Merge Mansion
Recent updates to Merge Mansion have led to widespread frustration among long-time players due to numerous technical issues, a perceived shift towards pay-to-win mechanics, and changes to core gameplay features that many find detrimental.
Merge Mansion is a long-running merge game with a mystery storyline that has historically been enjoyed for its relaxing gameplay and lack of intrusive ads. However, recent updates have introduced significant problems, including frequent freezing and crashing, a reduction in free rewards, and controversial changes to the user interface and auto-merge feature.
What users like
What users complain about
- Frequent app freezing and crashing, especially after recent updatesR5R9R49R50
- Reduced rewards and removal of ad-based energy/item boosts, making progression slower and pushing in-app purchasesR3R2R11R13
- Controversial auto-merge feature that often activates without user control, disrupting gameplay strategyR12R19R33R38
- User interface (UI) changes are confusing, cluttered, and make navigation more difficultR7R14R25R27
- Increased difficulty and longer wait times for item production and task completion, making the game feel like a choreR1R2R8R15
- Inability to easily identify required items for tasks, making progression frustratingR32R36R40R66
- Lack of variety in events and repetitive gameplay for long-term playersR20R46R67
- Glitches and bugs in mini-games and reward collectionR22R23R43R47
Latest update · v26.06.01
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Summer is in full swing, and it's time for festivities in Hopewell Bay! Here's what you can look forward to in our latest update: • Find out what's cooking in our newest area, the Kitchen! • After the soccer excitement, get ready to unleash Hopewell Bay's local music talent! • Enjoy a variety of fun events and exciting Season Passes packed with rewards. • The "Settings" button is back, making access easier, along with other fixes and improvements. Have a fun summer in Hopewell Bay!
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy merge-style puzzle games with a long-term story and don't mind a slower pace of progression or potentially spending money to advance R1R35R83. It is not for players who are easily frustrated by technical glitches, frequent UI changes, or a perceived shift towards 'pay-to-win' mechanics R5R18R25.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, with many long-term players expressing disappointment and frustration over recent updates. This contrasts sharply with the high lifetime rating, indicating a significant negative trajectory in user sentiment. The developer's release notes mention new areas and events but do not address the widespread issues reported by users, such as freezing, auto-merge problems, or reduced rewards.
Frequently asked
Why is Merge Mansion freezing or crashing after updates?
Has Merge Mansion removed ad-based rewards?
Can you turn off auto-merge in Merge Mansion?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R1] Long waits but still fun: I played (almost) every day for 3 1/2 years before I finally got into the mansion. It was really frustrating, but also really rewarding once I went in. However, now that I’m in, there’s so many more items, especially high-level ones that are needed. I keep ending up doing random outside sections before I can go back into the mansion. With the time it took to get into the
- [R35] Awesome!!!: This game is unbelievably phenomenal!!! I am addicted! There is always something fun to do and new levels to pass. I love how there is a story that u have while playing the game. It’s a really fun mystery. The levels are fun but some r kinda hard and make it harder to pass a level but it’s still fun! Thx so much
- [R39] i actually love ts: ive been playin merge mansion for like years and it still holds up so well after all of them. i get stuck playing this game because of how little ads there are and how much rewards there are man it's great honestly
- [R83] Pleasantly Surprised: TLDR this game delivers on what it’s trying to be. It also manages to balance free to play rewards with the need to shill for your dime. I’ve been playing for a while now. And while some room requirements are excessive I can safely say the sense of accomplishment has been worth it so far.
- [R6] Fun: Fun for when I can’t go outside and enjoy my own garden
- [R10] Soothing: Calming
- [R30] ….: I like it. It’s relaxing & mind soothing.
- [R31] Tranquility: A wonderful and peaceful place to get lost into. A few of the musical scores that play in the background or just magical. Well done to a beautiful game!
- [R5] Pity: I really enjoyed playing this game for two years but now it doesn’t work. I tried deleting and reinstalling it but that didn’t do anything. I can tap all over the screen and it’s like it’s a photo. Pity.
