This game is a huge rip-off. The house always wins even when you win, they win. Most of the time you are playing with bots as teammates and they will intentionally sabotage you in order to take your money. If you spend money you will win some games but it is short-lived. You will start losing, through no fault of your own because that is the way the system is designed. It’s all good as long as you never spend a dime. I had like 90% win rate before I spent money. I contacted customer service multiple times and I will admit that they are super responsive and have helped me a time or two but when I said I wanted my money back due to not being aware that my teammates would be bots the emails went unanswered. I’ve probably spent $300+ over the last few years of playing this game. Trust me - save your money. You win by so many points and there is an extra multiplier. Let’s say you put up 10k coins and you on by more than 40 points thats a 2x win - 10k x 2 is 20k right? Not in Spades Royale math. It’s like 14k. So, when you win they don’t give you your full winnings. When you lose a 2x you should lose 14k by their math, right? Nope! You lose 20k! The math ain’t mathin’! Just a rip-off, plain and simple.

There was a point I was obsessed with this game. Played it daily and was easily the best spades game on any platform. But over time they have made major decision that make the game more stressful than fun. When I first started you had the option of playing games with multiple different final total scores 100, 150 etc. Then they changed to each games goes to 100. Now only 70. Most spades game end that way. There are 13 books/tricks 7 gets you the win. This means most session will have only one rotation allowing very little room for comebacks from an over bid or round bags piling up. The game has basically been reduced to 7 or nil bid. Long time lovers of the game also know the game didn’t always have the coin multiplier feature. The gene was worth what it was worth. Now you can have a partner make a terrible bid and you lose 8,000 coins on what was a 1,000 bet. Now you have no coins and you are forced to either buy them, sit through an ad, or wait for hours to play again. It seems the company has mad decision that make you play less but pay more. Don’t even get me started on the travel book feature who idea was that! Greed has ruined another one of my favorite things.

Update: Customer Service got back to me and made things right and got me my coins back, I get frustrated that they always say to check and make sure you have a strong Internet connection because I do and others have had the same issue with the game glitching. It isn’t a connection issue it is a developer issue and I just wish they would just stop saying it could be the connection when it clearly is an issue. I’m still going to give them 5 stars because it is still fun and they do credit you back because they can see how many coins the game glitched out on which I appreciate. I love this game so much, I play it daily. Most of the time it is awesome despite the insane amount of pop up ads, I have had the game close out every so often (once or twice a week give or take) right as I’m starting a new round so I end up losing coins, sometimes it is 250 sometimes 2500, and when I paid money for some of those coins it gets frustrating. I have contacted customer service and have yet for them to reach back out to me and it is very frustrating, so the glitching I took away a star and the customer service I took away another.