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Automatic Orders will spawn in the order bar when you have created enough of an item to warrant the exchange of it for coins. Each time the item is made and automatically ordered, the next automatic order will have a higher exchange of coins.

Click on the Automatic Orders Page for a full list of orders that will spawn!

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Generators are items that, when tapped, place Items onto the merge board.

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Travel Town Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Tricks & Strategies to Complete More Levels and Rebuild the Entire City

By: Author Barbara Craig

Posted on Last updated: April 6, 2022

Travel Town is a match and merge puzzle game developed by Magmatic Games, and it’s currently available on iOS and Android platforms. On top of the beautiful sharp graphics and matching sounds, Travel Town comes with an addictive gameplay, that fans of the genre will certainly enjoy.

To get you started on the right foot, we have put together a comprehensive Travel Town beginner’s guide . We will start this guide with explaining the basic mechanics and continue with effective strategies to advance quickly in the game, rebuild the city and help your neighbours. Of course, without forgetting to enjoy the thrill of finding new and better objects as you go merging.

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Travel Town is visually similar and has the same mechanics as Merge Mansion , a game that we have covered before here at Level Winner. So if you had the pleasure of playing that game, then you probably won’t have any major problems going through Travel Town.

The game takes place in Travel Town, a beautiful seaside that was ravaged away by a storm. Your main objective is to restore it and help your neighbours who were left with nothing. Meanwhile, you discover new objects. The mechanics of the game consists of mixing matching objects to get better and better objects. You can sell these objects to your neighbours who in exchange will give you smileys among other rewards. Smileys are the in-game currencies in Travel Town, and you will use them to rebuild the town. To start to play you need to use energy. At the beginning you have 100 units of energy in the form of lightning and you must use it wisely to advance levels. But be careful, in between you must pay attention to how you organize yourself. Here I will share with you several tips and strategies to be able to advance quickly in Travel Town.

1. Starting From Scratch And Cleaning Your Place

At first, you will start with little free space to merge. Not only that, but you will also find spaces blocked by objects covered in sand. Do not worry that this is momentary and here you will see how to proceed to optimize your space.

starting from scratch in travel town

These grey objects that you find buried in the sand have to be removed with a matching item. To do this you must take objects out of the bucket and mix until you get the one you are looking for.

Now you may ask: How do I know what I need to mix to get what I’m looking for? Well, at first you will not have major difficulties. Keep looking, you’re on the right track. Once you achieve to unlock the space you will have a little bit more room and be more comfortable.

Pay attention not to miss the opportunity to unlock a space if you have the same item. As you advance in level, more spaces will be freed up to work and you will be able to have a greater variety of objects. You will also be able to see stars with numbers drawn on the sand, these numbers indicate at what level that space is unlocked. But you may have to dig up some grey object from that new place. When the neighbours see what you achieve on the beach, they will add you to the chat group.

travel town chat

There you can keep up-to-date with everything they would like to improve about the city, as well as read pretty funny things apart from the fact that they don’t stop talking in that group.

2. Stay Organized And Save Space

Maintaining order in Travel Town can be crucial and makes the difference between an average player and a pro player. Maintaining order in the first levels is not something very difficult to achieve, since you will only have a couple of objects on the playground. But what happens as you go forward? As you advance in the game you will have a greater variety of objects at your disposal.

Not only that, but you will also have to achieve more complex objects and you will have the board with half-jobs distributed everywhere. So how can you improve this situation?

A good option is to organize them by type , this way you will have more ease when searching for a particular object. For example, you can group the objects that come out of the bucket in one corner, the objects that come out of the picnic basket in another corner, and so on. You can also save space by gathering all the same items , so you will have more free places.

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Another option is to keep rare items, that you are not going to use for the time being, in the inventory. What happens if you follow the previous steps and still fill the sandbox with things? Can’t you keep mixing? Okay, do not worry! In this case, you have two options, one is to sell the objects in exchange for smileys, touching the object you want to sell and then below the currency symbol you can make the sale in exchange for smileys.

Some lower-tier items you will not be able to sell but if you need the space urgently you can remove them. You select the object first and then down in the garbage can. Throwing out the items does not benefit you since the sale value is not as good as the value for which the neighbours pay, but it’s still something. That’s why you have to try not to get to this point.

The inventory will also be enabled, where you can initially store up to 7 objects. You can unlock more slots in exchange for diamonds.

3. Keep Your Neighbours Happy And Successfully Deliver Orders

The neighbours seem to love the items you manage to get from the sand. That’s why they will be constantly requesting new items. Before starting to create an order object, you should review all the orders you have.

