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Phase 10: Casual Card Game

Mattel163 Limited · 592,942 ratings · ★ 4.8

4.8
★★★★★
592,942 ratings
5 ★
544,192 (92%)
4 ★
25,387 (4%)
3 ★
6,369 (1%)
2 ★
4,696 (1%)
1 ★
12,556 (2%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 52 negative reviews

Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.

1
"game"
41 negative reviews mention this · 79% of all complaints
★★★★ "way too hard. im literally on chapter 1 and it took me days to defeat 1 boss because of how slow u get energy and also cuz the bots gets cards so fast that it's unfair most of the time this game is just here to get your momey" - borerays
2
"play"
28 negative reviews mention this · 54% of all complaints
★★★★ "Terrible. Online play is terrible, you get 1 maybe 2 turns. Bots that play get the phases they need on their first turn. It’s a losing game. Terrible RGN with cards. Make it more even." - Blast 1234
3
"money"
17 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★ "Horrible customer service. Advertising is misleading and after spending money they were not helpful at all in resolving my issues. Deleted the app and other affiliate apps." - Nicklanfear
4
"level"
16 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Starts out fun then becomes unplayable. They make it real easy for you to progress up until level 13 and then you basically have to pay for special cards in order to have a fighting chance against the cpu. Not a bad game but it just becomes unplayable unless you’re paying" - Drecoe
5
"every"
13 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★ "MAJOR SCAM. This CPU wins almost every time. I’ve been playing MULTIPLE TIMES, been stuck on level 15 for days." - itsg0ldie
6
"games"
13 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★ "All the excess games within a game. You can’t just play a regular game , you have to wait 20 minutes while all the little side quest and everything else loads . Why can’t it just be the game , oh yeah cooperate greed is in there now" - knightwkr13
7
"phase"
11 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★ "Terrible. Online play is terrible, you get 1 maybe 2 turns. Bots that play get the phases they need on their first turn. It’s a losing game. Terrible RGN with cards. Make it more even." - Blast 1234
8
"cards"
10 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★ "way too hard. im literally on chapter 1 and it took me days to defeat 1 boss because of how slow u get energy and also cuz the bots gets cards so fast that it's unfair most of the time this game is just here to get your momey" - borerays
9
"playing"
10 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★ "MAJOR SCAM. This CPU wins almost every time. I’ve been playing MULTIPLE TIMES, been stuck on level 15 for days." - itsg0ldie
10
"wait"
9 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★ "All the excess games within a game. You can’t just play a regular game , you have to wait 20 minutes while all the little side quest and everything else loads . Why can’t it just be the game , oh yeah cooperate greed is in there now" - knightwkr13
11
"spend"
9 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★ "Horrible customer service. Advertising is misleading and after spending money they were not helpful at all in resolving my issues. Deleted the app and other affiliate apps." - Nicklanfear
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"bots"
8 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★ "way too hard. im literally on chapter 1 and it took me days to defeat 1 boss because of how slow u get energy and also cuz the bots gets cards so fast that it's unfair most of the time this game is just here to get your momey" - borerays

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★★★★ borerays 6/30/2026 v1.0.87
way too hard
im literally on chapter 1 and it took me days to defeat 1 boss because of how slow u get energy and also cuz the bots gets cards so fast that it's unfair most of the time this game is just here to get your momey
★★★★ Blast 1234 6/30/2026 v1.0.87
Terrible
Online play is terrible, you get 1 maybe 2 turns. Bots that play get the phases they need on their first turn. It’s a losing game. Terrible RGN with cards. Make it more even.
★★★★ Nicklanfear 6/29/2026 v1.0.87
Horrible customer service
Advertising is misleading and after spending money they were not helpful at all in resolving my issues. Deleted the app and other affiliate apps.
★★★★ itsg0ldie 6/29/2026 v1.0.87
MAJOR SCAM
This CPU wins almost every time. I’ve been playing MULTIPLE TIMES, been stuck on level 15 for days.
★★★★ knightwkr13 6/28/2026 v1.0.87
All the excess games within a game
You can’t just play a regular game , you have to wait 20 minutes while all the little side quest and everything else loads . Why can’t it just be the game , oh yeah cooperate greed is in there now
★★★★ Gabe1034 6/28/2026 v1.0.87
Terrible and so pay to win.
