Blackbird‪!‬ 4+

Very fun game. However, their needs to be some changes to Gameplay mechanics. The most obvious is when you throw away a counter to the nest. The bidder has to raise his/her bid. Example: bid - 120, threw away a red and yellow 5. Bid must go up 10 to 130. Also you never play Trump on the first hands. The A.I. throw Trump every time until everyone is out. You save your highest Trump so you can get the last Trick worth 20 points. There should be an option to play 4-8 players. Partners 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4. If 5 or 7 players then call for your partner. How that works is the bidder calls for the card they need (black bird, or Aces) and that round the bidder and the person they call on are partners.

I really hope the developer of this game sees my comment because this game is awesome just needs some quality of life improvements.

Solid rendition of the classic Rook game with tons of rule customization options. The UI is fairly clean (if a touch cramped on a phone screen). Unfortunately the AI struggles with certain common sense plays. Your partner understands feeding you points during the trump bleeding stage, but seems to lose track off trump during the late stages—especially if the other team made trump—and won’t feed you high cards before the other team’s last trump cards kick in. For example, there are two trump cards left with three turns to go. East leads, I play the highest card. North, my partner, doesn’t have suit and plays last—they know I’m taking the trick and I know this is the last trick we can take. They throw out a non-point card, then I see them having to play ones and 14s on the opponent’s trumps. While this type of situation is the most egregious and happens pretty regularly, there are other little quirks to their play that suggests the AI lacks any sort of complex strategy. So this is fine for casual time wasting here and there, and may be as good as we can get absent an official Rook app, but it can definitely be frustrating.

I love this game, but I gave it one star because I like so many others get so frustrated because the game is completely stacked against you. Rarely do you ever get good hands whereas the opponents get them almost every hand. Second, your team mate bids like a complete idiot betting the moon with only the rook and no 1 or 14 in trump. No real player is going to bet that high with that hand. Third, you better like losing because you will nearly every hand. If there is a hand where the opponent over bids, their partner will be able to cover them almost every time which completely unrealistic. Also, you know you're playing a computer because they play hands a way a normal person could not possibly know. For instance, your opponent will win the bid and the very first trick they play of the hand they don't throw trump, but it just so happens to be the only color their partner doesn't have and can trump you. That is impossible to know in real life. Developers please start reading these reviews and fix the game. It isn't like only one comment, almost every review has the same complaint.