BUGS & UNRESPONSIVE TO FEEDBACK – Trickster Euchre Review

If you love getting boilerplate responses to your feedback messages, but no action to fix, you'll love this. On the other, hand, if you are gratified by seeing your name climb higher on the leaderboard lists, you'll be frustrated time and time again. There is a glaring bug in the Stats, in which you at times will be credited with a Game Started but no corresponding Game Finished, which Stats calculates as a loss, knocking your win % down accordingly. I have not been able to isolate exactly when this occurs, but it happens maddeningly often. I have submitted innumerable detailed feedback reports within the app, only to be answered w/automatic emails. The developers are asleep. I, too am suspicious of the non-random deals, seeing hand patterns again and again…you tend to get a hang for when you can go out on a limb under the "call for best" variation, with a mediocre hand, but 80% of the time, your partner will pass exactly that bower you need, transforming mediocre to loner. Sometimes, I swear the opposing computer partners can see each other's hands…how else would one w/one sole lowly trump card order up the suit his partner is loaded with, incl. bowers? I've played this game/app daily now for almost two years, and while I've gained a lot of insight into strategy, which has aided my real life playing, it's a rude awakening when you get into a game w/humans w/real physical cards—reality is way less predictable, and those cards won't fall to your advantage nearly as often as in this app. Also, the computer players are just downright DUMB sometimes, and sometimes your computer partner orders up trump in kamikaze fashion, or is playing saboteur—ordering up trump for which he has maybe a 9 & a queen—what was he thinking? I only keep playing this app due to the slick interface & sounds—and so far, I haven't found any other Euchre app to be any more realistic than this one.
Review by Scott in Boston on Trickster Euchre.