Spades - Expert AI appears to be a legitimate app. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Spades is 95 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Spades Reviews: Is It Legit?

Name: Spades - Expert AI
Rating: 4.7 (649 reviews)

NeuralPlay, LLC

Customer Experience

Positive experience45.2% of reviews

Neutral9.7% of reviews

Negative experience45.2% of reviews

~ Based on 31 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Spades

Reviews of Spades are mostly negative: the game is rated 4.7/5 from 649 App Store ratings. What users like most: engaging and fun card game experience, challenging AI difficulty levels available. Top complaints: AI partner makes illogical and counterintuitive plays, AI fails to understand basic strategy and teamwork. Summarized from real user reviews.

Positive things

🎮Engaging and fun card game experience
🎯Challenging AI difficulty levels available
📚Good for learning Spades rules and strategy
🚀Fast-moving gameplay

Negative things

🤖AI partner makes illogical and counterintuitive plays
🤖AI fails to understand basic strategy and teamwork
🤖AI doesn't cover partner's nil bids effectively
🤖AI overtrumps unnecessarily and plays against its own team
🎲Unfair nil hand distribution to opponents
⚖️Inconsistent penalty application between teams
🔊Loud and intrusive advertisements
📺Inappropriate and offensive ad content
🐛Card sorting and dealing inconsistencies
🐛Scoreboard interface is redundantly busy

Is Spades Safe?

Spades - Expert AI appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Spades is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 649 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

91.7% of ratings point to a safe experience

3.7% of ratings suggest some concerns

4.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 649 App Store ratings for Spades.

Is Spades Legit?

Spades - Expert AI appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Spades is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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But…

Good game, but the partner hand is weak. My partner bid nil and was successful down to the last two cards. I played a low heart and he played a spade and went set. He then played a low diamond. In other words the algorithm is faulty.

RBRev. Dr. Bill

2 months ago

Response from developer

Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Spades. Thank you for the play issue report. We will work on it. Note that the play depends on the level. If you are playing on Level 3, the play is rule based, you should not see that play. On other levels, the AI uses an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation. Levels 4+ play better than level 3. This simulation can lead to surprising plays, but the bad plays will be fewer on level 6. And some bad plays, we have found do not make a difference. For example, if the nil bidder has a high eight of spades, the AI may play it at the 3rd to last trick to trump a trick even though it could have played a lower card. This may make sense to let partner know that the Nil bid is not going to succeed. Thank you for your review.

The ace of space

Good game but way too many ads

MMWSpace

2 months ago

Response from developer

Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Spades. We are working on improving the ad-based experience. We offer an in-app purchase to remove ads. Please see Main Screen - Menu - Purchase Remove Ads for information. Thank you for your review.

Really good!!

Addicted to this!!!

MMZANGELD

5 months ago

Mental Challenge

This Spades game is very hard to beat. Great for honing my logic and skills.

MMarvinJackson

5 months ago

Response from developer

Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Spades. Thank you for your review.

Makes illogical moves

Makes illogical moves. Will take a trick with a spade after bidding a NIl when holding a none spade card. Will take a trick when I bid a NIl when player player to my left has already beat my card. This leaves me vurnable with a higher card.

JJhg-Austin2

5 months ago

Response from developer

The AI bot player certainly should not take a tricks with a spade unnecessarily when bidding nil. Please see Settings -> Level to make sure you are playing on level 3 or higher. Play on level 3 has human designed rules and should play as a good human does. Play on Levels 4+ use an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation method. We have seen some creative play, like perhaps taking a trick with a high spade when the nil is not makable when both teams have bid nil. This could make sense to tell partner that the nil is not makable and it is best to try to defeat the opponent's nil. Thank you for your review.

Seriously?

Do the people who write the code for these games actually know how to play them? On level 5 the computer partner should play with some level of skill. Instead, it plays poorly. It overbids, underbids, unnecessarily takes tricks I clearly have and need when it doesn’t need to, doesn’t take tricks it clearly needs when it can, and takes unnecessary bags. Curious why a poor rating won’t upload.

RRcj2479

6 months ago

Nil victories

This started out being a good game with the exception of the cards being spread out into two rows requiring some attention in playing a hand. But the game keeps feeding opponents Nil hands to win, in some games, every round featured the other team going nil. That makes the game no fun at all. Shame, that.

DDunhill50006

6 months ago

Response from developer

The deals are not biased to any seat. With more play, the luck should change. The AI uses an advanced Monte Carlo method to play on the higher levels. We play on level 1 for more relaxing games. Thank you for your review.

Bad partner plays abound

The moves make no sense. Trumping with a high trump. Partner leading a low card when you are going low. When you are going low, instead of playing some trump cards to allow you to clear out some high cards, the partner will continue leading a non trump suit until you get set…like playing for the other side. There’s no way this is AI

AArachidonicacid

6 months ago

Response from developer

The AI uses an advanced Monte Carlo method to play on the higher levels. There is a bit of randomness as it decides whether to try to set the opponents or avoid bags. We are working on improvements. Thank you for your review.

AI Partner NOT GREAT

Multiple times my AI “partner” has played a trump card when unnecessary and at a time when they bid either nil or blind nil. Looking at the cards played afterwards, there were MANY other options that would have avoided catching the trick. I don’t think the game is nearly intelligent enough to keep decent players happy.

CCatRAM00

9 months ago

Response from developer

If you are not already, please try Level 6. This is our best play. It uses an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation method to estimate the best plays. We have seen the AI make some errors, but they are minimal and we are working on improvements. Level 3, will play more as a human, it will not make the clear mistakes like playing a higher card during a nil. It is rule-based and has hand-designed rules to follow. Levels 4+ play better overall, but the randomness does lead to an occasional surprising play. We are working on improvements. When you see an error, you can help us by sending the Menu - Play Log screen shot to us at support@neuralplay.com. Thank you for your review.

