Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 07:09 pm
Seaside Escape®: Merge & Story – Puzzle Game Review
Seaside Escape®: Merge & Story is a Puzzle/Casual game from Microfun Limited, first launched in 24th November 2022.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 25,935+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Seaside Escape®: Merge & Story Stand Out
Kryphos has changed almost beyond recognition in the last five years, and fallen celebrity Rowan needs your help to turn things around. Here, the right merge can change everything.
Come and join us, and get lost in the world of Seaside Escape!
Game Features
• All it takes is a simple drag of your finger, to turn two basic items into something incredible!
• With hundreds of items, you can merge almost anything you can think of!
• Help the residents of Kryphos not only survive, but thrive!
• Help Rowan restore her shattered confidence and rebuild her life!
• Uncover hidden secrets as you rebuild Kryphos!
• There are surprises hiding around every corner, just waiting for you to find them!
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This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Seaside Escape®: Merge & Story is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
NEW CONTENT EVERY WEEK
- Locations! Unlock a new location and its secrets!
- Events! Spice up your gaming experience with this weeks' event!
We've also fixed bugs and added cool new features!
Download & Availability
Seaside Escape®: Merge & Story is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Seaside Escape®: Merge & Story 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:
We LIKE THIS GAME SEASIDE ESCAPE.
What a fun and relaxing game! We love it.
We genuinely love this game (and yes, that might partially have to do with the fact that the main character shares our name). The art style and graphics are appealing, and really fit the vibes of the game. The story is cute, but also isnt really needed to still enjoy the game. We definitely recommend reading it though. The progression is relatively linear and tasks are not ridiculously complicated, however energy can be a bit of a setback. Like Merge Mansion, you cannot watch ads in game to get free energy, which makes waiting for energy a bit more tedious. Also, the base price of 20 diamonds for an energy refill is a high in our opinion, and we think it would be much easier if it was 10 diamonds for the first refill of the day. Overall, however, its still incredibly fun. We spend more time playing than we would like to admit. Its slower pacing can be frustrating at times to impatient players (no judgement here, Im one of those impatient players!) but its fulfilling to complete a task. Good job, dev team.
Love that the generators recharge fast as well as the energy. Easily the beat merge game ive played yet.
We really Liked this game at first. Cute, and fun to merge but but but when you use over 200 precious energies and are only half way to final product, its sad, pathetic and pointless. Im 67 and would like to get further in the game before we croak. We also believe in supporting the developers and on average spend $10 or more on a game. Sorry peeps we dont write reviews. Maybe its just a senior moment but was Disappointed and a little sad Ill delete.
The first levels are great. Everything is as you would expect for a merge game. Then you get to a point where you can spend 2 days trying to get a single person served where the board is full you just wait around for the sources to recharge.
Unlike all games we play on our apps this is the only one that gives you one opportunity to get more energy.and thats by using gems. No videos:advertisements to watchand getting 20 gems isnt easy not to mention you go through 100 energies in a short period of time cuz it takes sooo many clicks to get the small prize you want.
Originally we thought the game wasnt expensive then came the shop. We have never seen any game charge as much as this game does for anything. Its so ridiculous that they are probably losing money because if it was affordable we would spend money. Now we dont buy anything EVER.
Cant complete daily tasks with the energy they give you unless you spend real money The orders are advanced and repetitive and its getting boring waiting for energy The higher you level up the more days it takes to merge and complete tasks.
This is a recharge game cheating the player's psychology. Early game is fun. Like a chess piece, you need two identical pieces to make a new chess piece. Then complete the mission to receive gold coin rewards and building material packs. Upgrade according to game missions. Slowly you will find that the energy it provides is not enough for you to complete a mission. It takes 2 minutes to get an energy. This also means that it is impossible for you to complete the mission, and you need to recharge and buy their diamonds to continue. And it will constantly remind you of buy discounted packages. Until level 35, you find that even if you recharge over $20 a day, you still can not complete a mission. We feel this game is most like a trap for players. Don't waste your time and money, try other games its get more fun. We would not recommend it to anyone.
