CardGames io Reviews

You know it's really a fun game a lot of variety and the strategy is a lot of fun but what's really bad is you know you're playing the computer and it's three or four against one and you can never win after a certain time because it learns of your tails which is kind of good I guess because it's teaching you every way to win but it's a little depressing I guess LOL when you constantly just keep losing and losing and losing I mean playing hearts really is depressing sometimesI think I've mastered rummy they can't get me too much on that one they definitely can't get me on spades either however hearts is another story wow I really wish you could change it because I swear I don't know how I end up with a queen of spades every single time no matter what I get it no matter what otherwise I absolutely positively love all the variety that you have once you have CardGamesio for a while and it learns all your ways of playing there's no way you can win

Want an app that has a lot of card games with limited ads? Okay, cool, this one has that. Want an app that actually has some elegance and strategy to its programming? Pffft, keep looking. This thing knows the rules of a game and that’s it. It has no strategy, is easy enough to learn and predict, and, worst of all - and this is where the frustration really comes in - it’s solution to ‘balance’ is to deal you increasingly unplayable hands for extended durations until the computer has won a few games to make the win/loss percent back in acceptable variance. How often in a game of euchre does your opponents get dealt 4 alones in a row? How often do you get 3 alones in a row and the computer immediately calls off making your hand useless because it’s the 9, 10, queen and bowers in the other color? With CardGamesio, it’s all the time. And don’t even get me started on how many hands you may as well not even play because it’s just the computer players slinging cards and your hand is completely irrelevant, or how easy it is to bait the computer into shooting the moon in hearts. Great for a very basic app with limited ads, but dear god, if you want any sort of subtlety… better to just deal with the ads in another app.

Game selection is fun, and gameplay is mostly smooth; however, there are a few bugs that make CardGamesio borderline unusable sometimes. The two main ones are probably one issue: namely, that sometimes buttons don’t do anything when pressed. The next round button just doesn’t work sometimes, forcing me to exit and re-enter CardGamesio . That’s annoying, but at least there’s a way around it.

However, there’s another bug that could be related: some ads are just unskippable, and exiting and re-entering doesn’t work. And if I close CardGamesio and restart it, I lose the current game. There’s just nothing to do, and it’s extremely frustrating. Why start a game if I have no guarantee that I can play all the way through?

Please fix this issue, as I really am considering going back to the website.

No ads via their website so app is pointless, & the computer clearly cheats while also not playing with any strategy or intelligence, it’s like you have a smoke signal behind yr back if you start winning to help coordinate a target. Too many odious examples to count them off, like helping each other try to shoot the moon or leading a hearts trick with the Queen at the beginning of a round when there’s not any way to know someone else would have to take it—but they clearly know your hand & collude as a group in vs computer stuff, even for a game where each player plays for themself, & deals are all from the bottom of the deck or shift as a game develops to make sure yr disadvantaged—the computer players share a pool, where any card you haven’t seen can be played against you from any position. Not bad for variety tho & multiplayer may be ok & to their credit, a simple interface that may be ugly but doesn’t have animations you die of old age sitting thru & lets you do things like adjust speed and change name & face of non-player opponents, which can be amusing.

I really love CardGamesio and love so many games on here plus have learned quite a few that I now greatly enjoy. However some games are broken as in it’s impossible to win. I love Farkle but I literally have yet to win a match. This isn’t me being greedy by continuing to roll after having a decent amount of points. I’ve played very conservative, very risky and everything in between and without fail no matter how far up in points, the computer will go on a miracle run of 2-3 hot dice in a row and win from being 3-4k behind. It’s actually ridiculous so the difficulty on that definitely needs some tweaking. Very similar experience with Go Fish. Played that one quite a bit and still have yet to win. This isn’t the case with most games and there’s about 3-4 I haven’t played so maybe they’re fine the difficulty/algorithm/programming, whatever, on go fish and farkle is ridiculous and not fun at all.

