Plato: Games To Play Together Reviews

I used to play Plato every day two years ago, and would always match up with people who speak the same language as me (English obviously). But now I’m always matching up with people from other countries. While I love trying to talk to them and sometimes I have good conversations, I used to only match up with people of the same country. I was going to rare this 4/5 stars because of that but I came to the realization that it’s because of fewer people using Plato . So I understand, other than that 5/5 best board game app out there if you have internet access most of the time at least. Easy to under stand games, easy to understand rules, sleek interface, friend system, few ads and no pop up ads. Probably the best app out there and I’m going to pay to remove ads because they deserve the money for creating this masterpiece 👌

Plato is almost perfect. The game interface is great and Plato supports a pretty large amount of games. My favorites are Four-in-a-Row (I have almost 1,000 wins), Backgammon, and recently I’ve started playing Werewolf as well. It’s easy to use and navigate, family-friendly (sometimes TOO family-friendly (I’ll get to that in a moment). However, I have two problems with it. Not major ones but some things that I’d suggest looking into. 1) Only 3 games are allowed in the rooms (and yes I updated. It only lets me have 2 open now...). I accidentally clicked on a game of Euchre a few weeks ago and never actually played it. I assumed that I’d lose and the game would end. Unfortunately for me, that didn’t happen. The game still shows up there and reduces the amount of games I can play at once. There is no way to get rid of inactive games, either (unless it’s a 2-player game. I’m pretty sure the people who I started the Euchre with have uninstalled Plato since they won’t respond to my pleads to finish the game so it will disappear. Please remove the game restriction for the social lounge and other lounges. 2) TOO censored. The censoring tool is pretty bad. It gets rid of all swear words but sometimes it censored words that aren’t bad - like Japan for example. It literally replaces “Japan” with “***.” I’d suggest trying to fix the censor system. It censors out way too many things that are not bad.

I love how, at first, the “censor words” option is on and you can turn it off, you’re not forced to be kid friendly but the kids or people who don’t like curse words keep it on. I prefer to turn it off bc I want to know what everyone is saying (I’m just weird like that). But when others have it on I notice they’re not even allowed to say “God” or “Japan” or something simple. One more issue is the profile picture censor thing. I love that it’s a thing now bc way too many guys had their gross ding dong hanging out and absolutely nobody wants to see an unwashed nasty penis right on their screen. So it’s fantastic that they started censoring that stuff but sometimes it’s ridiculous. It should be censored so that anything that’s gruesome or graphic that’s not a cartoon should be removed but the cartoons should be fine, because it’s not real so it doesn’t have the same effect on real gruesome pictures. I’m only talking about the blood and stuff, because anything that resembles a penis shouldn’t be on there (cartoon or not). So I’m only giving a two star review because I know this review system goes by a certain method and maybe you’ll listen to me if I offer to bring it up to a glowing 5 star review. If you fix the issues, I’ll change my stars to 5 bc other than the censoring issue, Plato is fantastic and has changed for the better. I’ve been on here since 2018 maybe and they’ve definitely improved👍

There NEEDS to be a better way to separate people who speak different languages. I have not played ONE game of Werewolf where everyone spoke English. When I point it out and ask them to please speak English or play in servers for other languages, I get: A) Insulted and told to stop being a baby, B) Ignored, C) Denial, D) Excuses, i.e, "I'm too lazy to update," "I don't care,", or the worst. E) "Figure out how to speak Arabic, then, dumb***." Every single one of these responses ALWAYS ruins my day. Then I go to play Pool, where, inevitably, I walk into a game where the other person has left, and I am currently stuck with 10 different inactive games clogging my queue. Also, about the new game, Bankroll. Awesome idea, I love having Monopoly on Plato. However, some people refuse to trade, and my game is doomed because I need said properties. There needs to be a function where you are forced to put up a property if the person who landed on auction does. One more thing: For all the games, my phone will suddenly lag and say "Connecting to server", and when it gets back, my turn is over and my game is doomed. Thank you for reading this, if you're still here, and if you work for this app, please fix these things! Especially the first one, it's driving me insane!

