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Riverside Merge – Build a City – Puzzle Game Review
Riverside Merge – Build a City is a Puzzle/Casual game from Lion Studios Plus LLC, first launched in 1st August 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 4,485+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Riverside Merge – Build a City Stand Out
Riverside needs your help! A devastating earthquake has destroyed the town and it’s citizens need YOU to restore it to its former glory. Join the citizens of Riverside in an unforgettable adventure to rebuild their town better than ever in this fun merge adventure!
Pick up jobs around the town, and use your merging skills to repair it’s many buildings and streets. Build and design homes, restaurants, parks and even the town yoga studio! But beware! All is not as peaceful as it seems in Riverside, and a greedy land tycoon seeks to steal your contracts and use cheap building materials that will surely not hold up! Give Riverside’s citizens the town they deserve, using your handy merge skills and creativity to bring it back to life!
Discover the town's secrets as you unlock the mysterious areas that were destroyed in the earthquake and restore them from the ground up. Gain experience by completing tasks and discovering new items to merge, while leveling up to become Riverside’s master builder. You’ll have so much fun solving Riverside’s many puzzles.
Game Features:
- Merge items to discover hundreds of unique tools and items to rebuild the town.
- Unlock new zones with unique gameplay and bring the town back to its former glory!
- Interact with Riverside’s in-game characters, who will give you tasks and help you to restore and decorate the town.
- Take part in an unforgettable adventure with an addictive story and amazing animations – you won’t be disappointed!
- Relaxing gameplay. Just merge two items and then renovate the town. It couldn’t be any more simple
- Play for free both online and offline!
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This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Riverside Merge – Build a City is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd August 2023
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed bugs!
- Changed features!
Download & Availability
Riverside Merge – Build a City is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
Its a fun game but it hasnt been updated with new levels so its getting kind of boring and you cant really go anywhere.
Game is fine but the tasks never change.
Why hasnt there been an update in months?? Its become really boring because its the same tasks over and over again.
We love this game but stuck on level 70 due to no updates and its been months if no updates soon we will be delayed.
OK heres the suggestion maybe you should let the player. Play the game on their own. Having the stupid hand or finger however you wanna put it show you and tell you how to play the entire game is obnoxious and its not fun to play the game, so please take the hand away and dont force us to play that way.. We know how to tap the thing we know how to do the things so let the player play instead of telling you how to play the whole game. It would be a lot better game if that wasnt there.
Ive gone as far as we can go level wise but we know there is more Im stuck at level 70 and cant really do anything else right now. We love this game it is very calming and relaxing but Im losing interest not being able to unlock anything else or live forward other then that 100 percent recommended.
We love this game but unfortunately will delete because it has too many ads. If we had the option to watch them for extra stuff that would be different but right after a move it just comes on. Dont like that. Thanks.
Can hardly finish anything with out ads popping up.
Before this new Update you get get energy constantly by trains, jackpots, etc well even spinning and getting a jackpot you dont get the top level energy box anymore you get the lowest. You dont get a energy box a day you get some cash, we loved this game because we could be able to play it for a few hours at a time . Now whats the point.
Ive been waiting for close to 2 weeks for part of the game to update. Really enjoy the game but if it doesnt update soon Ill have to delete it . If its fixed Ill change our rating.
Used to love this game. You used to get energy every few hours. The daily gift made it good to play. You even got them with trains. But now its hard to come by. Your other game Makeover Merge is still like riverside was. Should we expect this same change with that game? Now Im less motivated to play riverside.
We use to really like this game and even spent money on it but theyve done a number of changes that make it less fun to play, first off you earn these red coins and can no longer do anything with them and now theyve changed it so you no longer get daily energy chests, can earn them from daily challenges or get them from the train, instead theyve replaced them with gettin the cash pile some of which you even have to watch ads for and as in game 50s is virtually useless (for the lower price upgrades youd have to watch like 9 ads getting you 50s to put in perspective or like almost 30 for the bigger ones) its insulting and a pointless cash grab that makes us never want to spend a cent on the game again.
There are not enough stages. Taking to long to load new levels.
Force plays ads doesnt even ask permission absolutely not , immediately uninstalled.
Try to get new items. It takes very long time to get needed pieces. Can be frustrating.
We cant stop that annoying music! We went to controls and we have the music button muted but the game still plays that annoying music! We have turned the sound off but now we cant hear the game sounds. Time to delete the game we guess.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to put 5 energy bolts as an option on the guessing game part should be ashamed. Also why did you guys take away extra energy as the prize for watching ads and replace with it money?? Lame! This game has gone downhill.
We love this game. And we always watch the ads to get the added bonuses. But, we must say that Whispers ad is so so repulsive and offends us to pieces. Your audience includes minors and this ad is very inappropriate for them to see. If really need to advertise such an adult game you should close down this game. Just one moms opinion.
