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Merge & Blade cover art

Merge & Blade

Magic Cube · 2023-02-27

SteamMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Jun 29, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (Nintendo Switch), Feb 28, 2023 (Xbox One)

Experience an addictive puzzle and a massive auto-battler in one game. The world's first puzzle auto-battler game! Only your brain can save the world.

Merge & Blade is a 2023 Adventure, Casual, Indie, and RPG title priced at $9.99, estimated to have 20,000 .. 50,000 owners, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (80% of 137 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

3
playing now
80%
positive of 137 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
76h
time to beat (IGDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

One night, a farmer who had the banned magic book opened the forbidden portal and summoned the evil god Seth. After that night, peaceful villages were robbed and pillaged by the monsters who came with Seth, but villagers were too weak to fight against the monsters. One day, people noticed that if more than three of the same class were gathered, they became a stronger class. The villagers started to look for a chance to counterattack with this...(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (62 reviews).
  • · Top 35% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.7k–6.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 137 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.19 at Steam (2021-06-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 1 of 9 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
545420212026Week of 2021-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 4 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
191Jul 2021May 2024Jul 2021 — avg 19 · peak 146Aug 2021 — avg 3 · peak 9Sep 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Oct 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Nov 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Dec 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6Jan 2022 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2023 — avg 5 · peak 20Apr 2023 — avg 7 · peak 27May 2023 — avg 4 · peak 16Jul 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2023 — avg 2 · peak 10Apr 2024 — avg 2 · peak 6May 2024 — avg 2 · peak 5

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — May 2024

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$4.192021-06-292026-10-082021-06-29 — best price $4.192021-07-06 — best price $5.992021-11-24 — best price $4.192021-12-01 — best price $5.992022-06-23 — best price $4.192022-07-07 — best price $5.992023-02-28 — best price $9.992023-03-04 — best price $9.992023-04-24 — best price $6.892023-05-01 — best price $9.992023-08-16 — best price $6.492023-08-23 — best price $9.992024-02-12 — best price $6.392024-02-19 — best price $9.992024-07-18 — best price $6.292024-07-25 — best price $9.992025-02-17 — best price $6.192025-02-24 — best price $9.992025-09-21 — best price $5.992025-09-28 — best price $9.992026-07-30 — best price $5.792026-08-06 — best price $9.992026-08-27 — best price $9.992026-09-03 — best price $9.992026-09-10 — best price $9.992026-09-17 — best price $9.992026-09-24 — best price $9.992026-10-01 — best price $9.992026-10-08 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
95.3%
earned "Double Attack"
3.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play Together4 DLC

13 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Portugal…

Post-launch support: 4 DLC released, first 2023-02-28, latest 2023-04-21 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DCutePuzzleMatch 3WargameStrategyOld SchoolRogue-likeRogue-liteAuto Battler

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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