Like the Game mechanics, but missing an important feature

Overall the game play is good and the ads are tolerable for a free game. There’s one ad platform that crashes any other audio apps running in the background so those could be replaced with the ones that don’t. One feature that’s missing that I find frustrating is the ability to give up on a game that’s not going to be able to be won. If you use all the hints, and the joker, then you can get to the “no moves available option”, but it requires watching like 10 ads to gracefully give up on the game. I would like to see a give up option that gracefully exits the game so I can start a new one without going through the ads. If I go back to the main menu to start a new game, I can only do this about 3 times until the app glitches and I have to close and reopen to start a new game. Also the longer I play, the odds of the app locking up increase. So I can really only play 3 regular games before the app has to be closed and reopened to continue playing.

I’ve never written a review before but this app makes me mildly infuriated

This Solitaire app is the only app on my device that makes it drop frames, heat up, and lag. I play other games where there are tons of graphics and my friends have problems with lag and frames dropping but I have had no problems with those games. It is only this game that really messes with my device. Sometimes, whenever I watch ads (either to get undos, hints, or just because I finished a game of Solitaire), the game freezes or just stops working for no reason. Then I have to restart the app and lose my progress. Now, with this recent update, for some reason the game consistently changes the screen orientation for no reason even though my device has been still. Sometimes it gets stuck like this in a different orientation, has the screen cut off, and I have to restart the app. I don’t know if this is just a problem with my device or the game itself. But otherwise, the app has a clean interface and is overall a fun experience (barring those annoying problems that mess up my progress). I really enjoy the events with cute drawings and how there are daily challenges.

Great App, Too Many Ads Cause Problems

Overall, like the app. It’s easy to maneuver within the app to access play options (regular game, daily challenge, post card challenges) and access settings. The design is clean and the game functions/animations run very smoothly. One serious issue I have with the app, which is why I removed 1 star, is the high volume of ads. I completely understand that this brings revenue to the developers, but the app constantly running ads was inhibiting game play by being extremely disruptive and it was requiring an excessive amount of energy. If I play this game off of airplane mode it drains the battery of my phone very rapidly and causes my phone to heat up to a point where it stops functioning properly until it cools down. Would recommend the developers consider a different way to run ads on the app that doesn’t risk the overall functionality of the device!

Are people cheating?

I play the tournaments and I can’t figure out how some players run their scores up so fast. They have to be cheating some way. At first it wasn’t like that and about a month ago players would suddenly go from low scores to extremely high scores. It ruins the fun. I play all the time and I don’t understand how a player can get a high score of 1 million or more in a game. I play on an iPad mostly. How are people getting such high scores? I can’t figure it out. After a year or more my highest score is about 165,000. Today I saw a higher score of over 2 million. Can anyone explain this to me. Now months later I don’t believe it’s just skill. Today after almost 9 days someone suddenly had 29 million points! in second place has over 15 million. Third place 5 million. Something is not right. I believe some are hacking a computer to play 24 hours a day. It was bad a few months ago and got better but suddenly this week the scores are way out of reason. Can anything be done about this?

Used to be Great

In the past I would’ve given this version of solitaire 5 stars. But recently some changes have really rubbed me the wrong way. I just play the game casually when I’m bored. It used to be that you could undo as many times as you wanted, which was great for a casual experience. But now the number of undos is limited, so I never use them anymore, lest I have to pay for more once I reach zero. Moreover, this is a minor gripe, but the game no longer tells you when you’re out of moves? It’s a minor inconvenience, but when playing a game as quick and simple as solitaire, the alert would be nice. Also, this has been mentioned in other reviews, but getting a high score is totally luck-based at this point since within 3 or 4 games, you usually reach an unsolvable level, I assume again so that the player needs to pay for privileges to keep going. I don’t know what caused the app to change, but I wish it would go back to the way it was.

Hitting the unsolvable wall

Overall, there is a lot going well for this version of solitaire that i just decided to buy the ad free version. Always appreciate that Easybrain gives that option. The issue i have with the current build of the game is what feels like an “unavoidable wall” you hit when you’re playing a high score marathon. I get that not all solitaire games end in a solution… but the way the game progresses from stage to stage, youre basically guaranteed to run into and unsolvable stage by stage 3-4. It makes the high score more of a stroke of dumb luck than clever tactics or persistence. Perhaps all stages can be solvable and a limited amount of stage start over option available that allows players to reattempt? Also the single move rewind is basically useless for speed solvers like me. Often the single move back is just a card flip from the main deck.

Unbeatable wall (paid)

As others have said, the game mechanics are hard set to punish paid users, once they have your money. I play thousands of games and I’d say I can’t pass first level 25% of the time, the second level 25% of the time and get hard restricted at level 4 about 49% of the time. Level 5 and up - that used to be easily achievable in one in five plays - only happens once every 5 months (I play dozens of games a day). I still play a lot cause it’s got a good UI, but the “wall” - especially once you’ve paid - is very frustrating. And don’t tell me in your response that it doesn’t exist (I know someone who also paid and gets same wall. It’s statistically impossible for it to be random. Just do the right thing and make the game actually playable. It costs you nothing. Don’t do a “runner” once I’ve paid you. Official review: 4 stars UI, 0 stars gameplay mechanics.

Turned bad now

I know they said every level is beatable, some challenging but able to be beaten. However, I played this game before and had never failed the first stage. There’s no reason for the first stage to be challenging in any way. I used to play this for maybe two years on my old phone and it was never like this. Now it makes you watch an ad to figure out if there’s no moves left. It used to just say “No more moves” and I’m almost 100% sure they intentionally made it easier to run out of moves so you’ll be forced to watch an ad to get the hint and watch an ad to get a joker to continue playing. It’s so sad because this was my favorite game. I played it all the time and enjoyed it now it’s absolutely terrible forcing you to watch ads to enjoy it and constantly forcing you out of moves on levels that shouldn’t be difficult. I hate playing and I wish they would fix it because it’s the only solitaire app that i enjoy the interface of.

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