App Profile: Gnomitaire

JayceValiant

Rating: 4/5

No ads. No in-app purchases. Simple. Engaging. A treat for the brain and eyes (art style is fun and interesting). Do I wish there was more to the app? Of course. However, this is a free app for a simple game with endless replayability. My only frustration is not understanding why some cards match up and others don’t. I feel the tutorial is lacking this critical information. This lacking is also preventing me from enjoying the “Expert” mode. If this minor issue can be addressed and solved, I will gladly bump up my rating to 5 stars.

joabeiebhoej

Rating: 2/5

The challenge ranking system is terrible when you get up to higher ranks. It would be understandable if it got harder to progress as you rank up, but I just won a challenge and got 0 points from it. The formula needs some sort of tweaks. Also, I’ve had challenges that somehow end up with 11/10 people and don’t end until the time limit runs out, and challenges that stop at 10/10 and also don’t end until the time limit runs out. (Good job making sure the game doesn’t literally break, but I would really appreciate if I didn’t have to wait an extra 8 hours to play a challenge, given that I can only have 3 active at a time.) Other than that, the game is pretty great, but challenges are kinda terrible sometimes.

Thackmaster

Rating: 5/5

I love everything Arnold Rauers and his team creates and appreciate them releasing this ad-free gem. Why they’ve decided to create a free game, I don’t know, but I would hope that they enjoyed making it, because I can’t imagine they are making any money from this at all. So to all of you complaining about how this game isn’t a masterpiece, go buy Card Crawl or Maze Machina, or any of their other great games and realize that gnomitaire is probably *just* a pleasant, free, short game with great design to hold the casual gamers over until this pandemic ends.