To start off, Plato is very different from other gaming apps that allow people to play online and have a blast. It’s different in good ways:
1) A WIDE variety of games
2) It’s easy to match make and spend good time with others.
I have NOTHING bad to say about Plato, but I have one suggestion that you (this app team) can take into consideration. In table soccer, which is GREAT by the way, I was thinking if it was possible for there to be curve on the ball when you hit it with your team piece. Perhaps you could have a dial or something like that to where you can set the direction of the curve. This way you can sometimes have more control when you hit the ball with your piece. If you like this idea, I’ll be glad it’s been put in to use. All in all, this game is a solid five stars!!!

I originally downloaded this to just earn virtual money from another game, but I enjoyed it so much that I kept it! Plato is really fun and has lots of cool games! What’s even better? NO ADS! I hope it stays that way. But here’s the reason why it’s 2 stars instead of 5.

I would definitely rate it 5 stars BUT there’s too many pervs on here for no reason. A harmless friend request that you accept turns into “mm baby” or “how old are you?” “where are you from?” etc etc. Last time I checked, this isn’t a dating app 🙄 it’s mostly people from different countries who ask these things on here. Another issue is we can’t cuss? Aren’t we adults here? One more problem that’s minor over major. I tested out using the avatars as my profile picture then switch to my actual photo or change it, ya know like normal people do to try it out, and it says I’ve tried changing it too many times please wait until later. That’s kinda ridiculous in my opinion.

But other than the creeps, cussing, and profile picture, it’s semi great.

original review — always seem to lose with each opponent needing one spot to win, I’m kind of convinced after losing five straight times with it coming down to the final roll for one spot win. I likely will not continue using Plato, because I am convinced the games are rigged and the players may not even be real humans you’re playing against. What are the odds that you lose the same exact way every time you play? Both needing one spot to win and the opponent always gets it? Never fails.

One star for Plato. Deleting it soon. Not worth playing and getting upset over.

UPDATE on 6/10 - Plato is without question rigged. I was playing Ludo this afternoon and it is game like parcheesi. I know it is without question rigged now. I had three pieces in my bank and my opponent had zero when all of a sudden, the opponent had rolls of 5 and 6 constantly which allowed him to make a massive comeback, causing me to lose. I could understand if this happened once, but this happens almost every time I play where I have a huge lead only to have the opponent make a large comeback at the very end against all odds to win.

I have deleted Plato , not likely to put it back on my phone. Unless you like having games rigged, which happens on virtually every game on Plato, I wouldn’t suggest you download Plato for
your phone. Without question it is rigged or you’re playing against computers who know what they need every time to win.

Overall Plato is good for the most part. The game is fun. There is 3 big things that bother me though.
One) Even on WiFi, the games take forever to load, for example in backgammon I pretty much always have to wait forever for my dice to load and in gin rummy, half the time the card I draw takes for to load. I’ve lost live games due to the glitch and have had people complaining about me not completing my move fast enough seventy five percent of the time.
Two) there needs to be a translator or something people I am competing with try to talk to me but sometimes they are in other languages. I shouldn’t have to learn a new language to play the games. On the same note, this would be especially helpful as even though I click the English werewolf game ninety five percent of the time I get paired with people who don’t speak English. It is especially frustrating with this game as communication is so important in werewolf.
Three) there are loop wholes for winning that people keep taking advantage of. For example, in sea battle, people will just let the computer do their moves until all the ships are found and then win, and in the drawing game, people will draw a good drawing, I’ll guess, and then they’ll leave and win because if there not there I can’t get points to beat them.

Thanks for listening and hopefully you get to read this.

