Comparison

Vacation Time Puzzles vs Merge 2D

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Vacation Time Puzzles

Engage your mind with charming puzzles set in beautiful, relaxing environments. Progress through increasingly challenging levels, with new areas and puzzle packs to explore. Enjoy a peaceful gaming experience designed to help you unwind.

Highlights
  • Charming puzzles
  • Lush environments
  • Progressive difficulty
  • New areas and challenges
  • Themed puzzle packs
  • 25 free levels
Features
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Welcome to Vacation Time! Lush and bright environments, accompanied with a happy tune, give you the opportunity to sit back and relax a bit. Sharpen your mind with charming puzzles - they start easy, but they get harder and harder with every one you complete. Can you solve them all? More polished than ever, enter the leisurely world of Vacation Time and discover new areas and challenges. You can grind your brain on one of the new puzzles, or, if you’re in that kind of mood, just chill by the pool. You can try 25 levels for free. If you just can't get enough, check out the puzzle packs. They contain a hundred puzzles each! CONTAINS - The world map - The windmill - The sunflower farm - The village - The pool - The lake - 25 free puzzles AVAILABLE - Summer Puzzle Pack - Fall Puzzle Pack - Winter Puzzle Pack

About

Merge 2D

A puzzle game where players merge identical objects to color them and clear the board. Advance through increasingly difficult levels by strategically merging and clearing.

Highlights
  • Merge identical objects
  • Color objects
  • Clear the board
  • Advance through levels
  • Challenging gameplay
Features
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Are you perceptive enough to play this game? Merge the same type of objects to color them. Colored objects can be merged to clear the board. Move on to bigger and more challenging levels as you clear the boards!

Screenshots

Vacation Time Puzzles4 screens
Merge 2D4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Vacation Time Puzzles at 5.0 against Merge 2D's 2.0. Vacation Time Puzzles also leads on ads (none vs shown). Merge 2D's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (daily vs every 7 months). On price, ratings volume and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Vacation Time Puzzles sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Merge 2D asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Vacation Time Puzzles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vacation Time Puzzles ships an update every 7 months, Merge 2D daily. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Vacation Time Puzzles versus Merge 2D: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVacation Time PuzzlesMerge 2D
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB159 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEdwin VegerBesim Toker

Customer experience

Vacation Time Puzzles

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Merge 2D

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Vacation Time Puzzles

One-time3
  • Summer Puzzle Pack$1.99
  • Fall Puzzle Pack$1.99
  • Winter Puzzle Pack$1.99
None

Merge 2D

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vacation Time Puzzles free?
Vacation Time Puzzles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Merge 2D free?
Merge 2D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Vacation Time Puzzles or Merge 2D?
Vacation Time Puzzles is rated higher. Vacation Time Puzzles averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Merge 2D averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Vacation Time Puzzles or Merge 2D have ads?
Merge 2D shows ads; Vacation Time Puzzles does not.
Which is updated more often, Vacation Time Puzzles or Merge 2D?
Vacation Time Puzzles ships an update every 7 months, and Merge 2D daily. Most recently, Vacation Time Puzzles was updated on November 1, 2026 and Merge 2D on November 4, 2026.

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