UNO!™ Reviews

by DasRindfleisch

Edit: While I have a good amount of coins (~5000), I’m fairly certain the game is rigged to incentivize spending real money on in-game currency. I ran a statistical analysis over a 150 game sample and the win-loss rate in 2v2 style of play did not come remotely close to approaching 50%. Additionally, the win-loss rate gets even worse after spending more time in ranked matches. I’m all for freemium games, but your algorithm should not force predetermined outcomes. It’s dishonest and extortionist behavior.

As is the standard for mobile games today, there are coins, there are gems, and there are “lives”. While the this app gameplay is indeed fun, it costs coins to play any of the game modes. When you lose your coins and can no longer obtain free coins, you have the option to buy gems to purchase coins or win your coins back. There is also a ranked mode to further stoke the fires of “I just need a few more coins” or “I’ll just buy one more shield to protect my coins”. If you’re the kind of person who falls into the pay-to-win traps of mobile games, be aware that this game uses all kinds of tricks to incentivize spending real money on imaginary currencies. The game also has a way of shifting your luck to ensure you’re never quite safe with your virtual earnings. Other than these faults, which are pretty standard in today’s mobile gaming market anyways, the this app gameplay is fun and exciting — as long as you have the coins necessary to play.

by Imagesspeak

This game is rigged. You will have loosing streaks. It doesn’t matter how “smartly” you play your cards if you’re meant to loose you will LOOSE. They will do everything to get you to purchase something from UNO 🙄 The scratchers are rigged as well you can confirm this; pick your scratcher let’s say the gold one then pick one of the 3 options, let’s say you pick scratcher number 1, scratch just a small part enough for you to see what you will get (make sure you don’t scratch all of it!) then press the arrow to go back to your “bag” then pick that same gold scratcher again but this time scratch number 2 and you’ll see that it’s going to be the same “reward” as number 1 they just make you think you have 3 options but you don’t! It’s not random, it’s all rigged! Every single thing! They’re just trying to take your money. My advice is that once you see you’re losing just take a break for that day bc you will keep loosing! You might win one game or two but they will make you loose your coins on the next games. Also the drawing are rigged! It’s not possible for one player to get 3 +4 cards while you and your team mate have all number cards. Once you see that you aren’t getting any good cards just quit the game and come back another day before you end up yelling at your phone 😂 please do NOT SPEND MONEY ON UNO. It’s a SCAM!! They will make it to where you will keep spending your money by making you loose.

by Jemdaem

1st off the +4 card is just ridiculous, if someone gives me the +4 card just give me 4 cards🤦🏽‍♀️ the challenge & guessing the color is just not fair, regardless you still get 4 or more cards so what’s the point? While this is a bit annoying I wouldn’t mind it IF there wasn’t other issues which I will get into right now. I feel it’s rigged or maybe I just don’t understand the coin system when you win/lose? Match fee says 30 coins but then it also says we have to pay in 100?? Also I could have 3 cards and someone else can have 5 and will still beat me, how is that fair? Or I could have 1 card while someone has 2 or 3 and still come in last place, doesn’t seem fair. I’m not sure why that’s possible, and when u win u don’t win a lot of coins and when u lose you lose a lot of coins or sometimes all your coins too. I think the coin system should be straight forward, you should lose what u put in and if u win you should win the losers buy in plain and simple. You guys should at least give us a page in settings that’s explains the coin system because it seems I’m not the only one with this complaint regarding coins. Also if you lose all your coins or don’t have enough you either have to wait for the daily earnings or hope the gum ball machine is available to TRY and win free coins. The game is fun but all these issues makes me want to delete it, listen to your users!!!

by Twilite2000

Zero Stars

The people who developed this game devised it so when you first start playing you’ll win a lot of games, not all but most. You’ll be given lots of draw 4 cards , draw 2, reverse, and skip cards. Once you have a substantial amount of coins you’ll start losing and you’ll keep losing until you’re out of coins. Without coins you either have to wait a particular amount of time for your coins to replenish (which isn’t nearly the amount you lost. It’s only enough to play a few games forcing you into a vicious cycle ), watch as many ads as they will allow for more coins, pay for more coins, or just uninstall this game. If you decide to keep playing you’ll stop seeing draw 4 cards and color change cards. You’ll get slammed by other players throwing draw 4, draw 2 cards or skipping or reversing on you and you have no way to defend yourself because you’re always given only number cards in every stinking game. This will keep happening until like I said you either buy more coins or you leave. If you don’t believe me look at your stats. Under your profile pic you’ll find a tab marked “recording”, this will tell you how many games you won and lost. Keep an eye on this and you’ll see what I mean.

