Aces Spades Reviews

"The partner play is what needs improvement. Some of the cards played by the AI partner and the sequence of play just doesn't make sense. Especially in a Nil situation. It makes it hard to judge what to play because your partner doesn't play smart."

That was part of my first review but after update, your partner just blatantly sabotages you. It's infuriating. Now the game constantly freezes and I have to hard exit AcesSpades just to restart, sometimes several times. Hard to play this game now.

I purchased the remove ads. AcesSpades crashed as soon as I did. When I opened it back up it didn’t remove the ads and still had the option to buy the ad removal. I contacted customer care, and showed them the screen caps of what was going on, and followed all their suggestions on how to fix the issue. None of them worked. I have proof that I did purchase the remove ads, and I also had proof that I couldn’t rebuy it again. After I sent this proof, I didn’t hear back from them again. I’ve even sent an email saying hello but they haven’t responded. So I guess they’re gonna get my money and I have to put up with ads anyway. I’m seriously considering just deleting the game. Also for some reason this game won’t remember that I connected it to Facebook 10 times.

I have this game on a 10 year old game phone that I still have, and still play, (I never got the forced update, and I’m not complaining!), it’s so old I can’t even tell you what version Motorola it is… and I prefer that version to this updated version I downloaded on my iPhone 12… There’s no more passing cards during blind nil, there’s no more game variations, like whiz and mirror… and the opponents and your partner/opponants still play like they’re 5 years old, bidding 1 trick when they have the Ace, king and queen of spades, or nil when they have the queen of spades! Who does that?! They take bags like it’s their job… but the most annoying thing is the minute long ads between rounds… I had to delete it. There’s nothing relaxing or fun about this game and the idiot computer.

I’ve played this game for years, have been a few bugs but everything has always been worked out. However, now when I play on my iPhone, the screen of the gameplay is in the upper right hand corner of my phone screen. It’s very tiny and obviously I can’t play it like that. The navy blue background extends the entire phone screen, but just the board, hands, scoring, all of that is centered up in the upper right hand corner. I took a screenshot, but don’t know how to include that here. It works fine on my iPad, just an issue on my iPhone. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling AcesSpades with no luck. Any updates coming soon to fix??

This used to be a great game. The only one I could find with variations of spades. Although the update made previously small and difficult or sometimes impossible to see cards easily visible, the ai is horrible! I’m trying to play the Whiz variation and they will bid nil while having 6 spades, it is actually happening often. My AI partner bid nil and ended up winning 7 tricks that hand. There is little to no strategy on covering a partners nil bid. Since the update, not a single game I have played has been won by reaching the point goal. Every single game ends with one team going out the back door or having less than negative 200 points.

Every upgrade has actually been a downgrade. I paid for the ad free version but the developers changed it to ‘no options’ for ad free play. I wasn’t refunded anything for this change-seems a bit shady.
Next, the developers decided to add a bunch of additional advantages and benefits that aren’t part of an actual spades game.
Now the option to pass cards when bidding blind nil is gone. If you want to guarantee getting the ace of spades, bid blind nil.
What’s the next plan to make AcesSpades worse?

I purchased the ad free version of Spades several years ago. Concrete software recently updated the Spades game and “forced” the new version on me (automatically updated the new game on my iPad). With the “new and improved” Spades game, I must watch ads to play the game.

I wrote to Concrete Software with my complaint and was basically told to “pound sand.” Concrete Software said it is not possible to play the old ad free game anymore and they do not offer an ad free option for the new game.

Certainly, I can’t be the only person that thinks it’s wrong for a company to take your money promising something, then updating their software and telling you what you purchased is no longer valid. Kind of a “bait and switch” concept. Did Concrete Software offer to refund my money, of course not.

Maybe if there are enough unhappy subscribers experiencing this problem Concrete Software will reconsider their policy.

Alex

Several months ago I had to stop playing this game I used to play daily. Now, before you make the decision to blind nill…. You can’t see the other players cards. That daily challenges is in the way! Please allow that to be mimimized (more). Additionally, after guessing, you no longer have the option to exchange 2 cards and I no longer see this in the settings. AcesSpades has become unplayable. I keep checking back and thought I’d leave a review this time. I miss it!