The people leaving 5 star reviews for this game must all be robots. I’ve never seen a game practically beg you so much to spend money. This game becomes impossible after a certain point unless you drop your whole paycheck on it. Another thing with the events, they are so terrible I’ve never seen events that are so bad and pay to win in my life. it was fun for the first couple levels, but if you want to find a relaxing card game DO NOT PLAY THIS ONE. Once again events are so bad… so bad. Might as well get rid of them completely from the game, how are you going to make somone pay to play an event? They give you 0 moves for free then you get cooked by some random npc. Once again this is not a relaxing game and it’s so pay to win. Unless your getting payed to play it do not play this horrible horrible game, do yourself the favor. Good bye.
★★★★ Neecyv 6/28/2026 v1.0.87
Ads
Great game if you like ads between every hand of cards, super annoying
★★★★ Mike 8535745 6/27/2026 v1.0.87
Horrible
Game feels rigged to lose unless you use special cards. Has very limited time to play before you have to wait or pay. Lots of ads. Typical money grabs.
★★★★ P…- 6/27/2026 v1.0.87
Need another phase 10 game
The ads are annoying. It won’t let you go to the next round without clicking through/playing the ad game. But most importantly, having to use my coins to play a round and then having to wait a long time just to play multiple rounds is ruining the experience. Please fix these issues.
★★★★ Aery_Reviews 6/26/2026 v1.0.87
Typical Predatory Mobile Game
Unfortunately this game employs the typical dark/deceptive design patterns of many mobile games nowadays: a ridiculous number of micro-transactions, hiding actual monetary costs behind “gems” and “gold”, needing to refill energy to actually play the game, etc. They wait until about ~25+ levels in before they start showing ads to give the illusion it’s ad-free.
The gameplay is fun when you can actually do it between all the energy limits and constant pop-ups and mini-games trying to convince you to spend money in different ways. So it’s unfortunate, wish I could just play the game.
I’ll be removing this app from my phone and wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
★★★★ deweyduck 6/26/2026 v1.0.87
Pay to play
Computer wins 98% of the time. Chinese\russian company. Scammers and cheaters from the developers. Shame on you!
★★★★ Hate phase 10 6/26/2026 v1.0.87
I hate this game
This game suck so bad level 21 is so hard and cheating
★★★★ spicy-hot-tamale 6/26/2026 v1.0.87
ADS!!!!
This game was so fun until level 20. All of a sudden there are ads galore!!! Of course i can PAY to get ad free version but why wait until someone gets into the game to start popping them up?!?! I’m so frustrated i deleted the app entirely. Don’t waste your time.
★★★★ trell savo 6/24/2026 v1.0.87
Trash
It’s a good game but you get to the hard levels and I know I don’t even have a fighting chance the cpu don’t have to win every time I play a hard level just like I don’t always win every easy or medium level it’s ridiculous
★★★★ Mar052021 6/24/2026 v1.0.87
Fun game, terribly written
For years this game has been written in favor of the computer players. Don’t waste your money buying anything in this game.
★★★★ D45HS1GN 6/24/2026 v1.0.87
Great game, horribly executed
Can’t even play phase 10. Forces you to do mini games and shows stupid animations constantly blocking the gameplay
★★★★ oOSourKittyOo 6/23/2026 v1.0.87
Ads
Enjoyed a few games then ads randomly started to pop up
★★★★ JaszyN94 6/23/2026 v1.0.87
Game will cheat for cpu
The game purposely makes you lose so that you will spend money on gems and in game purchases what’s supposed to be a fun game quickly become scam city
★★★★ Chris Tophur 6/23/2026 v1.0.87
Stacks the wilds
The cpu characters get 10 times more wilds than the human player in an attempt to force you to buy in order to keep playing.
★★★★ ThisAppSux10 6/22/2026 v1.0.86
HORRIBLE
I just wanna play phase regular phase 10 worst app I’ve ever downloaded
★★★★ Forced extra isn’t fun 6/22/2026 v1.0.86
Everything besides the game
The card game part is fun. All of the extra stuff the game forces you to do, like attract animals to a raft?, is dumb and takes forever to get through the forced tutorial. And when you’re finished with that, you can get into the actual game, but one round in, here’s the game forcing you to go through another tutorial for something else stupid.
