Merge Matters - House Design 4+

Updated review

I don’t know if this is by design or if it’s a glitch, but aside from ONE energy point taking TEN MINUTES to refill, it doesn’t fill in the background?! I woke up this morning with same 2 energy points I went to sleep with. I think I’ll delete this game and wait until some improvements are made because that is the thinnest veiled money grab I have ever encountered.

Update 1/18 — they listened to the biggest criticism (energy taking an absurd amount of time to fill) so it went from longer than 10 minutes down to 4, which is great. The only other things I would appreciate seeing are countdown timers on item generating things, and an option to buy items in the store (similar to Merge Mansion). It’s infinitely more playable now, and with additions such as those I mentioned would quickly make it my new favorite.

Very fun, but tons of issues

I really like this game and I play pretty much everyday. There are a lot of issue I have with the game.

1. Some goals take way too long to meet because it takes forever to get the items you need. For example, I needed a candle for a task. In order to get a candle, you need beeswax. Beeswax comes from the beehive, which is created by merging bees. Bees come from flowers, which are made from seeds that come from the watering cans. No matter how much you merge the water and, only one seed comes out per cycle. You need I think 16 seeds to merge all the way to a full flower, which produces the bees. 3 bees come from a flower, and the flowers are a one time use. You need tons of bees to merge all the way to the beehive which produces the wax. I just made it to that level of the beehive and felt relieved that I made it after over a month, just to find out that the beehive only produces TWO wax pellets AND that it is also a one time use. Two pellets isn’t enough to make a candle. So I’m back to square one. This leads me to my next issue.

2. Task disappear after a while. I’ve been working towards the candle task for over a month. Yesterday, not too long before I merged enough to get some wax, the task disappeared from my list. This has happened three times now for different tasks. They don’t say you having a certain amount of time to complete it. Extremely annoying.

Fun, but reallll slow

It can pass the time but only for 10-15 minutes as energy runs out due to the tasks. It seems that the daily tasks + the regular tasks all want the same items over and over or very high level items that use multiple machines and you use all of your energy trying to get a single piece to a 50 piece puzzle. I’ve been trying to get a piece of ceramic for 9 days. Things that like make game play less enjoyable. In reference to tasks wanting the same items, you can hardly get the items you need because there is so little variety in the outputs of the machines. A certain machine will spit out 4 different items but you really only get one the whole time and then all of its energy is gone and you have to wait 2 hours + to be able to use the machine again. It seems like the only way to get anywhere is to watch 20 ads a day. While I appreciate the option of free, an ad for items and boosting machines every 5 minutes is just too much. I really want to like this game but when it’s all high level items/items that are impossible to retrieve from the same machines over and over it makes game play way less fun than it could be.

Developer Response ,

We are glad you brought your attention to our game Merge Matters - a unique game about merging objects and renovating a mansion. Thank you for your feedback. We will try to make changes in one of the next updates. Enjoy your game and have fun!