This way, you avoid making a very complicated request when you have an object that’s almost ready on your board. Sometimes the commands are very simple, but other times they are a bit more difficult. There may be unique objects , which you will have to find out where or how to get them. It may also be that you order 2 or 3 objects together.

travel town 2 items order

And you have to get them all, they don’t take half orders. This may seem difficult, but as the game progresses you will become a master at delivering double or triple commands. I recommend that you try to start with the most difficult of the 2 items. When you get this object it will turn green, this way it is very easy to identify them and you will know that you have to deliver it.

An ideal scenario is that you group the objects in green in some sectors of the board where you do not move the items much. This is so that you don’t keep mixing it with the same item and you lose the needed level. So you will leave it waiting until you get the others.

Why shouldn’t you overdo the level? If you build higher-level objects, you will spend more energy and later you will not be able to sell them and they will take up space. Also, you will have to start from scratch to build it again and deliver it, since you cannot go back. For example: if a neighbour asks you for a Nautilus shell but you continue mixing until you reach a starfish, then you will not be able to go back and you will have to wait for someone to ask you for that object.

travel town nautilus shell

Another thing that can happen is that you see some requests in grey: when you see this, if you try to open it, it will tell you that you have to go up to the next level to be able to take that order. So first you must level up completing other orders and then you will see what the order is about.

4. Start Little By Little To Buy Buildings And Reform Them

As we mentioned before, smileys are the in-game currencies. You can spend smileys on keys, so you can rebuild the buildings of Travel Town. You have several options to get smileys:

Fulfilling the requests of the neighbours: You will constantly have orders to deliver. Although, some objects will not give you many smileys in return. Some neighbours are willing to pay fortunes for rare objects. But yes, you have to know how to find them.

travel town order

Mixing certain objects: There are some objects such as photos or jewels that, when merged, may reward you smileys. You’ll notice because they will fly on the board, so don’t forget to collect them!

Buying smileys in the store: Some days there are available smileys in the store for purchase. It’s a lazy option and you must pay with diamonds in exchange if you do not want to merge.

Selling objects: Another good option is to sell some items that you have left and that you think you will not need. Once you sell an item, you will see how many smileys you got for that item in return.

Hmm… did you regret selling it? After the sale, you can recover the item by going down where it says undo selling and select the circular arrow. But be careful, once you select something else on the screen, the option to have the object returned to you will disappear.

selling objects in travel town

Opening chests: The majority of the chests have smileys as a reward, and you will be able to get many out of them. But of course, getting chests is not easy. You will have to fulfil orders, level up or rebuild buildings to get them. Once you get the necessary resources you can start upgrading the city. Keep in mind that in this case, you are going to need a pile of wood planks as well as smileys. Later in this guide, we will explain how to get the materials.

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5. Squeeze The Juice Out Of Your Resources

The items that allow you to advance in the game faster are the following 3. Don’t forget to take care of your resources because they are the key to success in Travel Town.

Smileys: You need to get the maximum number of smileys to be able to pay for the key to the land that you are acquiring and also for the restorations. Doing this will give you experience points and you will advance in level.

That’s why every time a face item appears on the board, it is recommended not to sell it immediately and keep them in the inventory to mix them and reach the maximum level. This way, you can obtain greater benefits than selling them one by one.

For example: If you only have one smiley and you sell it, they will give you 1 in exchange, but if you have 2, they will give you 3, if you have 4 they will give you 7, if you mix 8 they will give you 15, and if you reach the maximum level of the item (level 5) which is 16 will give you 32 smileys. This is a lot of difference to make if you are patient and wait until you have the maximum level before selling it.

Energies: the energies will allow you to continue loading objects on the board, they renew themselves from time to time, but, indeed, they are also spent quickly when you need to deliver an object. That’s why every time an energy item appears, like the smileys, it is recommended to keep them in the inventory to mix them and reach the maximum level. This way you can get more benefit from it, for an energy item at the maximum level, you will get 100 units of energy.

travel town energy at maximum level

A tip to get more energy is to take a good look at the sign that appears when you run out, since sometimes to the right of the option to pay with diamonds it gives you the option to see a commercial in exchange for 25 energy.

travel town video ad

And because they are short commercials, I think it’s worth watching the commercial instead of spending diamonds on energy.

Diamonds: Diamonds are definitely the most precious and that’s why you have to avoid wasting them. In Travel Town, you can use it for almost everything. For example, you can skip the waiting time of some items with diamonds, but is it worth it? Perhaps, you can be patient with the wait and use the diamonds to exchange them for space in the inventory or get energy at good prices.

Check the offers daily, there are days that for a few diamonds you can get energy packages or chests. And just like energies and smileys, diamonds can be pooled together to make the most profit from selling them. Don’t forget that every time you discover a new item, it will appear in the collection book as a gift.

travel town collection

You must open it and inside it, you will find a diamond. So every day at the end of playing you can go to the book to continue completing the collections.