The different color cards are confusing and unnecessary and senseless. During play, the score isn’t shown. Since you are playing a game you should know the score at all times. Playing bots isn’t great fun, neither are these bots.

Per usual the programmers are inconsiderate and disrespect their users: you have to hit 4 to 5 different buttons just to get out of one ad.

You have to be very bored to download AcesSpades.

Let me start, I LOVE this game. I played it a lot (along with Hearts and Cribbage by the same company) before the most recent iOS update. Since then, the game board has shrunk and when playing, my hand partially obscures the board so you can’t see some of the cards played by the AI players. It’s horrible and annoying. So you only get 2 stars until things are fixed. Happy to change my rating once this is corrected. Get with it Concrete.

AI players (in single player) seem to always know which suit you are a little heavy in and just zero in til you go bust. If this happened incidentally I’d say it is just the luck of the draw.

Enough comments have already been made about the AI partner not really having your back and having an insatiable appetite for Sand Bags. Really, who actually plays this way?

Other than those nagging issues, I like the game and try to anticipate and play against the aforementioned anomaly’s. Hope it gets fixed someday but hey, whad’ya want for a couple of bucks?

The bug that makes the 2nd to the n-th hand deal the user everything except face cards and spades has finally been squashed! Excellent! Please fix the issue that this game has with sandbagging. There are 13 books in a deck...why are both opposing players and the user’s partner notoriously bidding between 2-3 books??? Then scoring between 5-7 books? Those sandbags add up quickly with the current system. And it is frustrating when you have built a comfortable lead and then have to give up 100 pts b/c the A.I. “partner” can’t bid! The “hint” bidding feature needs a tweak as well. Oh, and the A.I. will conveniently “renigg” during the course of a game. There should be a book checking feature to flag and recompense if it continues to occur.

First, I’ll start by saying the graphics and animations are Great! However the game play itself is very deceptive with scoring and awarding the booked hand. You bid your hand, you make your book, and the opponent is awarded your book after you’ve clearly won that hand. Example: Hearts lead (played by the opponent or even myself),everyone plays a hearts except for my AI partner or myself who cuts with a spade ( due to no hearts)...why is the hand then given to the the wrong team ( the book in this case should go to the player who cut with the highest spade, if that’s what was played to win the book). The game awards the book to the wrong team, the system seems to not recognize the sequence of players and who actually should be awarded the book based on who played which card and the value of that card. Not to mention the other problem of seriously reneging. The developers placed a lot of emphasis on graphics, which is Wonderful. Maybe now they can work on the integrity of the game with proper scoring and awarding of the books. Once this is done, you will have an exceptional product.

Unable to install on iPad Pro 11. I had old version and it crashed last week. Please update for iPad, still has 1.1.13 version. New version is on my iPhone (Samsung) no problem. This is the best Spades game available and I miss playing it. Please update for iPad.

There is a message when I open AcesSpades that says it requires an update but when I check AcesSpades Store the only option I have is to “open” and when I do it cycles back to the same update needed message.
I LOVE your game but I’m stuck in the never-ending cycle.

Please HELP.

I play this game every single day at least once. No complaints, but I’m not far from reaching the 1000 mark and I’m seriously hoping that there is more of a commotion than a little confetti waiting for me. Imagine how many games I’ve played to get to that point. Maybe a Bugatti or at least a Mercedes. LOL

Every time I open the game, it forces me to open AcesSpades Store to update. I updated the game, but it’s still forcing me to open AcesSpades Store where the “update” button is now the “open” button. It’s a shame because I really enjoy playing this game. Please fix it. Thanks!

My dog could makes better decisions. The AI always throws the highest spade in hand instead of lowest when breaking trump. I can't believe I paid for this. So disappointing. I want my money back. The logic is so horrible. There is no way that all the people listed on the credits page can be real. I would think that of the 20+ people indicated at least one of them has played spades before

The Spades bug fix created another issue for iPhone 12 users; instead of the game being played full screen, it is a quarter of the screen, and my hand takes up most of the center where the cards are played. Sometimes I am unable to see the card played by the player to the left of me because my hand is covering it up. I will check often to see if/when you fix the issue, until then, I’ve downloaded another Spades game.

I don’t like how if you make over your bit 10 times they take points away. Why has the screen get smaller if the person on the left goes first you can't see the card.😩