Comparison

How Fennec Fox Built a Home vs Merge Magic!

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

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About

How Fennec Fox Built a Home

An interactive storybook for children and parents featuring a young Fennec Fox adapting to a new forest environment. Explore colorful scenes, play minigames, and help the fox prepare for winter.

Highlights
  • Original adventure story
  • 11 colorful scenes
  • Minigames and puzzles
  • Professional voice over
  • 3D effect for depth
Features
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Discover an original story about little Fennec Fox and his adventures in the autumn Forest! This is the interactive book both kids and their parents will love! The book is free and contains no Ads! But we would appreciate a small donation! *** One summer, a new tenant came into the forest. It was the Fennec Fox. Every day he frolicked and played with his friends. Thus, warm summer has passed, and rainy autumn came. Frosty winter was coming... But, our Fennec Fox has grown up in a hot desert, and does not know what to do! Help him to get prepared for the cold winter, make new friends, and learn foxes secrets! Inside you’ll find: • original adventure story on 11 colorful scenes with ultra HD graphics • new Fennec Fox’s friends • minigames and puzzles • professional voice over • 3D effect bringing new depth to the reader experience Portuguese translation by Lorena Haddad Spanish translation by Ruth Blanco and Sergio Lorenzo *** Like our Fennec Fox? Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and VK! https://www.facebook.com/thefennecs https://instagram.com/thefennecs https://vk.com/thefennecs

About

Merge Magic!

Combine magical items, eggs, and creatures to create more powerful ones and restore a cursed land. Solve puzzles, hatch mythical beings, and nurture your garden in this enchanting adventure.

Highlights
  • Combine over 500 objects
  • Hatch and evolve mythical creatures
  • Solve 81 challenging puzzle levels
  • Lift a curse from a bewitched land
  • Participate in frequent events
  • Discover unique hybrid creatures
Features
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Discover enchanted tales and quests in the mysterious world of Merge Magic! where you can combine everything into better and more powerful items for your journey. Merge eggs to hatch magical creatures, then evolve them to uncover more powerful ones! Encounter and solve challenging puzzle levels: match the items to win, then bring rewards back to your Garden to collect and grow. The only hope to lift the curse from the bewitched land rests in YOUR extraordinary power to MERGE ANYTHING -- eggs, trees, treasures, stars, magical flowers, and even mythical creatures. Reveal wonders as you merge your garden to perfection and nurture your amazing creatures! MERGE MAGIC! FEATURES: • Discover over 500 fantastic objects to match, merge and interact with through 81 challenges! • Unearth fairies, unicorns, minotaurs and never-before-seen hybrid creatures like Butterphants (butterfly & elephant), Peacats (peacock & cats) and many more. •An evil curse has been placed on the garden, fight off the fog and lift the curse to restore, and take back the creatures’ home! • On your puzzle journey, you may cross paths with evil witches. You will need to watch out and be careful! • Participate in frequent events, win more advanced creatures that you can take back to your garden. Merge Magic! is brought to you by Gram Games, the studio behind the top hit titles Merge Dragons!, 1010!, Merged!, Six!, Bounzy!, Merge Town!, Merge Farm!, Paint Tower!, and Merge Gems! Use of this application is governed by Zynga’s Terms of Service, found at https://www.take2games.com/legal. Merge Magic is FREE to download and includes optional in-game purchases (including random items). Information about drop rates for random item purchases can be found in-game. If you wish to disable in-game purchases, please turn off the in-app purchases in your phone or tablet’s Settings.

Screenshots

How Fennec Fox Built a Home4 screens
Merge Magic!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Merge Magic! at 4.8 against How Fennec Fox Built a Home's 3.7. Merge Magic! also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (91K vs 29). How Fennec Fox Built a Home's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, monetization model 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. Merge Magic! sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. How Fennec Fox Built a Home asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Merge Magic! holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merge Magic! has 91K ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of How Fennec Fox Built a Home's written reviews are positive against 59% of Merge Magic!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How Fennec Fox Built a Home ships an update every 6 months, Merge Magic! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
How Fennec Fox Built a Home versus Merge Magic!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow Fennec Fox Built a HomeMerge Magic!
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (29 ratings)4.8 (91K ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.6% of reviews — better58.6% of reviews
Number of ratings2991K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#58 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB343 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAlexander SmirnovGram Games

Customer experience

How Fennec Fox Built a Home

All ratings29 ratings
Positive62.1%
Neutral6.9%
Negative31.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive80.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative19.4%

Merge Magic!

All ratings90,864 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.8%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews1,262 reviews
Positive58.6%
Neutral13.8%
Negative27.6%

Bugs and requests

How Fennec Fox Built a Home

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Merge Magic!

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Creatures disappearing from garden
  • Inability to sell or delete items
  • Compasses not properly regenerating
  • Compatibility issues with device updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • More frequent level updates
  • Ability to delete or sell unwanted items
  • Shorter cooldown times for creatures and compasses
  • More ways to earn premium currency without spending money

In-app purchases

None

How Fennec Fox Built a Home

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Merge Magic!

One-time9
  • 30 Day Magic Gem Payout$4.99
  • Premium Land$4.99
  • Pouch of Magic Gems$6.99
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  • Premium Land2 variants$8.99
  • Goblet of Magic Gems$12.99
  • Gold Pass$12.99
  • Bowl of Magic Gems$24.99
  • Chest of Magic Gems$59.99
  • Wagon of Magic Gems$99.99

Questions

Is How Fennec Fox Built a Home free?
How Fennec Fox Built a Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Merge Magic! free?
Merge Magic! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, How Fennec Fox Built a Home or Merge Magic!?
Merge Magic! is rated higher. How Fennec Fox Built a Home averages 3.7 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Merge Magic! averages 4.8 from 91K ratings.
Do How Fennec Fox Built a Home or Merge Magic! have ads?
Merge Magic! shows ads; How Fennec Fox Built a Home does not.
Which is updated more often, How Fennec Fox Built a Home or Merge Magic!?
How Fennec Fox Built a Home ships an update every 6 months, and Merge Magic! fortnightly. Most recently, How Fennec Fox Built a Home was updated on November 1, 2026 and Merge Magic! on November 12, 2026.

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