A merge game that wants to be an arcade shuffleboard table, cans and all
Xelabyte's MerjUp trades tile grids for a sliding tray of soft drink cans, and the screenshots suggest timing matters as much as matching.
By Rhodri Vaughan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The key art for MerjUp is trying harder than it needs to: a single golden can standing on a plinth, lit like a relic, crystals hovering around it as though someone is about to unlock an ending boss. Open the actual game, according to the screenshots on the store listing, and you get a beach, a wooden tray with a dashed line down the middle, and a can you slide with your thumb. That gap between the poster and the table is the first thing worth noting here. Xelabyte Studios, working out of Nigeria, describes MerjUp as an arcade merge game built on tossing and matching cans using timing and ph...