Spades Pro

AI Factory Limited

About this game

★ Top Developer (awarded 2013 and 2015) ★
★★ Our biggest upgrade: May 2017. See end of description for full details! ★★
Spades has been substantially updated and is now much stronger, with a new bidding system. Its new game intelligence allows it to make creative plays that conventional programs cannot make, often breaking the usual rule-of-thumb to find new winning plans.

The new CPU players will now also talk to each other - and you - in speech bubbles and smile or frown to let you know how they feel!

Spades brings this classic 4-player contract trick taking card game to Google Play. Created to the same high standard as the rest of our games, Spades Free supplies classy graphics, super smooth gameplay, highly scalable difficulty & much more. Spades has never been so good!

Featuring:

★ Full Spades Partnership Play
★ 21 CPU characters of varying skill (beginner to expert)
★ NEW! 3 new CPU characters
★ NEW! Option to have CPU characters chat during play (Android 4.0+)!
★ NEW! A new bidding system allowing a more creative game!
★ NEW! Set your own name!
★ Choose your Spades partner and who to play against, or go random!
★ Select from 17 different backgrounds or use your custom background!
★ Human and CPU player stats!
★ Undo & Hints
★ Game Rules & Help
★ Designed for both Tablet and Phone
★ Jokers, Barmore, NYC and Deuces available
★ In-game score help: tap end-of-hand scores for explanations
★ "Pro mode" option for stronger play
★ "Speed Play" option for fast games
★ "Aggression" option to make all CPU players bid more aggressively
★ In-game displays to help player track rules in use

Summary of major new engine work completed in this new version:

4 years after the original release of Spades, we are happy to announce our single greatest improvement in play quality, after a prolonged period devoted just to Spades. This has always been a collaborative project shared with York University and has combined the best of AI research with game industry engineering to achieve the best result so far. In this last period particular attention was paid to bidding and the Nil game, but we also made substantial progress in the Joker variants and efficiency of the analysis. We believe that the end product was worth it. Discover the updated play for yourself!

Ratings and reviews

I love this app and have played thousands of games. Not perfect (for example, I don't think you can see all the hands with scores for the whole game on one screen, but only the latest hand), and the AI plays weird occasionally, but over all great and enjoyable.

All of the computer players underbid. Maybe make an on/off option to force bidding 13 total for both teams. Tired of all these weak bids like 1 and 2. I play with all of the over-book penalties on. Even then, I still have to bid an extra book to compensate for my partner underbidding. I have more fun challenging myself on nils and blind nils than playing the game as intended. I do like that it's not graphic-heavy and offline. I've been playing spades on your app for years now.

The AI is simply amazing, and getting even better all the time! The CPU players are really true to their level of play. This is far and away the best version of this game I've ever had the pleasure to play. I like the table talk option, because one of the CPU players always reminds me when there's a Nil bid. The only feature I don't like is that Alex crosses his eyes quite frequently. I just find this disturbing and quite annoying, but that's the ONLY thing, and of course it doesn't affect play.

What's new

Updated SDKs.