783328/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mini-merge-champions/id6670783328.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 720 · 4★ 124 · 3★ 79 · 2★ 55 · 1★ 104 ## What do users think of Mini Merge Champions? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎨 Great art and character design - 🕹️ Simple and addictive gameplay - 🕰️ Quick and easy to pick up - 💰 Minimal ads and no pay-to-win **Cons** - 🔄 Frequent and detrimental updates - 🤖 Poor AI and auto-battle mechanics - 🔒 Progression-blocking daily missions - 🔍 Lack of transparency on drop rates **Commonly reported bugs** - Missions not registering progress correctly - Troops getting stuck or placed incorrectly - Greyed-out screens and tutorial issues - Inconsistent in-app purchase functionality **Most requested features** - Ability to manually replay previous levels - More varied and challenging game modes - Improved reward scaling and progression - Better communication with the community ## Newest reviews (16 of 218) ### 4/5 — Fix your code, please. *2026-08-31, version 39.0.2* Halloween update soft locks. You are unable to play the game currently. ### 4/5 — Game is broken(for me) *2026-07-31, version 39.0.2* I played mini merge before the monetization and mulitplayer and they used to have an option to upgrade how much you earn, and eventually I ended up with 15.8t coins and all of my heros at level 8052 which is maxed for both… now I can’t play multiplayer because my troops one shot everything and have so much health the bar is less than half full right when I get them. I’ve had the game forever and it’s not a bad game but I wish I could get some sort of hefty reward for having everything maxed. I can literally beat every level with my unmerged guys. I want to still have maxed guys but maxed that I can still play the game. Or just make it that being maxed doesn’t break the game idk ### 4/5 — Good game *2026-07-29* Really good game but have bugs turning impossible to enter in arena, when I click to enter start a normal match without using energy ### 3/5 — Cute game with some big flaws *2026-04-07, version 39.0.2* Generally a very good game! Hampered by the fact that the arena, and all associated quests, are busted. The quest of "enter the arena" never gets satisfied no matter how many times I press "start match". What the competition even is, whether it's being compared on speed or merges or some unknown point system, is completely unexplained. If I were to find out that the "start match" button did literally nothing other than start the next floor and display a "opponent name: defeat" text in the tab, I wouldn't be surprised, cuz that's all that seems to happen. Smaller nitpicks, the "rate us" button does nothing, there's no way I can find to get in contact to let them know about these issues, and the chain lightning sound effect sounds whether or not sound effects are turned off. It really is a cute lil game though, and I'd happily bump up my rating if those big issues were fixed. ### 4/5 — Great but purchases seems bugged *2026-04-01, version 39.0.2* I love the game but I made two purchases and only got half of what listed fit the chapter bundles ### 3/5 — Needs an update *2026-02-03, version 39.0.2* Desperately needs an update to retain player base. As others have mentioned the arena function is broken making the challenges unable to be completed. I used to play every day and eventually gave up playing consistently because of the bug. ### 3/5 — Arena Fox *2025-08-26, version 39.0.2* If you’re not going to fix the Arena issue so it can actually be played. Don’t put it in as a daily goal. It’s not our fault you can’t get your game to function properly. I’m starting to think maybe I should just delete the app and never download any app that they are apart of because you obviously don’t care about the gamers who want to play. ### 4/5 — Fun game but slow to fix problems FIX THE ARENA!!! *2025-08-18, version 39.0.2* I’ve played the game for awhile and getting new units can be fun but there’s been the arena feature for like a month and it only worked within the first week! Now it’s been 3 or so weeks and arena is still busted. It doesn’t load rivals all it does it goes to the story mode chapter. The problem with that is that there are daily goals that are arena related and you can’t get your daily/weekly prizes cause you literally can’t do all the daily objectives. ### 3/5 — New arena mode *2025-07-24, version 39.0.2* I have tried to get it to work but it looks like it just plays the normal level you are on. Also it has no instructions as to how you are supposed to win. Is it time based? Depending on how many units you use? How many merges you make? Who knows I’ve tried it 4 times while beating the level and I still lost for some reason. ### 4/5 — Arena? *2025-07-22, version 39.0.2* Love the game kinda addicting. The new update with arena looks cool but every time I enter it just a round by myself and I can’t finish the daily quests. ### 1/5 — Arena match doesn’t work *2025-07-21, version 39.0.2* The new arena match feature doesn’t work. Clear a chapter, still lose… Are there any instructions on how it works? NOPE!! Do the update/patch