Last updated on December 14th, 2025 at 10:20 pm
Merge Matters – House Design – Puzzle Game Review
Merge Matters – House Design is a Puzzle/Casual game from GreenPixel Ltd, first launched in 2nd January 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 38,385+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Merge Matters – House Design Stand Out
The story of Emily from Merge Matters is a mysterious one. Emily, her husband Oscar, and their 6-months old son Oliver were enjoying family life, until something weird happened. The couple received a letter with no return address, which was followed by Oscar’s disappearance.
Now, Emily and her son are all alone in her villa. To find clues about her husband’s disappearance, she has to carry out home restoration and fix everything that’s broken. They just moved in recently, so there is a lot to repair!
In an effort to help Emily find her husband, you have to clean up the building, reorganize it, and fix broken things, from faucets and electricity to furniture. Throughout the game, you will meet Emily’s parents, bankers, and detectives. New evidence regarding Oscar’s disappearance will unravel as the game progresses. Restore the house and find new evidence to help Emily reconnect with her husband.
Merge Matters is a great new addition to merge games! Explore Emily’s property while finding her husband and playing home design games.
Features:
UNCOVER – Find shocking revelations about Oscar’s disappearance and mysterious objects in the house. There is always new evidence to discover and more rooms to organize. Use magic of merge and participate in games to help Emily flip her frown upside down!
DRAG & MERGE – Objects that seem useless now may come in handy later. Collect objects and turn them into useful tools by merging them. Use these objects to repair the house.
MANSION AND GARDEN REDECOR – Oscar and Emily just bought their dream home in their town. It’s a perfect match for them! Well, almost. With Oscar gone, the cleaning and decorating falls on Emily. Show off your exquisite taste and help the heroine decorate her new house. Make sure the furniture is matching, or go crazy and combine different styles. Give the mansion a complete makeover in our home renovation game and discover Emily’s sweet garden!
KICK BACK AND PLAY – Enjoy the game and all the entertainment it comes with, but prepare for some twists and turns ahead in Merge Matters!
LEARN HOW TO PLAY IN MINUTES – You don’t need a manual; just download the app and get to playing! The gameplay is straight-forward and self-explanatory, you have our word.
PLAY FOR AS LONG AS YOU WANT – Take a break from school or work and to relax and play Merge Matters for 5 minutes. If you have a free afternoon, enjoy hours of gameplay with no breaks! It is up to you how much time you can dedicate.
Emily is just embarking on her journey of home renovation when tragedy strikes and she has to find her missing husband. Help Emily on her quest and enjoy hours of decorating games in the redecor game Merge Matters. It will never cease to surprise you!
Renovate Emily's mansion so that one day she could say "My home is amazing!"
Make all your interior design dreams come true with Merge Matters’ renovation games. Decorate Emily’s home, give it a makeover, help her fix broken objects with the magic of merge and find Oscar!
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Merge Matters – House Design is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 7th December 2023
Recent improvements include:
Various fixes and improvements.
Download & Availability
Merge Matters – House Design is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Merge Matters – House Design on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
You have to watch commercials every time you turn around it makes it very hard to play.
This game is similar to other merge games but the tasks take longer to finish. Some tasks take months. We accidentally sold one of our producers and immediately contacted support and they were able to get it back for us in a few days.
We love the graphic, the rooms, the items, everything. But some tasks take way too long to complete. For example making candles. So we cant get through with renovations. It would have been so much better if objects generated stuff faster.
You can play till a certain point then its just impossible to get the items cuz the spawn rate of an item is too rare like tape is Im in need of bolts but we cant get tape Im sure if we had more tool boxes we might atleast get 1 out of 2 spawn charges which doesnt drop a lot even if its leveled up Watering cans dropping just one item no matter what level it is is just a waste we now have 2 watering cans and 4 lamps previously 5 till we sold it for more room theres just not enough room to drop stuff to merge so u can have a power drill level drop item and takes forever to get enough coins to even buy a storage space With the flaws of this game its okay but could use some fixing and it will be better Yes this is basically a merge mansion knockoff but Im here for it cuz merging! Edit: nooooo you updated and got rid of the daily free piggy bank though it wasnt exactly free you had to watch an ad but you still got rid of it Edit 2: we LOVE the new floating bubbled items now we dont have to wait for them to pop so we can use the space its in we just have to move them around if theyre in the way! Thank you for this improvement.
Pretty decent game, dont get stuck easily like some but the story and text is definitely sub par.
We have played this game for months and am seriously considering deleting it. It has great graphics and play is easy enough. What we struggle with is we have been on the same quest for WEEKS trying to get enough soap bars to max out for TWO of our quests. Problem being that the soap rarely gets dropped so the likelihood of maxing out two will take several months. Im not opposed to spending a little money, but this game is EXPENSIVE. The cost of using coins or even buying diamonds is way overpriced as compared to other games. The daily quests was a nice addition BUT it uses the items that are impossible to get so you are basically starting back over at square one if you do a daily quest. Poor game execution that has potential, but sadly the updates are coming too slowly.
