There isn’t a tutorial so I had to just dive in to figure it out. I was looking for a new game to play and kept seeing advertisements for Merge Mansion. It’s a cute game that’s nicely designed and easy to play and pick up, but under the hood it’s just another Skinner Box designed to maximize your engagement and goad your into paying to bypass deliberate arbitrary frustrations that exist not to improve gameplay but solely to make money. There’s an Undo function if you sell an item from the game board, but somehow there’s not one to undo spending 90 crystals on something you didn’t actually want.

To be fair, crystals can also be randomly acquired through piggy banks, but the massive caveat there is that the UI is so poorly implemented that it’s easy to accidentally tap to purchase an item in the in-game store, instantly draining all the crystals you’ve amassed over weeks playing the game, with no way to undo what you’ve done. When you calculate how many base components you’ll need to generate through taps in order to compile the higher-level items required to complete certain tasks, it’s a staggering quantity that will take months if not years to attain if you don’t pay them actual money to purchase items or boosts in the in-game store. The entire point is to make money by frustrating progress in a way that capitalizes on the compulsion of completion. The game is designed to be as addicting as possible, with fixed and random rewards.

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