After seeing a lot of ads we finally decided to give this game a chance. Im enjoying it.
This game is great for keeping your brain active and is challenging.
While we really do love this game, we wish it didnt always give you the same item from things. Like for example, itll always give you food like bread but never the oysters or whatever it is lol. So sometimes it can take forever to complete orders. Other than that we do love this game.
Ive enjoyed this game for a while and today we realized we enjoy not just for the game, which is fun, or the graphics of the cards, which are amazing, but also the inclusiveness that you all represent. So thanks and kudos.
Us encanta fcil de jugar y muy divertido.
We liked this game when we first started playing. But at higher levels the achievements take longer to obtain, and recent updates make rewards fewer and farther between so the game moves even more slowly. We enjoy the stories but it takes so long to get enough stuff to progress in the stories that we sometimes lose the thread. Theres GREAT representation in the characters so we gave an extra star for that. The developers more recent game Flamb moves along at a better pace although it doesnt have the story element.
Overall pretty nice game with a pleasant but realistic storyline but its literally IMPOSSIBLE to complete any tasks without purchasing power or gems, if they had someway to compensate or offer more ways to get freebies like AlCATmist this game would be clutch but the developer just seems super money hungry. Will be deleting.
Everything but the actual 3d movement of characters. It is merely printed dialogue for the story and the game builds, not the gamer. Additionally, you rack up coins like crazy even though you can hardly do anything with them. They eat up board space so you collect them just to free up space. Why cant we rade them for lightning bolts or prizes.
Good for passing time we guess. No adds so thats cool.
Imma be real with everyone second guessing this game. Its a seriously good game, really no ads, fun and relaxing. This developer in general is great. We play gossip harbor, flambe, and this one. Each one is unique and fun in their own ways. Youre not gonna delete this game after downloading, we promise.
This is a very fun game that Ive been playing for a while now. Our only complaint is the false advertising about the woman being stuck in a snowstorm, there is no such thing in this game, there is not even any snow.
We really enjoy this game and keep our mind occupied.
Some in app purchases available and super fun game.
We like the gamewhen we spend money to be able to play longer and complete the orders. Not many opportunities to just win or gain the needed items. Hate to delete it, but its pretty frustrating.
PLS make the X button on the "super bus rush" event clickable at all times, im so tired of angrily mashing it while being forced to watch the stupid bus scoot forward 3 centimeters for a solid 20 seconds before being allowed to exit. And then it still asks us if we want to keep participating in the event, like yes? We willingly chose the difficulty we wanted bc we wanted to participate, and even if we didnt, why ask us if it makes no difference?? The only thing u do to "participate" in that event is merge, which is the entire point of the game. Please fix the tiny infuriating aspects of this otherwise awesome game, please and thank u very much. Edit: im adding to our review to let potential players know that when we say this game is awesome we mean it its rly well written and comes with an interesting storyline full of lots of diverse characters. We dont even read the storyline and only do the merging part but sometimes when we catch a glimpse of the dialogue we have to stop and read the whole thing bc its like getting to listen in on gossip or a good debate haha edit #2: we could ignore it before but now we feel like this is smth we shouldnt have to deal with in the first place. Although this game doesnt contain ads it IS constantly bombarding u with in-game popups asking u to buy bundles or gems or energy or a million other things. Like why are u constantly BEGGING us to spend 5 dollars on ur game?? And its not just one every 15 mins, its 3 in a row every couple minutes. Obvs clicking the X and closing it isnt that hard but having to do this so many times over and over again just makes us want to close the game. Might uninstall soon bc the progress im making is too slow anyway and ive just lost patience for this game tbh.
We like merging the items but we are 16 levels in and it plays nothing like the ads, so that was disappointing.
