Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 02:14 am
Shoot n Merge – Puzzle Game Review
Shoot n Merge is a Puzzle/Board/Entertainment game from Metajoy Limited, first launched in 26th May 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 8,914+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Shoot n Merge Stand Out
REINVENTION of the classic puzzle game!
Shoot n Merge is a remix of number merge, bubble shooting and match-3 games
You will fall in love with this innovative puzzle game immediately
HOW TO PLAY
• Tap screen&shoot bricks
• Merge tiles with the same number
• Get higher number and challenge high score
FEATURES
• Addictive and innovative game play
• Easy to learn, hard to master
• Playing the game with your FRIENDS
• No time limit
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This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Shoot n Merge is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th August 2024
Recent improvements include:
Bug Fixed
Function Optimized
Have fun!
Download & Availability
Shoot n Merge 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:
There is no help for taking amazing to continue the game.
The amount of ads is ridiculous. Far too many. They give you ads in the middle of the game. One basically said Congrats you got to 2048, wanna keep playing and then forced an advertisement on us.
The most important note is that a graphic porn gif popped up during game play- not an ad- once- which is too much when our kids have access. Secondarily it crashes constantly. Certain ads make it crash every single time they are played- which is frequently as they are often repeated.
The game is fun to play, we can veg out and just play, until we have to continue and then it closes out and we have to start over. We hope that bug is fixed soon.
Please make a bug fix to address the fact that when you listen to music, it stops while you play in this app.
Why so many ads ? Even if we pause the game ?? Even if we minimize and come back from Home Screen ? This is ridiculous. Even if we made a big number block , there comes and ad. We will just wait for next update , if its the same you will lose a loyal user. There are many news apps with the same game plan. Have fun.
There are just too many ads. For too long. Used to be fun. When we want to play we turn on airplane mode. No ads then.
This game needs a few more ads. We swear we just play and play and NO ADS. Seriously. This game has gone the way of many apple games. Just becoming a means to sell ads. To the developers and those people that advertise: the more ads we see the less of a chance we will down load the game. Too bad. Used to be fun.
Used to be fun then they turned it into an ad watching app. Seriously we don t mind a 20-30 sec. Ad every now and then, but 2 ads every time you end a game, ads that go on and on and on, where you have to tap left and right to get out of them, with loud annoying music?.? No your game is not interesting enough to put up with that you re out of here.
Save your time and dont download you will spend more time seeing the ads then actually playing Don dare to pause the game or you will waste a minute or moe looking at ads very frustrating.
We used to play this game for hours, trying to build up high score. However recently, there have been changes where we cannot continue playing after the tiles reach the bottom. The game goes back to the beginning. This is probably done to emphasise the levels and new way of playing. The new way is really awkward and clumsy. Its not easy to see which number will come up. The goals are pathetic at best. Please go back to what it was before. Dont introduce weird things just to justify developers working on the game! Thanks.
This is a great puzzle game. Well worth the 3 bucks to get rid of the ads. Game play is fantastic. Please, please, please . . . On the puzzle levels. . Add an option to turn OFF the shooting guide. Its so annoying that the gameplay is so different between levels and free play. Overall, a great game. Addition: when you pause the game it asks continue or try again. We cant tell you the number of times Ive accidentally hit try again. It needs to ask a second time if you want to cancel your current game.
This game is lots of fun but the ads are annoying and we wish they would give directions as to how you can wipe out an entire row, otherwise its impossible to win.
Ive had this game for years – deleting because we cannot stand the divisive political ads.
Its soothing to lay the blocks and get a little vibration when theres a match. Apparently there are many levels, but when you need thousands of coins and earn a very small amount you would need to play a crazy number of games to get there.
It goes to an advertisement and freezes.
Last update everything was white. Now the ad for some village game has no X. So after you force us to play the demo game you give us no option to leave the ad when its over. Ill be back when we see another update this is ridiculous.
We had to reset this game several times !!!! Then we had to reset our top score! Very disappointed. Otherwise the Game would be fun.
We love this. Great game to pass time in a waiting room or something. Today, we made a big match. We had two 4096 on the board. Then something happened so fast we could not tell what was going on. A lot of matches occurred at once and the board cleared itself and left us a blank wooden block while the game started over. Anyone know what happened there? Is it the normal progress of the game.
The night skin was the best by far and now it doesnt work with the new update.
We love this game. Ive been playing it for a while now… Even paid to upgrade to no ads, however after the latest update our game no longer works. It only shows white blocks with no numbers in it whatsoever. We sent two different emails and have gotten no response yet. Im upset and disappointed! We want to play the game, but we cant! We understand if it may not be an over night fix but at least acknowledge our problem.
Everything about the game is bad except for when we can actually play but whenever we are in the middle of a round a ad comes up and wont let us get out of it to continue playing the game we need to delete the game and get it again and we already did that 10 times. All we would say to the developer is to not have to many ads that will interrupt the game play.
