Great game, eats battery like crazy – Solitaire by MobilityWare Review

After playing the free brainium solitaire for years I got fed up with the ad-supported extortion and looked for a new game. The mobilityware solitaire looked good, kept the same sorts of statistics, and had a bunch of fun extras. The ads were less obnoxious (at least initially - honestly I think iAds and in-app purchases are ruining the platform), so eventually I decided to forego the progress made on the free version and buy the paid version. No more ads, same gameplay. To the people who complain about randomness, there’s an option for that. I have mine set for full random because I really dislike games that are too easy. One thing I’ve noticed on the paid version is that I can’t play older daily challenges like I could on the free version. That may have been a promotion or an “unlock”, I don’t know, but the paid version doesn’t get the same love for sure. My main issue with this game is battery life. For some reason the paid version eats battery like crazy, way more than the ad-guzzling brainium version or the ad-supported free mobilityware version. I’ve set everything I could to reduce battery - reduce brightness, reduce animations, etc. Nothing helps. Even with reduced animations there are still a ton of flashy graphics, some maybe thats the issue. Maybe a slider to adjust them from full to none would help. I used to play brainium for hours on long flights. This game? Sometimes I lose 1% per game! I can stream movies for hours or play other games but with this game it’s almost as if there is some underlying process like a crypto miner sucking up battery while I’m playing. Maybe its Game Center, maybe the ads are still there in the background, I really don’t know, but there is something very wrong. I’d give this game five stars if it weren’t for the abysmal battery life.
Review by nosuchuser451 on Solitaire by MobilityWare.