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Plato: Fun Multiplayer Games
Plato Team Inc · 282,310 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 34 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"
16 negative reviews mention this · 47% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DO NOT ADD THIS APP! PREDATORS, SCAMMERS and CHEATING!!. Beware: We initially thought this was a fun app but learned it’s really just a bunch of knock offs of licensed games. This app being used to scam, cheat and prey upon unsuspecting people. The app also allows illegal listening of your phone.…" - Cocoh247
2
"games"
9 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DO NOT ADD THIS APP! PREDATORS, SCAMMERS and CHEATING!!. Beware: We initially thought this was a fun app but learned it’s really just a bunch of knock offs of licensed games. This app being used to scam, cheat and prey upon unsuspecting people. The app also allows illegal listening of your phone.…" - Cocoh247
3
"money"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Backgammon Dice System Feels Unfair. Dear Plato Team, I have reached a point where I am genuinely fed up with this game. I fully understand that Backgammon involves luck and random dice rolls. However, after countless matches, the dice outcomes have become so consistently fr…" - farimah1327
4
"playing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Algorithm Issue - Unfair. So I really enjoy playing backgammon but I’m pretty much unable to play on this app because anytime I play a live partner, they get anywhere from 5 to 10 double rolls on the dice per game and I am lucky to get even one. Not only does it giv…" - AngiePangie3366
5
"play"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bad app for minors and privacy. You absolutely should not download this app if you are underage or fear for your privacy. There are stalkers, predators, hackers (the app is not very secure) and really just about every low life scum you can think of to players and beggars …" - Mura Vey
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"people"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DO NOT ADD THIS APP! PREDATORS, SCAMMERS and CHEATING!!. Beware: We initially thought this was a fun app but learned it’s really just a bunch of knock offs of licensed games. This app being used to scam, cheat and prey upon unsuspecting people. The app also allows illegal listening of your phone.…" - Cocoh247
7
"every"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bad app for minors and privacy. You absolutely should not download this app if you are underage or fear for your privacy. There are stalkers, predators, hackers (the app is not very secure) and really just about every low life scum you can think of to players and beggars …" - Mura Vey
8
"plato"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Backgammon Dice System Feels Unfair. Dear Plato Team, I have reached a point where I am genuinely fed up with this game. I fully understand that Backgammon involves luck and random dice rolls. However, after countless matches, the dice outcomes have become so consistently fr…" - farimah1327
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"random"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Backgammon Dice System Feels Unfair. Dear Plato Team, I have reached a point where I am genuinely fed up with this game. I fully understand that Backgammon involves luck and random dice rolls. However, after countless matches, the dice outcomes have become so consistently fr…" - farimah1327
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"player"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bad app for minors and privacy. You absolutely should not download this app if you are underage or fear for your privacy. There are stalkers, predators, hackers (the app is not very secure) and really just about every low life scum you can think of to players and beggars …" - Mura Vey
11
"dice"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Backgammon Dice System Feels Unfair. Dear Plato Team, I have reached a point where I am genuinely fed up with this game. I fully understand that Backgammon involves luck and random dice rolls. However, after countless matches, the dice outcomes have become so consistently fr…" - farimah1327
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"unfair"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Backgammon Dice System Feels Unfair. Dear Plato Team, I have reached a point where I am genuinely fed up with this game. I fully understand that Backgammon involves luck and random dice rolls. However, after countless matches, the dice outcomes have become so consistently fr…" - farimah1327
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DO NOT ADD THIS APP! PREDATORS, SCAMMERS and CHEATING!!
Beware: We initially thought this was a fun app but learned it’s really just a bunch of knock offs of licensed games. This app being used to scam, cheat and prey upon unsuspecting people. The app also allows illegal listening of your phone. The developers are part of the scamming. They try to make updates often to hide bad reviews. Apple needs to investigate and remove this app from their platform ASAP!