We jut leveled up on level 46. The prize was 1 and 3/4 diamonds. This is insulting for loyalty. Are you kidding us.
Like its brother app, Makeover Merge, this app freezes after every step. Merge two items – freeze. Tap to release items – freeze. Watch an ad and return to the game – big long freeze. This company needs to get a new bank of servers. They are way under powered.
We love this game, we even got our husband to download it. The only issue Im concerned about is why he downloaded the game weeks later but he gets the sport box and the kitchen selection but not us. We updated the game and our phone thinking that was the issue but it wasnt and Im still just merging the same things over and no new items.
Now the ads require you to interact with them, so the game you deleted because it was stupid? You have to play it every 5 minutes as an ad. You have no choice. The game you hated because its stupid and boring? Shut up and play, slave.
We love the game, but now we cant complete any of the tasks because the all include toys that we cant merge, since the box that created them are not available. Im not sure if thats an issue that needs to be solved or if it was done on purpose.
When you make pomegranates you cant sell them. Half our board did full of them! What a waste of space.
Nice game that allow you to play at your speed.
Cute game but takes a loooooooooong time to get anything done. And minimal help on energy. Definitely a game only for the $$$$ spenders.
This game is going to give us carpal tunnel before we even get to play.
The game would be cute except for the forced ads. Right in the middle of playing an ad will pop up – not something you get anything for (like get an item for watching an ad) – its just strictly a random add. Deleted it after day 2.
It keeps closing!! It opens then shuts down please fix.
Really love merge games and had high hopes for this one but every 4-5 moves there is an ad that pops you and you can skip it.
We used to love this game! We just purchased the piggy bank and now we cant play! Every time we go open the app it closes out! This is extremely frustrating! Please fix this issue.
So look Ive had this game on our phone for a few months now. Its actually stayed longer than most merge type games. However Im starting to really get frustrated with every couple of moves and then an ad and then every couple moves and an ad. We get it you guys have to make money but when you have that many ads in a game you are going to lose loyal players like ourselves. Which is going to happen if there isnt an update fixing this. Another thing when you are on a time limited free moves dont throw an ad in and make us lose the time!!! It is frustrating!!!!! It makes us want to say goodbye to a game when you dont care enough to think of things like timing of ads. Fix this.
We love merge games, and this one was going ok, just downloaded it about an hour ago. We were given a free amount of time on energy, but we are also being forced to watch ads in the middle of our game, taking up our free energy time. We are this () close to deleting the game.
This was our favorite merge game, an update was put out last week and now it keeps crashing.
Id love for the bubbled items to have the option to get rid of them without an ad or gems simply getting it off our bored because its in the way. Im expecting this to be fixed within a week we dont want to delete the game because its fun but thats kind of a deal breaker.
We like the game but there is too many adds.
There are too many items and no room to work.. Not sure if anyone feels the same way but half our board is generators.. Ugh..we would live it with more room but might delete..sorry.
The game freezes. A lot. Quite annoying because we would love to play this if we didnt have to reset it every few moves.
Please fix we would hate to delete.
Starts, crashes immediately, pls fix. Instead of focusing on new content, please stop having it crash.
We love this game . Unfortunately, as soon as we connected to Facebook to save our progress it kicked us right of the game. We uninstalled the game and shut our phone down then reloaded the app and it did it again as soon as we connected it back to fb. Im glad we didnt purchase anything. We really like this game.
Its a pretty fun game . When we try to watch videos for rewards it crashes but other than that , we love it.
Not special. From the ad we saw it was interesting and different then other games. This is just like all the other merging games.
We really enjoyed the game but once we got to level 4 we could no longer get into the game it would load then kick us completely out Ive restarted our phone three times and it was still doing the same thing login then it would kicked us out of the game we had deleted it twice and it still was doing the same thing would start all over then get to level 4 and it would kick us out would have given it a five star but with all the trouble Ive had we didnt think it deserved a five star sorry please fix the glitches.
Since this update we cant even open the app. It loads to like 83% and just cancels out.
We love this game! However, it suddenly wont load past the special offers that pop up at the beginning. If this is fixed, we will change our review, but Im not hopeful, based on all the other recent reviews.
We have been playing this game spent money like a idiot an the it just stops working uninstalled an lost everything just not right.
Didnt work once we logged into Facebook. It doesnt open all the way then closes really quickly. We tried reloading the game several times it did not work.
Pls fix the game wont load really say something.
Well after playing and purchasing things with actual money the app now doesnt even open! It opens and loads then force quits! Ive restarted our device issue persists! Ill be requesting our money back from Apple! Then deleting this game! We were loving it until now.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.36.460
- Size: 278.57 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Lion Studios Plus LLC
Last updated: 23rd August 2023 | Genre: Puzzle, Casual | Developer: Lion Studios Plus LLC