Merge Dungeon

 

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Merge the cogs together into a machine and take it into:  Merge Dungeon

 

Today we have a post-apocalyptic merging game that has mostly idle mechanics with a lot of active merging. This is a very interesting RPG that uses merge mechanics as a form of equipment upgrades. Each equipment has sever different levels of rarity similar to Borderlands. There are two main currencies, gold which is used to buy equipment or upgrade storage space. The second is a premium currency that is used to upgrade everything else. You can earn a lot by playing or watching videos quite often.

If you look in the Shop tab, (the Treasure chest icon on the bottom), you can move to the last place option and watch several videos to gain boosts that slowly decay over time. It says that it decays 10 points every 3 minutes but this seems to be a typo as you only lose 1 point every 3 minutes.

If you click on the cardinal rose at the bottom of the page you can see the level select screen. If you clear an area with different challenges you gain purple diamonds which is the premium currency and is used to upgrade a lot of different kind of things needed to progress.

Here is where you will spend most of your time. When you click on the middle button you force a new item. it takes mana, the blue circle on the right. You can merge the same item to create the next tier up item which tends to be the next armor piece along the hp bar. You have not only 1 character but 3 you have to try leveling up evenly by merging and getting them good equipment. The merging can be tedious and max rarity items automatically lock so they don't accidentally get merged. Even if you merge two separate items that are max rarity the next item's rarity is completely random. Note, each of the characters share the same inventory limit so this makes it very hard to focus on all 3 until you expand that stat.

If you click on the gem on the merge board, you come to this screen. Here you collect and merge gems similar to that of Diablo games. Along the way you find a dwarf that can put the gems into an item, upgrade the items further or reset the item.

Here, back to the compass button you can also go to special dungeons twice a day to collect special powder used to upgrade each character abilities individually.

Here is the sample of the micro-transactions You get a fair amount of premium currency for the price but it will not buy you many upgrades at all.

You click on the anvil and it shows you every item you've found so far from merging. As you collect higher tier items, you gain permanent boost to that character. Also note, across the top of the screen you also gain many small missions that give you a boost of gold or items. These seem to be very random and not a source of premium diamonds.

If you click on the book to find all the big power upgrades. This menu is where you go to get the biggest boosts to progress you game. Here is where you will spend all your hard earned premium currency.

Overall:

 5 of 5 cogs.

 

 

This game has a lot of interesting mechanics with how merging works. Every so often you get a rank updated based on how far you have traveled across the map. Number of deaths do not seem to deter your placement on the list, only the floor number you reach.

Story:

0 of 5 cogs.

 

 

Zero, none at all.

Amount of ads:

 none, all optional.

 

 

 

 

 

Every ad is an optional and could potentially be avoided to play this game without issue as you can play offline as well.

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

The ads and screenshots on google play store hide nothing and are not click-bait. This is a straight forward game.

Graphics:

5 of 5 cogs.

 

 

 

HUD elements remind me of Diablo 2. The rest of the graphics have a slight cartoony aspect that takes big influence from the 80s.

Gameplay:

5 of 5 cogs.

 

 

 

This is a very simple and easy game. Merge and merge and merge, then buy upgrades. I was able to quickly rise up on the server I played on as it seems many people may get bored with this game very quickly. It's easy to pick up and play for as long as you want.

Free play:

💯%

This game is very generous and you can easily play just by watching optional ads all day.

Fun factor:

💎 Purple Diamonds are for Merging.

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