Seaside Escape: Merge & Story Hack 1.30.1 + Redeem Codes

This is a update to my first review that you can see below. After playing for a while, the game is getting too tedious and aggravating for me. I don’t follow story lines because they don’t interest me, so I’m just here to play the game. A large part of these types of merge games is the building. In other games, I have the option to pick colors or schemes for decorating. This one has nothing to pick from. It just quickly builds a building without any input from the player at all. Very boring. Also, there are so many different items to merge that it’s hard to keep up, or know when it’s best to delete unwanted items. Most items also take several stages to merge and the board fills up quickly. I haven’t spent any real money on the game, and after playing for a while, I’m more likely to just delete it. And the storage for the tools is lame. Just give storage for high level items that you don’t want to delete. I’m done.

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Really like this matching game so far. It’s straightforward and you can play for a while before you need to get more energy. So far I haven’t spent any real money, but there is potential for that if the game continues to impress me. I expect to have to spend real money at some point because I’m sure they aren’t going to continually hand out free energy. No annoying ads every few minutes either. Kudos to the developer.

A good game to play when recovering from a long illness. No intrusive adverts!! The story of the movie star from the ads for this game only covers the introduction to explain how Rowan came to the island. I’m only on level 18, so maybe it will feature more prominently later. Instead, the focus is on restoring old family and friend relationships while restoring various buildings and structures on the island by matching icons. there’s enough to do to keep your engaged for a little while. You can spend money to advance faster, but you’ll still progress without in-app purchases. I’ve only played for a few days, so that could change. So far, it’s a treat. I’ve also enjoyed the diversity of the secondary characters and am looking forward to more in the story line about preserving ancient history by restoring tourist attractions before a corporate resort firm buts out the residents. (You can ignore the plot and still play the game, but I especially like the storytelling!) Have fun!

I always wait on writing a review until I’ve been playing a while, specifically because of games like this. I’m now at level 39, and the game progress has slowed ASTRONOMICALLY. I’ve been grinding on the same 5 tasks for weeks, I don’t even know the last time I leveled up. I never ever even attempt to make daily “challenges” anymore, they are literally impossible to meet without spending money (you want us to spend daily? really?). The amount of energy offered in exchange for watching ads is frankly insulting to players’ time, if you’re offered an ad at all. I haven’t engaged with the bingo event in who knows how long - who has the energy to spare? I don’t look at progress with collector cards feature, I’ve literally never collected a single set and I’ve been playing longer than it’s been a feature in the game. Buy energy with gems? Good luck, gem tiles are extremely rare and you have to trade in a max level gem tile to afford a single energy box, and a refill to max energy costs nearly as much. The art is very cute and polished-looking and the nicest thing I can say about the game, however the game is not a novel concept so idk what they’re banking on here. This developer is so unbelievable stingy - great game if you plan on ditching it after the initial rush of progress.

I enjoy the other apps by this company, but this one doesn’t feel like it’s gotten all the kinks worked out yet. For example, on Gossip Harbor the things you have to build will range from high level/longer builds to fairly quick, so you’re always meeting goals while also working on longer term goals. They are also well spread out across the different things that produce. But this one often has just 3 goals you’re working on and they all are very high level items and it feels like a grind to get to them. They also don’t spread out what produces the items you’re working for, so most of the things I haven’t had to merge in a long time. The daily challenge goals to earn coins (earn $x in a day) are so out of reach of what’s possible that there’s no point in trying. In Gossip Harbor the daily goals are all feasible.

I don’t know if they don’t have enough levels yet, so they’re trying to slow us down, or if they haven’t figured out how to program it to give a decent variation of goals. But I’m finding that it’s more frustrating than fun. Which is a shame, because they do a good job with the graphics and story.

