Merge Master Adventure Puzzle

 

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Greetings mechanics and tinkerers!

Today we merge wood and steel to make: Merge Masters Adventure Puzzle

Today's blog brings in a merge game with very interesting merge mechanics. You have a set field with limited spaces to click on item producers and merge items. Some items take up to 10 levels of change as far as I've played. That means you have to have 1024 level 1 items to make a single level 10 item. The playfield that I show next level only has 63 tiles to work with. There are two forms of currency and one energy counter. The blue diamonds are the premium currency and can be used to buy certain things from the shop or reset the item producers. The second currency is golden coins that are used to expand your backpack slots and buy some items. Lastly, as you see here the map is actually very small and seems to have a very limited number of places, and it is set out like an rpg map.

Here is the playfield when you click on the anvil. When you first start off, there are several locked spaces that can only be unlocked once you merge the right item with the grey items. Later on, you unlock a backpack that will allow you to store extra items but the upgrade slots get very expensive.

The wheelbarrow is an example of an item producer. 1 energy will get you a random tool or spool of thread.

Here is the shop. You can buy diamonds or coins, and you can also buy energy or get some for free from optional videos. There is also a section of items that give you coins and energy but it takes multiple of them to reach a max level of 3. So save those up for big boosts of money and energy every few days.

You collect quests from the map. Some areas you completely clear give you bonus quests daily to earn chests that give you many bonuses. Each individual quest progresses the story and gives you different rewards.

Here is the backpack. This screenshot shows the unlocked backpack button on the main playfield. Here each new slot costs a large amount of gold and takes a very long time to unlock. I do not know how many slots there is total in the backpack.

Lastly, when you click on a map spot with a quest you get the list of items you need and the rewards you get for completing the quest.

Overall:

 5 of 5 cogs.

This game is a standard merge game but it is done in a different way. An example is Merge Dragons, you have space you have to slowly expand and build on but have 'optional' land you can buy for real money. This game doesn't do silly things like that but you do have a very limited space to work with.

Story:

 4 of 5 cogs.

There is no story, wait, you're telling me there is an actual story in this game? There is a load of story with a lot of easter eggs to find. Most merge games do not contain story and this was a pleasant surprise.

Amount of ads:

 low

There are not any surprise pop-up ads from outside the game but there are some in-game ads trying to get you to buy very expensive packs. You can watch a very limited number of optional ads for energy and more items from item producers.

Accurate Advertising?:

70%

The Ads for this game are semi-clickbaity. The ads show you having a limited number of tries to match up an item into a 'scene' and the example shows someone that is very bad at the game. There is no mechanic showing in the ads that exist in this game. The only thing that matches is the base merge mechanics and clicking on item producers.

Graphics:

 5 of 5 cogs.

The graphics in this game remind me of  Advernture Quest. The graphics are flat-colored cartoony images for charachters, and cutscenes. The map items and the merge items have a lot more detail and seems to be very HD pixel art.

Gameplay:

5 of 5 cogs.

The game is very simple and you can only really play for a short time every couple of hours. This game is fun but the artificial stopping due to no energy mixed with the item producers only creating so many items every few hours really slows down this game a lot.

Free play:

💯%

This game is fairly generous with currencies and some optional videos so you do not need to buy anything to effectively play this game, just a lot of waiting.

Fun factor:

🍣Easy merge.

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