Our biggest gripes with this game is you cant exchange coins for energy or even diamonds. This developers other games like merge county allow you to exchange coins for energy. We have over 3 million coins and nothing to build because we cant finish half the tasks due to #1 running out of energy and #2 the most ridiculous generator responsible for generating numerous items then it only giving you the items you dont need consistently for 24-48 hours. For example you get a display case generator that sometimes gives out jewelry like 10% of the time you get a work desk generator that only spits out notepads 90% of the time which when you need the other item it produces its impossible to get and takes over a day at times. Note to developer – here is a suggestion to make this game better – Allow for coins to be exchanged for energy or diamonds or Have the energy refill HOURLY- Separate the generators or have it produce the second item 50% of the time. Theres so many pay to play options that wont lessen attraction even with changes. We would love feedback on this review thanks.
This is one of our new favorite games. Its very relaxing and fun in our opinion.
This is a fun and simple merge game.
We downloaded because the ad promised $100 in rewards if you download the game. Thats why we thought Id try it. To our surprise , there was nothing. So far, its just a typical matching game – nothing special.
Its a fun game. Addicting dopamine rush. But If you spend any amount of money, just once, the game will not allow you to win until you spend more. Example: Generator produces two different types of items. Lets say, wedding cakes and wedding dresses. The wedding cake, once maxed out, is also capable of producing TWO items: bouquets and photographs. The random algorithm heavily favors producing only the bouquets, which you do not need for an order. We produced 10 cakes to not generate even one photograph, of which we need the MAXIMUM level to complete the order. Even after spending 500 energy, even if you do complete that order, you can bet the next order is also going to include some max level, impossibly attainable item! We recommend instead playing merge cooking. You make recipes from the items generated and you have ads to watch if you want to progress without spending a fortune. PS, we have probably spent $50 on this stupid game.
Seaside Escape is just what we need on a gray wintry day in Chicago.
Lots of fun and quick to get rewarded.
The most popular game in the world.
Better Than Many Other Similar Games.
No ads best thing ever and has absolutely not that long to recharge like other merge games.
So far this is an interesting game. We will play until we get tired or start spending too much money on the game.
We like this game because it's easy play and start playing.
We love love love this game. Its so easy to play is not, its not complicated and Im enjoying it so far.
Very engaging and fun. We love merging games like this one.
Microfun makes 3 games that are these story-type merge games. This one has come to be our favorite mainly for the gameplay; we dont really ready the stories much, just personal preference so we cant say much on that. Out of gossip harbor, seaside escape, and flamb, seaside escape is by far the the one with the best gameplay loop. It doesnt make it too hard to get energy for free, rewards are the most frequent of the three, and purchasable content is usually a better deal we.e its the only one that has an event that just gives you and event with tons of energy for cheaper than most event packs in gossip harbor. Fun game, and its nice they have so many mini events each day.
We love this game but have an abundance of coins that we cant use because of the time it takes to level up. We wish we could use coins to purchase energy. That would make this a 5 star game.
We enjoy a good mindless game. The problem is they decided to program it in such a way that it takes actual days to succeed at getting items once you get far enough along. If you dont need something and youre clicking on an item that gets two different things youll get sooo much of the item you dont need and almost never that which you do. So what happens? The game isnt fun anymore.
The game is fun but the board is small and it asks you for too many things.
Pure lies. The games are completely different from the adds. We thought we could play a little and itll change. The game is boring and might just play candy crush since its like that but lamer.
It takes forever to get to the real game part in the beginning. Its just a bunch of matching items. Theres no real mystery to it or challenge to it whatsoever. We still havent found the challenge. Never made it to the mom daughter part and Im at level eight. We will update if anything changes. So Im at level 11 still no little girl all Ive been doing is matching supplies to build a small beach city . So far this game is not like the advertisement we never once had to save her and her daughter from an unforeseen living condition. We will be deleting the game. One thing is true there are no adds. However, they do ask that you buy a package deal every now and then to get further in the game Im not going to do that.
One huge problem, people come too quickly to get things. We need time to make and save items for the people.
It takes forever sometimes to get anywhere. Not enough tool boxes to get the story. Its been a week since we got a renovation story. Gets boring when you dont seem to get anywhere. We lose interest and take our time coming back.
We really like these gap, however, dont expect to play for long periods of time without paying to play.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.86.0
- Size: 264.58 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ZH
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: Microfun Limited
Last updated: 9th December 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Casual | Developer: Microfun Limited