Last updated on November 29th, 2025 at 03:34 am
Politaire – Card Game Review
Politaire is a Card/Puzzle game from Topebox Company Limited, first launched in 13th July 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 184+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Politaire Stand Out
A handcrafted Solitaire game with Poker blended, interesting game mechanics, charming clean visual & a native feel one handed portrait play!
Politaire is a minimalistic, a new modern Solitaire experience prepared just for you.
Politaire is a Solitaire mixed with Poker. Your aim is to make winning hands with 5 active cards in your hand.
Choose cards that you want to discard and swipe it away. Upcoming cards will fill up your active hand and score if you make a winning hand. Discarded cards will go back to the pile, waiting to come up again.
The minimalist visuals hide an interesting depth that will keep challenging and surprising as you master it.
** Politaire offers:
- 2 game modes (Single Deck & Double Deck).
- Endless challenges.
- Game Center Leaderboards & Achievements & Cloud saves.
- Brilliant design of Card-Faces & Card-Backs
- One handed portrait control. (With custom option for Left-Hand or Right-Hand players)
- Detailed Game Statistics.
- Night Mode (For night play).Thank you for trying Politaire!
Ell Tee
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Politaire is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th October 2022
Recent improvements include:
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New Special Game Mode: Queen Rule (Nóc Nhà)
In honor of Vietnamese Women's Day, in this special version of the game, the Q card's value will evolve and become the most valuable card, symbolizing women's essential role. In this unique game mode, Q may be any card in the deck, allowing you to form the most powerful combinations and greatly enhancing the fun of the game.
With two new buttons will appear in the special mode so you can choose to score:
Score: Use Queen Cards to score the best possible hand
Hold: Keep the Queen -
Unlock new exclusive Legendary Card "Tứ Bình"
Tứ Bình painting: Holding an exam for four exceptional females represents the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, and it symbolizes warmth, prosperity, luck, and happiness. Through the meaning of the painting, it is to honor the great talents and merits of women and to realize the important role of modern women in each family. Remember that women are meant to be loved. The painting's aim is to appreciate women's remarkable talents and merits, as well as to recognize the important role of modern women in each family. Keep in mind that women are meant to be loved.
Log in between October 20 – 26 to receive. Don't miss it!
Download & Availability
Politaire is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great app, but game does not recognize no more moves with nine cards left, hence you lose all points made that round, and have to restart the game.
We gave this 3 stars because even though it is fun, too often we have had our daily challenges reset even though we havent failed to complete a challenge. We just opened it and should have been on our third daily challenge, but it reset meagain.
We have been enjoying this game when we have a few minutes to kill. One option we REALLY would like to see is larger numbers/symbols of the cards to be played. Currently they are way to small to read clearly for these aging eyes.
Love both Solitaire and Poker. Seeing this had been a #1 Apple choice in the past, we took a chance. But why hadnt it taken off? We think we see. Its more a game of chance, vs. Skill, sadly Loved the board, ease of use once one figures out how to correctly swipe and the colors. Its even exciting to see by tomorrow with four days of wins in a row, Ill get a cute new card-face. Sadly, strategy as in poker or solitaire isnt the aim of this could be really terrific little game. Its mostly a game of chance. Once your initial planned move plays and clears, previously unviewed cards speedily drop down, making other new matches, and this can happen many times/many hands in a row. Worse though, add to that the scores on whats happening, also, zip by from the left and right so very, very fast you cant even read them; so, its all just a blur. So, while the sounds, colors and speed of all the action may make for an entertaining initial display, any amusement and fascination quickly dulls. Want to beat your score? The play pile quickly dwindles down. Single pairs get played, where you may not have wanted them, and worse yet, everything is happening so very fast that you cant ever get a grasp of each hand that automatically plays or even each score and combos as they do play. The pairings are a blur. The scores only a flash; so, are totally illegible. So, whats the point? The challenge of aiming for a high score the banner of other high scores flashes across the top is lost, when one cant even see how ones own double planned plays (or desired combos) really do score. Theres way, way more to successful scoring in fact, really, unknown than the handy poker scoring guide. We have a feeling, while we thought this might be one of our keepers, unless theres a future slo-motion dial allowing us to have the pleasure to actually see and follow every play (and score!), Politaire will be relegated to the delete pile before long. Sad, too, as its a nice, cute little game that just might be fun, otherwise. But with so much automatic and happening so very fast that one cannot even follow whats the point? Its mostly chance and too fast to follow, at that. Youre really getting to play only very few real solitaire/poker hands.
Game seemed cool. Visuals are decent for a card game. Easy to figure out how to play too. However, even though it claims it has cloud saving, we dont see it saving after reinstalling it to see what it did. It just starts over with tutorial. So without a saving function, if you reinstall it for whatever reason or install it on a new device, you have to start over. Its pointless unlocking new card backs and keeping high scores because of this.