I hope people wise up and start uninstalling this game and other games like it. I understand they need to make money but I assume by the amount of ads we are forced to watch they are making money hand over fist. It’s just big corporations getting bigger.

by MiaBrownkid

Yeah so I read a couple of reviews before I download the game I went to the most critical reviews but I just thought they were fake. I download the game then played a couple of rounds but the thing is it has way to many adds and I won like a couple of rounds then lost a lot more rounds I lost all of my coins to I did not buy more but why you have you have to wait a day in order to play again ? And also I played this a couple years ago but I forgot how to play so it did not use to be like this I fell like they changed a lot like I don’t understand why they did this you have to watch one thousand adds to freaking play the game like.. also it takes a long time to load the game but my internet is fine I have 2 bars as far as I can get but when I play other games it’s fine so it’s just making you go crazy about your internet when it’s fine this game has problems also in some events of the game this new event you have a clue so it cost 2 diamonds in order for you to get the clue mind you I have 0 diamonds so it’s hard to get those unless you have a lot of money I don’t so I just think that they are ripping you off cuz they want you to buy coins or diamonds I hate that I wish they would make at least 10 diamonds free like it’s not that hard they want money that’s all they want plz don’t download cuz they will rip you off with all the money they have they rip you off so yeah don’t recommend also I think all the 5 star reviews are them so yeah bye ✌🏽

by Anti-Uno Advocate

This game is so much fun to play and offers a lot of options for ways to play it, but it is rigged, and it is only made to make money off of forcing users to purchase coins. Whenever I win a game and collect a certain amount of coins, for example, 70 coins, I check my amount afterward and it only went up by 10 coins. The game purposefully does not allow me to collect the amount I actually earned from winning a game so that I run out of coins more easily, trying to tempt me into making in-app purchases to gather more. Additionally, the draw 4 card is ridiculous. If Player A places a draw 4 card, then Player B, the one who has the card placed against them, has to guess if Player A has a certain color card in their deck by selecting “yes” or “no”. This is supposed to make the game more interesting as it creates the possibility of making Player A have to draw the cards instead if Player B guesses correctly. However, this is flawed because there have been times where it was proven that I (being Player B) had guessed correctly and it still said that I was wrong and then I still had to draw the cards. The algorithm is screwed to make the receivers of the draw 4 card be “incorrect” about 75% of the time, even if they actually weren’t, to increase the chances of players losing the game and hence, losing coins. All I’m saying is this game would actually be more enjoyable if every player had an equal chance.

by Chromatic Cascade

If that title sounds stupid, that’s because it is! I really wanted to give this game a fair shot, I love this app the actual card game, but this is, for all intents and purposes, just this app but poker. It requires a certain amount of coins to start ANY sort of match (I believe the only exception being that World Tour mode, but that requires a surprising chunk of progress in the game), and without at least 800 coins you are not able to play the game. So not only do you have the buy-in (it doesn’t actually take the coins from you, this is just part of the analogy), if you lose then you lose up to half of your initial buy-in! It’s better than an energy system most other mobile games employ, sure, but on this app???? That’s like putting essentially a betting system onto Go Fish. Of course you can also buy coins, but at that point why not just buy the physical game? This game has so many better ways to monetise itself through cosmetic themes for the decks and cards and effects, but instead they choose to monetise being able to play the game. Get challenged (and lose by pure chance) after putting down a +4 card, costing you the entire game? Hope you didn’t like this app in the first place, cus you sure as heck aren’t gonna be playing again for another AT LEAST a few hours. Oh yeah, and there’s ads. A lot of ads. With audio. And even if you disable game audio it’ll play the ad audio anyway for some infernal reason. Have fun!

by Just Some Guy1

This version of this app is the best out there; however, the +4 mechanic where you have to guess is terrible! Sure, I understand that it is meant to add to the unpredictability of the game, and that would be fine, if it was not for the fact that you guessing ALWAYS results in you receiving a penalty. Let me explain this: let’s say the player who goes before you has two cards—a +4 and a yellow card (for the sake of the example). Then say that the player who goes before you puts down the said +4 card and changes it to yellow, the color corresponding to their last card. Now it asks me if I think that the player before me has some other random color, so I say no. Obviously the player who goes before me has a yellow card, that is why they changed the color. So I press “no” and I have to draw four cards for guessing wrong. Most of the times I think that they really did not have a yellow card until the person who goes before me puts down a yellow and wins the game. I have lost MANY games because of this. Why do I have to draw four cards when I correctly guessed that the player before me had no cards of a certain color. Now I have to say that this is not always the case, although, it has happened plenty of times for me to have to write a review about this game. Please fix the way the +4 cards work in the game of just remove the mechanic all together.