- [R9] Issues: Major issues- app freezing What is wrong??
- [R49] Why: Why is my game frozen?
- [R50] Frozen: My app has been frozen all day.
- [R3] New Updates: …are awful. Less rewards, less energy given, unobtainable daily tasks, no videos to watch to get rewards. I spend less time playing now because of the new gameplay.
- [R2] Upgrade Changes Fail: I’ve been playing for years, and used to love the game. Up until the new board change and the “upgrades” on the daily tasks and trades. It feels like a chore and I don’t feel the excitement to finish out a room anymore. I understand taking away the ads, but the payout rewards have decreased as well and the chests I’ve saved up do not have enough deserving rewards (giving me e
- [R11] Deleted the game today: The game did an update this morning that once again took away opportunities to get more energy. It has done this before and I made the best of it. I’m not spending 2.99 a thousand times to get energy so I have something to do waiting on doctors. This game used to be a good distraction from the world but the world has pushed in fully. I’m out.
- [R13] El juego es muy bueno, pero los generadores son súper lentos.: En solo un mes gasté 70 dólares y me siento totalmente decepcionada y estafada. No vale la pena. Las misiones parecen estar diseñadas únicamente para obligarte a gastar más y más dinero para avanzar. Es una vergüenza que un juego tan grande parezca enfocarse únicamente en obtener ganancias económicas en lugar de ofrecer una experiencia
- [R12] Change the UI for the tea party challenge: I love this game, but the changes with the automatic merge mechanic sometimes seriously disrupt the playing process For example, with the auto-merge the tea party challenge bar (the one with the pink cup) is constantly triggered. It’s placed on the top of the screen, where the counters for energy, gold, and crystals are constantly placed, so the bar ofte
- [R19] The game is great, auto merge isn’t: Love this game and playing it as the story keeps drawing me into it. BUT the only thing that I don’t really like about it is how they keep bringing the auto merge and auto turning it on for me making me lose progress of what I was doing when I was there - either the items end up way too advance for me or either I don’t have the items I been saving (cause I can’
- [R33] who hates automerge? ME!: automerge was already the worst update and now u cant even turn it off before accessing the board and merging items u had saved and wasting ur moves! needs to be fixed…game play gets absolutely ruined!!!!!!
- [R38] Auto merge: Love the game but what happened to auto merge?!! It was so much easier with that feature. I will still play but not as much now that that feature is no longer available.
- [R7] Stay Consistent!: Please, I beg of you, STOP changing the layout of the main board. Just as I start to get used to it, it changes again. At the moment, the layout is horrible. You have to go back to the home/landing screen every single time you want to switch between events or status screens. This wasn’t a problem before this latest change, so why mess with it?
- [R14] Bring it back!!!: Please put back everything in one place above the game board!!! Why did you change it 😩 i loved the easy access with that update..
- [R25] Updates are Horrible: I’ve been playing Merge Mansion for what feels like six or seven years, and I genuinely miss the game it used to be. Every major update seems to make it less fun. Who keeps approving these changes? The old game was relaxing and rewarding. Now it’s cluttered, confusing, and feels like it’s constantly trying to slow you down. Instead of improving the experience, the updates ha
- [R27] Changes: I was playing I was enjoying the updates and getting use to the changes. I liked the activity listings being on top of the game now they are gone please reconsider putting them back.
- [R8] It doesn’t allow you to…..: It doesn’t allow you to get to the different levels fast enough before the reward ends.
- [R15] Enjoy the game, but…..: I really enjoy playing this game, however I’m at a level now that takes days to be able to get the required pieces to move to the next level. I have been on this one level now for four days and because the icon that I need to tap on to get more pieces times out after just a couple minutes, it’s taken days. I think this needs to be fixed. It’s frustrating and even though I r
- [R32] Need a new update: I love the game until this last update. I can’t figure out what object I need to use to complete task now. I used to be able to click on the item that is needed and find out what I need to merge to get that object. Please give us another update and bring that back.
