Leave a Review Card Games by Bicycle
Great concept, needs more games
I bought this because my grandmother and I love playing cards together and live far away. So with this we could play more often. It has a lot of our favorite games like hearts, spades, and gin rummy, but I wish it had some more options to play. Maybe more games like zeros, blackjack, poker, pounce (similar to solitaire) and many more. I hope in future updates they will add a lot more games for its users to enjoy. Overall it works very nicely (very few glitches, only play is smooth) I just wish there were more options for us to play.Show lessHimothyHayes
They use bots to get and keep better rating.
They still haven’t fixed the crash issues. They keep trying to readjust this for smoother play and it only makes it worse. Now the rules for the play alone games and the public games are blended some how. Win conditions are merged accidentally so even though online games of spades says “best of four hands” can end after two hands if someone passes 250 points. Its really ridiculous. Crash constantly and all. Funny how they have more 5 star reviews to keep ratings up, when they certainly don’t have that many people even playing it. Small player community and the whole community complains about the constant and nefarious issues that aren’t being fixed. You would have better luck flipping a coin than you do with making connections to games without the opps something went wrong error or connection time out error or not everyone connected error. Also why you can be waiting very long times to even get four people on to play a game of hearts or spades…..cause not many people use this……so where are all these 5 star rating people that don’t play this game? Does it look goo, yes. Does it work when it works, yes, so unreliable. In game rating system is still botched as well. Who’s garage is this trying to be ran out of?Show lessEvil Oni
Disconnect Rate is Laughable!
Bicycle has a terrific graphics and the table view is fantastic! However, since registered players and guest players earn points for wins, players losing their hand or who catch the Queen disconnect and quit the game constantly! Bicycle gives the remaining players who didn’t quit points when that happens and deducts points from the quitter but it totally shafts the player who would have won because they only get partial points. I played five games and only finished two because players disconnected during three. It’s absolutely frustrating! Bicycle needs to penalize players who quit by limiting their play or at the very least, placing an icon by their profile name warning other players that they disconnect regularly so you have the option not to play with them. I hope Bicycle addresses this!!!Show lessPlay Heart-broken
I want to like this app but…
I have only been using this app for a week or so. Twice now for no reason as I have a very good Wi-Fi connection I get an oops something went wrong window while loading a match. It says if this keeps happening to contact support. Where is that support link? The first time this happened I thought it would reboot within a timely manner. But after several hours with no change. I dumped the app and reloaded it. That worked that time. Now that it has happened again, when I reload it, it keeps taking me to the same error window.
I have mainly only played Gin. I don’t like how it distributes the cards in my hand. It decides for me where to put the cards. I wish it wouldn’t do that. It doesn’t do a good job.
Lastly, in as much as most decks cards are easy to read and quite nice. The are a few fancy decks that are to frilly, hard to read and are just distracting.Show lessRael T'S
Spades partner bot needs more training
Overall play is good, the challenge team generally plays well, but partner habitually under bids or takes bags, and when partner of nil bid makes bone head leads like a 4 of a suit. Other strange behavior that leads to over/under performing bids, trumping my winning play, saving high spades leading to trump crash, etc. How about a high performing partner upgrade with some AI training as it seems the hard coded logic is highly flawed.
Also, on iPad the leftmost card is covered by Avitar, also the angled card play stack is attractive but takes a little effort to identify who played what card and could be improved.Show less4wvrstn
Great app.. just one issue
I love this app and hooked to it lol. Only problem is, I wish we were able to play Spades with only 1 other person and maybe choose to have our partner a cpu or not at all and just one on one. Because waiting for 3 ppl to join the queue is nearly impossible and has been impossible for me to play online. I have tried multiple attempts to play online with Spades and it’s rare if 2 ppl join in. But waiting for a 4th person, which never happens to show up. The others end up leaving after a while of waiting. So can you please find a way to fix this or make it so that we can play 1vs1 or 1&cpu vs 1&cpu. To have multiple options of playing online to increase the chances of finding someone to play with. Thank you. Other than that the app is great!Show lessIsabella2425
Two Stars on Principle
I actually as a whole love the interface of this game. I love the vibes, the variety, the aesthetic. But it’s getting two stars from me until this one major issue is fixed: I will play solitaire for literal hours some days. I love the idea of a ranked solitaire game, but I think it’s inappropriate to have ranked play when the system itself is so broken. I love that there’s an undo button, but the undo button gets mixed up constantly—it completely rearranges the order of the deck (I play 3-card, which means the order of which card is on top is SUPER important), causing me to lost access to cards that I accidentally clicked away, but even more problematic—clicking the undo button several times in a row often allows you to access cards you did not earn. I’ve tested this on multiple friends devices. Essentially, in ranked solitaire games, if you undo enough you can cheat your way to victory.
Fixing this or removing the undo button in ranked games all together (as much as I love undoing) will be enough for me to move from two to five stars immediately.Show lessshyannpr
Love the competitive play… but!
I enjoy the live Gin Rummy but as you move up the ranking and earn more points it becomes disadvantageous to continue playing. If I have 600 pts and playing against someone with 400 points if I win I only earn 5 and if I lose I lose 15. You need to win 4 to 1 to continue to move up. If you’re going to do that then at least make it so I can decide to restrict playing against someone who has a selectable amount of points less than I do.
Other than that I love the game. It’s just frustrating to lose so many points and win so little most of the time. It would also be nice to understand what is at risk win or lose when before you accept a game after being matched. It doesn’t seem consistent.Show lessGreat game but …
Lipstick on an attractive pig
Very pretty interface. Nice card designs, including the retro styles. Public games often lack enough players, and the bot does not fill in. In Hearts and Spades the bots are dumb and it gets very boring after a few games. The algorithms for scoring in public games are a black box and change without notice. Currently a low ranked player gets more points for losing in 2nd or 3rd than a high ranked player gets for winning. No explanation of how the scoring works and for what purpose. The dealing of cards in public games is suspiciously non-random. You will have winning and losing streaks, apparently to get players hooked and keep coming back like an addict to the roulette table. Very bad communications from the developer — as in none. Frequent problems with all players connecting in public games. The public games should allow morn communication options between players- the drop down list of reactions is tiny and extremely limits any feeling of community.Show lesshilltop865
Season 2 released, still many bugs and errors and crashes
They still haven’t fixed the crash issues. It can take a while to put a game together still, and even if it’s put together, high chances you will see not all players connected, or oops something went wrong, even while playing players just disconnecting ending game. Ai playing while waiting for a game…..very cheesy. Don’t Ai play spades, the bids offer by computer are obviously totally random and do not reflect anything held in your partners hands. They can bid 0 with A,K of spades 🙄or bid 7 and literally 0 face cards on any suit. If you have bid Nil, your partner will not be covering for you if they already took their bids. Meaning they bid three, they take three, it’s over for them trying to take bids. They could either spade a hand to save you or or play a higher card to save you and the nil bid for the team, but won’t and only play lowest non winning option for them possible at this point. They need to fix way too much still. People keep giving it 5stars for the appearance of the games. Looks smooth and better than most, but the actual play and connectivity are among the worst. I don’t care if the car looks nice, pointless and useless if it doesn’t run or has too many mechanical issues…….Show less
