Spades Classic Card Game Reviews

SpadesClassicCardGame was fun at the beginning. Once I reached Platinum level the computer begins to cheat. I can give 2 examples. Up until this level, your computer partner didn’t hurt your chances. However, at this level, the computer partner routinely over bids causing you to lose rounds and ultimately the game. Also, at the Platinum level, the computer team that you are playing against routinely leads off with a queen when you have a king and the other computer team partner they have has the ace. So, in normal cards, the king could typically take the second round but, with the cheating they do, they play the queen, so if you play the king, then the other player takes the ace and they win that round and you don’t have your king. If you let it pass you by then the other computer player won’t play their ace, the computer wins the round with the queen, then they win the next round with the Ace, making your king of no value. This happens regularly letting you know they are cheating because in spades you don’t know what your partner has but the computer, controlling all three of the other players, clearly begins to manipulate the card play at the platinum level. i’m so glad I didn’t pay the $10 to go add free for six months. I was holding off to see if the game would begin cheating and, now that it does, I’m deleting SpadesClassicCardGame after writing this review.

This was great fun until you got to higher levels. I’m at the end of SpadesClassicCardGame. I am NEVER able to successfully get a nil and I am no longer able to break their nil. And my partners are stupid! The last game I did I was able to get 8 tricks and my partner went nil. We had it- BUT my partner went nil with a A, K & Q of hearts and I only had a 2. We lost with those last three moves. This is typical. I ALWAYS have to under bid to cover for the stupidity of my partners bids and how they play. I have an average bid of 3, if I’m lucky. I know to NEVER go nil unless I have only 2-3 spades that are under 5 and all other cards are high cards from J -A. Otherwise, they break me every time. And IF I should be successful and get that nil, my partner breaks his bids by not getting them! So I rarely get my 100 points. This is all predictable 💯 of the time and very, very frustrating! It’s obvious that the other two players know each others hands and play accordingly and always win, especially if they go nil. I feel I have to play against 3 and not with a partner. I’m at Grand Marshall, ultimate tier, at level 3. I have been dropped back down to level 4 twice, due to my partner’s inability to play and AI teaming up and cheating. I am now about to delete SpadesClassicCardGame! 😡😡😡😡 it is aggravating!
This started out great but has gone bad quickly!

I’m gonna say this just like it is. MW will of course say they value my input and then thank you. In other words……just the blow off cliche.
This game started out fun. You would win some and lose some. But you would at least win SOME! Once you reach the high levels (like Diamond) the winning stops. You won’t even be able to successfully execute a Nil hand. Your partner (which you can’t chose nor change) will consistently overbid or just plain fail to make their bid.
I have been playing 5-8 games per day since I started. And I’m done. As soon as I write this I’m deleting the game and try to find one that will let me win once in a while. Oh….also canceling my subscription. See, I had such high hopes for this game I actually shelled out the fee for no adds.
A typical game has the opposing team consistently get 70-80 point hands. While you’re stuck getting 40 points if you’re lucky. Then they will go Nil plus get 60 points in tricks. So that’s 160 points. You can see how they blast thru a game in about 5 or 6 rounds leaving you in their dust.
So, if you like running into brick walls and getting stressed out about always losing then go ahead. Get this game. Then come back and read this review again and I can say, “I told you so”……

I don’t write reviews but this is literally the worst game I ever played. The developers really dropped the ball on programming the AI for the game to even be competitive & enjoyable. It literally just feels like you are playing on hopes & dreams when dealing with the AI teammate.

-The AI teammate will cut you for no reason

-Literally no one bids their hand correctly, your teammate will bid 1. Soon as the game starts they throw down 3 Aces & 3 Kings.

-Then the worst thing that happens, the teammate will hold onto cards FOR NO REASON!!!! To clarify this, I had a King, I threw a low card baiting the Ace. My teammate lets the other team walk with a 7 & then throws the Ace later on.

-If AI opponent Bids nil that specific opponent will throw off the whole hand (which is smart). Only issue with this is, it’s very hard to stop because your teammate is no help with forcing them to win at least 1 book which is understandable considering it’s AI but…I had an AI opponent bid nil 3 hands consecutively😒

Literally best way to win the game because the AI is so unpredictable, is by bidding nil & throwing off. If you win 0 books you get a 100 point bonus to whatever your team bid.

I seriously can’t believe how bad this game is & I hope it gets taken down.