- [R36] Merge pathway not working: I can't click on an image required to get what to merge to make it
- [R40] Is it just me?: Can’t click on new items to figure out where they can be found
- [R66] Frustrating Update: I have been really enjoying this game. However, with the latest update, when you tap on the image of what you need to produce, it no longer tells you which producer it comes from, which product line it belongs in, and where it is in the line-up. This is extremely frustrating. I do not enjoy trying to guess where to find the items I need and not being able to tell how far dow
- [R20] Events: Game isn’t the same anymore, what happened to all the great events?
- [R46] Love but miss: I absolutely am obsessed with this game I can’t go a day not playing it however I’ve been playing it for so long it’s starting to get boring all the events are the same over and over again and reused every year and some of the really fun ones just stopped showing up like the ocean one and the prison ones and the mining one I would love to see different games and old ones brought bac
- [R67] Tired: Love this game but it’s getting a bit boring with the same boring games. It’s also getting expensive and too little wins of coins, diamonds and lightning rods.
- [R22] A lot of glitches: in the side game, where you're taking pictures of birds, there was a red dot indicating that records need to be collected. When I go under the list of birds, there was no red dot under any of the birds so I don't know which bird to collect a reward from. when I go under the individual birds, there is a checkmark next to some, but I cannot collect the rewards. Fix the glitches! E
- [R23] First bug that I see: I have notif for claim diamond but I can't claim in summer lucky snap
- [R43] .: I love the game but I’m giving 3 stars because we want to have the same amount chances to break Granny out of jail then we do with the cake off or the bird watching.
- [R47] The game will cheat you. Beware.: This game will cheat you whenever possible. Not even an exaggeration from an unhappy player, just an incontrovertible fact. Using the 4X supercharge and only receiving Level 3 items is literally cheating people out of points on an effort to get you to spend real money to advance. Shame on these developers.
- [R68] New update isn’t great: App freezes continuously. Restart, freeze, repeat.
- [R70] Constantly crashing: Since the latest update it keeps freezing and crashing making it impossible to play.
- [R18] Now pay to win: The latest updates got rid of watching an ad to burst bubbles, get items, etc. That, combined with the changes to the daily tasks have made this game so you have to pay to win. It’s sad because it was a pretty enjoyable game.
- [R60] New update: The latest update is really terrible. It used to be much more fun when I could just watch an add and get more moves but now I have to buy moves which I absolutely won’t do. I hope you fix this problem
- [R42] Hey Developers!: Do you test your own game? Obviously not! If you did you would know regardless of how you enter the merge board the auto merge starts upon entering. Put the toggle switch on the main page. Give us back control of the board. It’s ruining the game.
- [R52] Love This Game: I love playing this game - it has been my go to game for years. I really like the new layout- it is much easier to see everything. No more toggling screens! You are all usually very thoughtful with the updates and changed. With that said, one change I do not like at all is Auto Merge. There is no way to turn it off without going into your game board- then it’s too late- everyt
- [R102] Auto merge breaks it: Please stop making auto merge on by default. I want control over whether things are merged or not, and the only way I can find to turn it off is to open the play board… which makes things start merging. It renders the game unplayable until it goes away.
- [R51] Changes suck!: Now gems purchase just about everything, coins are useless. Gem production has been reduced significantly and earning anything with ads has been removed. Just another “free” fame that needs real cash to make any significant progress or be any competition in the mini games. I am glad I got to enjoy it before the changes. Rewards do not match the effort or money spent, very obviou
- [R59] Getting tired of having to spend money on this game to get ahead in it.: This was a really fun game, but it’s become a money pit game. It seems like I’m getting less and less of inventory coming out of my items. I’ve been trying for over a week now, to get stamps together to get one item, so I can get to the next level. I’m very displeased with the game and I’m probably going to delete it.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store