6. Permanent Objects

Permanent objects are those from which you can obtain objects in exchange for energy. These objects cannot be sold and you can take them to their maximum level. The higher its level, the better objects you will obtain from it. Keep in mind that of the objects that you can get from inside in exchange for energy, you will not be able to select them since it will give you a random object. Permanent items have a cooldown time that depends on the item.

As much as you have energy, you will not be able to remove objects infinitely. When the inside is finished, a clock will appear indicating how long you must wait until you can get objects again. There are times when you will be lucky and it will give you some higher-level item. Here are some permanent items that you will find in the first levels: Beach Bucket: This is the first permanent item that you get in the game. It is formed from buckets and you can take it to the maximum level, which is 9. From here you can obtain pebbles, stones, sandcastles and seashells, among others. When it is at its maximum level you will be able to obtain the mysterious letter from here but to be honest it will not be easy to obtain one.

travel town beach bucket

With the objects that come out of the bucket, you can complete the Shells and the Sand Castles book collection. Picnic Basket: This basket, like the bucket, is one of the first permanent items that you obtain and that requires energy to deliver objects.

travel town picnic basket

From here you can obtain spoons, olives among others. And you will be able to complete the Picnic Food series and the Cutlery Tools series. Jewellery display: When you take the jewellery display to level 4 you will have a jewellery box. It is a permanent item which means that it will remain on the board forever, not only will you be able to create beautiful jewels with what is inside it but it also has a particularity.

It is that this jewellery box does not use energy to generate objects! Which means that you will have endless items? Well, yes and no, because if it has a cooldown time. You can place the jewellery box in the middle of the board and you can see how the objects jump out.

In case you have a full workspace, I recommend that you keep the jewellery box surrounded by items. This way, neither of the will pop from inside, occupying the place you need on the board.

travel town jewellery

Once they stop coming out, you will have to wait for the recharge time to expire. If you need to make a jewel and you don’t want to wait for the recharge time, you can also use diamonds to skip the time. A trick for when they give you a reward jewellery box and you have one on the board: first you empty the one you have on the board until the clock mark appears indicating that you have to wait.

Next step, you lower the new jewel box to the board and empty it too. Once the 2 are with the cooldown clock, you merge them. This will not only give you a higher tier jewel box but also resets the time so you can empty it for the third time. 

7. Reward Items

Crates: Crates have 5 levels. Inside the crates, you can get smileys or  diamonds. When you get one, either for a level-up reward or for having completed a level. You can open it or you can also save it and wait till get one of the same level to be able to merge them.

Whichever option you choose, when you want to open it you have to select them and choose the option to open there will tell you how long you have to wait. The higher the level of the crate, the greater the rewards, but also the longer it will take to open.

travel town crate

Energy crate: The crates contain only energy inside so nothing that comes out of it can surprise you. They are usually achieved by levelling up or completing an order. These crates cannot be levelled up as they are at their maximum level when they appear. Toolbox: Toolboxes are boxes full of tools where you can find everything from screws and wood to cement and bricks for construction. They are crucial for building upgrades. Not only that, but they are quite difficult to get, usually given to you as a reward for hard-to-complete orders.

So I recommend that you keep everything that comes out of the toolbox well until you can get the maximum level of each item. So when you manage to build, for example, a brick wall or a concrete mixer, it will be kept in the inventory until you use it in some upgrade.

travel town tool items

These tool items will be saved in the second tab of the inventory. So you should not worry about them taking up space. You can go check what materials you have stored at any time.

8. Special Items Are Difficult To Get

Joker: The jokers are rarer items than diamonds. And they have the peculiarity of being able to duplicate any common object you have in the playground. If you’re lucky enough to get one, I don’t recommend using it to combine with a pebble.

Save it or use it to combine with an object that has a very high tier level. This way you will save a lot of time. You also have the option to buy it in the store in exchange for diamonds. So it would be a good purchase. Bubbled items: Bubbled items are items that appear inside a bubble when you are creating an object. These objects are trapped and you will not be able to use them unless you pay their reward in diamonds. Its price varies depending on the difficulty of the item. It may be that you are not interested in taking out of the bubble in exchange for some diamonds. But as soon as an item that you need appears, this may be worth spending diamonds on.

travel town bubbled

Be aware, you cannot doubt it for a long time since the bubble will disappear in a short time. Don’t worry if you decide not to pay with diamonds, the bubbles always leave you something in return, which can be a smiley, energy or even a diamond.

