Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 09:46 am
Mystery Town – Merge & Cases – Board Game Review
Mystery Town – Merge & Cases is a Board/Entertainment/Puzzle game from Cedar Co., Limited, first launched in 18th October 2024.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,096+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Mystery Town – Merge & Cases Stand Out
Welcome to Mystery Town, where long-buried secrets lie within!
Aurora finally arrived at her uncle's only to find the house on fire! A monstrous creature was seen fleeing. What was it?
Join Aurora on an exciting adventure as she solves strange cases in town, uncovers the mystery of her uncle's sudden disappearance, and unravels the FINAL secret.
Meet different characters and discover their stories; they can be "friends" or "enemies."
Unlock hidden areas, explore the misty town, collect pieces of clues, and guide Aurora towards the truth.
Embark on this thrilling journey and enjoy a fun merge experience with no ads as you uncover the secrets!
GAME FEATURES:
== Match & Merge ==
• Freely drag items on the board and match 2 identical items to upgrade them into superior ones.
• Merge hundreds of different items to accomplish orders and advance the storyline.
• Clues can be hidden inside the items. Keep merging and upgrading to discover them!
== Restore & Build ==
• Complete orders to help upgrade buildings and restore the town. Start with your house!
• Unlock new areas and find surprises hiding around every corner.
== Investigate & Solve ==
• Meet important characters and gather information from their stories. What will they reveal?
• Merge to solve puzzles and uncover hidden clues to break the curse and restore peace.
Join Aurora in Mystery Town and experience the ultimate blend of merge puzzles, captivating mysteries, and adventurous exploration. Download now and start your adventure today!
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This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Mystery Town – Merge & Cases is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
More exciting events will be launched one after another, stay tuned！
Download & Availability
Mystery Town – Merge & Cases is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Mystery Town – Merge & Cases 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:
Your game is a lot of fun but you guys should really add a storage box so we can add unused items in it that way we have more space.
Mystery town is one of the best games Ive played lately. The hidden clues and mysteries make it so engaging. Time just flies when Im playing this.
We love this game so much, we have been playing nonstop. But we hate having to wait for the energy to reload cause it causes ages. And when we dont have energy we cant really play the game and its a bummer.
Fun game. We dont like that you have to use energy to produce an item but cant use it until you use more energy for that item to produce. Some things should be changed to make the app more user friendly.
This game is a total blast! We cant stop merging stuff and solving puzzles.
We are only on day 2 of playing and we have to say, this is the most impressed we believe Ive ever been with a game at the start. Its so well developed – bright, interesting, creative and not a total $ bleed. Its seems the developers really intend for players to actually have fun. Now that will keep us playing and THAT will lead to us spending some $. Other developers can learn something. We are addicted to these merge games and this one is very different than the others. Highly recommend. Please dont make any crazy changes – you guys have something good here.
Its truly an amazing game. We hope that your team can add more ways to earn energy from watching ads, it burns a lot of energy.
The game started out fun, but creators are very stingy with their energy and you cant play long without spending way too much much money. Im seriously considering deleting this game.
We love, love, love this game! There is something very satisfying merging objects and making all the orders, BUT the energy goes so fast and you have to wait forever to get enough to try to make your object again without spending money. We spent our Apple Card on it, but we wont spend real money, so we guess Im going to have to delete. Makers, gives us more energy starting off the day and renew faster! We literally woke up, tried to make the gym shorts and cheese we need and ran out before we could get either. Its no fun if you can score your orders!! Its a 5 star game if you want to continuously spend money playing it though.
Where is it? We had an ad and it said play now and receive an in game bonus. We have played to level 7 so far and no bonus. We joined from the ad. Please let us know what to do to receive this so we can continue playing.
Honestly, we didnt think we would like this game, but it turned out to be pretty fun and addictive.
We went on to the game board of the game itself and all of our goals have disappeared, they are helpful because we then we know what we need to do. Is there a way to get them back.
The new snow animation when merging items is way too much and really annoying. Otherwise it's a good merge game.
