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Spades ∙ – Entertainment Game Review
Spades ∙ is a Entertainment/Card/Family game from Optime Software LLC, first launched in 28th April 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 27,010+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Spades ∙ Stand Out
The classic card game Spades is now available on your iPhone or iPod Touch. With rich graphics and smooth animations, Spades Free is the premier Spades app on the app store – and best of all, it's free.
Place your bids and work with your partner to outfox your opponent. You'll need a great combination of strategy and teamwork to win!
Spades Free features an outstanding artificial intelligence engine. Three different difficulty levels ensure that you can play against a computer opponent that matches your skill level.
Spades Free offers many exciting features, including:
- Great graphics and awesome sound effects
- Multiple card styles
- Outstanding card animations
- Configurable game speed (slow, medium, or fast)
- Automatic save when you get a phone call or exit the app
If you've been waiting for a killer Spades app for your iPhone or iPod Touch, this is it. Download Spades Free today and check it out!
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Spades ∙ is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th February 2024
Recent improvements include:
• Minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Spades ∙ 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:
The programming of Megan's play is very poor and suggests an acute lack of game knowledge. We don't know why we continue to play and hope to radically curtail or abstain from playing the game altogether. Sincerely, Bud The person or persons programming Megan need help with their job performance and learn the basics of the game. There is no rhyme or reason for the way Megan drops a card. This occasionally happens with the other two players as well. We read a couple of the reviews and they nailed Megan's inept programming. Bud The last our problem is Megan. Poor programming! Also, the excessive advertising is annoying.
Love playing Spades and tho its not fancy its entertaining.
We love the app its really cool and fun we think its just really awesome.
We enjoyed playing spades as young adult when we first got married. We are having fun playing again as much as we wants r any time we want.
This has always been a fun game to us. Enjoy the ride.
Ive played this game for years – and LOVE it!! All of a sudden the buttons dont work to chose numbers etc. Very frustrated! Ive deleted and reinstalled many times.
There is way too many games they want you to get. Very disruptive.
This is a fun game but it could of been so much more. Megan is as bad as it gets.If they fix Megan it would be a 5 star game.Megan continues to cut out her partner it's very frustrating to the point where we'll stop playing.
The game play if good. The only issue we have is when playing at the highest level, in order to compete with a human, they make your partner an idiot. So you play with a handicap of your partner does stupid stuff. Are you good enough to win with a handicap.
We enjoy playing this for the most part but the ai makes some errors consistently: 1. It should avoid taking tricks once the bid is met when playing with sand bags. 2. It should take a trick as high as possible when the partner is playing nil and has not yet played. 3. It should not take a trick the partner has already won unless it has no choice or has a very good reason to want the lead. 4. Would be nice to report some statistics.
Like this game, paid for no ads but the banner on the bottom is not only in the way & has disrupting flashing but we KEEP BUMPING IT WHICH RESULTS IN AN UNWANTED AD.
We miss the old version. This ones chock full of flashy lights and stupid emojis from your computer opponents. We just want to play a simple card game. We dont need all the stupid window dressing. And this last quibble is minor yet also somehow infuriating. Why did they recolor some of the suits? Just give us the standard deck. Yet another case of some company trying to fix what isnt broken and making it worse.
We hate commercials for other games and we Wont be bullied into paying $5 a month for ad free Games. This was a safe Game Till some greedy executive made that decision.. Let us just play and keep your ads to a minimum.
This game adds a whole new element to Spades, you have to learn how to play against your partner. For example, if you bet nil, almost every time your partner will throw a really low card, and a lot of times the opponent to your right will throw a high card, almost like theyre trying to help you. Also you will have to learn to bet while taking into account your partner doesnt know how to bag out the opponent, your partner will take as many tricks as they can.
God forbid we play this game while listening to music. The ads wont allow it.
We just went blind nill. We passed our partner two high diamonds. An opponent led a diamond and our partner played a low one thus setting us right away. The proper thing would have been to play the king or queen of diamonds. Very frustrating that this happens regularly.
Megan is not astute to stopping a no bid. The idea of throwing off cards, allows the red team victory every time. The game is poorly written with a glitch for the red team to see, or read the blue team Cards. No real Spades player would ever allow the app to leave the design gate.. This game was created by o non spades player. Megan is a total liability, and her defense against a zero bid hand is devoid.
She underbins her hand or dont make the books she has.