I love the fact that CardGamesio is easy to use and contains an All-in-One, instead of me having to download 20 different apps. I can sit and play for hours in my spare time, however, I’m glad I’m not the only person who realizes that the more you play, the more obvious it is the computer is rigged to deal you a crappy hand, as well as have you draw all the unplayable cards, while the computer wins in 10 seconds. There is just no way in Rummy that your opponent will almost always drop 2-3 melds on the first turn, and off a fresh hand. That’s just not possible. Every single time I play Hearts the Q gets dropped in my hand? I mean, rarely misses. Other than that issue, CardGamesio runs pretty smoothly. If you fix the computer issue and add Tonk, I would definitely change my review.

So I absolutely love card games io it’s a lot of tun but there is a few problems. In Euchre it never seems to give you a great hand or something to even bid on now I know it doesn’t have to be every time but at least once or twice. In Cribbage some of the points don’t count like h had two 7 an 8 and a Ace or 1 so 7+7+1 or Ace = 15 and it didn’t count for me. Lastly you should be able to play Spit online because me and my friend really want to play it. One last thing I love Rummy but when you discard all of the cards are supposed to be seen and then if you pick one you don’t have to play it but if you pick more than one you have to play the last card you pick up and Aces can go on a 2 or a King and Aces are 15 points. Other than this I haven’t had any problems and I can’t wait to see you fix this in the next update and maybe add some new games.

There are things wrong with CardGamesio, but it’s still really good. It has so many games!
In spades it was maddening that my partner didn’t know when to stop getting bags, so we got penalized. Now I play 13. I think there is a
Learning curve for the computer, so eventually he knows your moves and knows how to defeat you. I might be wrong.
Other than these things, it is tops.
I’m back to playing Spades again. It still annoys me about my partner not trying not to get bags, but also that the computer doesn’t know not to lead with a king or queen, when the ace hasn’t been played!

definitely love CardGamesio, i used it when it was just a website so i was excited for it to become an app. one issue i have is that almost every time after i play sudoku there’s an afterimage of the sudoku grid left on my screen. this doesn’t happen with any other app, just this one with sudoku. it could just be my phone but i figured i would bring it up in case anyone else was having the issue!! i love it nonetheless, it helps me practice new games that i’m trying to learn (though the one that i would like to practice more is real mahjong rather than just matching, but again there are just SO many good things about CardGamesio that i still love it)

I love CardGamesio and play it daily. Three issues make me give it 4 instead of 5 stars. 1. Bill is the ABSOLUTE WORST spades partner! He makes me want to reach through the screen to punch his AI face! I always know to bid one extra to allow for his bags and he can’t seem to figure out when he’s gonna run the table because he has so many spades. 2. Spider solitaire has a picture of a spider on it and I’m scared of spiders so I can’t play it without a small freak out which isn’t fun. 3. I wish I could sort my hand in Euchre on my own instead of them being automatically sorted for me. I would pay for an ad free version.

An amazing app to pass time on. There’s many card games that I didn’t even know existed and the rules are easy to learn.
A problem I have is that the system seems to worsen your luck the more you win, like in Euchre and Farkle. The AI is also kinda bad and loses whole games way too often, like with crazy eights and rummy. Playing Spades with Bill is also a nightmare sometimes because he plays his cards in the least optimal way. But everything else is fine.

Overall a very decent game. May I suggest fixes and balance changes to the AI to make the game as fair as possible. I would also love to see more card games being added and perhaps an adjustable AI difficulty.

I really enjoy your app. I do have a few suggestions though. When trying to play spades, the cards are so small and close together that I have inadvertently played a card that I didn’t want to, resulting in losing that play or causing me to catch a trick when I have gone nil, even though I have a smaller card to play. This also happens to me when playing Yahtzee. I have made the larger straight and when trying to put in my score, it goes to the smaller straight. Please make the score card larger on Yahtzee and change how the card to be played is chosen on your card games.

I’ll borrow from another user and say I’m also a card addict!!! And I had no idea there was this many solitaire like games and other games. I finally have variety.

The only suggestion I would have is being able to increase card size for games like Addiction when played on an iPad. Also increase the padding on the cards in Idiot. I keep selecting the wrong card.

