Solitaire – Classic Card Games

Overall the game play is good and the ads are tolerable for a free game. There’s one ad platform that crashes any other audio apps running in the background so those could be replaced with the ones that don’t. One feature that’s missing that I find frustrating is the ability to give up on a game that’s not going to be able to be won. If you use all the hints, and the joker, then you can get to the “no moves available option”, but it requires watching like 10 ads to gracefully give up on the game. I would like to see a give up option that gracefully exits the game so I can start a new one without going through the ads. If I go back to the main menu to start a new game, I can only do this about 3 times until the app glitches and I have to close and reopen to start a new game. Also the longer I play, the odds of the app locking up increase. So I can really only play 3 regular games before the app has to be closed and reopened to continue playing.

This Solitaire app is the only app on my device that makes it drop frames, heat up, and lag. I play other games where there are tons of graphics and my friends have problems with lag and frames dropping but I have had no problems with those games. It is only this game that really messes with my device. Sometimes, whenever I watch ads (either to get undos, hints, or just because I finished a game of Solitaire), the game freezes or just stops working for no reason. Then I have to restart the app and lose my progress. Now, with this recent update, for some reason the game consistently changes the screen orientation for no reason even though my device has been still. Sometimes it gets stuck like this in a different orientation, has the screen cut off, and I have to restart the app. I don’t know if this is just a problem with my device or the game itself. But otherwise, the app has a clean interface and is overall a fun experience (barring those annoying problems that mess up my progress). I really enjoy the events with cute drawings and how there are daily challenges.

Overall, like the app. It’s easy to maneuver within the app to access play options (regular game, daily challenge, post card challenges) and access settings. The design is clean and the game functions/animations run very smoothly. One serious issue I have with the app, which is why I removed 1 star, is the high volume of ads. I completely understand that this brings revenue to the developers, but the app constantly running ads was inhibiting game play by being extremely disruptive and it was requiring an excessive amount of energy. If I play this game off of airplane mode it drains the battery of my phone very rapidly and causes my phone to heat up to a point where it stops functioning properly until it cools down. Would recommend the developers consider a different way to run ads on the app that doesn’t risk the overall functionality of the device!