Mysterious letter: Just as its name says, this letter is mysterious, it is rumoured that it has a map inside and that it takes you to some hidden place in Travel Adventure, have you got it yet? Do not worry that as the levels progress they will come to your hands. As a suggestion, you should start by getting letters out of the bucket. Mysterious fossil: If there was something more mysterious than the mysterious letter, it is surely this fossil. It is much more difficult to get, but believe me, it has a very good reward.

9. Take Part In Special Events

Do not forget to complete the special events, they are a good opportunity to gather resources. Daily challenge: It is a daily event that will appear as an order on the top right and when you open it you will be able to see the tasks to complete. This order, unlike the others, has a time limit that you cannot exceed. You can see the time remaining from the order or when opening it as well.

travel town daily challenge

You can also see the counter, for example, if it says 0/3, it means that you have 0 tasks performed out of 3. As you complete them, it will indicate 1/3, 2/3, and so on until it reaches 3/3. Completing it will give you the reward indicated in the order. Wildlife sanctuary: it is a special event to which you are going to be invited to travel to the jungle. Precisely to a sanctuary, where you can feed and rescue tigers, cut dry or fallen trees, and plant new and healthy ones.

travel town welcome

During our stay in the sanctuary, you have to try to complete as many requests as possible. Here there are no smileys as a reward for orders. But in exchange for completing an order, they will give you a paw token.

travel town sanctuary

As you collect the paws you will advance in level, each time you reach a new level you will need more tokens to complete it. Once the time of the stay finishes, they will give you a diploma with the maximum level you reached and with it the rewards. The levels that you can reach range from level 1 to 8.

In the sanctuary, you will have a different energy, which has the same functionality as in the rest of the game but it is blue. When you run out of energy, you can go out and wait for it to recharge or you can also buy it with diamonds.

You can also collect smileys that will appear from time to time when you mix some items, it may be that smileys appear and you can collect those, a tip to take advantage of here is that if you see that our time in the jungle is running out and they are going to be left items, the ideal is that you can sell them before leave. Because once the time is up you won’t be able to come back for anything from the place.

travel town paw

The mechanic is very similar to what you’ve been doing. Only that here your mission, apart from completing the orders, is to rescue the tigers that are in the jungle. To do this, the first thing you must do is get items from the worker’s hut in exchange for energy. From here you can get tools, seeds and feeding bottles.

How to rescue your first tiger? The tigers are lost in the middle of the jungle but to get to them you must first cut down the fallen trees. You do this by taking some items of tools to the maximum level until you get a chainsaw. With it, you can choose the place to weed. Note that there are two types of trees to cut, one is the dry one that you will have to cut 2 times, so you will need 2 chainsaws.

travel town feeding bottle

And the other one is the stump for which you’re going to have to cut only once. Both will give you lodges in return. Once you enter the jungle you will find items in grey covered by the undergrowth, to unlock it you must get a matching item. When you go into the jungle, you may find a baby tiger in grey and to rescue it you will need to have another one. To get one you have to take a feeding bottle to the maximum level, then you double-tap it and a baby tiger will appear.

Once you got the baby tiger now with it, you can rescue the one you found in the jungle.

travel town baby tiger

How do you plant new and healthy trees? Once you were able to remove the dry trees, the idea of ​​the sanctuary is that you reforest it with healthy trees. To do this you must start by mixing the seeds until you bring them to their maximum level. When you manage to have a Sundari tree, it will provide you with seeds and flowers without having to spend energy in return.

travel town title

As soon as you finish don’t forget to claim your reward.

10. Be Persistent And Be Patient

As you progress in the game, you can achieve more complex items. Or maybe you use up energy faster. But don’t get discouraged, you can close the game and come back when you have full energy. Some items will take a few days to form but in the meantime, you will always have some other easier items to deliver. And when you have a permanent item in cooldown, relax and do other things in Travel Town.

That was our last piece of advice, and with that we conclude our Travel Town beginner’s guide. Hopefully, the tips and tricks we shared in this article will help you to advance in the best way until you complete your collection of objects and restore the city. If you have discovered any other tips or tricks during your gameplay, we would be happy to hear from you! Feel free to drop us a line in the comments below!

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Be ready to merge and create to build your own travel town.

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Magmatic Games’ Travel Town is a match-and-merge puzzle game that is presently available for iOS and Android devices. Travel Town has addicting gameplay that lovers of the genre will like. It comes with lovely sharp graphics and complementing music. This Travel Town Beginner’s Guide will help you to get off on the right foot. Experience amazing gameplay and discover new items as you keep on merging.

Travel Town: Gameplay

The game is set in Travel Town, a lovely coastal town that has been wrecked by a hurricane. Your primary goal is to restore it and assist your neighbors who have been left with nothing else. In the meantime, you’re discovering new things. The game’s mechanics entail combining matching elements to create greater and better objects. You may sell these items to your neighbors, who will reward you with smileys and other items in exchange. Smileys are the game’s in-game currency, and you’ll need them to restore the town.

