Tasty Travels: Merge Game

In a world where every game is bombarded with explosions, loot boxes, and PvP, Tasty Travels: Merge Game is like a cool, minty towel on your forehead on a hot summer day. It’s cool, it smells good, and it’s… surprisingly cute. The game is developed by Century Games – a studio that has a tradition of making farming, simulation, and casual games with a relaxing spirit. With Tasty Travels, they don’t farm anymore, but take you on a culinary journey around the world.

Introduce about Tasty Travels: Merge Game

In Tasty Travels: Merge Game, you will play as a young chef with a passion for food, traveling around the world to discover and learn the typical dishes of each region. The main gameplay revolves around combining two similar ingredients to create new dishes, thereby unlocking more interesting recipes, locations and stories.

Familiar merge gameplay

Tasty Travels: Merge Game is basically a merge game, meaning you have a board where food ingredients appear one after another. You combine two of the same items to create an upgraded version. For example, 2 flours become mixed dough, 2 mixed doughs become kneaded dough, 2 doughs become pizza crust, and then slowly the main dish. This may sound repetitive, but the game knows how to keep you hooked for a long time through many extremely “soft” tricks.

The ingredients all have very specific levels, shapes, and names, and there are even things that are regionally specific. Every time you successfully upgrade a dish, you will receive a new dish with super detailed images. For example, when you complete “Miso Soup”, it shows a small wooden bowl with steam rising and a piece of seaweed floating. In addition to the main merge table, you also have ingredient generators such as refrigerators, ovens, spice cabinets… All of them can be upgraded, and each upgrade is a step closer to the kitchen.

Tasty Travels: Merge Game takes you on a trip through… the kitchen

As you play, you’ll unlock more famous culinary locations, from Kyoto, Japan, to Naples, Italy, to Bangkok, Thailand, and even Mexico City. Each location is a completely new culinary theme with its own set of ingredients, recipes, presentation, and orders. For example:

• Kyoto: All Japanese dishes such as sushi, takoyaki, matcha latte. Ingredients include “Fresh ocean tuna”, “Japanese rice flour”, “Grinded green tea”.
• Napoli: Pizza, pasta, lasagna. You will merge from flour to crust, tomato sauce, then mozzarella cheese.
• Bangkok: Spicy dishes such as tom yum, pad thai. Ingredients include “Red chili”, “River shrimp”, “Tamarind juice”.

Each location has a different layout for the merge table, which changes the gameplay accordingly. You will have to relearn how to merge effectively for each area. A detail that keeps the game fresh and not boring.

There are also special events in Tasty Travels: Merge Game like “Starlight Island” (mysterious culinary island), where you can try your hand at rare ingredients in exchange for great rewards like speed-up items, boosters, or high-level ingredients.

Food collection

One thing that keeps players hooked on Tasty Travels: Merge Game is the system of food collections and the accompanying recipe book. Each dish you successfully create will be recorded in a book, where you can flip through each dish you have made, the ingredients needed, and a short description of the dish’s origin. For example, when you complete “Teriyaki Chicken”, the game will display a small description like: “A traditional Japanese dish, highlighted by the sweet and salty flavors of soy sauce and mirin”. It’s like reading a cookbook, but a book that compliments you when you’re done cooking.

Some events require you to complete the recipes in the book again, or cook a series of dishes from a country to unlock more levels. This makes your cooking journey feel like it has cumulative value, and doesn’t feel like you’re stuck in an endless “merge then delete, merge then delete” loop.

Explore and build your city

In addition to merging food, Tasty Travels: Merge Game also gives you control over an entire food town. At certain points in your progress, you’ll unlock a city map, where your dishes will “take a place” as part of the global culinary ecosystem. Sounds serious? It’s like you’re both a chef and an interior architect.

Every time you complete a chain of orders or reach an event milestone, you’ll receive building materials. Using these, you can build a mini-town representing each country, like leaving Kyoto’s food court and heading to Mexico City, resplendent with tacos and paper lanterns. Each building you build unlocks new features: increasing the amount of materials you produce, reducing waiting times, or unlocking new dishes.

Graphics and sound

The graphics in Tasty Travels: Merge Game are hand-drawn in a half-realistic, half-cartoon style, detailed enough to recognize each type of dish, but still maintain a cute, easy-on-the-eyes feel. The ingredients all have expressions (if you look closely), like a frowning onion, a smiling piece of cheese… making playing the game like watching a cooking cartoon.

The sound is also a commendable strength. The background music changes depending on the country you are “cooking”, for example in Japan it is the gentle sound of a koto, in Italy it is the melodious sound of a mandolin, in Thailand it is the traditional drums and small bells. Every time you successfully merge, there is a very satisfying “pop”, like the sound of soda bubbles bursting in your mouth.

Download Tasty Travels: Merge Game APK for Android

Tasty Travels: Merge Game is like a cookbook with gamified elements, where you slowly explore the world through ingredients, recipes, sounds and colors. For those who are looking for a light game to relax after work, or simply want to see beautiful dishes blooming on the screen every morning, this is a sweet, moderate and highly recommended choice.