by Constance K

UNO is definitely entertaining but also very obviously designed to incentivise in-app purchases, especially for players with compulsive gambling issues. First, the match fees cause match losses to have a much greater impact than match wins over the long-run. For example, in a Classic 2v2 match where the base probability of winning is 50% and the match fee is 30 coins, the minimum possible gain for a winning player is 30 coins (i.e., minimum net gain of ZERO after the match fee) and the minimum possible loss for a losing player is also 30 coins (i.e., minimum net loss of 60 coins after the match fee). Second, the Ranked mode’s scoring system is designed such that in-app purchases are almost required to proceed beyond a certain level. Finally, it seems very unlikely that the game actually draws cards at random. I’ve seen an improbable number of matches where one player draws two or even three Wild Draw 4 cards or where multiple players draw only number cards.

I don’t actually have major objections to the issues described above, since they’re obviously intentional and not really unexpected for a freemium app. HOWEVER, I do have two actual complaints (1) there is no straightforward way to block other players, which can be very annoying in 2v2 mode, and (2) the game sometimes glitches and automatically plays your turn before the timer actually runs out.

by A Russian ;)

As many have said, the game is rigged. One sure way to check are the scratch cards. You always get 3 choices, so 1 out of 3 odds. But statistics do not add up when I get coins over items 90% of the time. I think I got an item once and I scratched probably 50 of those. I no longer see them as anything but a spare few coins. Because even if the options are 20, 100, and 500 coins, I would still get 20. It’s almost always the least favorable one.

Other part I don’t like: universe. The universe games are a lot of fun. Every game you get 3 things to fulfill. You pass a round if you fulfill one or more. The prizes it what make you want to get the perfect score. Problem is, this app is a high chance game. You have skills you can use but you have no control over what cards you get or what your opponent does. This make fulfilling all 3 items on the list almost impossible. Some rounds have easier tasks. But other rounds would take you hours of game play to luck out to and get the task required. Hardest task include: discard 9 red cards with discard all card, finish with 50 seconds on the clock, play 3 “0” cards. Those might not sound to bad until you start playing and realize on is hard to accomplish, let alone 3 of these in one game!!! This is killing the universe games for me :(

by Social Media Lover💜

This version of this app is the best out there; however, the +4 mechanic where you have to guess is terrible! Sure, I understand that it is meant to add to the unpredictability of the game, and that would be fine, if it was not for the fact that you guessing ALWAYS results in you receiving a penalty. Let me explain this: let’s say the player who goes before you has two cards—a +4 and a yellow card (for the sake of the example). Then say that the player who goes before you puts down the said +4 card and changes it to yellow, the color corresponding to their last card. Now it asks me if I think that the player before me has some other random color, so I say no. Obviously the player who goes before me has a yellow card, that is why they changed the color. So I press “no” and I have to draw four cards for guessing wrong. Most of the times I think that they really did not have a yellow card until the person who goes before me puts down a yellow and wins the game. I have lost MANY games because of this. Why do I have to draw four cards when I correctly guessed that the player before me had no cards of a certain color. Now I have to say that this is not always the case, although, it has happened plenty of times for me to have to write a review about this game. Please fix the way the +4 cards work in the game of just remove the mechanic all together.

by Dirty30Hill

This game is a fun time waster but its completely random in terms of winning or loosing. You'll have a day where you'll win 9/10 games then you'll have a day where you'll loose 9/10 games and often time all your coins, this is my 2nd day in a row where my loose ratio well exceeds my wins ( like 15 losses and 5 wins) and now I'm loosing interest in playing. There really isn't much strategy involved, you play what ever cards are given so you’re pretty much bound to completely win or loose (i guess thats “cards” though lol..). I often times play with a teammate because i feel that you would have more chances of winning (50/50) but that doesn't seem to be the case as iv been loosing consecutive games..I will also add as I've seen in someone else’s comments, I feel that the +4 card is a scam because 9 times out of 10 you'll loose the guess..Don't hate the game for it, idk im sure its legit but it just seems odd to loose so many guesses. However, I will say that the +4 card seems to be the most strategic card to use as in you can either set you or your teammate up for a good play or call a bluff color to throw your opponents off.

My biggest dislike is how you get skipped when you get hit with the +2 or +4 card! Thats insult to injury! As if getting multiple cards isn't bad enough, then you dont even get to play your hand. Not cool.