1)Partners don’t seem to understand the importance of opponent (who has placed a “NIL” bid) to catch a trick. They always trump it and are so proud while I’ve passed up the opportunity several times in order for the NIL opponent to catch a trick.
2)The winner of the round is obvious after a couple of hands. If you start out with a bad hand, all of them will be and you never catch a break. You get a couple of kings with only one more card in that suit and 7-8 cards in the others. Many times I get the ace of spades and number cards with an occasional Jack. If you get a hand that allows you to go nil, you’ll catch a trick with a low number card like the 5 of hearts. Just saw one where it happened with the 3 of clubs—- they were getting nothing but bad hands.
3)I keep getting the (almost) exact same hand 2-3 times in a row. That’s frustrating.
4)The endless ads are annoying and some go on and on forever. This is the best spades game by far and I’d be willing to buy it so I wouldn’t see the ads but if some improvements aren’t made I’ll just find another game.

Do not download this game. In the beginning, the game is fair as a way to manipulate you into subscribing. As the game levels progress high, everything changes and the algorithm starts to literally cheat. The opponent can get set two or three times but will get three straight NILS in a row to catch up. And let’s not talk about my partner who’s supposed to be playing to win. They just like tricks go by and not cut so the opposing team makes their bet. And when I do NIL, my partner plays a card that won’t cover me, he will play the lowest card they can to set my NIL. The opposing team gets an inordinate amount of NILs, 3 to 4 every game and makes 96% of them. SpadesClassicCardGame had become a source of stress relief, but now I deleted SpadesClassicCardGame off my phone because I am not having fun anymore. I’m just frustrated all the time with this game. You guys should just make the game fair. That’s all I ask.

I totally understand the need for Ads. Most games I don’t mind them too much as they allow me to explore new games I may not have otherwise been aware of. However, these Ads are after every hand and they are in 2 parts making them way too long. It ruins the game experience. I’d rather pay to upgrade then sitting through the same long ads over and over. Ruins the game for me. There must be a better way for consumers to get an enjoyable gaming experience while developers make their money.
Pay to upgrade maybe? IDK in the meantime I’ve gotta find a new game. This is a good spade game if you can stand the same 45-1 min ads after every hand.

This game has a lot of potential, and for the most part is well done. Gameplay is smooth, ads are fairly unintrusive, bots GENERALLY make good decisions.

There is a very large weakness to the bot programming, however. They do not respond appropriately when NIL is called and their overall goal is still to take every trick rather than stick the opposing NIL player with a trick. There have been countless times when the bot could just throw off suit to break NIL, but instead they trump the trick and take it. Gameplay would be vastly improved if the programming could be altered to allow for this.

I want to give this game five stars, but cannot go above three until this glaring programming weakness is corrected.

I don’t like the fact that I’m playing against bots and not real people. Your partner will help the other team win by laying off an opportunity to use a cut card thus causing you to loose the game, and will also beat a card that you have beat, like playing an Ace on top my King…and I’m like “WOW dodo” really?! Which will also cost you the game because now you’re short a book. It’s much better playing a real life game with real people. And would rather choose my partner, not random trash bot players lol. The bot opponents already know what cards you have, so it’s easy for them and your own partner to set you up when they get tired of you winning lol. Happens to me all the time. I don’t liked rigged games, but I guess it’s good for passing time.

I have played SpadesClassicCardGame for several years and always enjoyed it until recently. When they first gave the purchase option for ad free I wasn’t interested but decided to go for it. At first it wasn’t bad but now there are leagues set up and you get moved around. I was ranked first one day and twentieth the next with most of my points wiped out?? What?? Why would I pay to play to be dumped to last place? The other crazy thing is the change in point you can win or lose and the rematch. Sometimes you get the option to rematch once, next you can rematch give time, then another game you will get no rematch option. Really have ruined a good app that I have recommended to many people and we are now moving on.

I have played this spades game a long time. I did like it now not so much. Now the opponents get the wins. I have played 5 games in a row lost all 5. The opponents get 100 game hands right when they need it. I just played and was up the third hand by less than 30 I need the opponents would get a 100 hand and no surprise to me they did. The longer you play this game this is what happens. It is a shame it was fun but I guess I will delete it it just is ridiculous how every hand just about the opponents get 100 hands as they need to. I also agree with review on hearts. You can count on as you play a long time your first hand will be getting the Queen. Mobilityware was my favorite now not so.

I like this one the best and play it a ton BUT you should be able to have usernames visible to people so that way you know if you’ve had that partner before so you can know a little bit better about their playstyle as well a skill based matchmaking. Also I’ve seen people bid 13 even though they have nothing just to throw the game cause they got angry and that’s not fun and it’s not fair to their partner so if our names were available I could know if I play with or against that person and just quit if they are going to throw the game. And I’ve had partners that on the first hand I’ll lay an ace and they cut it for no reason. Maybe even a report system for people like that.