We have been playing this game on a daily basis for 3+ months (currently at level 21). It was a lot of fun at first, but the tasks have gotten way too hard. Most of them take weeks to complete (unless you spend money and purchase them). We check the app every few hours so we cant imagine how much time it takes for someone to complete a task who only plays once a day.
This app relies way too much on an internet connection. We're constantly seeing lost progress / rollbacks if we buy something with gems or use gold to buy new storage slots. So the last thing we store gets erased from existence, but our board itself doesn't revert. We also lose the gold or gems we've used. Please fix your crap.
As usual not enough storage Doesnt give any choices when decorating.
Why the internet connection is always not stable or lost.
Like others have said, it takes wayyyy too long to merge to get some items, like the candle, like the dog bowl, etc. Now when we finally am able to complete tasks, there is no rewards for some reason. No chests or boxes or even XP rewarded. Its been awhile since Ive been able to complete a task, and we play daily, and now no reward of any kind. We dont know what happen. Pretty disheartening though.
This game actually used to be fun and we preferred it to other merge games, but subsequent changes from the devs have made it a clear money grab. 1) First they removed the piggy banks a few months ago so money and gems are now very hard to earn (you can only now get them from bubbles so you need to watch ads so you make the devs more money). 2) While they made changes to tasks to make them two parters and slightly lowered the final chain in existing requests, the game requires merging things which take literally MONTHS like to create generators like the beehive (produce wax) and the couch (produce bones) that are SINGLE USE and then you have to start back at square one. It is ridiculous. If you need to wait that long to create a generator, then it should be one that is permanent. 3) They recently increased the gem costs of everything in bubbles by at least double which is so obviously a blatant money grab that it's kind of gross. You already have a hard time getting gems and now it costs even more. No thanks. Lastly, the Halloween event with the random boosters is laughable. It's a once a day option and it will frequently give you only a level 3 from a generator, which is frankly nothing. We've tried this game and stick it out for several months only to see the devs get greedier and greedier instead of caring about their player's gaming experience. We are deleting this and going back to different games that don't bait-and-switch their players.
Although the animations of the characters kinda creep us out its a good game.
Played many merge games. This one is the best so far.
This game is so fun but lately it is having a ton of glitches it keeps bumping our progress backwards.. We have enough gems to merge to make 20, we merge and then collect them but it keeps bumping us back to our old gem count.. Also we keep tapping the different items that have taps available, merging the items that come out of the tree, etc. But then it glitches and its like none of those merges or taps ever happened, except that the items we tap still are timed out! Its frustrating.. We hope it gets fixed soon, we love playing merge games and this one is one of our faves. Without this issue its five stars for sure.
This is the best game we have ever played in a while.
Love the game but we cant seem to watch ads to get free items we just get a black screen and have to close out and reload the game.
Im 10 years old, and we have a whole Merge Games section on our phone. Ive got all of our favorite merge games! This one is particular, though, its not the best merge game Ive ever seen. The merging is fun, but it give things to us when Im playing, and we cant do anything with it. It just fills up the board and we cant get the buckets to produce anything because theres no space. Still. Id give this a rate four because we love to merge and Its so cool to see what we can make on different levels! So Im satisfied.
Pretty fun for puzzle matching. The down is nothing to do while waiting for items and/or energy to refreshor spend money to speed things up.
The recent update has cause so many issues for our game, its gotten to the point where its more stressful than relaxing and fun. The boosts usually glitch our game and reset our board to how it was before we got the boost, but we dont get a boost to replace it. It will undo everything Ive done and then we dont get the same outcomes. Its rather frustrating.
So basically Im writing this review to get support. This developer, like many others, only does support via Facebook, which we dont use. With the Halloween update, boosters disappear soon after they are generated, and, at the same time, the board resets to how it was before getting the booster. This has happened three times. It doesnt happen right away, so if we generate more items before the glitch and make a merge (sometimes creating rarer items), we then lose that progress, but the item generator is not reset.
This latest update has a serious bug where half the time coins or gems are available by watching an ad the ad doesnt play and the chance to earn the reward is gone.
Much better than other merge games.
Fun and addictive. We like games that challenge us and Im always try to figure out where and how to get items. Like this one alot.
Its a very beautiful game eververy nice and it keep us busy all time after work.
Every SINGLE time we spin the wheel, we get the coins. Doesnt matter if its a free spin or we pay, its always coins.
This game is enjoyable but very frustrating. There is a number of ads, which we dont really mind IF you get free things. However, many times you dont get it and this is very frustrating. You watch the ad but dont get the item. Other than this we love the game and would give it 5 stars.
Fun, however, we wish you could choose the decor.
