Checkers - Online & Offline 4+

I’ve been playing Checkers for 15 years and love it. When MSN discontinued their free English draughts game I was really bummed out that I couldn’t play anymore. Recently, I found this game from Gamovation. At first I liked the game a lot. However, after I paid the fees to get rid of the ads and become a VIP I started to notice a lot of players requesting a draw when they had one checker, and I had two or more. After a certain number of moves the game was declared a draw, even when I had more checkers. This is against the rules of American draughts. A draw is only supposed to be declared when each player has the same amount of checkers and neither can win. A lot of players are using this to avoid losing and it’s really disgusting. It’s become new phone and I’m really disappointed. I’m contacting Google Game Play and demanding my money be returned, because this game is a scam. I can’t believe anyone plays this game because of the unfair draw policy. Do not buy this game. You’ll end up hating it.

This game has some nice features but overall pathetic especially if you’re a good player. The problems are: 1- Game hangs up frequently so even if timer is at 0, it continues to go without awarding a win. Now you sit and wait until finally game clocks out. For me it has taken 20 minutes at times which is appalling. In the meantime opponent is laughing at you offering draws etc,. really bad for you. 2- This one is the worst. Game is using American checker rules but when it comes down to last 5 pieces, it switches to it’s own rules and awards unfair draws as you have to win in 20 moves total or a draw is awarded. That is really bad. Draw is only if pieces are equal or per American checkers it is 40 moves per side not 20 total so gives unfair draws to players who should have lost. 3- At higher level sometimes you encounter people who have only played 2 games and are at beginner level yet playing at 3rd or even 4th level, not fathomable. 4- You can’t challenge a player unless they are your “friends”. 5- Advanced features such as 3-move are not included. 6- Not sure what bugs are being fixed but all that issues remain same such as need a real strong connection or it switches to offline mode sometimes during a game!!!! Overall disappointing to a nice interface and a good effort by owners but these issues make it 0 stars for me.

I love this app because of how simplistic it is, yet it has many options. I didn’t even have to look at the instructions to know how to play it and it had many options on the type of checkers you want to play. The easy modes are actually easy and the hard modes are actually hard and you can change the design of your checkers to anything you’d like. As a Gen-Z this made me addicted to checkers e even more! The only things I would wish to be added to the game is probably more options on your profile pic (like being able to import photos online) and if it could teach you some strategies on how to win, but that’s just my opinion. I would recommend this app to anyone who would like to play or practice playing checkers, but have no one to play with or no one who is better than them in the game.

TLDR: This game is amazing! I 100% recommend.