notes say anything? NOPE!! Don’t make it a daily mission if it’s not going to work. Now we are screwed for the weekly mission. ### 4/5 — More Issues *2025-07-05, version 37.0.2* First energy wouldn’t refresh, and now troop images aren’t visible. It’s just a blank checkerboard map. ### 1/5 — Bait and switch *2025-07-05, version 37.0.2* It started off free to play! Key word started! Now they have switched to, if you want the grand prize at the end of the week you must complete a daily: purchase something from the shop! 0 stars if possible! ### 3/5 — Purchase incomplete *2025-07-04, version 37.0.2* I spent $11 on the game for a chapter 83 pack because I really enjoy the game and figured giving a little money to the creators wouldn’t be terrible. The purchase went through and then didn’t give me any of the gems or coins that were advertised in the purchase. Other than that it’s a fun pastime game. ### 4/5 — They fixed the bugs! *2025-07-01, version 37.0.2* Half of June the game was bricked because of two separate bugs, the first one took a week to fix since they didn’t seem to drop updates outside of their normal schedule, the second one they fixed later that week. They followed those up with another mid-week update right after with some pretty solid QoL improvements. ### 1/5 — False advertising *2025-06-27, version 36.4.2* The chapter packs claim they come with 10 tower tickets but only provide 1 and my energy supply does not recharge making the game basically unplayable ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Broken *2026-06-20, version 39.0.2* This game used to be so fun, but now its broken. I open the game and it gets stuck on a menu that says “The tower's opened! Something spooky's up there...” and wont let me click on anything. I’ve even deleted and reinstalled multiple times and nothing helps. Disappointing. ### 1/5 — Ad free purchase was useless *2026-03-17, version 39.0.2* After buying the ad free purchase, I still have all the same ads. It was a complete waste of money. ### 1/5 — Current bug can’t play *2026-01-24, version 39.0.2* After I get a pop up for the little pirate package I close it out I’m stuck on the final league achievement screen that’s completely white out with not exit so I’m just stuck not being able to play ### 1/5 — Arena?? *2025-12-23, version 39.0.2* Dude it's been broken for months. At this point get rid of the tab so it doesn't stop me from completing dailies or taking up room on my screen ### 1/5 — Way Too Grindy to be Any Fun *2025-11-14, version 39.0.2* On paper this seems like a fun game, but once you get into the meat of it, it quickly becomes obvious that any good qualities the game has are drowned out by the sheer amount of grinding you have to do in order to make progress. The enemies get stronger with each stage, requiring you to constantly level up your heroes so they don’t die within the first 10 seconds of a stage. It costs a TON of gold to keep leveling up your heroes, but the game barely gives you any unless you spend money to get more. So if you’re a F2P player, the only way to keep getting gold at a steady rate is to keep grinding on stages you’ve already beaten, except the devs even managed to screw that up because for some reason they made it so that you can only revisit the one stage that comes before the stage you’re currently on, so if you were hoping to grind on the very early stages for an easy win, you’re out of luck. Don’t even bother with this game unless you intend to spend a lot of money just to inch forward a little bit every day. ### 1/5 — Broken game *2025-08-30, version 39.0.2* This game was fun for the few weeks I was able to play it. For months now none of the characters appear during gameplay, they are just invisible which makes it literally unplayable. Every couple weeks I open up the app again to see if it’s been fixed but nope. I’m writing this review finally because today I decided to try and trouble shoot and after restarting the app I was stuck on a frozen “league reward” popup. So even when I try to give the game a chance and see if I can fix it on my own it won’t let me🙃 Also the prices of in-app purchases are laughably high, especially for a game with so many ads and seemingly zero effort to fix the game. Devs are either delusional, forgot about this game, or intentionally scamming people ### 1/5 — Purchased chapter pack and didn’t receive 1/2 of the items that were shown. *2025-08-23, version 39.0.2* Shame on this game for promoting chapter packs and then not giving you all the items that were listed. 1/2 the gems, didn’t get any of the tower tickets, only got 30k in gold (when it showed 624k)…ridiculous ### 1/5 — Ads ads ads ads and ad removal doesn’t actually remove most *2025-08-17, version 39.0.2* Great game concept but game is made exhausting from the pseudo forced ads. Thus far the ads (prob 30s-1minute long) that I see: 1.) forced at the end of a mission 2.) ad for extra coins at end of mission - actually required if you want any semi meaningful progress since the coins you otherwise would get is basically nothing. 3.) ad to be able to use a super stronger unit in a mission. Useful when stuck but not necessary. 