# Merge Cooking®

> Merge & Cook, Theme Restaurant

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1643509748](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1643509748)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1643509748`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Happibits
- **Category:** Simulation
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (49,970 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.58.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-11
- **First published:** 2022-09-19
- **Size:** 482 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/merge-cooking/id1643509748)
- **Website:** [http://game.happibits.com/](http://game.happibits.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://game.happibits.com/privacy.html](https://game.happibits.com/privacy.html)

## Description

**Merge Cooking®** is a relaxing merge-and-cooking game where you combine ingredients, prepare dishes from around the world, and serve hungry customers. Travel through destinations including New York, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Paris while unlocking recipes, cooking equipment, souvenirs, and themed restaurants.

Renovate and redesign restaurants, upgrade your culinary skills, and meet colorful customers with unique stories. Enjoy tap, drag, and merge gameplay without time pressure, plus limited-time events such as the SpongeBob collaboration, featuring Bikini Bottom characters, special ingredients, and exclusive rewards. Cook global cuisine, complete challenges, and build your own restaurant empire.

## Rankings

- #6,239 — Overall
- #40 — theme
- #64 — night theme

## Review summary

Merge Cooking is praised for fun, relaxing, easy-to-pick-up gameplay with a unique blender mechanic and a clear story progression. However, recurring issues include energy/time gating and slow recovery, monetization-driven progression due to removed freebies and IAP pressure, intrusive tutorials, ad/promotions that feel misaligned with the game, and balance problems with generators. Overall, players enjoy the core concept but express frustration with pacing, monetization, and onboarding friction.

### Pros

- Fun, engaging and relaxing gameplay
- Easy to learn and quick to pick up, keeps you busy
- Unique blender mechanic adds variety
- Story progression from the ground up (clear sense of progression)

### Cons

- Energy/time gating with slow energy restoration hindering progress
- Monetization gating: freebies removed and progress tied to in-app purchases
- Forced/intrusive tutorials that are hard to skip
- Excessive or misaligned ads/promotions that don7t match the game
- Generator balance issues that clutter the board and slow progress

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1643509748)