★★★★ OldMagconIsBaeAsHeck 6/22/2026 v1.0.86
fun but winning is by luck
you just play against cpu’s which is fine, but you really only win by luck, based on the cards you are dealt
★★★★ atheman90 6/22/2026 v1.0.86
This game hates me just cuz I’m autistic
Kept losing on levels after 15 due to unfair skills from the NPCs. I really wish you could change the RNG on this game cuz I’m a speedrunner and I nearly broke my electronic from raging so much. I play games like this just to clear my mind and having to wait hours just for my lives to recharge just pisses me off.
★★★★ Modifiedfeed 6/21/2026 v1.0.86
Playing with bots
You play with bots and always lose when u reach level 14. They just want ya to spend money. I’m only well I WAS playing because I was getting paid to play it but I’m not spending money on this game to go to the next level. Hell no
★★★★ 1kynd 6/21/2026 v1.0.86
DO NOT PLAY
you need to fix your bot and ai system, if anything it should’ve been fixed. there is no reason with every round that they should be getting an all clear and winning before i can even do anything or play. nothing good ever comes out of being money hungry, stay safe or in your case stay stupid
★★★★ SueJMoMo 6/21/2026 v1.0.86
Rigged
I have tried playing this game multiple times. Once you reach a certain level the game won’t let you win. It is rigged to make you spend money because it won’t let you win no matter how many rounds you play.
★★★★ TTmardona 6/21/2026 v1.0.86
P2W
Another pay to win game. Opponent AI is ridiculously unfair. Not much strategy when the game is designed to be very frustrating without paying. From what I’ve read even paying a small “reasonable” amount isn’t enough to overcome the automated opponent’s hands. Plenty of other games on the market to spend your time on than this. Guaranteed download and delete game. Don’t waste your time with this one.
★★★★ slayyourdaybae 6/20/2026 v1.0.86
Absolutely rigged.
After you pass level 10, the game is just rigged 100%. The bots, yes, BOTS, that you play with magically all have good cards and get All Clear first try, making it impossible to win. So, you waste energy and either have to buy more energg or buy powerups. And lets be honest, no one here is playing this game for fun, yoy people got an offer on Kashkick or something to play this game. And its terrible!! Run for the hills on this cursed game.
★★★★ M78394 6/20/2026 v1.0.86
Ads, bloatware, enshi*ification, this is NOT phase 10
Awful game. Full of ads, paywalls, time limits just to play the game unless you pay. Don’t download this trash game. This is NOT the phase 10 game you’ve played in real life.
★★★★ Middle finger Toyou 6/20/2026 v1.0.86
Stupid game with stupid robots that are impossible to beat
This game sucks. They make you play against a computer who wins every hand within 1 to 2 draws. Creators are dumb.
★★★★ opheliay 6/20/2026 v1.0.86
Stupid game, don’t get it
Such a rigged game, doesn’t even give you a chance to win. Bots always win so you don’t move up a level. Bye.
★★★★ mhadie with an h 6/20/2026 v1.0.86
I am tired of rigged games.
I have taken note of the losses I’ve experienced for the past 7 days. I play multiple times a day, minimum two sessions a day. I use up all of my energy on matches. In the past 7 days, I have only increased one level. I have not placed first in any of these, but that’s not my issue. My issue is while playing a total of 8 phases across two levels, I have lost 83 phases in less than a turn. Without even drawing a card, a CPU will have not only completed the phase but also “coincidentally” will go out and complete the phase. This is frustrating enough to have the coding of the game so clearly against its players, however I noticed that the few times I have wild cards (especially in comparison to how many the CPU’s draw) these are the rounds that are most likely to be ended by a CPU before the player can even play their phase.
I truly believe that this game runs on a similar type of coding and game development as claw machines. Without paying an incredible amount of money to better your chances, you won’t be able to gain any sort of momentum forward towards a win. And any money spent will not guarantee a win; it will only help even some of the unfair playing field.
I have no interest in the development team’s copy and pasted excuses and promises (yes, I did check other replies to reviews) that they aren’t rigging their game. You need to rig the game so not everyone wins 100% of the time because that’s how you turn profit. You need people to struggle to stay in business. I only have interest in letting people know that if they play this game, they will experience frustration and resentment due to the unfair advantages the developers give the CPU’s.
★★★★ El Aguacate😂 6/19/2026 v1.0.86
Completely Rigged
Once you hit level 16 the bots get a perfect hand every single game do NOT waste your time or money getting the energy to play another round, you are simply never going to win the bot will always beat you.
