A merge puzzler that wants you to care who you're restoring the cove for
Nerelune pairs match-and-merge grinding with a cast of named neighbours and a map full of padlocked locations.
By Kai Okonkwo, 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 screenshots for Nerelune: Secrets of the Cove show a merge-2 board sitting underneath a surprising amount of plot furniture: character portraits with names and dialogue hooks, a restoration meter ticking up one repaired railing at a time, and a map of the island with half its locations still padlocked. The merge grid itself looks straightforward on first read. Eight tiles wide and nine deep, entirely empty in the screenshot I'm looking at, with resource bins along the bottom labelled Dispensa, Caffe, Giardino, Officina, Banco cucina. Three character cards sit above the board, each offer...