Art of Solitaire - Card Games

Years and years! My go to game for medical waiting rooms, layovers and late sleepless nights. Lately ive been kind of miffed about the changes to collecting cards, I really DO NOT LIKE how more than half the time you get cards from decks you already have. The odds need fixed. I don’t mind occasionally hitting a dupe, but more than 75% of the time makes card collecting painful when collecting things is typically an activity and game function I really love and thoroughly appreciate. Also as of recently the game will not even let me watch an ad for a card reward as it already forced me to watch one as soon as my game ended (with no reward) and when i try to willingly watch an ad for a prize it just says there’s no ads??? I just watched one what do you mean!! I really would like a little compensation for that business because that left a very gross feeling with me. Like i feel like im owed at least a crack at a new card for every other ad. You’re way stingy about them as it is, and it makes collecting a slog. It wasn’t always this way, either, or i might not care as much but the rate of progression for as many different decks as there are to collect is just ridiculous right now as it used to be manageable and even very enjoyable. Right now i make so little progress with so much gameplay it feels downright pointless.

The art and design of this app is so much fun. My only complaint is that the ads in this app are more aggressive than any other app I’ve ever experienced. They typically have three stages, and you have to exit out three times like it’s a pop up. The ways to exit are often hidden or small so that you accidentally click on them and pull up the App Store. I understand needing ad revenue, and I enjoy this enough to pay a one-time price, but it’s a highly-priced subscription service instead. It really lowers the quality of the app, but at least it’s very pretty and fun, so those win out over how bad the ads are. I just felt like I should write a review and warn people what they’re getting into if they don’t pay the subscription service.

I really hate to write this review as on first impression I absolutely love this concept. The beautiful card art and backgrounds, the flick animation is satisfying and makes it easy to play with one hand, lastly I adore the ASMR option for sound. It would be the PERFECT solitaire app for me and I would’ve even been willing to pay the over expensive annual fee if it weren’t for the fact that the game continues to try to micro transaction constantly even if if you pay the $35 for the year. The second thing is that I am a semi-beginner at solitaire and I prefer to play in bed as I’m going to sleep as a soothing and relaxing activity. But even the easy levels on this app get frustratingly hard fast (this is in comparison to the two other solitaire games I play in which I’ve never had trouble finishing easy games). This is again because they want to micro transaction you to buy more hints (which they only give you ten even if you buy premium). If they ever added an endless random deal game option rather than the level system (that deals the same exact hand over and over) I would gladly pay them to play it. Until then I am deleting this app. I genuinely hope they read the reviews and make changes as I would love to come back to it eventually.