Overall 3 out of 5 stars, its fun but gets stale on those days where you cant break out of a loose streak.

by Breedkdkdkdk

I am addicted to this game like nothing else. I have given so many suggestions and none are ever taken into consideration… here they are again.. There should be an option to either be shown as invisible or not invisible that way people aren’t inviting you to games that you don’t wanna play. There should also be a drop-down menu for rejecting an invitation so that way you can give them a reason whether it be out of coins, I’m done playing, another time. Since the update, you have to either accept or reject an invitation … no more exiting out unless you close out the entire app. Also, why is there a limit on how many friends you have? If there wasn’t a limit, you would play more because you would play with other people more often. There shouldn’t be a fee to play a game. You should also be able to watch as many ads as you want for coins instead of six a day. Every other game does not limit you on how many ads you can watch. This game is 100% rigged. They throw you a bone after losing soooooo many coins but in the long run, they win every time. No matter who you are, you will go bankrupt and you will be buying coins.

I love this game but so many things need to change.

by Plumgirly

It’s a card game. Obviously card games are based on the luck of your hand, just like in real life. And like in real life, you can get bad hands or lose to a luckier hand many times in a row. I can’t speak on if the games rigged or not but losing doesn’t make a luck based game rigged lol. My issue with the game is there are too many little glitches that add up to be annoying over time. I was just in a game where I had to close and re enter UNO because the loading bar wouldn’t move when I entered the game. Then when I was in the game I was trying to use a wildcard and it glitched and wouldn’t let me change the color and I had to wait for my turn to time out, resulting in the wrong color being picked and someone else winning the game. Other times ads will turn black after playing and I have to restart UNO to be able to do anything. Or a game will just not move after “reconnecting” and yes I have to restart UNO meanwhile the game is playing for others. It’s things like this that add up over time, especially if I’m losing coins just because your game is running bumpily. Also, you should have a basic unranked mode that doesn’t require coins. I’m sure some people don’t want to sit around waiting for imaginary money to just play regular this app.

by Typ Ekelepwkwnwn

I am a very much a person who’s has always loved this app but as the most claims to me many versions of this app non has ever had such a annoying problem with challenge with the 4+ it’s breaks all rules of this app most people who don’t know(if u get a 4+ u can’t get 4 cards if u have the color or number) but the challenge mechanic ruins that premise and just makes u lose and makes u just very much annoyed if they change that it would be better bc many people who I know are amazing players at this app lose so much money due to that of anything it’s ruins the against teams or players bc it doesn’t even work right I have never see someone use this so called challenge mechanic ever since I play this app (I have played many versions such as stacks but never experience such a mechanic that ruins the original 4+ rule) but other than that it’s a good game but I might recommend for those who like and fun game without this just do regular cards ima still play this but it’s super irritating when ur just about to win and this person plays making u lose more than 500 up to 1200 coins you will be forced to grind those back this my review as Someone’s who’s enjoy this app for many years and this thing kinda makes me lose that passion there’s a lot of things to improve but that’s my complaint

by .glue

I love this app and I’ve been playing since I was little. At this point I can’t find anyone that likes to play the actual card game so UNO is a great alternative for me. However, I think this coin system is completely unnecessary. I had about 10k coins over the course of like 20 games, and then after one game I lost all 10k and I couldn’t play until the next day. I guess it’s just to get you to buy coins but I’m not paying money for this app. I would have at least one mode where coins aren’t a factor. There’s really no reason to force you to stop playing the game because you’re out of coins. I thought the whole point is to get you to keep playing. This also goes for Ranked. Why do we need to have hearts? Just let me play the game when I want to play it. Whenever there is a Ranked mode in a video game I will play it. But not once did I have to deal with a system like this where if you lose enough you have to wait to play again. Let me grind this app! Not to mention, in doubles, if your teammate had a ton of cards and loses when you had like 2 cards, you both lose coins based off who has the most cards. It’s not my fault my teammate is trash, why do you have to punish me for it too?