We enjoy this game even though we think theyre stingy on energy. That aside, Im upset this evening as we came back to our game we had been working on during our breaks all day and found the progress was reset to the beginning of the day. Everything we accomplished and earned over the course of the day is now gone. Due to the nature of the times events we cant just quickly get it back. We think this happened because it synced to the OLDER of two device saves. Why would it do that? It doesnt even ask you, it just seems to pick one. This is a severe bug that needs to be addressed if youre gonna offer multiple device support. This game has been a bit of solace for us in a hard time and it sounds stupid but im honestly devastated that this happened.
We really like the game however getting more energy is frustrating. You either have to wait for your energy to refill or you have to buy more energy with gems, however, the cost of an energy refill changes every time you buy it. It goes from 10 gems to 20 gems to 40 gems with each purchase. They dont offer any free way to get more energy.
While this game was truly fun on the beginning the higher you get into it the harder it is to make orders. Its super frustrating. We dont mind a little challenge but when it takes days on end or coins after coins to win its no longer fun. Our board fills up with useless stuff because Im trying to finish an order. Not sure how much longer we will play.
Such a fun game giving you hints on what to play next but beware!! We got to level 25 and all our play slots were full. Bought more diamonds which only gives you one space at each pay. We paid twice and both times play didnt match anything so again the board was full again. To continue to play you have to pay again. Level 27 we are done.
We have tried most merge games and this one is by far the best.
Im a very big fan of merge games. This game is addicting in its own right, from the mini games and events. The support team is also dope and very responsive! If youre into merge games this one is very fun ngl.
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In this world of games that have ads, we really truly appreciate that this game does not! There are a lot of pop-ups for buying benefits, but you could totally play this game without purchasing anything. We try to at least purchase one or two things a month kind of like a monthly fee as appreciation for a fun game that doesnt necessarily cost money. All the games renew within a week or two weeks and get easy again so even if youre not purchasing, it doesnt necessarily get harder and harder. Really love this game, thank you so much, in this world of ads and pay to play, for making something fun that doesnt cost anything, to pass the time.
Game play is fun. While we dont care too much for the storyline, we enjoy how long you can play before completely running out of energy. We appreciate that there arent any annoying ads and purchases are not required to further game play. Try it! Its an easy fun way to pass the time.
Love the game love the gay characters even more!!! FIRST of any game to actually specifically have a character thats openly gay, for that alone Ill be loyal forever.
This game is quite fun. We have many merge games and this is in our top 3. Our only complaint is when the star comes to exchange items for another item that will help with an order, it will is ask for up to 3 items, and it tends to ask for high level items, but will mostly exchange those 1-3 gig level items for a single level 1 item. This needs to change. It needs to give back an item at the same level of the item we gave it and it needs to give back the same number of items we gave it. Ive stopped exchanging items because it gives us a useless item in return. Also, when competitions come around, why does it suddenly take twice as much energy to get one item from a drop? We need a motorcycle and we have put over 150 energy (!!!!!!!) into the racing item and it WILL NOT DROP ONE KEY. Its purposely trying to make us lose.
These games are all money grabs. This one doesnt even give away any free energy. Ive had it a couple of weeks and am going to delete because not only do you have to buy lots of energy. The price of the energy more than doubled.
This game could be fun if they didnt make it so hard to reach your goals. You get 100 energy each day and it takes 150+ energy to merge it into what your goal is. Then you either have to wait for it to fill back up, which can take hours or you can pay an exorbitant amount of money like we said it would be fun if it just wasnt so greedy. Wont be playing anymore spent almost $20 and still didnt reach our goals and thats just one day. We cant imagine if you played this every day how much money youd be spending.
The game is fun but we don't understand why level 9 producers are only producing level 1 items. Therefore taking all of the energy to produce a level 5 or above item.
We like merge games and got an ad for this one and it said you would get $100 worth of in game gifts if you download it then and there ? Like credits or energy? But we havent received them in game so clearly its fake.
The game is fine normal game we guess but they lie about giving you the gift packs.
This game is really fun to play. A great stress relief.