The programming of Megan's play is very poor and suggests an acute lack of game knowledge. We don't know why we continue to play and hope to radically curtail or abstain from playing the game altogether. Sincerely, Bud The person or persons programming Megan need help with their job performance and learn the basics of the game. There is no rhyme or reason for the way Megan drops a card. This occasionally happens with the other two players as well. We read a couple of the reviews and they nailed Megan's inept programming. Bud The last our problem is Megan. Poor programming! Also, the excessive advertising is annoying.
Nice game with rapid action , every now and then your partner will let you down but most time pretty accurate with bids. The one thing we would change is giving our opponent and partner skill levels. Change their names.
We dont think your assigned playing partner for us totally understands how to play. She makes too many mistakes. Unless we also have to overcome her play as well at the hardest level.
Ive been playing this game for years and always enjoyed it. A couple of months ago, the ads started showing up every time you start or return to the app. Not a big deal, however, now the app has started to frequently send you to a browser with an ad without you tapping anything even during the middle of a game. This now causes you to close the browser and return to the game, which serves you another ad. This can happen repeatedly, making play intolerable.
Computer generated partners are Stupid.
It would be nice to able to change partner to maybe, one who is aggressive or less aggressive, two our partner count books and none, third our partner will have a high to win a book and put a low card on the table and we would get set.
Partner gets set50% of the time, dont understand blind spots lays a 5 to start game.
The long ads are TERRIBLE, we usually just open a different app rather than watching those ads.
Hate this app now!!! The game play is a joke! The computer partner either underbids to cause penalty or it throws away all high cards and trumps when the other team bids zero, causing you to not make your bid. Please change the game back to where it is realistic game play.
Partner holds on to high cards and bags.
Ads ads ads look little play time.
Easy but a bit better instruction on the 100 & 200 point program would be better. Also, maybe strategy instruction.
Ive been playing this game for a very long time. Love it.. Until now. All of a sudden it plays music even when the sound is off. Very iterating. Would appreciate your help in this matter. Even deleted app and reinstalled it. Music still plays.
We love this game. We play everyday.
Fun game to play and challenging to win at the same time. Can you remember every card played.
This company did a great job of setting up the game. We just find the Spade games method of points is just confusing.
Megan is not astute to stopping a no bid. The idea of throwing off cards, allows the red team victory every time. The game is poorly written with a glitch for the red team to see, or read the blue team Cards. No real Spades player would ever allow the app to leave the design gate.
Too many ads that are hard to bypass. The game itself is great.
We love spades, we would like more setting choices. Also, Megan is BY FAR the WORST partner we have ever played with in all our 50+ years of playing.
Play different levels…from easy to hard. Have lots of fun and up your game as you improve. Download and let the fun begin.
There are only 3 selections you can make for games: Sound, game speed and card style. Then you can choose easy, medium or hard games. The game board is very small, on our iPad, about 1/6 of the available area. Then when you tap to select a card to play then you must then tap the middle of the board to actually play the card. Unbelievably stupid! Deleted after playing 1 game.
Partner will set you . Partner bids horrible.
As soon as we opened this game, we got an advertisement for another game, and we couldnt remove it for at least a minute. So, we quickly deleted this game and never played it. We dont ours ads, but at the very start on the first time you try to play it. Ridiculous.
This game definitely doesnt actually play spades right, how do u set the other team and they dont lose points.
Of course the games are rigged. You know this when your assigned partner plays against you. The program will allow you to win and then it forces you to lose. Wish there was one out there that us at least honest.
This is a free app no changes for years until ad after ad afterwd.
Having ads pop up during a game is annoying but understandable given that we are playing for free. However, when the game resumes the cards shrink. The only way to fix it is to close the app and reload it. If it was once a game we might tolerate it but it happens multiple times a game. Ridiculous.
Having ads pop up during a game is annoying but understandable given that we are playing for free. However, when the game resumes the cards shrink. The only way to fix it is to close the app and reload it. If it was once a game we might tolerate it but it happens multiple times a game. Ridiculous.
Depends on how much add stuff Ill get.
After playing a few weeks it wants you to make a purchase or you have to delete the app and try to start all over again, its one of the worst out there,.
Your partner who is computer savvy we suppose, makes very bad decisions. Causes us to lose games whether its bidding or playing cards! Ugh! Its very frustrating!FrancesSobotik.
More fun to play without so many ads.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.16
- Size: 80.17 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Optime Software LLC
Last updated: 16th February 2024 | Genre: Entertainment, Card | Developer: Optime Software LLC