Gossip Harbor info

Gossip Harbor: Merge & Story is a kind of merging game with puzzle elements where you have to merging items on the board. The story is an interesting one that takes place on an island called Brimwave, with incidents and riddles to solve, people gossiping, and also romance. The game is developed by Microfun in Beijing, China. For Android, iOS, and Amazon App.

It seems to be very popular, being around #20 of all apps and the #1 merging game in the world by early 2025. It is popular among women.

Prize

• By the end of 2024, rank 15th in Google Play's global mobile game revenue ranking *1
• Developer Microfun to be World's #1 revenue generator in merge games by 2024 *2
• Winner of the Sensor Tower APAC Awards 2024 for popular games in Asia Pacific, also selected for best merge game *3

Merge games

Match-3 games have been popular in the casual game genre (e.g. “Royal Match”). I'is a game that disappears when three pieces are lined up. However, the popularity of merge-2 games (2-in-1) like Gossip Harbor is surging in 2024 and may surpass match-3 games. *4 Gossip Harbor further combines a system of completing orders by merging. *5

Development company

The development company Microfun was founded in Beijing, China in 2008. *6 In 2014, Microfun released the match-3 game “Jelly Pop Match” which was a huge hit, but there is no game to follow this hit. The release of a collaborative game with Disney also drew attention to Microfun. In 2020, another company released a merge 2-game “Traveltown”. Microfun also continued to release merge games from 2021. *7 “Marge Fables” and “Marge County”, the core games, were released in 2021, and “Gossip Harbor” and “Seaside Escape”, the casual games in 2022. *8

Rankings

As of February 2025, Gossip Harbor is in the 20-30 ranking of all apps in the US and Europe. *9

If it focus only on merge games, Gossip Harbor was in 2nd place behind “Travel Town” which is No. 1 worldwide and in the U.S. *10 However due to the 2024 advertising campaign, revenues for November 2024 exceeded those of “Travel Town”. *11 In early 2025, it is ranked higher than “Travel Town” in each country, so it is probably #1. *12

Female users for about 80% of the total, with about 50% of revenue coming from the U.S. *13

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The ads also mimic a game called Tile Family, in which children are picked up and raised by renovating their rooms. The game is not like that! *14

Game overview

The main female character, Quinn, sees her husband with a woman. So she divorces him, and rebuilds a dilapidated restaurant with her daughter Olivia. Her husband quickly works to revive with Quinn.

Game system

There is no function to interact with other players, and it's a game to be played by yourself in your spare time.

Merge items in the kitchen to complete meal order. Upon receiving the reward gold coins, you will be able to renovate your house and enjoy decorating it, while a simple but fascinating story unfolds. There are also a variety of regular events, and competition with other players for rankings is also part of the fun.