Despite the suggestions others have you’ll see they still put 5 stars! B/c it rocks. Oh ya...I love the way you right the rules. It feels like a friend teaching me.

Please provide an add free version. Although the adds are quick to cycle, I’d pay cold hard cash to avoid. (The add free version will get the 5th star)

Hearts
I’m a very good hearts player. Played 35 games so far. I won 16. Left won 10, across 5, right 2. I shot the moon and made it 12 times in those games, computer opponents only 3 times, they could be a little more aggressive. The computer does hold to prevent you from running the table. Skill level is similar or better than a lot of hearts games.

Euchre
Great to have a euchre game. The few games I played, the computer partner played everything correctly.

Spades
I agree with other reviews, partner is aggressive early, but won’t play off properly to avoid bags.

Cribbage
Looks okay, but best cribbage game for iOS is cribbage pro (no ads).

Bonus is the other games. I still have to try the board games, I can’t wait to try out chess and backgammon. I did play a game of “Yatzy”, it was fun. I will kill a lot of time on CardGamesio.

Word games had my interest for more than a year but I was happy to discover that the tried and true card games were waiting for my return . It was actually joyous , and I was happy to pay the very small suggested donation fee to store this skillful developer. ONE request: make the content enlargeable. It has been awhile and I noticed my vision has some challenge discerning what’s on phone screens at times. I don’t want to miss out here for that reason. Love this developer’s content too much to have to beat that one day

I would appreciate your making the following change to CardGamesio . In the game of spades when one partner (myself) plays a “0” bid, my partner needs to realize that, and if a the other team plays a card that I only have one of those to play, i.e. a 10, then my partner needs to play a card that beats that. ALWAYS! If I bid “0” it means in order for us to win the 100pts. for my nil bid, I cannot take any hands! Otherwise, if I take just 1 hand that nil bid goes against and we are subtracted 100pts. Any human partner would know to do that, so your computer needs to know to do that and put right.

I tried too many other apps where the players always missed extremely obvious plays. It was so easy to see that they were actually bots disguised as people. I came here to play against the computer because at least it would be an honest computer! Lol. It was very refreshing! Great realistic moves!

Thennnnn, I find out they have a live multiplayer option too!!! Just played my first game and it felt very much like a real person. The timing, the moves, chat responses etc. It’s too bad that all the fake ones are easy to find and you have to dig a tunnel to find the real deal. LOVE LOVE LOVE CardGamesio!

I cannot recommend this game collection enough. There is a huge assortment of card, board, and dice games to select from. They are very well programmed games that play on an average to a bit above average level. None of the games cheat that I have noticed. What ads come up are only there for a second and can be closed down immediately. My only suggestion/wish is that there were just a few background choices in color as well as a few different choices for card backs. Other than that, this is just a great game collection you can enjoy for many years to come.

I'm absolutely loving CardGamesio. I'm a bit of a card game maniac and it's been so fun to play my favorites and quickly and easily learn new ones too!

I do have a few things that I'd love to see changed that would make play a little nicer.

- Have cards automatically flip over when you uncover them (in solitaire and spider solitaire and probably others)
- Have a shorter hold time for multiple selecting cards
- Have a faster deal time on Crazy 8s
- Have a "Back to main menu" option pop up when you finish a game
- Don't run the timer on games when CardGamesio isn't open or the screen is off or you're in the menu, or else make a pause button
- Keep games open when you play another game - so if you start a round of freecell, then jump over to sea battle (because your two year likes that one), when you come back to freecell you can continue playing that same game

Anyway, I really love CardGamesio and will continue to use it whether or not you make any of these changes, but I do think they would help. Thanks!!

Idk how I didn’t know CardGamesio existed until yesterday. I love playing card games but only get to practice group games at family events 2-3 times a year, and every time I try a specific app the ads get in the way and I end up deleting. Every ad in this game is only 5 seconds long (if that) and it doesn’t make you click through three times to close it. There are games on there I’d never heard of that I’m excited to try, and the rules are nice and simple to understand.