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Merge Gardens
Futureplay · 164,380 ratings · ★ 4.4
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Top complaints - extracted from 50 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
33 negative reviews mention this · 66% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much updates in the name of bug fixes and no additional improvements. Very slow, crashes, stops mid game and doesn't work for a few minutes straight, drains battery fairly quickly, no new fun features to keep you entertained. Nice to sp…" - Afreen Nisha Khalifulla
2
"play"
15 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much updates in the name of bug fixes and no additional improvements. Very slow, crashes, stops mid game and doesn't work for a few minutes straight, drains battery fairly quickly, no new fun features to keep you entertained. Nice to sp…" - Afreen Nisha Khalifulla
3
"update"
13 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much updates in the name of bug fixes and no additional improvements. Very slow, crashes, stops mid game and doesn't work for a few minutes straight, drains battery fairly quickly, no new fun features to keep you entertained. Nice to sp…" - Afreen Nisha Khalifulla
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"items"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I would give this 5 stars but with the recent update came problems. My screen glitches when I double tap locked items, making this very unpleasant and frustrating to play. Please fix it" - Atasha Meyer
5
"every"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "this game is ridiculous. it's too slow. waiting 15 min just to load it. 10-15 mins it freezes in-between levels. the glitches. you can't do targets in time and rewards haven't been given. every time I try open and play this game it crashes …" - Chloe Deacon
6
"money"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I wish the magnets were also purchasable with gems...being locked behind real money sucks cause I want to use my free gems to use it" - The Nd
7
"crashes"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much updates in the name of bug fixes and no additional improvements. Very slow, crashes, stops mid game and doesn't work for a few minutes straight, drains battery fairly quickly, no new fun features to keep you entertained. Nice to sp…" - Afreen Nisha Khalifulla
8
"other"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun game! However, since last update the game is glitching and freezes a lot! I have to restart to be able to play. Quite frustrating. All of my other apps are fine so it's not my phone." - Becky Perkins
9
"merge"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "update is extremely glitchy.. I've played this game for 4 years and contemplating deleting it due to the glitches from this most recent update. I'm unable to merge and some puzzles will not allow me to click on certain objects on one part o…" - Amanda Perkins
10
"glitches"
5 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I would give this 5 stars but with the recent update came problems. My screen glitches when I double tap locked items, making this very unpleasant and frustrating to play. Please fix it" - Atasha Meyer
11
"phone"
5 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun game! However, since last update the game is glitching and freezes a lot! I have to restart to be able to play. Quite frustrating. All of my other apps are fine so it's not my phone." - Becky Perkins
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"anything"
5 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game use to work really well and now it's completely broken. The screen stops working to pick anything up, when it does work and you try to merge things it gets stuck and doesn't do anything. I've spent so much money on this game and I…" - Anna Garcia
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this game sucks, I keep getting dumb ads that never end.
I cannot get it to load, is it down today?
Fun game! However, since last update the game is glitching and freezes a lot! I have to restart to be able to play. Quite frustrating. All of my other apps are fine so it's not my phone.
This game use to work really well and now it's completely broken. The screen stops working to pick anything up, when it does work and you try to merge things it gets stuck and doesn't do anything. I've spent so much money on this game and I would spend more if the game worked...
if it's on my phone it's gone cuz I don't know where it came from
it kicks you out for no reason and you lose progress and bonuses.
I used to be able to play on more than one device with the progress data saved. I got a new phone recently and just opened up the app because I don't have access to the other device and I don't want to lose my login streak. it's not giving me any option to sync my progress and it's forcing me to start over. uninstalled 🤷🏻♂️
can't even get into the game, because when I tap the icon, it loads and then jumps out of the app straight away
too many glitches, it won't let me stay on the game long enough to do anything
do you realize how time consuming your ads are?
this game is ridiculous. it's too slow. waiting 15 min just to load it. 10-15 mins it freezes in-between levels. the glitches. you can't do targets in time and rewards haven't been given. every time I try open and play this game it crashes my phone. ridiculous!!
u need money and a lot of spare time to play this. developers haven't done anything new in the garden like additional space etc, achievements, goals are unrealistic with difficulty. basically they've made everything ridiculously hard in hope you cave and spend. everything is a menace cash grab.
I'm updating my review because lately, this game has been garbage. Developers, you need to FIX THIS! How the hell can the game just restart just when I have used my hard-won boosters and actually win a puzzle game? At this point, I can't even give you a 1 star. It would be zero stars if it were possible. Calming. Playing this game not only brings me joy, it calms me. Love, love, love it.
never win it's the set up of the algorithm. and when I tried to cash out almost 5 months ago never any payment and never a email 📧 back from the app owner.
the space in the garden is too little I have a lot of bubbles crowding my screen, I can't pop it because there isn't space if I purchase space it will be filled with more stuff. i can't merge them cause it isn't up to 3 and even if I do it won't be enough. it takes time to unlock a new level and when I do it's only like 4 or 5 land. the amount of bubbles I have on my screen is to much it's interferes with movement and it looks so disorganized it's triggering an ocd
Every update makes the gameplay worse. This last one causes LONG delays and glitches every time something tries to load. Not worth keeping the game.