I love Plato! I love the games and I love that there are rooms to play with other people. One issue is people leaving live games (in rooms). I’m not exactly sure how that problem can be fixed, but many times a player will just leave a live game and that’s not fair to other players that may have wanted to join the live game or to the players in the live game. The players in the live game then have to wait for an auto play and that really dulls the game. Maybe if a player is absent for two full turns, then the game should end automatically so that everyone else can just start or join a different game. I’m not sure if anyone else is having this little issue, but there is a notification badge on my icon. But when I click Plato , I don’t have any new messages, friend requests, or games. I’m not sure how to get rid of it, but I thought it’d be worth mentioning. But aside from those two points, I enjoy Plato a lot!

this app is a super fun way to connect with individuals to play games and meet new people however I feel this app could be much better. There’s many bots in the chat rooms asking ppl inappropriate questions so I feel there should be a security check in order to prevent bots from joining this app and ruining the experience. I also don’t like the fact that you can only update your picture three times before it restricts you for the next 24 hours from changing it again. Your picture has nothing to do with anything so why are we restricted from changing it???? Last but not least I think there should be an added feature where we can send live pictures and Pictures in general. I’ve met many people on this app and I’d like to show them how I look however I can’t through this app, and I don’t like adding people on social media because I don’t truly know them nor their intentions. Other than that this app is a great app.

I’m giving it 4 stars because too many people are joining group games that are live and going offline causing all others to be trapped at the table and can’t leave and unable to start or play a new game because of the 3game/room limit. If I’m trapped in 2 and have another game that is active I can’t play another. We should have a report option to use during group live games to report inactive players. I’m reporting them as playing unfair due to major inconvenience. Still stuck though 🙄 Also an algorithm to separate preteens, teenagers, and adults into three categories would help wonders. Most adult men and teens talk xrated across chats and influence bad explicit behavior with each other. Again best gaming app I’ve ever played. These fixes would make it even safer and more fun. 🙋🏼‍♀️Thanks😃

Okok I love Plato so much! I saw an add for it on Snapchat, then came here to download. I downloaded over winter break, and have been playing since then. I now have 400+ wins on werewolf from playing with my bud LW that I met online. It’s a great app to meet online friends and personalities, and to just destress with some of everyone’s favorite games! If I had to add something, could you add a witch to ww? As one of the characters to maybe show up. It’s basically given two potions. One to kill, and one to save. However they only get to use each one once. Bc of it they show up as either good or evil 50/50 chance. Also maybe a prince or a dragon? Idk what they’d do tho lol. Anyway love Plato ! Look for KnockOnWood players!

It’s a very good app with a great Idea, but I’ve got some problems in using Plato .
Everytime I press join a game, nothing happens until I get the message the game is full. That’s because it is not optimized well enough with the older devices which take longer loading. Cuz It only happens when I try to join a game which has been created in a room including more than 50 people. The more crowded the room, the longer loading! So I have to fully forget about joining rooms including prople over 50!
The other problem is with group members list that always get stuck after you roll in crowded rooms. The members order is always changing and you can’t tap on the member you want. So annoying.
I know it may be because of my old device (iPhone 6), but still you can optimize it for older devices too.
Definitely these problems could be solved if you add clear cache option, because all these lagings and glitchings happen after a few days of using Plato . So to clear the cache in order to make Plato run smoothly on my device, I’ve got to delete and reinstall Plato everyday.
Please also add account option to be able to have several accounts on a device.
Adding “air hockey” would be good idea too.
Thanks for your kind attention

Overall I have enjoyed Plato and only have a couple problems with Plato itself. The first problem is the unnecessary censorship system that is in the chat. I understand starring out actual swears but, sometimes I am trying to say normal words or people’s usernames and it stars out anything I’m trying to say. This makes communicating in games and chats difficult as the unnecessary censorship makes what people are trying to say unclear. My second problem with Plato is how you have to wait twenty four hours to change your profile picture at anytime. I understand usernames because people need to keep tack of who’s name is what but I don’t think adding a time limit on whether or not you can change your profile picture is necessary. If those two problems get fixed, I’d rate Plato five stars.

