iScopa App Reviews

I grew up with these cards playing my wily Sicilian grandmother at both Scopa and Briscola and Ive always loved these games. To find them for the iphone has been the coolest mixture of nostalgia and new tech I could have hoped for. I love the new wifi play, (in anticipation for this I taught my good friend these games!), and look forward to some of the wonky network bugs being ironed out. Hey, early days for this stuff, right? Also the new hinting could disappear, but overall DocLouisJones has a big winner on his hands here. Definitely five stars. Salud!

I am of Italian decent (Calabria and Piedmonte), and I love embracing my heritage and culture. I love being Italian more than being American. Ive come to love scopa as my favorite card game, and this app is great for anyone: Italian or not. Mille grazie! È una partita bellissima!

I first learned of this game while I was playing a "mystery game" I had downloaded from a popular game site. This card game was a "mini game (challenge)" that had to be beaten to continue in the aforementioned comp game. I thought it was a made up game, but decided to research it anyways. I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE IT ACTUALLY EXSITED,not just as a card game, BUT IT WAS A DOWNLOADABLE APP FOR MY iPHONE!!! (the all CAPS represents excitement, not yelling)  I  this game!!  for the graphics, ease of play, etc... Definitely !!!! Hooray !!!!!

I am Sicilian and I have tons of Sicilian playing cards around but this game is perfect for on the go or if I want to play and I dont have a deck of cards in my pocket. I  it. 

Like many others, I had never heard of Scopa before. Now Im addicted. It doesnt take too long to figure it out, and I played it until my battery died yesterday. I even ordered a set of "real" Scopa cards to play it with my wife offline. Nicely written, works great. If you like card games, try this - youll get addicted also!

Awesome. I want custom settings to stick, tho. The best in the biz.

I, too, grew up playing Scopa and was very excited to see this game on the iPhone! A couple of suggestions: A bigger variety of music (Italian music), and I would love for it to read "You win" when you win the game. Right now it tells you you lose when youve actually won the game. But Im loving it and am surprised when the computer uses skill in "knowing" which card to throw! Thanks for a nostalgic and entertaining app!!! Mille Grazie!!

there are too many problems with this game. 2.99 is alot to pay for a game I can never finish. It constantly freezes and boots me out. The game overlays the screens sometimes. Im not sure if its just mine that does this. I want to give this APP a high rating, but the bugs are too much.

This is a game that is reflective of the real thing. Good graphics and worth the money.

Ive purchased a couple Scopa apps. This is OK, but Scopacards is much better. You can play with others live over the internet.

I love this app! I find myself playing all the time. It had been a while since I last played scopa, but I was able to pick it up again easily with the app. Definitely worth the money! Fun card game!

Im from Sicily, carini. I grew up playing scopa in the streets of carini, with friends and just sometimes looking at old people playing it was fun, so anyway its been my life my culture and my childhood. I was expecting a little bit more for 4 bucks. It doesnt give u an option to save before u get out. No ranking, u cant play with other people. As far as Im concerned I dont need more sounds, but saving the game and ranking is needed, its a must. Lower the price too so more people will buy it I doubt a game that only Italians and few other know well pay 4 bucks for it, but thats just me. Hope I see once again ranking soon and the option to play, again, other players online if its possible one day, till then 3 stars its all u get from me.

Whenever you try to click on the settings button! I wasted $3 ! You gotta be kidding me...

I have had this app for a long time and I love the game, but lately it always crashes when I try to get to the settings... I hope it fixes!!!! Cant play anymore....

Such a pity. This little detail forces me to give the game 1 star instead of 5. The program would definitely deserves 5 stars, because its awesome! But if you have been playing the game since childhood and know it very well it takes a few rounds against the computer to understand that the AI totally cheats. Not only it cheats, it decides in the first place which games you are going to win. Scopa should be based on giving RANDOM cards to both opponents from a SHUFFLED deck, and then its up to them, their memory, and their knowledge of probability to play more or less well. Here there is nothing random in the way the AI serves the cards to itself. If you could please fix this absurdity, remove the difficulty option (which makes no sense in scopa) and make it a TRUE RANDOM game I would give it 5 stars, hands down! Good value anyway.

This started out as a great game, and the developer has added in every single thing I could have wanted that was missing at the begining (statistics, matches, alternate rules sets). A very addictave game to play for five minutes or an hour. Very entertaining.

Love it. Can play this Italian game all day!

CAN YOU PLEASE RELEASE A VERSION OF THE GAME IN WHICH THE AI DOESNT CHEAT?! Its really frustrating, the app is so well made and yet it makes you nervous because the AI cheats. This cheating goes to unbeliavable extents! No need to give examples on what it does, just try to play and if you know the game youll see what I mean; it is laughable! It gets to the point I can predict what cards its going to play in most occasions, simply because the AI decides what cards to play out of ALL the ones left in the deck instead of the 3 cards in its hand, which "should" be given randomly! This is a discriminating aspect in rating this game 1 star or 5.

The UI is great. Unfortunately, the AI cheats. Its very frustrating and ruins the experience. I wish the author would learn how to program properly.

I cannot get enough of this game.