Critter Coast: Merge Adventure 4+

The art style is adorable and the gameplay is calming, bite-sized merging. The type of thing you pull out whilst eating breakfast or waiting in a line. I would like to see more dialogue from the NPCs or a way to upgrade the stamina bar, but I don’t have any issue with the game as it is. (Though I would recommend turning the music off and just listening to the birds chirping, as the music is repetitive.)

There are a lot of weird elements that make it clear the game is somewhat unfinished. In one or two places there is a tiny invisible barrier that I assume should be fence, as well as a few fences you can just walk through. The layout of the town flows well despite this. Also, your character cannot walk on bridges, but rather, they walk in the water beside them. In fact, the character clips ever so slightly through most objects in the game. This is more funny to me than it is annoying. I recently encountered and area where the iron and clay deposit clones itself a bit to the north-east after every level of tower completion! Obviously this should be fixed, but like the few bugs I’ve seen, it’s just a completely harmless aesthetic thing. All in all I’ve completed nearly every task in the game and I’ve never considered deleting it. It’s a fun game. Incredibly charming.

This is a really good game, I really like the art style and the gameplay is actually pretty good. It’s a solid foundation for a really fun mobile game, but that’s what it is, a foundation.
The game itself is noticeably unfinished. There are invisible walls in awkward places and holes in those boundaries in even stranger places. Leveling up doesn’t really do anything besides give you a few rewards, which is fine but it would be better if it increased your maximum stamina. The islands are interesting and give you something new to explore, but you can’t go back to old ones which it really seems like you should be. At the very least adding a gem system of them would be nice, just to unlock them again or something.
Some of the buildings just, don’t do anything? Like they don’t come with a villager and they don’t produce anything, which just looks off. At the very least, having a npc for each house, even if they don’t produce anything, would look less out of place. My biggest issue with this is the big house you build later on that says it’s a museum. One, you only would know that if you looked at the quest title. And two, it’s non functional, so you can’t even go inside it or donate anything to the, once again, npc-less building.
It’s a good start to a game, that slowly devolves over time where the game just doesn’t seem to go anywhere. Essentially, it’s in desperate need of an update to it’s material.

This is a fantastic game. The collection, crafting, exploration, merging, and adorable art style keep me captivated! The game feels a little unfinished, but I don’t want that to discourage anyone from downloading this masterpiece.

I do have some suggestions to help the game feel less of a grind when progressing. I would love leveling up to increase the amount of energy storage, or even have increasing this be a paid option. It would also be great to see resources have the ability to level up, whether this means they hold more items, take less time to recharge, or produce higher level resources. This could take coins or items to upgrade.

The biggest frustration I have is how I will grind for hours to complete one task, only for it to have 1xp as a reward and do nothing else. The “help x villager” tasks seem especially pointless as they don’t even produce any special dialogue or decor. I feel like these may be a placeholder the devs put in for the future…?

It would also be cool if we could visit past islands. Perhaps we could craft “boat tickets” that allow us to revisit?

Overall I don’t want my suggestions to distract from this adorable game that I have been addicted to for weeks! I am excited to see what the devs do with the future of this game and others.