Hello! I came to know Plato about three days ago because me and my boyfriend wanted an app that we could use to play phone games together despite our phones being from opposing companies; Apple and Samsung. The games are great, but the mechanics for some aren’t that great. I would suggest adding games such as Mancala and Table Hockey. I would love to see these games on Plato and I would 100% play them. I would also suggest adding Japanese as a primary language. Additionally, I’d like to recommend more coin quests... The daily 100 just isn’t enough for me. The daily quests could reward you with as little as 10-25 coins. I won’t mind. The cup pong ball movements are a little wonky too. Other than my suggestions, it’s a great app and I love using it!

The time should be shortened for players who are not actively on. A lot of time is wasted waiting until the player is kicked out automatically. Or the players have an option to snooze a player or kick them out after waiting 1 cycle. I also don’t understand why I can only change my avatar so many times before it won’t let me. Why is there a limit on that? The avatar is small and I want to see what it looks like once updated. Can you see facebook or instagram telling it’s users they’re changing their profile picture too much, try again later? Kind of dumb that exists in Plato. And why is there a time limit to joining games? Wait a full minute before starting a new game? That is dumb. Get rid of that.

Ok first of all I play this because I like the game werewolf but just recently I wasn’t able to search and this made me have to go into a room which made the whole game a lot worse in my opinion I would like to have searching back in this game or I will leave my bad review this game is fun for me and all my friends but now it just isn’t the same I would like to have the searching back cause I like the 9 players but I only have 1-3 friends playing with me and we search and always get in the same game and even make new friends but now we can’t even get into one game together which is very bad in my opinion so please add back the searching ability and ever since I haven’t been able to find the new friends I made when searching please add searching back.

Another thing can you just take out groups in general it takes way to long to find games thanks. I wish I could make this a zero stars review but I can’t and sorry for my bad punctuation I'm just mad.

The game lags out constantly. You can try to close Plato and reopen, sometimes it works. You’ll lose the game due to their lag. Seems to be a common issue that isn’t being fixed.

The games are definitely rigged. Whatever algorithm they use, it is not random. Once you realize there’s an algorithm, you’ll know pretty quickly whether or not you’re going to win that game. I can accurately determine based on the cards I get early on, if the game has decided I’ll win or the opponent. You’ll receive junk after junk while the opponent receives the cards they need and perfect counter cards. Another example, you’re down to 2 cards in a card shedding type game, you throw one off, opponent wins, reveals hand and, wouldn’t you know it.. it wouldn’t have mattered which card you threw because they would’ve won with either. Highly suspect gameplay and far too many coincidental scenarios.

Find a different app.

Plato is good, I enjoy playing with old and new friends. A few suggestions though
-Refine the games. (Like how Ludo was refined to run more smoothly and have it’s own music to fit with it) It would be nice if every game had the same level of polish and refinement, because some games will be slow, unresponsive, and glitchy at times. (like connect four and golf)
-Make winning games reward coins to change chat bubbles. I don’t want coins to be a “pay to get” sort of deal, it would be better as just a fun method of spending in-game currency.
-Cut back on the “no swearing or profanity rule.” It isn’t followed, and in a social gaming environment, no one really does care, or no one that’s of age will care. It makes it more free, which isn’t seen in many apps anymore (ex. GamePigeon removing poker to comply with rules)

Plato has so many bugs, especially dice party. It is suppose to be fun, but quickly becomes stressful and frustrating.

The active turned based dice party games just disappear and then your ranking will go down because you have no idea you forfeited, because the game is gone. Also when other pamper are sending in game messages to you, you can’t play your turn. Players will just keep their hand on the send button to prevent you from playing a move so they can win. It’s childish and not very fun.

There are just so many problems with both the turn based and the live games in dice party.

I wish they would fix the name bugs in Plato, and especially the multitude of bugs in the dice party game.

