# Spite & Malice! — user reviews > 153 indexed App Store user reviews of Spite & Malice! by North Sky Games, rated 4.60/5 from 1,738 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spite-and-malice/id1444574722/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spite-and-malice/id1444574722.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,345 · 4★ 265 · 3★ 63 · 2★ 24 · 1★ 41 ## What do users think of Spite & Malice!? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - ⭐ Enjoyable gameplay - 🎯 Challenging difficulty levels - 📚 Nostalgic card game experience - 🎨 Good graphics and visuals **Cons** - 🔍 Frequent glitches and bugs - 🤖 Unfair advantage for AI opponent - 💰 Excessive ads and in-app purchases - ⏱️ Slow gameplay and long wait times **Commonly reported bugs** - Cards automatically played without user input - Game freezes and crashes during play - Discrepancies between user actions and outcomes **Most requested features** - Multiplayer mode to play against friends - Undo button for accidental card plays - Customizable difficulty settings - Leaderboards and achievements ## Newest reviews (14 of 153) ### 4/5 — Challenge timer *2026-07-12, version 1.6.1* The last update seems to have broken the challenge timer. It only advances when you’re actually playing. Since I don’t play for hours at a time, it’s been somewhere in the 14-hour range for about three days now. Developers, could you please take a look? ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2026-02-15, version 1.5.2* Too many adds but game is GREAT ### 4/5 — About to delete *2025-12-24, version 1.5.1* EDIT: I have deleted the app after over 1500 games. It's not fun when you rarely get to play due to the computer constantly just clearing hands and stacks, the glitches playing/discarding for you, etc. Too bad, because I love playing the game, but the glitches are just horrible. This app has several glitches that had caused me to lose several games in a row and I am about to delete it permanently. The computer will either take a card and discard it for you, allowing it to skip your turn, or it will play a card in your hand and discard one. It always either plays a card that will enable the computer to move a card from their pile and/or discard to block a card you need to use. It's extremely frustrating when this happens because it always leads to the computer winning. My hand is nowhere near the screen when this happens. It used to happen on occasion but it's now happening almost every game I play. ### 3/5 — Game *2025-12-21, version 1.5.1* Would be really cool to play against other people, but there’s just not enough people out there Also, I don’t know why I can’t play the advanced professional one when I have to pay $70 or something to do it. I don’t get it. I have to pay money for it. ### 3/5 — Obnoxious graphics *2025-10-18, version 1.4.7* Graphics are to busy. Takes away from playing the actual game. ### 3/5 — Poor Development *2025-07-19, version 1.4.5* Love the game. Graphics are great. But, too many glitches to be ok with this app. Algorithm is far from acceptable. Just when you think you have a good run, a card from your pile is mysteriously played & not anything close to your intention; or, your opponent suddenly has exactly what is needed to shut you down, which could happen. But, the frequency would not. Although, it’s probably a sign that I’m playing too much. ### 1/5 — No way to get out of ad *2025-05-31, version 1.4.5* I don’t mind having to watch an ad to play a free game but there is no way to get out of the ads. It just sits there and you never get to play the game. This is not a good design! ### 2/5 — RNG is broken, can not one iOS company make a smart logic system for a competitive card game? *2025-05-29, version 1.4.5* Even the RNG itself is random; I'll see the CPU either stack their cards unorganized and then all of a sudden, they play half of their cards including the shuffled ones in their rows. The difficulty settings are also broken with medium feeling like it's either too easy or too hard - isn't that the point of a medium difficulty? This game is luck, not skill. ### 3/5 — AI is way to op *2025-05-10, version 1.4.5* Medium and easy aren’t all that bad but the hard mode ai gets extremely long streaks of cards and makes it almost impossible to win half the time ### 3/5 — Good game but live matches seem very one-sided. *2025-04-15, version 1.4.4* Overall decent game and can be fun. The rewards for winning are quite negligible. It’s seems when the algorithm wants you to lose, you WILL lose. I only play live match games and some games the opponent will get wild card after wild card and bang out numerous runs. Meanwhile I can play only one card per turn and get zero runs. I suspect this is to push players to purchase wild cards. ### 2/5 — Algorithm *2025-04-11, version 1.4.4* Not great, you can tell when they are throwing aces to make the game more enjoyable. Not confident that the cards are set and not changed during each hand. ### 3/5 — Needs work *2025-03-30, version 1.4.3* The interface is too packed and it played cards I never picked. After one game, I deleted. It has potential but it’s not there. ### 3/5 — Fantastic game BUT… *2025-03-11, version 1.4.3* This is my go-to game, however the bugs that are in the game that pop up often are annoying. I’ve told the developers about the issues along with other players, but they have yet to fix them. These include the game not loading and cards automatically playing that you did not pick, which can cost you the game. If they fixed the bugs, I would