If you like this game like we did, do not update. Smooth motion of gameplay is gone. Many many more ads, almost cannot even click on menu items because they are covered with ads Return the game to the smooth gameplay of previous version and cut out the excessive ads.
We love this game! Its really good for passing time, and the graphics are beautiful.
Wont let us enter game crashes as we open it.
Been a long time player of this game, this new update reflects it.
This game was an easy 5 stars before the developers got cute and decided to opt for pretty over functionality. The latest version of this game is unplayable because of how off the calibration is. We can spend 10 min trying to pick two or three cards and it still wont pick the one Im tapping. Too bad, this one was a really nice mashup of poker and solitaire, really unique. Hopefully the devs fix it soon.
We can't get past tutorial because the swipe doesn't work all the time. Can't press buttons on settings.
Used to love this game, but doesnt work on iPhone XR. Touch us very messed up.
The app blows up now under ios13.
This game is awesome and looks amazing but the touch screen is WAY off on the iPhone Xr please fix this. The entire app needs revamping maybe reverting back to its original design? Please do something this app is too good to simply forget about.
One wish for this fun, fast game is that we could play it in landscape. As it is we play it sideways and it hurts our neck. Lol.
Needs support for the iPhone XR, the touch screen tapping has to be above where you touch for it to work, its off point. Please update, seems really fun, but cant play… :(.
This apps instructions are in what Im presuming is Vietnamese and there does not seem to be any settings so we do not know what is going on.
Great solitaire game but the only problem is after every game is done, the app completely closes. A little annoying.
Nice graphics and gameplay, expect it gets old quickly. Just not enough to hold our attention.
Simple yet engaging. Easy to play while engaging a crying toddler.
Lots of fun, a real thinking game that keeps you coming back.
Definitely a nice time filler. It's bad because even when we have stuff to do we still opt to play this one.
We love this game so much! We used to play solitaire at home, at school, on the computer, and on the floor. One of our favorite childhood games.
We like how easy the game is to pick up and it doesn't take that much time to play a full game. Ads aren't that long either.
Love this game!! So addictive and relaxing!! We would recommend it to anyone.
Once we figured out that there's a certain way to swipe the cards, we love it! Don't give up if it's hard at first.
This game is a REALLY GOOD FUN KILLER because we normally have nothing to do around the house.
Michael here. Where are your fingers.
Great way to learn Poker combinations. Highly recommend this for anyone learning poker.
We've been looking for an enjoyable version of solitaire for a long while…one that doesn't take a long time or too much brain power. Here, our friends, in this poker-solitaire mashup, is our hope found, in this holy grail of single player card games. Get it now. Pat yourself on the back. Beat our 20,499 point score.
Challenging enough to be interesting but not frustrating. Fun game.
Clean, simple and easy to play.
Pine l studio game t Vietnam Rt thch cc tr chi ca studio ng h cho 5 sao.
If you are familiar with one handed solitaire than this is the next step. Fun, Fast and the Poker twist is just right. Smooth graphics and clean interface. Good Job.
This game is great when you have only minutes while waiting or you need to pay attention to what is going on around you. Very enjoyable, easy to learn. Also fun to play for longer periods when the situation permits. Knowledge of poker hands helpful but a reference chart is accessible at all times.
Poker revised but the scoring is still confusing but it's still addictive. May miss a couple of days play but then can't put it down.
Have really enjoyed playing this card game a lot. We have learned a lot about poker that we never understood before.
Must get if you love poker and solitaire.
Addicting! Don't start, haha. Actually you'll love it.
It's easy to get the hang of and it's pretty fun. It has ads, but only after you finish a game so it never interrupts you.
Politaire is an interesting blend of poker and solitaire. It keeps our interest and we enjoy playing politaire.
This mashup of solitaire and poker is fun to play. One star off for the increased amount of luck vs. Solitaire. Fun game.
Only takes a second to get hooked.
This is a nice game to kill the time.
Just introduced to this game an hour ago.
Good game just wish had a little more to it.
This game is entertaining and different than most internet card games.
This game is easy to play. When we need a break from a tedious, boring or just plain hard job, this is our go-to game. We can play and think at the same time. That's the sign of a good game for us.
1) When the phone is held sideways and game is started, touching the screen doesn't select the right card. We need this to be fixed so we can play in bed, lying sideways 2) sends notifications even though we turned them off 3) got into an infinite loop at the end when there was no way to make any moves but the game still thought there were.
However the free version doesn't hold interest for replayability for long.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 15.2.2
- Size: 90.94 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Topebox Company Limited
Last updated: 12th October 2022 | Genre: Card, Puzzle | Developer: Topebox Company Limited