Bad game algorithms

Dont bother to play Solo format if you are expecting a challenging game. The badly structured algorithm ensures that every hand is balanced, with either 3 or 4 points per player
And the Standard format is little better, with the opposite pair receiving the more aggressive hands, and never failing to achieve a Nil point hand
This version is too predictable, and ho-hum boring

AOAncient Oracle

10 months ago

Response from developer

The deals are random and not biased to any seat. With more play the luck should change. More aggressive and Nil hands should occur for your team too. Thank you for your review.

One ad that keeps appearing is surprisingly inappropriate. I believe it is an AI with photos ad.

Kkmcrisco

a year ago

Response from developer

Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Spades. We apologize for the bad ad. We are working with our ad providers to improve the ad-based experience. Thank you for your review.

AI is a moron

I’ve got it on the highest level. My ai partner bid Nil. I’m running Spades so my partner can dump his worst cards. Idiot AI plays a 6 of Diamonds. So I lead my 5 of Diamonds. Which the AI takes with its 10 of Diamonds.

There is nothing complicated about this. It wants to not take any tricks, but sloughs a low card rather than a high one.

Garbage

DDancingGuy

a year ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the report. This should not happen. Note level 3 uses human designed rules to prevent this. Level 6 uses a more advanced AI method called Random Monte Carlo Simulation. Level 6 does play better than level 3 overall, however the randomness may cause a rare obvious mistake. We are working on improvements. Thank you for your review.

Realistic 🫤😫

AI either is far behind, or the designers of this game are lacking in creativity. Their AI isn’t close to being realistic.

Jjamesj975

2 years ago

Good AI

i have tried a few Spades games from the app store and this one is the toughest.

テテハノ

2 years ago

Response from developer

Glad to hear you are enjoying NeuralPlay Spades. Thank you for your review.

Not bad - but not very smart AI.

Hint to doing well - always plan on getting 2 additional tricks to whatever you are bidding when your AI partner is going nil. Your AI partner will at times lead small to cover your nil - for no reason, get used to that, but if you just hit the step-back, it will often see the error if its way and re-lead with a strong card. The AI opponents often place way too much value on getting you to take extra tricks - don’t worry about it - just protect your partner’s nil and you’ll be fine.

NRNYC RAZ

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your review and helpful analysis. The AI uses an advanced Monte Carlo Simulation to determine its plays at the higher levels. The simulation is performed again so when you undo and give it another chance it may notice the mistake. We are working on AI improvements. We have some improvements in the next release.

Fun but often frustrating

The AI partner often plays against you and causes you to lose. For example, if the AI is the last one to play on a trick, and you have played the highest card, instead of playing a lower card and letting you take the trick, saving its higher card to win another trick, it will often play the higher card or trump you to win that trick. This undermines the team because you could have won two tricks, but it played against you and you only won one. This often keeps you from making bid when you could have, if it had not played against you. Also, when you bid nill, the AI will often lead a trick with the lowest card it has instead of a higher card, which costs you the nill bid. For example, the AI leads with a 3 of clubs, East and West play the 2 and 4 of clubs, and you have to throw whatever club is in your hand and it's obviously going to be higher and you lose the nill bid on a 5 of clubs. Then the next hand the AI throws a higher card which would have saved the nill bid had it lead with that. Overall, it's a very fun game, and hopefully the AI can learn to understand strategy and teamwork. That will make it even more fun!

LLadyLaughsALot

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your review. And thank you for the detailed feedback. The AI, on levels 4+, uses an advanced Monte Carlos Simulation method to determine the best bids and plays. This results in some randomness. Whether the AI will be trying to take tricks or throw tricks away will depend on factors such as the total bid and the number of tricks remaining in addition to the team bids and individual player bids. We are continuing to work on improvements. Glad to hear it is fun overall!

Fun but often frustrating

The AI partner often plays against you and causes you to lose. For example, if the AI is the last one to play on a trick, and you have played the highest card, instead of playing a lower card and letting you take the trick, saving its higher card to win another trick, it will often play the higher card or trump you to win that trick. This undermines the team because you could have won two tricks, but it played against you and you only won one. This often keeps you from making bid when you could have, if it had not played against you.

Also, when you bid nill, the AI will often lead a trick with the lowest card it has instead of a higher card, which costs you the nill bid. For example, the AI leads with a 3 of clubs, East and West play the 2 and 4 of clubs, and you have to throw whatever club is in your hand and it's obviously going to be higher and you lose the nill bid on a 5 of clubs. Then the next hand the AI throws a higher card which would have saved the nill bid had it lead with that.

Overall, it's a very fun game, and hopefully the AI can learn to understand strategy and teamwork. That will make it even more fun!

LLadyLaughsALot

2 years ago

Partner is bad

Partner throws crazy cards

UPUseless partner

2 years ago

Learn Spades

If you don’t understand bidding then this is for you!

KNKnicky Name

3 years ago

Could be a great game

I really liked this game in he begining; then all of a sudden it started giving won books to my opponents, and sorting the cards out of sequence. So frustrating as Spades is my favorite card game I spend all day playing spades especially on weekends.
Fix your game

IIsraelChina

3 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your review. We apologize for the problem. This should not happen. It could be a problem with settings. Please try Main Screen - Menu - Reset, to get back to our default settings. If you see the issue again please contact us at support@neuralplay.com for additional help.