Merge Bazaar A free merge game: restore a town bazaar
Merge tea leaves into golden samovars, fill customer orders and restore a ruined town bazaar, one stall at a time.
About Merge Bazaar
Merge Bazaar is a cosy merge puzzle about bringing an old town market back to life. Your board is a 7 by 9 grid with a Tea Bush and a Bread Oven on it. Tap a generator and a fresh good pops out: a single tea leaf, a stalk of wheat. Drag a leaf onto an identical leaf and the two squash together into the next tier, a sprig of tea. Keep merging and a sprig becomes a tea bag, a teacup, a teapot, a painted teapot, a full tea set and finally a sparkling golden samovar. Every chain has eight tiers, and every tier looks bigger and fancier than the last.
Along the top of the screen, three customers wait at your counter. Each one wants one to three goods, such as a Crusty Loaf, or a Teacup and a Clay Bowl. When everything they asked for is on your board, they light up with a big smile: tap them to sell, and coins and experience fly to your counter. Coins restore the market's eight ruined stalls. Every stall you restore opens a new chain and a new generator (flowers, pottery, textiles, spices, toys, lanterns, jewellery and music) and brings a new regular customer to your counter.
The catch is space. Sixty-three cells fill up faster than you think, so every tap is a small decision. Which generator should you spend charges on? Should you merge those two teacups now, or keep one for the next order? A four-slot storage crate holds goods you want to save (crated goods still count for orders), and anything you don't need can be sold for a few coins, so the board never jams.
There is no paid energy. Generators recharge on their own, even while you are away, and every level up refills them all at once. A special daily order with a triple reward appears every day. Sessions are as short as you like: tap a few generators, fill an order or two, and come back later to full generators. Your board, crate, coins and stalls save automatically.
How to play
Tap a generator to drop its first-tier good on the board. Drag an item onto an identical item to merge them into the next tier; drag onto an empty cell to move it, or onto another item to swap. When a customer at the top glows, the goods they want are on your board or in your crate: tap them to sell for coins and XP. Spend coins in the Market (top button) to restore stalls, which add new chains and customers. Drag an item onto a crate slot at the bottom to store it, tap a slot to take it back out, or select an item and tap Sell when space runs low. Keyboard: arrow keys move the cursor, Space or Enter taps a generator or picks up and drops an item, X sells, C stores in the crate, 1 2 3 serve customers, 7 8 9 0 take items out of the crate, B opens the market, P pauses and M mutes.
Controls and devices
- Controls: Touch, Mouse, Keyboard
- Works on: phones, tablets and computers
- Screen: portrait orientation
- Price: free, no download or sign-up
FAQ
- Do I ever have to pay for energy?
- No. Generators recharge over time on their own, also while you are away, and levelling up refills all of them. If one is empty you can choose to watch a short ad to refill it right away, but you never have to.
- What do I do when my board is full?
- Merge any matching pairs first, then drag goods you want to keep into the four-slot storage crate at the bottom. Goods in the crate still count for orders. Anything you don't need can be selected and sold for coins.
- How do I unlock new goods?
- Open the Market and restore the next ruined stall with coins from orders. Each stall adds a new merge chain with its own generator and a new customer, up to ten chains and twelve customers.
- What is the daily order?
- Once a day a customer with a golden card asks for two higher-tier goods. Filling it pays three times the usual coins and double experience.
- Does my progress save?
- Yes. Your whole board, crate, coins, stalls and generators save automatically on this device, and to your account when you are signed in.
Credits
- Game design, code and sound: Playora Games
- Generated goods, generators, customers, stalls, market backdrop, UI skin and thumbnail (see CREDITS.md): Codex CLI image tool (OpenAI)