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To begin playing, you must use energy. You start with 100 units of energy in the form of lightning, which you must intelligently employ to progress through the stages. But be careful; you must pay attention to how you organize yourself in the meanwhile. I’ll give you a few pointers and strategies to help you move swiftly in Travel Town.

Travel Town Beginner’s Guide

  • As you progress further into the game, you will acquire a variety of items. So, it’s crucial to maintain order. Maintaining order will help you to keep a track of half merged items. It’s a good idea to classify them by kind since this will make it easier to find anything specific.
  • Smileys are the in-game currency, as previously stated. Smileys may be exchanged for keys, which can be used to rebuild Travel Town’s structures.
  • You’ll always have orders to fulfill. Some things, however, will not provide you with a large number of smileys in return. Some of your neighbors are eager to spend a lot of money on uncommon items. However, you must know where to look for them.
  • Make full use of your resources (mainly, Smileys, Energies, and Diamonds) to progress faster into the game.
  • Participate in Special Events. Don’t forget to finish the special events; they’re a great way to collect resources.
  • You may unlock more complex objects as you continue through the game. Or perhaps you expend energy more quickly. But don’t be disheartened; you may always exit the game and return after you’ve recovered your strength. Some products will take a few days to create, but you’ll always have other items to deliver in the meanwhile. 

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With this, we would like to conclude the Travel Town Beginner’s Guide. We hope that the above-mentioned pointers will help you to achieve more and more levels until you completely build your city. We’d love to hear from you if you’ve uncovered any additional useful hints or techniques while playing! Please leave a message in the comments section below.

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 Deconstructing Travel Town: How to engage merge-2 whales

British developer Magmatic Games' , Travel Town, has already shown it is capable of bringing in some impressive numbers with its merge adventure gameplay where players can discover and work their way through hundreds of levels .

But what has made this merge game stand out from the competition? In this guest post Belka Games lead game designer (RnD) Olga Semykina looks under the hood of Travel Town to deconstruct the game and its inner workings.

What makes Travel Town interesting?

Travel Town is an up-and-coming merge-2 project from a British developer called Magmatic Games. The game started buying traffic in early 2022 and has been making steady progress ever since. An especially impressive performance surge came in early 2023: downloads increased by more than two times, and revenue almost tripled. If the trend was anything to go by, this is just the beginning.

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The company initially prioritised Android because it's easier to launch a project marketing-wise. But as of today, the downloads and revenue are distributed almost equally between iOS and Android. That's a typical pattern in the industry. For instance, Love & Pies' sales are split between the platforms 50/50, while Merge Mansion and Gossip Harbor net more revenue from iOS.

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Travel Town's primary audience is located in the US. That's an important metric because the US generates more than 50% of the game's revenue. Other major sources of revenue include South Korea, Japan and Europe.

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And it's only natural that Japan is on the list because merge games are taking the Japanese market by storm. If we look at Merge Mansion, almost 20% of its revenue comes from Japan.

Here are some of Travel Town's main competitors:

  • Merge Mansion
  • Gossip Harbor
  • Love & Pies

As you can see below, Travel Town has racked up the most downloads, but Merge Mansion still takes up the top spot regarding revenue, with Travel Town placing second.

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Merge Mansion was the first to rise to the top of the merge-2 market, and it's been holding its ground ever since. Merge Mansion's competition surpasses it UI/UX-wise, and the game has a pretty niche setting, but the team developed a solid marketing strategy. Meanwhile, Gossip Harbor and Love & Pies are similar to each other in their setting, visuals, events and offers.

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But let's take a closer look at Travel Town now. What makes it stand out from among its competitors?

Core and meta game loops

The game's core is standard merge-2 gameplay. Players complete the characters' orders by merging items, earning resources, and using them to construct buildings in the city. An unobtrusive dialogue-based narration accompanies the whole process.

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Classic, right? But here's when it gets interesting. You need several types of resources to construct buildings - some of the stages (about one in three) require Tools in addition to the obligatory coins.

Part of the orders help you earn coins, but some come with Toolboxes as a reward. This adds an extra meta game mechanic and lets players develop various strategies by prioritising some orders over others.

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Merge chains

Travel Town implements various merge chains, some of which are unique to the game. New merge chains are added as players complete more levels and construct new buildings. Travel Town's competitors mostly use similar merge chains with varying lengths, but Travel Town likes to change things up. Here are some of the chains available in the game:

  • Nestled chains -  you create a new generator in the first part of the chain before you can move on.
  • Combined chains -  you need to merge items from the two other chains together to get the final item.
  • No-energy generators -  they can spawn items in free adjacent cells after a cooldown (for fairness' sake, Love & Pies also has these).
  • Charging generator -  it needs five taps to "charge up" before it spawns items, and it can even spawn a "defective" one.

