Last updated on January 14th, 2026 at 11:53 pm
Spades – Cards Game – Card Game Review
Spades – Cards Game is a Card/Board game from Blackout Lab SL, first launched in 16th August 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 43,932+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Spades – Cards Game Stand Out
Spades is one of the most famous card games in the world.
Play and strategize with your partner and take the number of tricks you bid before the round started. Be the first to reach 250 points to win!
Precision, strategy, and good planning will be key to master the game.
Don't forget, Spades are always trump!
How to play?
- Bid the number of tricks you think you will be able to take.
- Follow the suit led if possible. If you cannot, play a trump or discard
- The trick is won by the player who played the highest card in the led suit orthe highest trump
- Spades cannot be led unless they are broken, meaning previously used as trump
- The round finishes when all 13 tricks have been played
- Reach 250 or 500 points to win!
Why choose Spades?
- Tailored for mobile and tablet devices
- Easy to play with a modern and relaxing look
- Smart and adaptive partner and opponents AI
- Customize your background and cards
- Play with or without Sandbag penalty
- Play with or without Blind NIL
- Auto save so that you can resume whenever you want
Spades is completely FREE to play, enjoy now hours of exciting card games!
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Spades – Cards Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Update your app and enjoy:
• More customization options
• New avatars: show off your style at the table
• New online multiplayer
Download & Availability
Spades – Cards Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Spades – Cards Game on App Store
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:
A good game to brush up on your game.
Advise anybody likes playing cards this spades app.
Nice graphics, smooth play , we like it.
We like the game but it makes weird sounds periodically during the game. The only way to stop it is to go out and come back in. It does it to frequently. It becomes annoying! Ive tried reinstalling it but comes back. What can we do to eliminate this.
Great game just need fewer ads.
If you can. Will you make them a little bit larger, theyre rather small and hard to see.
Overall the app/ game is not bad. There are a few things to beware of. First: the adds can get annoying, but if you can handle that. The game play is mid. Second: the Ai partner doesnt always appear to be on your team. Just know that you when you go NIL. Overall C+ for the app.
If you can deal with that, enjoy. We just watched our partner trump a trick the opponent was about to take. Whats wrong with that, you ask? The opponent in question was going for a nil bid! Aside from the tactical algorithm needing serious work, the game really needs an oops/undo button.
Two problems: 1) The Evony ad is too long, and also annoying 2) The AI partner doesnt know how to protect the partners nil bid. Please fix.
We used to really enjoy this app. Now, it forces you to follow suit (as it should), but we have caught it allowing the other 3 players to not follow suit so they can catch additional hands later. It has gone from ads after every game to ads after every hand.
Game is great, partner is lousy.
The ads after every game are bad enough but if you dont watch them they eventually will start giving you Ads while your playing- right in the middle of a hand. About to say goodbye to this app too.
We love playing this game. It makes us relax.
Easy to maneuver. User friendly.
We have been in joyfuly playing this game and we love how you are able to make a good game.
Great version ! Clear design and excellent pacing.
We play this game a lot and enjoy it ever since we minored in it in college. Ha! We just wish the developers would strengthen our Partner response when we go NIL. Something along the lines of : IF player goes nil THEN this (partner emphasis on covering players NIL ELSE the way the game is now. The game would be a TEN STAR app if this change was made.
Once we start playing Im stuck for about an hour.
Ugghh! These devices are far too expensive to be riddled with advertisements embedded in everything. When will software developers stop being so careless. Is money the motive behind poor software development. These smartphones are not freedamn! The price tag has left us speechless.
Easy to meld, bid, and play! Lots of fun get your practice in for your family games.
We like playing this game specially when Iam winning okay.
Its an ok game if youre just passing the time.
Enjoy Playing against competitors.
This spade game we'd very challenging we love it.
Very clean graphics and excellent pace the best Spaces Ive seen.
We enjoyed the game, but your music is terrible. All it was was loud noise no music fix it please.
The earliest memories of playing Spades was on the back of a van we took to go to swimming lessons. Good stuff.
Challenging and addicting love it.
Its like sittin in the day room and playin with the fellas.
Better than live play! No arguments, It is what it is. Absolutely It.
We Love this game, 250 is game not 500..only if ppl can be rated and If we could load our game now would be perfect.
This game always give the computer all the aces literally.
Not because Im an amazing spades player and definitely not because of an amazing partner. We win because we know exactly what the bots are going to do. Once you figure out the pattern youll always win too. They updated a couple months back and it only took a dozen or so games to figure out the new pattern. For example, your teammate will never throw off unless its a spade when trying to bust your opponents nil, but your opponents will throw off. They dont play like humans. Make the bots play like real people and make score keeping more game like, we dont know, add tiers or something.
We just wish the adds would slowdown.
Too many advertisements for other games every hand.
Your game plays poorly at critical moments! Your algorithms need some work. Very poor strategic execution.
First, The sound stick while you concentrating on how many books you can play. ANNOYING! So we have to turn it down which defeats the purpose of having music. Secon the players Always underbid on the opposite team. Come on get it right sometimes at least its not fun that the other two players Always have more than there bid. Then theirs our teammate. He overbids, underbids. Plays against us. We cant get a rhythm with that player bot. Also it would be nice it we had the option to choose emoji players, and use the expressions like in a different version we have played. Unfortunately they thought it was a good idea to change everything about themselves and absolutely ruin the perfection they have achieved previously. So, if you actually monitor this link please consider these issues to better the game playing experience. Thanks.
Love this game! Reminds us of the days spent with our Dad and those in the military.
Hands down (no pun intended), its the best game of spades out there, period.
This is niceeeee really cool and fun.
Its a fast game, gotta be on your toes.
Been trying to play spades for years.
We love it. Favorite spades game.
The only downside is they dont play bags or high and low jokers.
Its quick is easy even for an old man like us even the 30 second ad or ever how long it takes doesnt seem like it takes that long. We love the game thank you.
Ive been playing spades since we were in the army 40 years ago. Aside from our friends this isthe only only app that provides any challenge.
It would be more interesting& challenging if the Jokers & Deuces were added. And being able to invite friends to play along, otherwise, its company keeping. Thanks.
Too much intermission between games Its just lingers on we have no patience for it It takes away the pleasure of the game.
If a team gets a busted nil, the hands that player who bid nil wins are not supposed to be added to their opponents score. For example, if a player bids nil and his partner bids five, the the player that bids nil catches two tricks and their partner only catches four, the score should be -100 for the round, -50 for the busted nil and -50 for the partner who did not make their bid. Instead, the computer is adding the two tricks from the busted nil to the partners four tricks for a total of six giving the team 5 for the partner who didnt make their bid of five minus the 50 for the busted nil giving the a score of 1 instead of -100 as per the rules. Also, the computer allows your opponent not to follow suit while it forces you to follow the rules and follow suit if you have it. Then, the opponent can later come back and win a hand with the card they should have played on a previous hand.
Our partner always cut our hand instead of throwing off brut the opens always throw off if their partner got the book mines play like a novice and Im playing on a harder level but we always get our hand cut when we have the book and it put us short on the score board.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.45.1
- Size: 231.80 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
- Developer: Blackout Lab SL
Last updated: 23rd October 2025 | Genre: Card, Board | Developer: Blackout Lab SL