This is a great game. You can pick it up and play for a couple of minutes or a couple of hours. When you come back to play it, it’s the same as when you left only with more energy😉. There are the story lines about the businesses that you can follow, the wonderfully illustrated pieces that you are trying to merge and the backstories of the customers that you are trying to merge and create items for. Also, there are mini-games where you have one day or several to earn extra jewels, coins, and energy. Of course it is possible to purchase (for real money) more energy, etc., but you honestly don’t have to buy anything to play the game AND enjoy it!😁
AND NO ADS!🎉

You get less and less requests/orders as you progress. The tasks keep getting more difficult but the rewards keep giving less which makes no sense. I don’t mind there being difficult orders where it takes weeks of playing to finish but there’s no fillers/simple orders where you can complete for the day to keep you interested. Daily task is impossible, for example, 10k gold a day? I can’t even get that now because a lot of the orders now pays no gold, just building tools. There’s marge games out there I played for a couple years and I got stuck a few times but there are still things to do. This game, I’m just stuck and even if I pay to progress, it will cost a lot. I know the end goal is to people to pay but this money hungry move just make me wanna give up. It should be pay to progress faster, not pay just to progress.
I’ve been playing this for a couple months religiously and paid quite a bit into the game but this ain’t it. There’s no enjoyment anymore, which is sad because I love the designs and gameplay until I’m forced to pay.
I give up on this game.

I’m a huge fan of this game and the other games by the same developers. Something I’ve noticed though in this game is that it costs a lot to advance in the story after getting to a certain point. Something that I think about is that many other games that follow this format have small free things everyday, and the different types of merge games by the same developers also have everyday free chests/items to give the games a little boost. It’s the only merge game I’ve played that doesn’t offer a little free chest/item everyday and it does make me a little sad because I’d love to have something for playing it multiple days.

Also I noticed that the reward for completing three tasks everyday went away as soon as I hit a level to where I got the limited time gameplays and that does make me a little sad as I was able to consider that an everyday playing reward. Overall I enjoy the game, it’s a pretty good merge game but I do wish for motivation to return to it day after day.

I knew it would be better than most other merge games since it’s the same company as gossip harbor (put so many hours into that game) but can tell they are still working a few kinks out. Since playing there have been a good amount of bug and gameplay fixes; more orders available, a good continuous stream of events, and a background audio bug they jumped on really fast. Only thing I’ve noticed recently is my past 2 fully upgraded vases aren’t really giving me any gems, I get a bunch of gold and a max of 4 total diamonds when collected; just seems like a pain to work on getting a max vase for the reward to not be there. Also would be nice to have a free collect daily; like a vase or energy to look forward to. Other than that great game and have really enjoyed it so far, can’t wait to see what the developers continue to do with it.

I consistently play this and gossip harbor on a daily basis. I have been able to level up on GH as time goes on, yet with this game there’s no way to earn energy by watching an ad or a daily gift like there is on GH. Also there’s only 3 orders that are ridiculously hard presented at a time, truly frustrating and feels like you’re just treading water…I’m truly ready to delete, I’m only at level 36 and have played since the first day this game came out… make it a little easier to gain energy!! Thank you!

Update: I’ve continued to play and sticking with it because this isn’t a bad game, however….there is so many dang generators that there’s barely room to merge, I can only work on one order at a time because there isn’t room to even attempt to work on two at a time. Please remove the generators that aren’t being used past a certain level or option to delete, thank you!!

Another reviewer said “easy to level up.“ Hmm, no. initially, yes, very quickly you can merge things and get the coins and gems and everything you need to press grass in the storyline. HOWEVER, After a while, you get these outrageous, customer requests that take days to build energy and merge enough to fill their requests.

There is also an item that produces things that can’t be merged, you can’t delete them, And you have to use up 5 to 7 points of energy just to get them off the board and they give you one coin.

Of course, you can spend real money to get more energy and more coins and more gems to be able to do this all quicker, but that can really add up to being very expensive. I’m all for supporting game developers with an occasional purchase, but not to the point this game requires to progress in a reasonable amount of time.