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This sort of diversity keeps players engaged and helps balance order difficulty. Short chains bring the players satisfaction for reaching a milestone, and long ones make the reward you get after making a complex item feel like it was worth the effort.

But there's still room for growth - like working on the UX to help players better understand the unusual merge chains. Those bring about a lot of questions in the closed fan community, even among the experienced players.

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Balancing orders

Merge games have one of the best retention and engagement rates at lower levels, but both values drop over time. It takes a week with some games and a month with the others. The problem lies within the complex, drawn-out orders that players face as they progress, which require merging high-tier items. Those stall the game because you must keep grinding for days to complete a single quest. And that affects the dynamics. Players realise immediately that they won't make it far during the game session, which saps their motivation. Many people either stop playing entirely at this point or stop making in-game purchases.

Gossip Harbor has a similar problem, as does Love & Pies to a lesser extent. At higher levels, players get just one or two quests, which can be difficult. Travel Town and Merge Mansion both try to solve this issue by balancing orders.

This is how they do it:

  • Players always have four orders - three with coin rewards and one with Toolboxes.
  • Varying order difficulty helps the game keep its momentum and lets players develop their own strategies.
  • There's one difficult order with a big reward.
  • One really easy one that takes less than one session to complete.
  • Two medium-difficulty ones.

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This game is monetised through in-app purchases and ads, focusing on IAP.

The only thing players can buy in the in-game store are Diamonds but offers also let them buy energy. Diamonds can be used to purchase various items, energy, time boosts and more. Here are some lots that stand out:

  • Wild Pearl - can be merged with any item.
  • Scissors - split an item into two lower-level ones.
  • Chests - containing Diamonds, energy, coins, and tools for the meta loop. Players can never tell how many resources they're going to get, so it's a popular and exciting gacha-type feature.

Special offers

While Travel Town isn't overflowing with offers, it doesn't stop the game from making money and even pulling ahead of its competitors.

The game has two types of recurring promos:

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LiveOps Offers are launched daily and change once every 24 hours. Besides Diamonds and energy, they usually contain items that are almost impossible to buy otherwise, like chests (usually with Diamonds and energy), Wild Pearls and Scissors.

Out of Energy Offers are displayed every time players with low energy tap out of the pop-up message offering them to buy more energy with Diamonds. You can purchase Diamonds, energy and item packs that way.

What's noteworthy is the price setting. Out of Energy Offers usually don't make the player step out of their comfort zone and are set at their average purchase value. LiveOps Offers, on the other hand, are meant to stimulate players, and the price is always above APV. So even with just those two types of offers, the developers let players choose between small impulse buys and more expensive purchases that include unique items in addition to the standard currencies.

The same types of offers pop up when there's an event with a unique playing board and its own Energy going on. The price setting and rewards are the same with the exception of energy - that resource is event-specific.

It seems like Travel Town would be a good fit for other types of offers, too. Here are some that the other merge-2 games use the most:

  • Two or three special reward bundles for the store.
  • Endless Offer, Piggy Bank, Battle Pass.

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The game shows rewarded ads both to non-paying players and whales, but there's a limit:

  • Four ads a day worth 25 energy each (100 energy in total).
  • You can buy items right on the merge board, and the exchange rate can be quite lucrative compared to the Gem purchases. These integrated sales points usually perform well because the offers are of high value to the players.

Power boost

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Travel Town has an untypical merge-2 game Power Boost that speeds up your progress.

Players can activate a Boost x2, which will make them spend two energy instead of one when they generate items, but at the same time, the spawned items will be level two from the get-go.

This Power Boost is used extensively by Coin Master, MonopolyGO, and other competitors. When players deactivate Boost x2, they feel like they're progressing too slowly in comparison. It makes them want to activate Boost x2 again, even though it expends more energy.

This is also a good way to engage whales. Say, the most expensive $120 pack from the store gets the player 8,000 Diamonds. Even at a low exchange rate of 100 energy per 40 Diamonds, that's 20,000 energy. The player should have the opportunity to spend it fast and without any extra hassle.

Main features and LiveOps

Travel Town focuses on increasing player activity to monetise the game. To achieve that, the developers use various game mechanics and other methods to motivate and put pressure on players. They can be divided into those that affect player activity short-, mid-, and long-term.

Short-term effects

Travel Town puts a lot of effort into increasing short-term player engagement. The game implements various time-pressure mechanics like limited-time quests and boosters. That motivates players to prolong their game sessions and be more active to get the most out of those boosters.

