The game is crazy slow to open any icons, like events, menus, and the mini games take f o r e v e r to load. It lags SO bad that sometimes I fall asleep waiting for the match games to open. Other times I just walk away, hoping it will open by the time I come back. There are way too many pop up offers for “free” stuff (not free) and too many demands on the game behind the scenes for it to function properly. Often it just won’t let me click on anything. Dandelions and creatures flying by.. but won’t let me play. Advertising bubbles are constantly popping up, getting in the way, trying to force buying options, and freezing up the game. I get that they need to advertise to make money, but it’s continually in your face. It takes so darn long for their propaganda to load that I have to wait for several minutes for it to load just so I can close their ads. Rinse, repeat.. it’s nonsense. My patience is wearing thin. I don’t bother click on events or any icons because it stops everything from working.⭐️ ..okay, I am done. This game is pointless. It’s nothing but a big struggle to get anywhere. I’ve played for a few weeks, thinking there would eventually be the ability to design areas at some point. Wrong. It’s a constant fight to clear space and it fills right back in with unwanted items. There’s no point to any of this. Deleting.

Only downloaded this a few days ago and I’m already bored. The game advertises the story, which is not the main part of the game. Building out a garden or the house is also not really part of the game. It’s just merging items, filling up the area you have very quickly so all you can do is play, basically their version of candy crush. Not what I expected so I won’t be playing any further. Visually and technically the game is cute, the art is adorable. The only issues I’ve had are learning what can even be done in the game at any given time and moving the board around as it requires finding a point that doesn’t contain a moveable item or the item moves rather than the screen. Guess that’s why you have the option to lock items. Only game play issue I would like to note is that there does not appear to be a way to sell, trash or in any way remove items from the game board that require a real money purchase or waiting however many eons it would take to collect that many gems without offering real-life funds. Wish there was a way to remove unwanted items, even if I got nothing in-game in exchange.

It’s a shame because the game is promising, with great characters, a great storyline and beautiful graphics. But the difficulty of the puzzles and the amount needed to pass a single level have rendered the game unplayable. It’s unreasonable, and it’s clearly to make you spend money/gems. I have no issue with spending money on games, but I don’t like to feel like I’m being strong-armed into doing it just to be allowed to continue a game. And clearly it’s an algorithm of sorts, because after 4-5 failed attempts at passing a level, the game gives up on trying to sell you power-ups and gems and lets you pass the level, all of a sudden, mysteriously, conveniently, with 14 moves to spare! Hmmm… clearly not about skills. You just have to suffer through playing each level 5 times until the game allows you to move forward. And yea I know that the developer is going to say that they’ve tested all the puzzles and they had no problem passing them without gems or powerups (hmmm), but I’ve done a test of my own. I’m no stranger to match-3 games. Currently playing three match-3 games (Gardenscapes, Candy Saga, and Merge Gardens) and the other two don’t even come close to this constant level of difficulty to pass Merge Gardens puzzles. I all but forgot what the plot was and all but abandoned all the other features of the game just to focus on passing 15 puzzles. Every. Single. Level. Just to move forward a little. Such a shame.

But the game is full of glitches, so you have to keep exiting out and going back in. Suddenly, you’re unable to sell the magic bubble or baskets unless you exit out and re-open the game. The bubble that continuously floats around your garden and blocks your view doesn’t even work when you tap on it to watch a video to get a free item. Nothing happens when you tap the button. You’ll be gifted each day with eggs that you can’t hatch unless you buy them using gems. Want to use the hen house to store all those useless eggs? You need to buy the slots using gems. While playing the match puzzles, you’ll create a bomb and it won’t destroy anything but itself. The puzzles get so increasingly difficult that there’s no way to solve them without using gems - cheapest is $5 - and as you level up, the more puzzles you have to play to expand your garden. I’m at having to complete 15 before I can expand and I only got that far because I caved and spent $5. I’m not willing to keep spending, so I’ll be deleting the game soon. It’s really such a shame, because if they fixed the glitches, gave you free access to the hen house, if you could harvest gems and if the puzzles were solvable on the second try without having to use gems, this would be a number one, top notch game. I’d pay upfront for a game like I described. Instead this is just a greedy money grab. Everything you do to play is based on you spending money. DON’T PLAY THIS GAME.