No ads, as said. Pretty good merging game. However, no "$100 worth of in-game purchases gift" when downloading from the link.
It would be super helpful if a friends section was added so we can trade cards. Or send energy to each other. Other than that super fun game.
Desperately needs a writer/editor hired instead of using ai or whatever theyre doing. (Best written match game for anyone looking: Gossip Harbor!) But the gameplay is fun, the game purchases are fairly reasonable, and there are No Forced Ads!!! (At time of writing. We will drop stars if this changes.) With a login stamina bonus we could play the race event for several levels at a time, which was fun. The Hidden Wonders event on right now is really cute. Its a smaller matching board and the exploration art at the top changes as you use the next tier of item you make! Super cute. You guys better be paying that artist.
Can take 3-5 minutes just to start playing the game! Its so obnoxious. Clicking multiple xs and are forced to start playing side games . Its a really fun game but way to annoying for us to open our wallet.
The ad for the game says if you download now, you will receive a $100 in-game gift pack. We reached out to customer service and they said sorry, we dont give away money. Thats not what we asked for; weird response. There is no free $100 gift pack apparently, so thats false advertising. They are basically gaslighting us. Shame on them! Developer response to another review says that the offer is managed by the platform where we saw the ad??? What??? We saw an ad in another game. Your company is advertising free $100 gift packs. Your company manages that. This response is gaslighting. The game is more or less fine apart from that. Not our favorite merge game. We like Seaside Escape, Travel Town, and Tasty Travels.
Cool game but too many events. We wasnt a fan of being stopped by numerous event pop ups.
When you get to higher levels, it get more frustrating and not worth it. Your board gets full and you have no way to continue except to delete characters. It was fun until level 75. Too many games to play and the timers are a bit too much.
There are curse words and the characters speak as if theyre from the ghetto. If it was cleaned up it would be great for most. We were actually shocked at the language.
Game seems interesting from ads. Played it for a couple of weeks. But just like a lot of the ads, the game doesnt play like them. And after a while doing the silly merging, over and over again, there is no more fun. Just mind numbing repetition. We prefer our games that challenge our mind and thought process. That is aside from the inane ads that interrupt the game constantly and amount of money you need to put in to get continuous play. No thank youit is no longer on our iPad.
Pop ups constantly wanting you to spend money on the game has driven us away. Not enough rewards of energy to keep us interested any longer. Quit at 35. So many events but no rewarding energy to play longer. Also we had around 22 thousand coins but was having trouble competing contracts due to having no energy. No longer rewarding or fun having to wait 5 full days of playing to complete 1 contract.
Easy and fun and very relaxing.
What happened to our diamonds? We had a little over 300 and now we only have 8 and we havent used them. Help.
If you want to actually play this game and enjoy it for a period of time, youll have to spend at least $20-$50. Its too costly to play. Find a different merge game and save your money! It is a fun game tho, its just a shame they have to be so greedy.
Its too long to save up energy. There are lots of games, we probably will keep going back to them.
We got this game for the $100. Gift. Also we just started playing merge games and thought it looks like fun. But if you show us another one of your special in app purchases which your ads says there are none Im gonna have a heart attack. And you do have ads.
We love this game. Great way to pass the time, relaxing. We love the mystery behind this game. Our reason for not giving it a 5 star rating is because you run out of energy way to face and it takes too long for the energy to reload. We could go play another game for some time and come back and the energy is only at 20% So we feel the game kinda pressures you into spending money to buy energy and rubies.
Very fun and relaxing lots of awards.
Im a huge merge game fan, seaside escape and gossip harbor are among our faves! This game was well on its way to be in the top but you spend DAYS on one order, its insane.
So far we have only played for about 3 weeks but we are enjoying it. Love the cliffhangers.
Fun little game thats easy to play and not a lot of wait time. Great time passer. Highly recommend.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.15.0
- Size: 354.84 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Contests
- Developer: Cedar Co., Limited
Last updated: 8th January 2026 | Genre: Board, Entertainment | Developer: Cedar Co., Limited