I’ve played about a dozen merge games and currently play 6 each day. This one is by far my favorite. There is so much to be said about this game. Not only is it an incredibly positive and educational idea, but the game itself is exactly how I would design a merge game, if given the opportunity. Generous with energy, gems, coin-based shop and inventory… I literally can’t think of one bad thing to say about this game. Obviously, the main strategy of any merge game is how to manage your board space, and this one has a lot of items and generators that makes maximizing your space more difficult than other games. However… I was more than happy to spend the $10 for extra board space, because this game is SUCH a great cause!!The environmental activism is truly astounding. Not only woven into the main storyline but via the loading screens. This game has made me a more conscious consumer and inspires me to actively reduce my own personal waste. It’s hard to see the environment suffering and feeling powerless, because how can one individual make a difference when megacorporations are actively killing the planet with their pollution? But this game has renewed my hope.Merge Survival is the first app I open each day and the last app I use before bed. It’s one of my all-time favorite games, and I’m going to be recommending it to everybody I know. Thank you so much for creating such a wonderful experience!!

This is an entertaining game, has interesting survival aspect, and is very pointedly preaching about the concerns of climate change, global warming, and the human hands responsible for making that happen; and that’s great, it’s trying to be educational, and I love that for her. My concern is who the game is framing as responsible; it may be easier for us ordinary folks to consider our actions of recycling, composting, limiting personal single use plastics, etc. as effective enough to stop climate change, but the major culprits behind the destruction of our planet are huge corporations just looking to profit. Shaming and guilting ordinary people is not the solution to stopping the destruction, and spinning that narrative has a chance of doing more harm than it does good. It can make us complacent in thinking that changing our habits alone is enough to stop what is happening to the world around us, not keeping us vigilant in watching what laws are being passed that benefit these companies, what actions are being taken in the green energy sector, what politicians are saying in our local and national communities. Spinning this narrative of guilt doesn’t encompass the full reality or truth of our situation, and although this is just a silly merging game at the end of the day, I caution anyone playing that things are not as simple as they may appear.

I love this game for its focus on the environment and ways to change it. But the additional play to earn objects outside of the merging are totally unachievable. Even if you are paying to play this game, you cannot get ahead to win enough biscuits to get anything other than the prizes offered for the current month at the reduced cost for the month. Heaven forbid you not have money to spend on the game, it will take you between 5-10 months to get one of the 2 prizes (depending on if you choose the reduced current month selection or if you want one of the older selections) and then another 5 months to get the 2nd (which if you are wanting one to match the prize you chose first, it will take you 10 months). While I don’t mind the daily challenges, and the ‘days of camping’ to complete (which sometimes can take days to finish off based on the object you have to merge to), I don’t think the additional things you are automatically forced into should have unattainable prizes. I am ranking this a 2 because of the above complaint, nothing would make me happier than to give the game a 5, but when you consciously make prizes unattainable even if you are paying the extra money for the game, it’s pointless to play.