Gameplay is fun BUT it doesn't work anymore. it just freezes and is unplayable. how disappointing
the game keeps crashing 😒 I've created an account and logged in through FB, and it's still crashing after completing the first couple of tasks and won't stay logged in
Too many updates! This game wants to take ALL the room on my tablet!
every update has caused this game to act worse, especially if you interact with the ads. it freezes, crashes, and loses my progress. I've seen other reviews complain about the ads and all I see is replies about how the problem with the ads aren't their fault. seriously?! gonna uninstall it. hopefully they fix it but with the blame shifting, I doubt it
Ok, enough is enough already. Playing the game gets hard enough in later levels, now the latest update has removed a feature I used quite often. I can no longer search an item to see how many I have. Instead, it's been replaced with the magnet function which automatically brings all the same items into one location making them easy to merge. I don't want this function, not to mention, it needs to be PAID FOR IN REAL MONEY! I'm not playing anymore until free search returns. Period!!!
can't connect anymore with this most recent update , so I can't send you any of my information
updating since the update. THE UPDATE SUCKS. I hate the magnet replaced the magnifying glass. either put it somewhere else or make it free. everything is shuffled around and makes no sense. I want the magnifying glass back. I hate the magnet is paid and in a very tappable spot and if it's gonna be paid, put it somewhere else. hate the update. the game also still crashes frequently during ads so you lose your damn streak constantly.
updates every month. uses too much space. i love this game and have been playing for years but I'm done. I'm not going to continually delete items from my phone to play anymore.
this new update started me bk at the beginning of the game. I was on level 14 or 15 before this. what gives?
I like this game but at the moment when new event and weeks starts my token shop doesn't reset and I can't buy anything new as it say i have brought them all.
unless you pay to not receive ads you continuously get kicked out of the game in the middle of puzzles and lose all bonuses because of ad pop ups.
this game used to be peak , but now? nuh-uh! where's the old woman go!? i love her! i loved the old version of this cuz it's so calming, but now? there's so much happening like it's overstimulating me! please bring back the old server, im begging you 😭
This game is very frustrating to play unless you want to spend a lot of money. I uninstalled it after less than a week because I couldn't get anywhere on it.
I wish the magnets were also purchasable with gems...being locked behind real money sucks cause I want to use my free gems to use it
Too much updates in the name of bug fixes and no additional improvements. Very slow, crashes, stops mid game and doesn't work for a few minutes straight, drains battery fairly quickly, no new fun features to keep you entertained. Nice to spend time with, game play seems good.
since all the new updates the game crashes too much and you can't play!
The friggin wildlife is constantly in the way.
I would give this 5 stars but with the recent update came problems. My screen glitches when I double tap locked items, making this very unpleasant and frustrating to play. Please fix it
update is extremely glitchy.. I've played this game for 4 years and contemplating deleting it due to the glitches from this most recent update. I'm unable to merge and some puzzles will not allow me to click on certain objects on one part of the screen.
loved this game....u til the recent update. now whenever I try to play the mini game it crashes. getting to the point of uninstalling it
game keeps closing itself out a lot especially when your almost done with a puzzle. very aggravating
the game it's self is decent but the puzzles are to difficult it's a pay to play games if you are not a genius at puzzles I do not recommend
it's a very simplistic game but so so much is thrown at you all at once you immediately run out of space to do anything.
Please help, I'm stuck on stage 4 and tried everything. When I open my puzzle my game get kicked and I have to start all over again, impossible to play.
I have played this game for over a year, but I have had issues with the game freezing or not working at all. I hate to delete it, but it won't load items at all. I can't even play it, I have noticed the latter in the game the worse it gets.
since the update the game keeps closing every 5 minutes I can't even go to the events only game I have,was working great
really annoyed that ive completed the dog event but i cannot get the last item 'pegasus statue' due to not having enough other items to merge. there was never enough in the first place and you can't buy that extra item either, pretty rubbish
Great app, with a lot of room for improvement. I don't like to rate an app, without using it for awhile... Awhile for this game, has turned into years. I have gotten frustrated, at least twice, deleted the app, and come back. Sometimes I started over. It's unlike any other merge game I have found. Improvement comes from the greedy developers. Every new feature, they make it a pay only feature. In 2026, when games are paying players, I probably would not touch this app. It's a Rip-off!!
Yeah I would give this game a higher rating if I knew it wasn't a Gardenscapes rip off. Plus, the tutorial makes me feel like I'm 5 years old trying to figure out what every color from a crayon box. It's insanely long and unnecessary. I don't need a tutorial micro-teaching me everything.
the newest update was fine until i discovered: they added the "magnet booster" which requires real world money to purchase, AND GOT RID OF THE MAGNIFYING GLASS (which was free). the animals put pieces anywhere and you can't make them stop harvesting things, so the garden is always a MESS! the magnifying glass was one of my most used items, and now it's been replaced by a "pay-per-use" item! 🤢🤬 i don't think any game i play has ever made such a blatant money grab. this is absurd
Are you kidding me? You put a new tool, magnet, you put it under a paywall, and you take away the magnifier tool to highlight the multiple items... Am I missing something here? Who in the world of gaming gave you an idea to take away a tool that is beneficial to the gamers, and put in an enhanced version of it behind a paywall? Like, who? Bring back the magnifier. Do not lower the gamer experience because you want to sell more. You will lose people.
I dont like the new update. it's ridiculous to charge for a common feature in other games.
Nothing like the ads and excruciatingly boring.
I'm so frustrated! My amen kicks me out before I even begin. I'm playing, clicking on the floating ad, boom it kicks me off. I click on the puzzle icon, once again, it kicks me off. I am wanting to play this game! I'm addicted! HELP
Sentiment summary
85%
Positive (4-5★)
7%
Neutral (3★)
8%
Negative (1-2★)