Salvage Forge vs Nebula Merge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Salvage Forge
Merge parts to create better items, from scrap to advanced technology. Earn coins even when offline and return to a growing pile of passive income. Progress through multiple tiers of gear and enjoy weekly season passes.
- Merge matching parts to create better items
- Offline earnings and passive income
- Eight tiers of gear to unlock
- Weekly season pass with free and premium rewards
- Prestige system for permanent earning multipliers
- Contracts, crates, and daily bonuses
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The forge never stops. Even when you do. Merge two matching parts and they fuse into something better — scrap into bolts, bolts into circuits, all the way up to the Nexus. Every merge pays out, and the game keeps banking coins while you're away. Come back to a pile of offline income. Spend it. Watch the numbers climb. Do it again. WHY PLAYERS KEEP COMING BACK: • Eight tiers of gear to chase, from Scrap to Nexus Core • Colossal Dreadnought Titan Raids — breach compartments for Titan Cores • Autonomous Drone Fleet — send probes on deep-space salvage expeditions • Offline earnings and passive income that reward you for logging in • Dynamic Anomaly Storms triggering cosmic nova chain reactions • Weekly season pass — free and premium reward tracks • Prestige mechanics for permanent multipliers on all salvage yields • Contracts, syndicate black market tech, and daily bonuses always stacking • Upgrades that make every single coin and merge worth more No energy meters. No timers between merges. Tap, fuse, grow. Free to play. Rewarded ads are optional and only ever boost your coins.
Nebula Merge
Drop celestial bodies into a cosmic well, merging matching tiers to ascend. Fuse various cosmic objects to reach an Eternal Nebula, using comets and void shards to your advantage. Earn in-game currency for permanent upgrades and compete in daily challenges.
- Celestial body merging
- Permanent upgrades
- Daily, weekly, monthly challenges
- Prestige system for bonuses
- Leaderboard competition
- Offline play
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Drop celestial bodies into a cosmic well. Matching tiers merge, the pile rises, and one slip past the danger line ends the run. Fuse Stardust into Asteroids, Moons, Planets, Stars, and beyond — all the way to an Eternal Nebula. Comets promote whatever they touch. Void Shards erase a body for score. Earn Stardust, buy permanent upgrades, collect every body, and chase daily, weekly, and monthly challenges. Prestige to keep a forever Stardust bonus. Climb the Game Center leaderboard — beat the record and a Record Breaker jackpot drops. Cosmic Pass removes ads and always doubles end-of-run Stardust. Stardust packs are optional. Portrait. Offline. No account required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Salvage Forge at none against Nebula Merge's 6. Salvage Forge also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Nebula Merge's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Nebula Merge sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Salvage Forge asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Salvage Forge against 5.0 for Nebula Merge. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Salvage Forge ships an update every 4 weeks, Nebula Merge daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Salvage Forge | Nebula Merge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Murat Surenler | TYLER JOSEPH RUBINO |
Customer experience
Salvage Forge
Nebula Merge
In-app purchases
Salvage Forge
No in-app purchases
Nebula Merge
- Pocket Dust$0.99
- Cosmic Pass$4.99
- Comet Cluster$4.99
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- Star Cache$9.99
- Nebula Vault$19.99
- Cosmic Treasury$39.99
Questions
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