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Spades Cutthroat Pirates – Entertainment Game Review
Spades Cutthroat Pirates is a Entertainment/Card/Casual game from Larry McBride, first launched in 30th October 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 45+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Spades Cutthroat Pirates Stand Out
Spades is presented like never before, in this unique story-driven twist on the classic card game. Pressed into service by pirates, you must match wits with the crew before facing off against Captain Anderson of the Rose Marie to win your freedom.
You’ve played Spades—now play Spades with Pirates!
Features:
•Extremely competitive computer Opponents/AI that do not cheat (with the exception of Crackers; he will rat you out).
•4 Player Partner custom game mode. Choose your pirate partner in this most popular way to play Spades.
•6 chapters in a unique Cutthroat Story Mode, with increasing difficulty and a continuing story.
•13 Unique Opponents with their own personalities, backgrounds, voices, and skill.
•Featuring the extraordinary voice talent of John Varker and company.
•Tournament-style play in which the goal is to be the first to reach a predetermined number of wins.
•Compete for high scores on the Leaderboards in special tourneys.
•22 Achievements to complete.
•Custom Game mode: choose final score, tournament wins, opponents, and more.
•Unlock Custom Game Opponents: through purchase or by defeating the pirates in Story Mode.
•Custom soundtrack that sets the pirate mood, with more unlocked as you play.
Story excerpt: You wonder about the name of the ship. When you ask Hamish, he gives you a disquieted look and beckons you closer. “None of us know, at least not the whole story, but never ask the Cap'n. He's mor'n likely to bleed ya back and toss ya to the sharks.”
Discover the mystery aboard the Rose Marie.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Spades Cutthroat Pirates is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th July 2023
Recent improvements include:
-Leaderboard saved games are now correctly saving. Some incorrect leaderboard games may be deleted.
-You may now Strike Your Colors in Leaderboard games at the end of a hand if you are more than 200 behind the leader. If the tourney isn’t over the tourney will continue.
-New Leaderboard Training Match has been added. You may now practice using the Finesse based scoring system of Leaderboards before playing in an official match.
Download & Availability
Spades Cutthroat Pirates is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Spades Cutthroat Pirates 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:
It is frustrating when you know the computer sets you up plus giving 7s plus back to back to one opponent knowing you will get nowhere. If that did not happen so frequently we would rate 5 stars.
This game gets us to laugh out loud, enjoy a well-written adventure, all while playing good cards. You can cut the music off by tapping the violin. Then, you play to the relaxing sound of the ocean waves, the creaking ship, and pirate card banter! It takes you through a fun and detailed story, while playing spades. You can click on each of the Pirates and learn their background. Legend has it . . . Ha! The writing of the story and the lines the Pirates say are quite enjoyable and funny! Thank you for also having the words printed on screen. You can also set it so they talk less, if you lose the tourney against them and play the same people. It happily took us awhile to beat everyone, and now we see that there are tourneys and other new ways to keep playing. It's free, or for $1 you can stop the commercials. Otherwise, it's nice and easy to mute them. Touch the megaphone on screen. The game is free, but up to $3 max for a few perks. We paid for the not required perks, and definitely got our money's worth. WAY better than the other card games apps we've played. Thank you for making it so entertaining. Well done.
A game the whole family can play and enjoy. Our 12 yr old and our husband love to play… We love to see who's the farthest along in the game, a bit of friendly family competition. We all give it five stars… 15stars totally.
We play spades a lot and this app has the best A.we. We have found so far. We like this three man version of spades its a lot of fun.
So as u alll know we're Larry's step daughter ! The famous "candace" … He talks about us a lot doesn't he? Well this game passed our inspection . We're really picky on the games that take our time and this one won't waste your time for sure!! The story line is pretty chill as well we think it needs some more advertisement. Hey ted Ima make a commercial for your app.
It's nice to finally see a three handed (or four handed for that matter) spades app that had some thought and planning put into it. The AI is much better than anything we've seen on the other spades apps out there, and especially for cut throat, which has many more variables than partner spades. The AI on most of the spades apps out there seems to be written by someone that never got any further into learning the game than reading the rule book, but this one will make you work for it. We've been playing cut throat for many years now, and you can expect to get set several times before you beat the Captian and Cracker. The designer obviously put some thought and planning into the story and graphics. Well done sir. So overall we'd rate the AI as best we've played against, great job incorporating the jacks and special rules into the game, good job on the graphics and music. And nice touch with the characters' voices. Muy bien.
The graphics and storyline set the mood of an adventure on the high seas. The characters of the shipmates are comical and keep the game entertaining as you play. The game of spades is played between you and two of the crew. The sea shanties will have you humming along and the giggles are plenty. This is a fun game indeed. Highly recommended.
Really fun game definitely worth it.
Highly recommend giving this fun spades game a try.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.66
- Size: 121.63 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: [Larry McBride]()
Last updated: 26th July 2023 | Genre: Entertainment, Card | Developer: Larry McBride