I had no problem with the connection issues that it seems most people had. I will go back to connection issues all day long if it meant all of these other bugs could get fixed. I have noticed the most trouble right after the update that supposedly fixed the connection issues. Maybe they fixed the connection trouble, but made dice party significantly worse in every way.

Also when I try to send an email to them for help with the issue, my email don’t go through. There seems to be a problem with contacting them as well.

I resorted to writing a review. I ha fro give one star but I didn’t want to. Plato is horrible at best.

There NEEDS to be a better way to separate people who speak different languages. I have not played ONE game of Werewolf where everyone spoke English. When I point it out and ask them to please speak English or play in servers for other languages, I get: A) Insulted and told to stop being a baby, B) Ignored, C) Denial, D) Excuses, i.e, "I'm too lazy to update," "I don't care,", or the worst. E) "Figure out how to speak Arabic, then, dumb***." Every single one of these responses ALWAYS ruins my day. Then I go to play Pool, where, inevitably, I walk into a game where the other person has left, and I am currently stuck with 10 different inactive games clogging my queue. Also, about the new game, Bankroll. Awesome idea, I love having Monopoly on Plato. However, some people refuse to trade, and my game is doomed because I need said properties. There needs to be a function where you are forced to put up a property if the person who landed on auction does. One more thing: For all the games, my phone will suddenly lag and say "Connecting to server", and when it gets back, my turn is over and my game is doomed. Thank you for reading this, if you're still here, and if you work for this app, please fix these things! Especially the first one, it's driving me insane!

When I saw an ad for Plato, I immediately thought of the iMessage games (like GamePigeon). So I got it and tried it out to see if it was good for my friends. I tried it and it was very, very fun! There were numerous of games and they were all classic fun games. So I spammed my friends with the download, and most of them got it. Now we have a group that we play games on. I also like how you can play against strangers, but that is also one of the downsides. There are some toxic people on there... and I don’t like how when you join a game, you cannot “leave” it. If you get in a game, and you need to leave, you cannot leave that game, so it keeps pinging you with messages. Otherwise, this is a good app.

I was looking for an app to play ocho, I came upon Plato. It was great at first! But after playing some other games on Plato for the first few days, I got addicted to ww for weeks, then surprise! I discovered social lounge! It was very toxic full of people with malicious intentions 😕 Surely enough, social lounge was my next addiction! I met some great people here! Meet my first boyfriend through Plato. We met up in real life and I end up getting pregnant! SHOCKER 😲 I was so young and decided I didn’t want a baby yet, we used a hanger. Sadly tho... we broke up. Awesome app overall! Please don’t ever delete Plato, I’m dating my 9th boyfriend I met on this app and we are madly in love 😍

This is amazing! I love Plato. But I feel like their should be an option to go into a game server with a pacific language. I’ve went into. Not one. Not two. But seven different servers! Just to realize there was no single person to speak English! Who was a suppose to help or team up with? I tried translating but since they couldn’t under stand me. They were talking with others of the same language. I tried speaking Spanish from copying and pasting the translator. But they weren’t answering. I just wish this could be put into the game. I also hate how you can’t sent pictures. I always have to set my profile picture as the pic I want my friends to see. I hope you can put this in! Thanks!!! <3

I have had to recover my account 8 times in the last hour since I would exit Plato and to check something else kinda making me mad but I’m patient so it’s alright i hope to see that fixed if possible and maybe some new games to play would be super cool. Also I can’t seem to see chat or chat myself anymore and I don’t know how to fix it I know for a fact that mute chat isn’t on but nonetheless I’m having a blast with Plato and my friends as well also I’m not sure if this is possible but other languages seem to be “aggressively” invading other language chat rooms which makes it hard for me to find people I’m actually possible to play some games with I’m not asking for a schism in the player base but it’s still kinda annoying especially when we try to reason that there are language specific chat rooms only to be told back in broken English “no fak yuo stupid Americans” :/