4.) ad to acquire a few different interesting skills during the RNG skill acquisition steps during a mission. Not necessarily required but a complete killjoy for the game because it limits the more fun options you can use. THIS SHOULD NOT REQUIRE AN AD. The separate skills should just be given RNG that makes them a little more rare. Forcing the player to disrupt their play through 3x (to level it up) per play through ruins this whole game mechanism for me. I bought the ad removal pack. Guess what, it only removes the single forced ad at the end of a mission. This is really the least annoying one if anything. It SHOULD have removed ads required for the extra gold (or distribute the gold distribution such that watching the gold boost ad does not quadruple your gold intake) and it SHOULD minimally have removed the requirement for ads to choose some of the more interesting skills…which aren’t necessarily even game breaking or all OP. Altogether, felt annoyed and scammed from buying the ad removal pack given that it basically almost nothing to remove ads. ### 1/5 — Arena Unusable *2025-08-08, version 39.0.2* I enjoyed this game until they added the broken arena. Despite using the latest update, going to the arena, and entering about 10 matches with a new username and flag… It never registers that I am playing. I always lose, but it never tells me why or even how the arena is supposed to work. Never registers that I am playing at all. I even bought the fast forward pass assuming I am just too slow to win, but no. Now I always have a bunch of un-acheivable tasks in my list, because the arena is permanently busted and I am not even counted as plaing, let alone winning. It just feels bad ### 1/5 — Purchases do not credit you everything! *2025-07-26, version 39.0.2* First purchase from the store, paid for 300 gems, got 150. Paid for 5 of each keys (10 total), credited with 5. Should have been credited with 800k coins, more like 20k. Also owed 10 tower passes, credited 0. Purchases are a scam. No way to contact support to get refund or what was purchased - buyer beware!!! When you click on app support in iTunes Store, you get 503 service unavailable. Also, no way the 10/20% knight/wizard spins actually run at those percentages. Sometimes those spins land on a winner and it says you lost. SCAM! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Problem *2026-01-24, version 39.0.2* Trying to get into the game today and it won’t let me play it because it’s stuck on final league achieved please fix this so I can play the game to but pirate characters before the time limit runs out ### 5/5 — Hasn’t worked since *2025-09-20, version 39.0.2* The last update introduceibg the tower the guy covers the window to progress the event an the game is stuck on my iPhone 15 pro max hopefully it can be fixed it was enjoyable to play not too easy and not too hard. ### 5/5 — Game freezing *2025-08-17, version 39.0.2* Every time I open up the game it freezes on the final game achievement screen. I’ve tried closing the app and restarting it and I’ve tried deleting the app and reloading it several times but it persists. Please fix this issue. ### 5/5 — Great game with responsive devs *2025-06-27, version 37.0.2* This mobile game is honestly one of the best. The gameplay loop is very fun, the only time you get ads is if you want bonuses, and the developers seem very adamant about keeping their game working as bugs get patched very quickly! ### 5/5 — Great game and balanced enough so you don’t feel stuck *2025-06-26, version 36.4.2* Definitely a good game if you like this sort of thing. Purchases are so expensive though it’s not even tempting ### 5/5 — Stamina *2025-06-24, version 36.2.2* My stamina hasn’t regenerated in like 2 days other than the the video ones. Like why? What’s going on ### 5/5 — Energy bug *2025-06-24, version 36.2.2* I want to start off by saying that game is great and really fun! I’d love to continue playing but my energy isn’t filling up. Must be a bug because i’ve been offline for 4 hours and my energy is still at 1/20 ### 5/5 — Great game! Just reporting a bug *2025-06-23, version 36.2.2* Hey guys! Had trouble reporting a bug on the website so I’m doing it here. Really love the game and the new updates, but for some reason, my energy won’t refill over time anymore. It’s stuck on 2, and the only way to get energy is to wait for the 5 free extra or watch ads. Hope to see that fixed in the next update! ### 5/5 — Super fun! *2025-04-07* This game is so fun! I didn’t think I would enjoy it so much but I’m really into it. It’s really easy at first but eventually it does get harder. I like to see which champions or heroes I can unlock. In the beginning, I got super strong Hero chests but now it’s slowed down a little. I like the addition of the endless tower. It’s nice to mix things up. I hope there will be more opportunities to get keys to unlock chests in the future. ### 5/5 — Back to its roots. *2025-04-05, version 23.0.2* Thank you for removing previous level restrictions, and goofy time travel level. I will now make a purchase. Just this one to show my appreciation. --- *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 2026-09-02.*