Gossip Street: Merge & Cook

I genuinely love this game. This may be my favorite out of all the merge games that I download (and inevitably delete). I love that I haven’t gotten bored of it. I do have a couple of complaints: - the in app purchases don’t go too far. I feel as though the amount of money that I spend in the app does not match what I get out of the game play. - most importantly, I get so many coins and participate (and complete) so many of the side quests/mini games and then quickly run out of tasks. There was an update recently with more tasks and I spaced them out over about a week. Once I got to 21 more tasks left, i completed one and then the other 20 disappeared! I was disappointed because I like completing the tasks and they give you gifts to keep playing the game. I can at least understand if I had finished a stage in the game but the room that I’m currently working on isn’t even finished. It’s a bit frustrating to have to wait months and months for more updates, especially when it will only allow me to compete a number of tasks when I have enough coins for way more. Admittedly, I do play the game for the merge (mostly, about 75%) but fun kind of bored of having to wait for updates and not even being able to compete a room/stage. I hope this changes soon.

I play a few merge games to help me unwind. This one in particular became my favorite for not only having fun merges but the story is fantastic. There’s a lot of twists and turns and you don’t know who to root for from one moment to the next aside from the protagonist. I’m glad to see there are ads to help you get ahead if you choose. The prices are fair for energy if you choose to support them this way, which I was happy to. Thanks so much for all the fun!

Gossip Street is a lot of fun, the art style is charming, and the graphics are really well done. However, the gameplay gets frustrating fast. Even when I have plenty of stamina to keep merging, I end up stuck waiting for a 30 minute timer before I can click for new items and continue playing. Having both a stamina limit and a clickable cooldown timer feels excessive. It really cuts the playable time short, since I only get a few minutes of actual gameplay before having to wait again. If the developers could reduce or remove one of these restrictions, it would make the experience far more enjoyable. There’s a great game here it’s just buried under too much waiting and too many pay to win pack advertising.