Keeping it short and sweet, its a fun game but the producers take WAYYY too long. Constantly watching ads to get things out of them is very boring. Please fix.
It seems anymore you can play these games for a whole 5-7 minutes and then you have to wait half the day to get more chances. Unlike others we personally REFUSE to buy/pay for a non-tangible item. Its plan a$# crazy to do that IMO.
We like this game, but it has its annoyances. The bubbles popping up is nice if youre collecting gems or money, but its WAY too frequent, especially when you have limited space. Forcing you to wait for a minute or watch an ad is manipulative. Our biggest peeve though, is we just upgraded to a level 10 garden hose, and now it only drops one seed before timing out! Impossible to get our beehive when we have to wait approximately 30 minutes PER SEED! It would be nice to have some lower level tasks as well as the ones you have to work days on. Also, the storyline seems to have disappeared. Im just fixing a house without any idea who Im doing it for or why.
What is the purpose of a game in which the players are unable to achieve anything? Youll end up with 10 tasks to create an object that is level 10 or higher. The thing that will produce that object (cabinet, tool chest, etc) is at a too low of a level and takes too long to recharge. One task may take months to finish! There are much better games like merge mansion that are easier to play and you can actually get somewhere with. Zero stars.
Just got it and we already love it. Its in our top 3 mobile games.
We love the game – just one major problem. We have way too many buckets. You cant delete them or their parts. But they keep coming from the bedside table. To get watering cans you end up with a bunch of unneeded buckets/parts. Same with the tool box- when the pieces first come out of the beside table – you cant sell them. But if you put them in storage then take them out – you are able to sell. (You cant sell after the 4th stage though) Would be nice if you had the option to sell the toolbox and buckets at every stage – we have 5 fully built buckets at this point – totally unnecessary waste of space.
Im learning to understand this game. Its fun.
We accidentally sold a level 6 dresser. It was in the top right corner and somehow when we were emptying it we must have hit the sell button. Anyway we can get it back.
We love this game we play it everyday but we just hate that it takes so long to get through the game. You need the most advanced items to complete and action in one of the rooms we dont feel like Im accomplishing anything, its a little disappointing cause Im doing all this work and doing nothing in return.
We really loved this game. The graphics were our favorite out of all the other limited grid merge games Id played. That said, it takes WAY TOO LONG to complete an objective. Like you can come back and play throughout the day everyday and still not complete a single goal for a whole month. Its insane. In-app purchases are WAY over priced so we dont even bother because if we did, Id still be weeks away from completing anything. Its mind boggling that the developers havent done something about this. We thought the last update would help the situation. It hasnt. At all.
We would like to see customization become available, but as is the game is pretty satisfying.
This is fun and a very calming game,we highly recommend this game.
Just like all others. Only get so far andyourun out of space.
Its a really fun game! Its takes time and effort.
We dig it. We suppose we made an in app purchase and got rid of the ads. We Iike how this merge game chooses to show you both sides of the item – like what it comes from and what it produces. It also shows where youll find the item. Id still continue to make small in-app purchases as we go.
The game is fun and we play it a lot but since the new update Im not able to push any of the ad buttons to speed up items or watch ads for more energy. The buttons are there but they are greyed out and inactive. Its really annoying and stops us from wanting to play.
The whole gameplay system is too slow to be fun. Its like you play 5 minutes, then wait 5 hours only to be able to play for 5 minutes again. We also wish you could see exactly how long is left till something recharges, or how much energy something has left, till it needs to recharge again. These seem like crucial features that are missing. Other than that its good, and Im glad that it doesnt rely too heavily on spending crystals or real money.
This game takes forever to get any thing done. We have multiple merge games and the other ones dont take this long to get anything done. We wouldnt recommend this game AT ALL for anyone. Unless you spend your entire pay check you will not get a single thing done.
Update: now we cant get the ads to open for the free energy or the free spin. We have been working on the ONLY task we have for weeks and Im only half way doneand we tried to spend some money – it didnt help much. The items we need coke for sale for 1800 coins, which takes forever to make, especially when you cant get the free energy. Im done with this. Most of the recent updates were helpful and made the game much more user friendly. However, where did the daily piggy bank go?!? We only see the option to get the piggy bank when leveling up, which happens infrequently. So we have to occupy 1-2 spaces for days/weeks to merge the piggy banks?!? We also noticed that the prizes for tasks are less lucrative. We think we would prefer the less user friendly game with better prizes and daily piggy bank. Edit: now you have to purchase coins with gems! Gems are significantly more expensive than the coins were. This update really decreased our enjoyment of the game.
This game has been a fun little distraction for us.
Always love merge games, this one is super fun.
Best Merge game compared to Merge mansion . In that game it felt like you could not advance. Not in this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 20.1.04
- Size: 210.09 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: GreenPixel Ltd
Last updated: 7th December 2023 | Genre: Puzzle, Casual | Developer: GreenPixel Ltd