# Merge Tactics: Kingdom Defense

> Your Majesty, please grow your kingdom and protect us against invasions!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.loadcomplete.mergedefense](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.loadcomplete.mergedefense)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.loadcomplete.mergedefense`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** LoadComplete
- **Category:** GAME\_STRATEGY
- **Downloads:** 1,633,948
- **Rating:** 4.28 / 5 (26,605 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.8.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-22
- **First published:** 2020-06-14
- **Publisher country:** KR
- **Size:** 155 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadcomplete.mergedefense)
- **Website:** [https://www.loadcomplete.com](https://www.loadcomplete.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://loadcomplete.com/privacy](https://loadcomplete.com/privacy)

## Description

**Merge Tactics: Kingdom Defense** is a unique tower defense game combining strategy, growth, and tactical challenges. Players create personalized battle decks using diverse block types—Melee, Ranged, Support—and merge them on the battlefield to form powerful units. With every wave defeated, you expand your territory and unlock new defense techniques.

The game features castle and character progression through gold and artifact rewards, unlocking new skills and loot. Merge Tactics emphasizes creative strategy, allowing players to adapt decks and tactics to different invaders. It is free to play with optional in-app purchases, providing an engaging experience for strategy and defense game enthusiasts.

## Rankings

- #51,169 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.applovin.array.apphub.permission.BIND_APPHUB_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `com.loadcomplete.mergedefense.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

## Review summary

Merge Tactics: Kingdom Defense is widely praised for its depth, variety, and offline play, with many reviewers finding it fun and engaging. Positives include a broad range of units/upgrades and modes, plus optional ad rewards instead of paywalls. Recurrent issues include slow updates, a grindy currency system that slows progression, and monetization that some players find intrusive due to ads or ad-block subscriptions.

### Pros

- Deep, varied gameplay with many units, upgrades, and a mix of tower defense, merging, story, plus online and offline modes.
- Fun and engaging experience with broad positive reception across many reviews.
- No major paywalls; monetization is largely optional with rewards from ads.
- Offline play supported, allowing play without internet.

### Cons

- Update frequency concerns: reviews repeatedly request updates and maintenance lag.
- Progression grind due to limited gold/gems and expensive unlocks.
- Ad-based monetization friction: reliance on ads and a subscription option for ad-block can feel intrusive.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.loadcomplete.mergedefense)