★★★★ AngeLove23 6/19/2026 v1.0.86
Awful
This game sucks!! Unless you make purchases they do everything they can do to block you! I would much rather play anything else than this awful game. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!
★★★★ Carrreb 6/17/2026 v1.0.86
Money Grab/Lack of Multiplayer
Classic Mattel trying to snag your money for a game they’ve had no problem selling for 40 years. This game is a great card game. Instead of a micro purchase game wall: just sell the app for $10 and make a game pass for every 3 months that gives you everything including private multiplayer which currently doesn’t even exist.
Sick of these named brands jumping into the paywall micro transaction game. You’re destroying your reputation.
★★★★ GoRiLaGrIpCoChIe 6/17/2026 v1.0.86
They cheat
Great game but it’s completely rigged I’ve been on the same level all day because the “players” before me keep going out they’re intentionally trying to get you to lose without a fair chance.
★★★★ Kiana he is 6/17/2026 v1.0.86
Scam
The game was actually really fun until level 15. At level 15, unless you pay to have booster cards, there’s a zero percent chance that you will pass the level. You are facing 3 other players through 6 rounds, and they are consistently dealt winning hands from the beginning. I tried level 15 over 20 times and never got even remotely close to beating it. Trash
★★★★ ThaBestMayne 6/17/2026 v1.0.86
Obviously Pay to Win
This game was fun for a while but you reach a certain level and it is so beyond obvious that the computer just magically gets what they need and you need to pay money to get the levels done. Complete waste of time honestly.
★★★★ sentinal8 6/14/2026 v1.0.86
Phase 10
Please bring back the original Phase 10 game. This new one is no where near as good as the original game.
★★★★★ Drecoe 6/29/2026 v1.0.87
Starts out fun then becomes unplayable
They make it real easy for you to progress up until level 13 and then you basically have to pay for special cards in order to have a fighting chance against the cpu. Not a bad game but it just becomes unplayable unless you’re paying
★★★★★ JimothyBobSanders 6/25/2026 v1.0.87
Annoying
The game itself is fun. The reason I’m deleting the app is every time I open it the app forces me to sit through a 5 minute forced tutorial for a feature I don’t care about at all and will never use and will only be present for the next 4 days. Not worth the hassle
★★★★★ MachoQuacker 6/22/2026 v1.0.87
Frustrating Level Mechanics
The game itself has a lot of potential. Starts off very fun with learning the mechanics as a new player, but I quickly got stuck in a loop. Each level gives different phases to complete. However, if you get stuck in a phase below other players (ai bot or not) in the match, it’s hard to come from that phase up. You can’t restart the level, but must continue on spending Energy to play each level even if you couldn’t complete your objective. So you have to spend even if you know you can’t win. And that soft locks you into spending actual money to pay for more energy, which I will not do.
It’s a shame since the game starts off promising but can lock you in quick to spending money to advance into the game. So be warned if wanting to play for fun, as it can quickly become frustrating in just one level. Having phases is fine, but putting up to 5 of them on a normal level is ridiculous. All the while ai bots speed through while you struggle to get through one phase, thus soft locking you into them winning the whole level is , again, ridiculous.
★★★★★ Zoolander665 6/22/2026 v1.0.87
BS
I enjoy the game but they try to make them fast games. Every game it seems one of the computer players has their phase within 2 turns. It makes it difficult to enjoy sometimes since you really don’t get to play. It makes me think the system is set so you can’t take your time and enjoy a full game which is BS!
★★★★★ Teachcu151796 6/21/2026 v1.0.86
Too much
As a lover of the card game, this app is just too much. I liked the variety of the hand / challenges each time but feels too scripted. It’s too easy the first game you open the app then impossible to win at some point. Also way too many mini games. A good one here or these is great but every time I open the app I get forced to play a game I didn’t come to play. Have downloaded a few times and deleted within a week.
★★★★★ Guest 8257 6/20/2026 v1.0.86
Ads won’t close
There is no x to click to close out ads after watching them.
★★★★★ Madi1441 6/19/2026 v1.0.86
It was fun but now it’s not.
After playing for a while and moving up, the bots you play against end up finishing their deck before it gets to your turn. This makes it impossible to win unless you spend money or restart that round entirely. I used to love this game but I can’t stand it anymore
★★★★★ Silentmuse1989 6/19/2026 v1.0.86
I desperately want to love this app.