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  • An extra limited-time order that lets the player earn an additional reward, as well as energy or Diamonds, if it's completed in time.
  • A limited-time gift box gets added to one of the orders. If the player manages to complete it in time, they get a gift box alongside the regular reward, and one more gift box appears in another active order. The time limit is set to 15 minutes. It can be a standalone event, but sometimes you get gift boxes as a reward in other events.
  • A temporary generator booster that lets you skip generator cooldowns.

Limited-time gift boxes are noteworthy because they prolong game sessions and increase monetisation at the same time. To make the most of a gift box, players must complete as many orders as possible in 15 minutes. And Travel Town has another well-implemented game-of-chance here - the gift can contain any amount of energy from 10 to 200.

Outside of events, there's one more recurring feature that sets the pace of player activity every day. It's the Daily Challenge.

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The Daily Challenge quests have several goals: collecting coins (the main objective), merging items, and spending Diamonds.

Players get a reward after completing each quest and an extra one for finishing all of them.

The quests progress simultaneously. The game is balanced in a way that has the next quest 60-90% complete by the time you're done with the current one. This always makes players feel like they need to do "just a little bit more" to complete the next quest.

More than half of the quests get done as players go about their usual gameplay, with no extra effort required, but to complete the remaining 20-40%, they'll have to either be more active and/or pay money.

Quest difficulty scales depending on player activity - more active players get harder quests. The number of quests also changes. It can be anything from nine to 35 a day.

Mid-term effects

The next LiveOps category focuses on increasing mid-term engagement. All of these events alternate and go on for three to four days.

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  • Milestone events (a lot of other merge-2 games use these, too): Such events have a long progress bar divided into milestones. You get rewards for reaching every milestone and a Grand Prize at the end. The bar fills up as you generate resources. The milestones act as additional micro goals, and event paywalls help with conversion.
  • Special merge boards (also used in Merge Mansion): Players get a separate, event-specific merge board with its own merge chains, levels, Energy, and special offers. This lets them spend more money and time in the game while the new milestones and the added time pressure eggs them on.
  • Decorations (also used in Gossip Harbor): On top of the usual order rewards, players get some currency they can spend on decorations for a certain location on the map. There are also additional milestone rewards.

Long-term effects

Besides the ongoing event rotation, the game uses albums to increase long-term engagement. It's meant to boost both gaming and payment activity.

The album mechanic here is the same as in many other games. There are 12 albums with nine cards in each one. You get cards from card packs that drop either during gameplay or with any purchase worth more than $5 (so it encourages the player to spend more). The rarest packs make for a good incentive to spend money on expensive bundles and event paywalls. To generate additional activity spikes, Travel Town often launches events that have more card packs among the rewards or just some of the rare ones. With the right balance, and if you control picture drop rates right, these packs can be a great reward from the in-game economy standpoint. On the one hand, the player gets their satisfaction, but on the other, they don't actually receive any game-breaking currencies.

Growth opportunities

All current Travel Town features are focused on individual player goals. There are no social or competitive mechanics at all. On the one hand, they're not as common in merge games. On the other hand, if you look at the top 100 casual games, competitive mechanics are the most popular. They come in all shapes and forms - limited-time tournaments, various races, 1-on-1 competitions, etc. My prediction is that competitive mechanics will be the next big thing in merge games, too. Gossip Harbor, with its tournaments, has already made the first step in that direction.

In conclusion

Travel Town is a good example of a game that combines short-, mid-, and long-term effect features and events:

  • Minimal daily activity and time pressure for its short-term goals.
  • Boosting core gameplay and adding another layer of mechanics for the mid-term ones.
  • Global quests and gacha mechanics that reinforce long-term engagement.

 Edited by Paige Cook

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  1. Automatic Orders List

    If you need space, you can send thing up. Step1: Get one free field. Step2: Call any free producer, like ice cream, jewelry, bulb or cash register. (Star box is also good, but it is not always on your game field.) Step3: Move the item that you want to put aside beside the free producer. Step4: Sell the item.

  2. Does anyone have or know where to find a list of auto orders?

    For players of the merge game Travel Town. Not affiliated with its developer. Card trading is NOT allowed except in the community master trading post. ... I also realized that an auto order will not appear for a multi item order IF there is already an existing order which includes that item. For example if you have 3 whipped cream latte's ...

  3. Travel Town (Mobile Game) Wiki

    Welcome to the Travel Town (Mobile Game) Wiki! Travel Town (Mobile Game) Tips and Tricks. Travel Town - Merge Adventure is a mobile game developed by Magmatic Games Ltd, this page is just for devoted fans that love the game. We're a collaborative community website about Travel Town (Mobile Game) that anyone, including you, can build and expand.