This game used to be so much better but seems like in the last several months it glitches a lot. It has strange sounds when some of the ads come on and you can’t get rid of the glitch until you shut down your phone and reboot. Also it freezes on ads and I have to reboot. That’s gets old! Today I tried that and even after I did the sound (machine gun sound) continued when I rebooted. Also once you offered the purchase option now the ads have gotten longer. I have also noticed glitches in playing. Many times when I see trumps come out the first time on a suit their supposed to be out of. That suit they trumped before will come out again and then they will play that suit. Also I’ve seen someone go nil and then get set but it’s not counted against them. They still get their 100 points. So this game needs work. This was my go to spades game but now I’m finding myself playing different ones because SpadesClassicCardGame is messing up too much now. Please fix these issues.

One of the reasons this is such an appealing game is there are a number of choices I, as a human player, can make in each round that has an effect in the game. The Mware Hearts is not as “friendly”. It’s programmed to give the human player the Queen of Spades almost every hand. You’d never know there are four players that she might be distributed to… Back to Spades. My frustration is with the ultimate tier as I’ve made it to the top position. I did that with Hearts, as well, but am less interested because of the programming with the unwanted Q-spades. Mind you, it takes a lot of time to get to the top of the Grand tier, in either. My complaint is, once there, at the moment in Spades, another player, in this instance nearest in points, “Trunks” is 40 points behind me. Suddenly, in a few minutes, is back equal with me, who took several hours to pass “Trunks”. There is NO WAY in actual playing that could happen. Instantaneous 40 point leap in moments when it takes a human several hours to get 40 points?? Takes the “joy” of my accomplishment out of the game when preprogrammed competitors are given vast point movements that in reality human ones have to temporally work through. I do love Mobilityware games, overall❤️❣️Corrected.

Worse developers than WGT Golf developers in how they cheat the cards to where one rarely wins. I contact all of the developers who place ads on this one and inform them I would never use their games or product. CHEATS!!! Got a msg from the developer. Nope. Bravo Sierra! The algorithm manipulates the cards. Developers say “they” don’t” and hide behind the algorithm. UPDATE!! Do not attempt to prevaricate again Developers. The game is rigged to have the opponents win way too many times. You are prevaricators!! All those who advertise are contacted to inform them of your CHEATING! If you developers say you don’t load decks I wonder…do you kiss your mothers mouths with your lying lips!

This is one of my favorite Spades games online. There you can make sure there’s no cheating. I have recently enjoyed the new challenges you throw in the game as I had adopted the Scally wag! it was fun playing with that character but when I had to uninstall it to reinstall it because it was acting up this weekend I lost my status in the game all of my rewards in the game and to be on level 2800 something is a lot I play these games just about every day every night you all see how much I’m on the game it would be wonderful to get my status back. Ms.P

I had never played spades before. I download a couple of other ones and they had a horrible directions on how to buy. This one has great instructions on how to play and has great tips under the settings function. All the ads are five seconds or less. There are only ads between games and matches not while playing a hand

SpadesClassicCardGame generally loads pretty quick. When it does load, it always gives you some tips. I do wish there was a way to replay those tips because sometimes I don’t have time to read them.

I would highly suggest this game.

The bots forces you to bid first whenever the opposing team (bots) are bidding Nil. That’s not cool because it automatically forces you to underbid. And the developer makes it impossible to advance. In 30 days I completed Grandmaster level 3 and was almost finished with Grandmaster level 2 and when the 30 day challenge expired to advance to the next level they knocked me down to the beginning of level THREEEE!!!! The problem is I did advance from 3 to 2!!!!!!Please fix that bc it’s a waste of our time advancing when you guys have it set up to be impossible.

This game has a REAL problem. If you win and you weren’t supposed to, the game blacks out and you have to replay the round.
The weed advertising does NOT allow you to exit out. You MUST shut off your computer and reboot. Then you can play your round over, whether you win it loose.
I have reported this more than once. Deleted the game and started over from square 1 again and again. I just played my third game over (probably because I won) and wasn’t supposed to.
Please get the glitches out of this game. It’s my favorite, but I can go away for good if I have to. Someone should be able to fix this.
I’ll give you 5 stars if this is fixed.

I played my way up to the highest levels of this game..Hours spent having a great time..When I got to the highest level I played for 5hrs. And won 1 game..1 game..I’d tie the opponents at the half way point in some games but that’s as far as it got..I’m also shocked at the times my partner and I can catch someone going nil and my partner spades them and then turns right around throws a lower trump card that would’ve set them. Just extremely disappointed in this game as it progressed..wiped it off my computer and won’t play again