Press Kit

Fact Sheet

MergeCiv in One Paragraph

MergeCiv is a free idle/incremental game built on a merge board: drag matching tiles together and they evolve through the ages of a civilization, from first settlements to citadels, each tier producing exponentially more. Underneath the tactile board is a genuine incremental — six core resources (plus campaign currencies), a magic system, and stacked prestige layers (Resettlement, Ascension, Citadel Imbue, Artifact Imbuement, and Transcension) that each reset the world and multiply the next run. Its war campaign, The Metal War, adds an army to raise on the Muster Grounds, a Forge that refines adjacent Ore Deposits into Metal, and a 300-stone road to march down. There is no energy meter and nothing to install: it starts instantly in the browser, syncs a free cloud save between web and iOS, and keeps earning while you're away. Built by a solo developer, updated often, and balanced in the open with its player community.

Features

• Merge board as the engine — every tile on the grid is a producer or worker; merging is progress, not decoration.
• No energy meter — play as long as you want; the genre's most common complaint, deliberately absent.
• Instant play — loads in the browser in seconds; no download, no account required to start.
• Stacked prestige layers — Resettlement → Ascension → Citadel Imbue → Artifact Imbuement → Transcension (Astral Tree); each reset makes the next run faster.
• Artifact collection — pulls across Common to Legendary (and Mythic via Reliquary) with bad-luck protection: unowned Epics and Legendaries come first, and the first Itemized Paystub, Interest Accumulator, and Printing Press are guaranteed.
• Three-layer world — Surface, Underground and Citadel grids, each with its own mechanics, joined by a 3D cube-roll flip.
• Magic system — Mana, castable spells (with hotkeys on web), nine Resonance Rituals, and Speed Boosts up to 10×.
• The Metal War — raise an army on the Muster Grounds, refine adjacent Ore Deposits into Metal at the Forge, and march down a 300-stone Conquest road; cleared sites pay compounding boosts, walled sieges multiply Valor, and war progress is permanent across resets.
• Wyrmfall & The Roost — your first Resettlement uncovers a dragon egg; hatch it in The Aerie and take flight into Wyrmfall at dragon.mergeciv.io to grow a hoard that raises Gold capacity by up to 50% and multiplies Empire Tribute by up to 10×. Reaching Citadel Tier 3 unlocks The Roost, where perching birds drop Feathers for permanent multipliers.
• True idle — up to 12 hours of offline earnings per return with exact online-parity math when The Evening Paper is researched.
• Free cloud sync — web and iOS, one save; Android joins when it leaves testing.
• Solo-dev, community-tuned — frequent updates; balance changes and quality-of-life features regularly ship straight from Discord feedback.

The Story

MergeCiv is built by one person. It launched in February 2026 as a browser game and grew alongside an active Discord community where balance adjustments and quality-of-life improvements ship directly from player discussions. Lost saves get restored by hand, and feature requests become playable systems in days rather than quarters. The goal is simple — keep the game free, keep it fair (no energy meters, no forced ads, nothing you cannot earn by playing), and keep building it in the open.

Recent Updates

Every release, version by version: mergeciv.io/changelog.

Assets

Key art and icon

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  Key art

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  App icon

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Screenshots

• The merge board — simple tiles become a town
• Research and artifacts
• Ascension — magic reshapes the next run
• The Citadel layer
• Wyrmfall — take flight
• The Aerie — bring your hoard home

Screenshots are 1080-pixel-wide WebP versions of the App Store and Google Play sets. For the full-resolution originals (1320×2868 iPhone, 1080×1920 Android), a specific screen, or capture footage, email admin@mergeciv.io.

Contact

Press, creator and partnership enquiries: admin@mergeciv.io. The community — and the developer — are on Discord.