  4. Travel Town Beginner's Guide: Tips, Tricks ...

    Travel Town is a match and merge puzzle game developed by Magmatic Games, and it's currently available on iOS and Android platforms. On top of the beautiful sharp graphics and matching sounds, Travel Town comes with an addictive gameplay, that fans of the genre will certainly enjoy.

  5. Travel Town Auto orders

    Comment. Larry Steve commented on Travel Town: Te 2 days ago. See More Activities. Share tips or discuss about Travel Town Auto orders! | Gamers Unite! IOS.

  6. Travel Town Cheats and Tips on AppGamer.com

    Use all of your energy. When you log into the game you may as well use all of your energy as when you are under 100 it comes back anyway for free at a rate of 1 per 30 seconds. Merge Energy to get more. When you get an energy chest, try not to consume the energy that comes out of it until you have maxed it out.

  7. Travel Town Automatic order

    Tristan O'Dowd commented on Travel Town: My 18 hours ago. New Topic. Topic Travel Town: Three of a kind started 2 days ago. New Topic. Topic Travel Town: Travel town free energy started 2 days ago. See More Activities. Share tips or discuss about Travel Town Automatic order! | Gamers Unite! IOS.

  8. Travel Town

    No, you cant swap. There are usualy 3-4 orders, so you should be able to complete some of them. Ignore mystery fosil, it's not that important. You can generate your own orders by collecting special combo - max items by 3 (blue crowns, red mushrooms etc., max red dress (~50000smileys), max raisin cake (~10000s))

  9. Travel Town

    Magmatic Games' Travel Town is a match-and-merge puzzle game that is presently available for iOS and Android devices. Travel Town has addicting gameplay that lovers of the genre will like. It comes with lovely sharp graphics and complementing music. This Travel Town Beginner's Guide will help you to get off on the right foot.

  10. Travel Town

    Travel Town - Merge Adventure is an amazing game you can discover many town items and get new items after merging two similar items. You can find Daily Tasks...

  11. Travel Town Automatic orders

    Desmond Davidson commented on Travel Town: Box 4 days ago. New Topic. Topic Travel Town: how to get party whistle started Feb 24, 2024. See More Activities. Share tips or discuss about Travel Town Automatic orders! | Gamers Unite! IOS.

  12. Deconstructing Magmatic Games Travel Town

    Travel Town is an up-and-coming merge-2 project from a British developer called Magmatic Games. The game started buying traffic in early 2022 and has been making steady progress ever since. An especially impressive performance surge came in early 2023: downloads increased by more than two times, and revenue almost tripled.

  13. Kitai Gorod Area in Moscow

    Kitai Gorod means China Town in Russian, but it has nothing to do with China. "Kitai" refers to an old craft of weaving and it's always been a pleasant merchant area. Kitai Gorod is central, but can be quiet and residential or loud and bustling, depending on where you are and when. There's lots of nice cafes and bars in this neighborhood and it's super pleasant to walk.

  14. Travel Town orders

    Travel Town. 39 views. Travel Town orders. Search results from other threads. Devan Burton. Yea it's from Arabian gazebo.Keep getting orders and check what the person offers and update accordingly · 17 Dec 17:56.

  15. FreeWay

    Our address: Moscow, travel Plant «Sickle and Hammer«, 5, office 215

  16. 21 Things to Know Before You Go to Moscow

    1: Off-kilter genius at Delicatessen: Brain pâté with kefir butter and young radishes served mezze-style, and the caviar and tartare pizza. Head for Food City. You might think that calling Food City (Фуд Сити), an agriculture depot on the outskirts of Moscow, a "city" would be some kind of hyperbole. It is not.

  17. Automatic Orders : r/TravelTown

    Beach bar menu: 2 max sangrias! Oh! Also from boat: 3 old wedding photos. ...1 seafood paella, 2 grilled salads, 7) Museum Guide: 3 abstract paintings, 8) Gazebo: 2 butterfly koi, 9) Surf shop: 1 max surf gear, 10) Boat: 2 perfect amphoras, 11) Star Box: 1 Pisces, 12) Baking oven: 3 gingerbread houses.

  18. Tours in Moscow and St Petersburg

    Welcome to Russia! We are Sergey and Simon, a Russian and a Frenchman, both passionate about Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and classic cars. Together, we have created Put-in tours. Our goal is to help you experience Russian culture off the beaten path. Join us onboard our classic Soviet van and let's get rolling!

  19. Automatic orders : r/TravelTown

    Maybe it's at level 80 and up when upgrades need a lot of tools and a lot of smileys. I'm at level 67 and have about 200k smileys. There has never been a point where I didn't have sufficient smileys immediately available when they were needed. Started immediately consuming smileys/smiley chests w/o merging them to get them off my board 50 ...