FLICK SOLITAIRE - Card Games 4+

Big fan BUT the ads are terrible

The art and design of this app is so much fun. My only complaint is that the ads in this app are more aggressive than any other app I’ve ever experienced. They typically have three stages, and you have to exit out three times like it’s a pop up. The ways to exit are often hidden or small so that you accidentally click on them and pull up the App Store. I understand needing ad revenue, and I enjoy this enough to pay a one-time price, but it’s a highly-priced subscription service instead. It really lowers the quality of the app, but at least it’s very pretty and fun, so those win out over how bad the ads are. I just felt like I should write a review and warn people what they’re getting into if they don’t pay the subscription service.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your review - it's awesome to read how much you are enjoying the card art designed by artists from all over the world. Our aim is to keep building Solitaire for everyone - for players to come back to and enjoy, forever! To achieve our goal - fresh content is key! We are constantly improving the game via updates plus commissioning new artists each month so we really can't make a pay-once model work. However, we do try to make the sub good value with extra perks and costing about the same as 1 coffee per month. We totally understand that subscriptions aren't for everyone though which is why we try to make sure everyone can have a great free experience with ads. Any purchase (whether that be coins, a deck or a subscription) will remove banner ads forever. We show fewer ads than most similar games which all are skippable after a few seconds. We agree that the X button can be difficult to spot on some ads and sometimes there is more than one static image to skip - but sadly this isn't within our control and is all down to the ad networks themselves. Suggestions to improve further are genuinely welcome (feedback@flick.games). Thank you for your support. Best wishes, the Flick Family.

Beautiful, but too hard and too expensive

I really hate to write this review as on first impression I absolutely love this concept. The beautiful card art and backgrounds, the flick animation is satisfying and makes it easy to play with one hand, lastly I adore the ASMR option for sound. It would be the PERFECT solitaire app for me and I would’ve even been willing to pay the over expensive annual fee if it weren’t for the fact that the game continues to try to micro transaction constantly even if if you pay the $35 for the year. The second thing is that I am a semi-beginner at solitaire and I prefer to play in bed as I’m going to sleep as a soothing and relaxing activity. But even the easy levels on this app get frustratingly hard fast (this is in comparison to the two other solitaire games I play in which I’ve never had trouble finishing easy games). This is again because they want to micro transaction you to buy more hints (which they only give you ten even if you buy premium). If they ever added an endless random deal game option rather than the level system (that deals the same exact hand over and over) I would gladly pay them to play it. Until then I am deleting this app. I genuinely hope they read the reviews and make changes as I would love to come back to it eventually.

A few classic card games, a lot more crashes

It’s a decent app if you can ignore the constant crashing and overheating of your phone. I don’t have the latest iPhone but it’s only a few generations behind. Which leads me to believe this is just some error on the developers end. I would hold off on downloading this or purchasing anything within the app until they can get control of these waaaayyy too frequent crashes.

Many people have had similar complaints where it will crash right after an ad. To be honest I wish I had that experience. It will crash in the middle of my game and delete my progress on whatever game I was playing. But if you were wondering whether the app saved how many hints you had left then worry not! Even if your progress gets deleted back to the point before you even used the hint it makes sure to keep track of just how many you used. Gotta get them micro transactions up am I right? I’ll give the developers the benefit of the doubt and hope that this is just a major error caused by the crashes.

Anyways, it’s nothing new. Certainly not innovative. It features card games older than me and developers ages put together. The art is nice though and I’m glad they credits the artists.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the feedback, it's genuinely appreciated. We're currently rolling out an update which we believe have fixed the crashing issue (version 1.04.74), it should appear in the store in the next few days.
Regarding the crashes causing the current level progress to be lost but not the number of hints left over - you are entirely correct that this was caused by the crashing. Hint usage is saved right away but gameplay data is usually only saved if you move to another page or close the app (simply because there is more data to process/save and it would slow the app down to save constantly). When the app was crashing it meant the save process was interrupted, causing the gameplay data to be lost. Fixing the crashes should have fixed that issue completely 🤞.
If you'd like to send us an email at support@flick.games we can get the lost hint tokens to be added back to your total so you're not missing out. All the best, Ian & Alan the devs.