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Merge Fables®
Microfun Limited · 17,870 ratings · ★ 4.8
4.8
★★★★★
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Top complaints - extracted from 20 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"
10 negative reviews mention this · 50% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The Store never connects for me. It’s not my WiFi…all my other games connect… this goes for Merge Fable and Merge County…. Not sure this’ll ever be fixed" - Tiny66102
2
"playing"
5 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Give us the option to undo!!!. You have the option to merge three or five pieces. Merging three pieces produces one piece, while merging five pieces produces two. Which is a much better value at playing the game. However, this game freakishly grabs three piece pieces and…" - samradler
3
"merge"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The Store never connects for me. It’s not my WiFi…all my other games connect… this goes for Merge Fable and Merge County…. Not sure this’ll ever be fixed" - Tiny66102
4
"been"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Give us the option to undo!!!. You have the option to merge three or five pieces. Merging three pieces produces one piece, while merging five pieces produces two. Which is a much better value at playing the game. However, this game freakishly grabs three piece pieces and…" - samradler
5
"years"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Give us the option to undo!!!. You have the option to merge three or five pieces. Merging three pieces produces one piece, while merging five pieces produces two. Which is a much better value at playing the game. However, this game freakishly grabs three piece pieces and…" - samradler
6
"update"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Update ruined it. The new update shoots stuff all around the boards and it’s super annoying" - Zwildone
7
"money"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t bother. Development holds you back the higher levels you hit. Equals money money money to gain items needed to progress .. gl" - Pointless37
8
"games"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The Store never connects for me. It’s not my WiFi…all my other games connect… this goes for Merge Fable and Merge County…. Not sure this’ll ever be fixed" - Tiny66102
9
"frustrating"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Give us the option to undo!!!. You have the option to merge three or five pieces. Merging three pieces produces one piece, while merging five pieces produces two. Which is a much better value at playing the game. However, this game freakishly grabs three piece pieces and…" - samradler
10
"into"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Give us the option to undo!!!. You have the option to merge three or five pieces. Merging three pieces produces one piece, while merging five pieces produces two. Which is a much better value at playing the game. However, this game freakishly grabs three piece pieces and…" - samradler
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"items"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bring back the older feature.. For those of us that have been playing for years, our lands have become vast. When items spawn I want the bubble drop exactly where I put it. Now I have to go scrolling around the island to find them and they often get lost. This is VERY F…" - GameBabe1
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"island"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bring back the older feature.. For those of us that have been playing for years, our lands have become vast. When items spawn I want the bubble drop exactly where I put it. Now I have to go scrolling around the island to find them and they often get lost. This is VERY F…" - GameBabe1
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Give us the option to undo!!!
You have the option to merge three or five pieces. Merging three pieces produces one piece, while merging five pieces produces two. Which is a much better value at playing the game. However, this game freakishly grabs three piece pieces and merge them automatically. This is very frustrating and takes so much fun out of the game. You’ve got some Facebook pages out there where people are complaining about it. Go check it out and take their feedback. Give us an option to “undo last move” or “turn off the merge three feature”. Other merge games do this. I’ve been submitting this feedback to the developers for two years now and I just constantly get the same response. We’ll take it into consideration.
Update ruined it
The new update shoots stuff all around the boards and it’s super annoying
Don’t bother
Development holds you back the higher levels you hit. Equals money money money to gain items needed to progress .. gl
Expensive
The game is fun but if you want to finish the quests, you have to buy energy packages and not only one but many. Too much is too much! So instead of keeping me as a player spending money from time to time, the game lost me. I just deleted it!
Not a cozy game
This game is very chaotic
Do not automatically update
Sucks
Updates
Wayyyy too many updates!
dumb
wont even let you rate less than 4 in app- too many pop ups of do this now- i just want to play
10 mins in and still doing the tutorial
It doesn’t allow you to do much besides click what it’s telling you for a very long time into the game. It’s basically click this, “YAY! Well done”, now click this. There are a million pop ups saying good job here’s a reward. After almost everything they make you click. It’s exhausting.
Devs, listen to your players!
Been playing 4 merge games for years (merge topia, evermerge, merge county & merge fables).
I recently quit fables and evermerge because greed took over the fun. County and fables (same developers) are now doing the same. People are complaining about it in the FB groups but devs don't care.
They will when we all quit playing which I'm on the verge of doing now. It's not worth it to open a game to dig 3 mines and be done. I've got better things to do.
They are now reducing rewards making it difficult to collect currency and giving less moves (special island) per dig on main islands.
I'm sure they have some "genius" telling them this will pay off but as a psychologist who understands reinforcement patterns I can assure them... It will not.
People are voicing their disdain, Devs are ignoring us... We'll just stop playing the same as the others 🤷♀️
I recently quit fables and evermerge because greed took over the fun. County and fables (same developers) are now doing the same. People are complaining about it in the FB groups but devs don't care.
They will when we all quit playing which I'm on the verge of doing now. It's not worth it to open a game to dig 3 mines and be done. I've got better things to do.
They are now reducing rewards making it difficult to collect currency and giving less moves (special island) per dig on main islands.
I'm sure they have some "genius" telling them this will pay off but as a psychologist who understands reinforcement patterns I can assure them... It will not.
People are voicing their disdain, Devs are ignoring us... We'll just stop playing the same as the others 🤷♀️
Need real update
No new buildings, no space, nothing to do. A fun game down the drain.
The Store never connects for me
It’s not my WiFi…all my other games connect… this goes for Merge Fable and Merge County…. Not sure this’ll ever be fixed
Bring back the older feature.
For those of us that have been playing for years, our lands have become vast. When items spawn I want the bubble drop exactly where I put it. Now I have to go scrolling around the island to find them and they often get lost. This is VERY FRUSTRATING!
Completionists should avoid
This game is excellent and a lot of fun, UNTIL you try to complete an event on the event island. If you do not spend a LOT of money, you will never complete one of those events. There’s something to be said for a free game that’s well designed, and this one is. But it would be really nice to actually play an event where you could finish without spending money or even something less than $10. I was diligent with this week’s event and overspent and I STILL will not complete. Not with it. Deleted to remove temptation.
BE WARNED!
Watch your purchases! The company has a robotic service that is not helpful at all. They will argue that they have no clue what you are trying to convey! Nor do they CARE!
Look it up
This not true u don't purchase u don't win story even, u do need to purchase to win story event then u can get free gem, everytime I save up my gem try use on event still cant beat the event story, when u feel u almost get to finally of story they alway come harder for at finally unless u spend money to get pass,
Glitch in newest update
You have a glitch in newest update
Can’t zoom out and the game isn’t giving credit for opening up something using up alot if energy to get nowhere KathyBatchelder
Can’t zoom out and the game isn’t giving credit for opening up something using up alot if energy to get nowhere KathyBatchelder
Ok
Ok
UNMERGE OPTION
I’ve been playing the game for years. I’m upset I had to start all over as my device was no longer “compatible” not my fault my first iPad STILL works at 10 years old. I take care of my things. Anyways, a few times I’ve tried to move an item to a square and it merges instead! It’s so frustrating when some items take 5011 time to merge before completing PLEASE make an option of accidental merges!
Disappointed And Bored
I expected way more from this game after playing Gossip Harbor by the same company. I’m just not getting into it. The quests all seem like I’m getting nowhere and are too repetitive, the storyline has become boring, and I just can’t get into it.
Sentiment summary
96%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)