I love playing phase 10 and this app is the only way I can play it when I am not with a group of people in person but every time I go to play on this app I end up being frustrated and annoyed. There is so much happening when you are not in the middle of a game that it’s frankly overwhelming and I have no idea what’s happening. There are so many icons and mini games and other things that I can’t even name or figure out because there is so much. And every time I open the app it feels like I spend several minutes just trying to get the app to let me play the actual card game and it feels like I’m frequently not even able to get out of playing and participating in the mini games, which I have no interest in.
It takes forever to get all of the windows and forced mini game participation and information to just go away and it moves slow enough when it comes to letting you click off of things that I frequently wonder if the app is just frozen but no it just makes you wait about as long as acceptably possible before letting you close the windows and games.
And most of the time it seems like playing these extra mini games are the only way to get enough energy points to play the actual game for more than maybe 5 minutes at a time (and that’s if you get lucky and the NPCs don’t immediately win the game as soon as it starts and leave you with a wasted precious 5 energy points) unless you pay for more energy points. I wouldn’t even mind the NPCs winning immediately if it didn’t mean that the few energy points you’re given were wasted before you could even do anything and you now have to wait even longer just to play an actual round of the game.
I’m dying to have an option to just play the basic phase 10 card game for a decent amount of time without having to wait almost half an hour before being able to play again without being forced to play a bunch of other games in order to be able to play it or having to deal with the overwhelming number of things happening with the app. Most of the time I have no idea what the million mini game adventure things happening are because there is just too much to keep track of and try to make sense of. And every time I get myself to open the app and try it again I just end up more overwhelmed by the million other things that are continuously added that have nothing to do with the actual card game. You are allowed so little play time with the energy point system if you don’t participate in the mini games or pay that it’s more frustrating than anything and keeps me from enjoying it enough to actually want to play the game or participate in the mini games in order to play more. It just doesn’t seem worth it and does nothing but drive me away from it further and further. If I could play more of the actual game and have more of an option in participation with the million mini games instead of feeling like I’m being forced to I might not mind them as much and maybe feel like it’s worth it to try to make sense of the overwhelming number of things happening but it feels like I have no other option and it’s not worth it with the energy point system and it’s nothing but frustrating. I’ve been using this app for years at this point and almost every time I’ve opened it since I first downloaded it I’ve nearly deleted it after a few minutes and then go months without using it purely because I end up being disappointed and annoyed. But it’s the only way I can play one of my favorite games on my own. That’s the only thing keeping me from deleting it. I’m begging for an option to not have to deal with anything but the basic card game and the ability to play for more than 5 mins without waiting 25 mins in between playing and having to deal with more and more pop ups and other things that have nothing to do with playing the actual game or trying to make me purchase things being thrown in my face every time I open or do anything in the app.
I love the addition of phases that aren’t in the actual card game, it keeps it more fun and interesting and it’s great. I love that I can play this game by myself. I love that they keep the explanations of the actual game and the rules clear and straightforward and make it easy to understand and play. I don’t mind the option for boosters and stuff, I usually try not to use them because it feels like cheating to me but hey, to each their own there. I’m sure some people really enjoy that option, as well as some of the mini games and such that the app has. But every thing I shared here just overwhelms the good parts for me. Hell, I’d take an even more add riddled game over the mini games and every thing else happening if it meant I could just play the card game for longer without having to deal with everything else.
★★★★★ urapppppppsuuuccckkksss 6/18/2026 v1.0.86
Adds! Lives
The games is great but the constant adds and limited lives makes this game frustrating. Starts off with very few if no adds then as time goes you get an add for every game. Forcing you to purchase to remove. If you skip an add you lose the life. You are limited to 50 tokens and have to use 5 just to play and often the system beats your game instantly. If you want more game time it’s cost money. Constantly pressure to make a purchase to to play! No real options to have free lives. That too costs money. I’d rather pay a flat fee to just play and not constantly having to wait through add and have limited lives to play.
★★★★★ SWAGNATIONS 6/16/2026 v1.0.86
Not Just Phase 10
I paid for no ads and still get video ads; just not as often. Also, they force you click around to play all of these non-Phase 10 games. The actual Phase 10 is fun. Why they had to go and ruin it with other stuff is beyond me.
★★★★★ Orionson17 6/16/2026 v1.0.86
Pay to win card game
The games npcs will bring numerous bonus cards and make the game unwinable without spending money for every round. There are very few earnable rewards to compete with the deep pockets of an npc

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✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.