We loved this game until today. Today, ads cover 1/3 of the screen, covering up game play. There is no option to report that the ad is covering the screen. You just cant see what youre doing, and half the buttons are covered with ads, forcing the user to visit Marriott. Youd think that ok, force this down our throat, Ill get it over with and the ad will disappear. No chance. No thank you. Uninstall.
This game is very fun but eventually it gets really sluggish and crashes. We need an update.
Great game for when you bored or stressed you can just chill out and play great game 10/10.
Love playing this game but has quirks, we think due to ads. We have kids so we play for a bit then need to pause the game. Sometimes it will pause, watch an ad and continue playing. Lately though when we pause we watch the ad and go to continue and it STARTS OVER! So frustrating.
For the most part, this game is a lot of fun, and a great twist on the 2048 genre. Ive been playing it for the better part of a year now, and Im not bored of it yet. For the ppl who are complaining about the ads, we thought it was frustrating too, until we just decided to cough up the 3 bucks for no ads. It makes the gameplay so much smoother without the interruptions. Its a small price to pay for hours of fun and supports the developer. The only reason Im not giving it 5 stars is this latest update has been causing the game to crash. Hoping the developer sees this review so we can get back to killing lvls. Trying to beat our record of 1.4m pts, but hard to do if game is crashing.
It was fun, but not challenging we got two 2048s our first round. We would recommend it just for killing time, but you shouldnt get it if you want a challenge.
Fun game, but gets stuck on an advertisement. Wont let you return to the game. So sad. We understand advertising, but the app needs some bugs fixed.
We love this game, so we went ahead and gave it 3 stars, but it crashes EVERY time we play it and often gets stuck on an ad. Would love to see these bugs fixed so we can continue enjoying the game.
Since Ive downloaded it, we cant get through an entire game without it crashing. We have not committed enough to pay to get rid of the ads, which dont bother us that much except when we get to the ads that will not take us back to the game and we have to force close it. This also makes us lose our progress. Basically, it is not a free game. It is a $3.00 game.
Love this game but it keeps crashing and interrupting our fun. If it didnt crash we would have a higher score and give this more stars.
Crashes frequently. Love the game itself. Frustrated with ads and crashing so it probably wont stay in our phone long at all.
Love the app and many times we are able to get very far. About half the time the app crashes during gameplay. Ads dont bother us.
We enjoy this game a lot, however as of iOS 12.4 it crashes every time we play, which is completely frustrating. Please update the game, its been about a month at least since the last patch.
This is a fun game and good for teaching strategy. Too bad it is so buggy.
Would be even more fun if it didn't crash all the time.
Ive enjoyed this game for several months, but since the last update, it keeps randomly closing. Restarted our iPad and the game continues to crash. Perhaps the last update has a glitch?? Frustrating.
This app randomly closes during about half the games we play. May delete it.
Would be so much better if it wouldnt crash and there were less or at least targeted ads.
Game is very addictive but this new version keeps crashing and it is annoying.
Game constantly closes out while playing. We have a new phone and none of our other apps/games have this issue. We lose all progress and coins that Ive made.
Long ads and game crashes often. Every time you get in a groove and start doing good the game crashes. Hella annoying.
Downloaded the original over a year ago. Finally deleted it because of the freezing issues and constant crashing it was plagued with. Decided to try it again last week and Surprise it still has the same issues only this time we believe the freezing issue may be worse if thats even possible. Total waste of time.
Might be a fun game but you get stuck in and cant get out of it so thats pretty stupid. Deleted it.
If you make it so we cant exit the game and come back without still getting an ad before we can play the game, Im just not going to play it. Im not going pay you to get rid of adds if Im annoyed before we even have a chance to like your game.
We paused before pressing one star because we wanted to be fair. Is it really fair to complain for a free game when not willing to spend three bucks? Upon consideration: Yes. Two ways to pay for a game: money or attention to ads. These guys have ads at every achievement level or at startup. So far so good. The bad part is that ads play but game is not stopped often. So, say you are really close to a personal record. An ad interrupts the game. You find out to your dismay that you have to start another game. Because as the ad was playing, the game was not stopped and you hit the wall. Developers: dont be greedy. Lessen the frequency of the ads. Reward even us frugal players for the good download and eyeball metrics we contribute. That has to be worth some money equivalent to you. This way your good work is enjoyed by all.
It keeps crashing. We don't think we've completely finished a game.
Got up to 30,000 pts our first time playing. Apparently the game doesn't like that number. As soon as we hit it, the game crashed. We reopened it and it kept the high score we made, but reset our game to 12,000 pts. Got back up to 30,000 and it crashed again, reset the same exact way. So we guess don't do too well? It's a fun game but the crash and reset is beyond frustrating.
Good game when youre actually able to play it and dont get stuck on an ad that you cant exit out of. We have tried to close and reopen the app almost 20 times now and Im just going to delete it because we cant even get to the game. As soon as we load in it takes an ad break and theres no way of exiting the ad.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.2.29
- Size: 201.92 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Metajoy Limited
Last updated: 20th August 2024 | Genre: Puzzle, Board | Developer: Metajoy Limited