Anyway, I can still enjoy this app and, yes, this coin stuff is annoying but at the end of the day you can always play the modes with the lowest stakes.

by #FunnyWorkingGirl

I only do games I don’t pay to beat. I earn my way as best I can do it on my own. This this app game I LOVED. And I’m not the mean spirited that boos or throws eggs at people for giving me draw twos or draw fours. I realize it’s in there hand to play to try and win. Reasonable. However, all of the sudden I noticed the game was doing EVIL glitches. Example, I’d already have a duck hand to start with, hang in there, play my hand WELL, put my only draw 2 and it would GIVE ME BACK MY DRAW TWO TO MYSELF. It would happen with various plays to get ahead. Then, I started getting a player say KARMA!!! And I’m thinking, what the heck I rescue animals, nurse, and I will have players give me back draw 2’s etc that I FAIRLY played. I feel like even though I absolutely love this app and it keeps me from being lonely or occupied after working long hours at work and stuff...I have NO CHOICE but to DELETE it. It’s my only guess that it’s either TWO opinions: Your game has hackers on it that manipulate the games or it’s your own staff wanting people to purchase crap. Or both. I don’t know. But one player I had on the teams...even they said “Why???” After we have our opposing team draw 2 and skip and it gave it to US....then they WON. Makes no sense. But major hackville or staffville.”

by Leliea

I love this app so much I love how you can add friends invite friends get rewards just by playing rounds send gifts and bunch more but I have a few suggestion/complaints first I am really confused whenever I get to 100 friends I says you have reached the maximum number of friends in this game but in social and then spectate I people have more then 100 friends second how do I get VIP points I read it on settings but it doesn’t make sense and I should know cause I am in 4th grade third avatars should not cost coins or diamonds it should be free and could you put so more avatars fourth could you please not of a limited of friends in room mode it is annoying fifth I would be fun if you could send emails to your friend if there was a mistake or I you would like to say I like you as a partner or if your friend made a club and you applied to their club or you will invite them to a game or send a picture sixth this a complaint can you please whenever somebody runs out of coins can you give them 300 coins instead of twice a day that is it I love a game and remember these are just suggestions and I love the game thank you P.S please stop giving me oppenents that are stupid

by Cozy Burger

DO NOT SPEND A PENNY ON THIS GAME! This is fun to kill some time but lots of people are cheating/hacking and ruining the game and stealing your money/coins.
I recently played and the player directly before me had 7 (yes all 7 cards that were delt) draw 4 wild cards in their hand. Obviously they hacked the game, but since I had to draw the 28 cards and never once got to play I ended up losing a lot of my coins to this hacker, therefore I repeat DO NOT USE ANY REAL MONEY ON THIS GAME! Thankfully I only use coins that I win and earn from the game so I didn’t lose any of my actual money and ended just frustrated.
Because of this I do not think this is appropriate for children to play, my daughter is 6 and loves this app. She has no problem with losing in a fair game, but losing all her coins to a hacker, that would be devastating at that age. I’m currently looking for a more child friendly this app game, that won’t cost any money and can’t be hacked by cheaters. In the meantime, I’ll occasionally play this game when I’m looking to kill time while waiting around, but I won’t play regularly or very seriously since I know it’s more about hacking skills than game play.

by Doggo48207

I have always loved playing the this app card game but sometimes there is no one else to play with but this game fixes that by making matches short and pairing you with three other people. I love this game and I think it is a lot of fun to play. There are a few things that really bug me though. The first one being is that I will buy a lucky clover that is meant to save your coins if you lose, but if I lose and have applied this lucky clover I still lose the same amount of coins as if I didn’t use the clover at all. This is the same if my partner shares a clover I lose coins also and that is super annoying. If this is not meant to happen then it needs to be fixed because you waste two-hundred coins on a clover and it does practically nothing. I also do not think it is fair that if your teammate runs out of coins that you are charged with them. I think that seems very unfair but I can live with that annoying feature. Overall those are my biggest complaints. Otherwise I love the game, I’m level twenty-six and have been playing for a few months. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Sincerely, a huge this app fan!

by Drummerboi15

I love this game! I’ve been playing it everyday since I downloaded it, some time last year. I’ve been playing this classic card game since I were a child, so when I saw it in UNO Store, I jumped on it. However, I do have two issues for me.

1) I think the coin ratio needs to be fixed. It’s already bad enough that it seems like you lose more games than you win, but when you lose games, it seems like you lose A LOT more coins than when you win a game. For example, today, I was playing 2-on-2 in Wild Weekend(x2), I lost my first six games before I finally won about three. In each lost game, I lost no less than 500 coins, and I, nor my teammate, had a bunch of power cards, but in the games I won, I’d only win about 200 coins, and the other team would have an abundance of cards. It’s very hard to continue playing, if you’re constantly losing coins faster than you’re keeping them.

2) I feel like there should be a better way to communicate with your teammates and people on your friends list, other than the little programmed phrases. What’s the point of having teammates and friends, if you can’t communicate with them. I think that would make the gaming experience better.