give 5 stars for sure. Also the new emojis seem like an afterthought add-on and are in the way of card play on an iPad. ### 3/5 — Very one sided *2025-01-24, version 1.4.1* I do love to play this game. I find it very frustrating that quite often it is one-sided for the computer as he will get several jokers in a row And also consecutive cards that play in his favour ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Don’t download this one. *2026-07-27, version 1.6.3* There’s an ad after every two or three plays. Choose another Spite and Malace game, the others don’t do this. ### 1/5 — Cheater *2026-06-17, version 1.6.0* I do screen shots and videos to show how much this game cheats. AI doesn’t allow winning. How sad that a company who use to have fun games totally defeated the purpose. Why play these games when you never win. Just about all comments are headed that way. Maybe the one star ratings will finally be shown so people can stay away from this horrible game. UPDATE: Felt good to delete your app after you had AI ruin the game for me. ### 1/5 — Update broke difficulty *2026-05-22, version 1.6.0* Easy is now the most difficult when they could easily be defeated before. AI now has the most luck and will actively work against you. ### 1/5 — Definitely rigged *2026-05-17, version 1.6.0* I don’t write reviews but felt I must after playing this game for several months. I never pay to play games because I’m too cheap. I don’t mind ads if watching keeps money in my pocket. The beginner and intermediate levels of this game can definitely be won without any bonus jokers. These are the levels I suggest players stick to playing. The joker cards are dealt fairly enough and AI play is challenging but reasonable. The expert level…forget it. Even with a bonus joker, and you can only get one, 98% of the time the AI wins. The jokers are consistently given to the AI along with every card it needs to complete a stack. The expert level is rigged so the human player cannot win. As other reviewers have said it takes the fun out of the game. The developers need to address this issue and make the expert level a more balanced game. There’s nothing expert about an AI being rigged to win consistently. ### 1/5 — Cheater *2026-03-09, version 1.5.3* I do screen shots and videos to show how much this game cheats. AI doesn’t allow winning. How sad that a company who use to have fun games totally defeated the purpose. Why play these games when you never win. Just about all comments are headed that way. Maybe the one star ratings will finally be shown so people can stay away from this horrible game. ### 1/5 — AI should not be part of your game. *2026-02-19, version 1.5.2* Win loss ratio is ridiculous. I play your other games but seriously you need to let us win the occasional expert games. It makes me want to delete this. A waste of time. Other spit and malice games are much more equal. ### 1/5 — You just lost a longtime player with this demand for signing in. Goodbye. *2025-10-12, version 1.4.7* Sign in requirement is a deal killer. ### 1/5 — TOO MANY ADS *2025-08-29, version 1.4.6* Ridiculous ads for the same game over and over. Can’t even tell how long they will last. I won’t fall prey to such nonsense. Adios! ### 1/5 — Ads *2025-08-22, version 1.4.6* This game has so many ads. It even has ads when you are playing the game offline 🥱 It also freezes in the middle of a game which makes you force to forfeit or quit. It makes you lose of a lot of time and coins. Who would want to play a game where there are ads offline... ### 1/5 — About to delete *2025-07-15* This app has several glitches that had caused me to lose several games in a row and I am about to delete it permanently. The computer will either take a card and discard it for you, allowing it to skip your turn, or it will play a card in your hand and discard one. It always either plays a card that will enable the computer to move a card from their pile and/or discard to block a card you need to use. It's extremely frustrating when this happens because it always leads to the computer winning. My hand is nowhere near the screen when this happens. It used to happen on occasion but it's now happening almost every game I play. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Spite Malice *2026-05-21, version 1.6.0* One game per day sometimes 2 ### 5/5 — Addicted *2026-05-11, version 1.6.0* I love this game. Challenging yet fair. Fun ### 5/5 — Spite & Malice *2026-03-09, version 1.5.3* My wife and I play this every day. We keep a running score, because we are very competitive! It’s our favorite game! ### 5/5 — Spite and malice *2025-02-16, version 1.4.2* Love it…….. can you play a game too much!😂🤣 ### 5/5 — Spite and malice *2025-02-06, version 1.4.2* I remember playing this game with my grandma and my cousins. We played for hours. I miss those days. ### 5/5 — Addictive! *2025-01-26, version 1.4.1* I learned this game at a Senior Center that I managed, and was thrilled to find this game app! Very well done. ### 5/5 — Spite & Malice *2024-12-17, version 1.4.1* I play every day and never tire of it! ### 5/5 — Spite & Malice *2024-12-16, version 1.4.1* Fun to play when you have a few minutes free time. Wish there was a way I could play with my daughter. ### 5/5 — Game *2024-12-14, version 1.4.1* Would be really cool to play against other people, but there’s just not enough people out there unfortunately ### 5/5 — Game is good-ads are bad. When over, move on. Do not keep delaying. *2024-12-10, version 1.4.1* See above --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*