Bad app for minors and privacy
You absolutely should not download this app if you are underage or fear for your privacy. There are stalkers, predators, hackers (the app is not very secure) and really just about every low life scum you can think of to players and beggars an spammers this app is a joke ive been on it for 5 years. Keep your hands and heart clean and AVOID THIS APP.
Fix Network Connection
This game is giving a lot of trouble with the connection, it stays on hold a lot for no reason.
Backgammon Dice System Feels Unfair
Dear Plato Team,
I have reached a point where I am genuinely fed up with this game.
I fully understand that Backgammon involves luck and random dice rolls. However, after countless matches, the dice outcomes have become so consistently frustrating that it is becoming impossible to trust the fairness of the system.
Time and time again, I watch opponents receive exactly the rolls they need while I get the worst possible outcomes at the most critical moments. At first I thought it was bad luck. Then I thought it was coincidence. But after experiencing this repeatedly for such a long time, it feels less like randomness and more like a system that is completely broken.
What makes this even more frustrating is that players invest their time, energy, and sometimes money into your platform expecting a fair gaming experience. Instead, many matches feel predetermined by absurd dice sequences that destroy any sense of competition.
I am not writing this because I lost a few games. I am writing this because the experience has become so irritating that it is driving loyal players away from your platform.
If your dice system is truly random, then you should be transparent about it and review the concerns that so many players continue to raise. Right now, my confidence in the fairness of this game is close to zero.
A very frustrated and disappointed player.
I have reached a point where I am genuinely fed up with this game.
I fully understand that Backgammon involves luck and random dice rolls. However, after countless matches, the dice outcomes have become so consistently frustrating that it is becoming impossible to trust the fairness of the system.
Time and time again, I watch opponents receive exactly the rolls they need while I get the worst possible outcomes at the most critical moments. At first I thought it was bad luck. Then I thought it was coincidence. But after experiencing this repeatedly for such a long time, it feels less like randomness and more like a system that is completely broken.
What makes this even more frustrating is that players invest their time, energy, and sometimes money into your platform expecting a fair gaming experience. Instead, many matches feel predetermined by absurd dice sequences that destroy any sense of competition.
I am not writing this because I lost a few games. I am writing this because the experience has become so irritating that it is driving loyal players away from your platform.
If your dice system is truly random, then you should be transparent about it and review the concerns that so many players continue to raise. Right now, my confidence in the fairness of this game is close to zero.
A very frustrated and disappointed player.
Rigged
Many users and I believe an algorithm is used where the winner is predetermined and this is done to keep people enticed - it’s SOOOOO OBVIOUS AND ANNOYING
Darts
More useless than a lot lizard with no truckers
Annoying
Although it’s great for multiplayer, definitely wouldn’t suggest it.
Stupid glitches
Stupid glitching on the game caused me to lose a game on more than one occasion, whether or not the app is updated. Would not recommend this app. Also not worth spending money on
Odds of luck are completely wrong
Tell me why every opponent i get seems to have the best look in game terms and obviously this game it’s all about luck so i believe and i feel like that the odd in this freaking game should be equal and not higuera for a single player in the freaking match, thanks! fix your game!!!!!
Cant lie game is hot trash
Rules switched mid game
Good idea but unfair play
If only they would fix the die roll to be truly random!!! So frustrating because the app is fun there is some bad coding that regularly awards one player a huge advantage. Multiple games have very unbalanced dice rolls. If you don’t mind playing games like backgammon and watching the opponent roll 8-10 sets of doubles in a single one point game, while you roll maybe one set of doubles, then this is your app. Once another player pointed out how rigged the doubles rolls are on backgammon in particular it became impossible to miss.
On Ludo the app will choose one number for someone to roll and that number will come up a third of all their rolls for the game. If it was fixed so it was truly random this app would be great.
On Ludo the app will choose one number for someone to roll and that number will come up a third of all their rolls for the game. If it was fixed so it was truly random this app would be great.
No
Bad game
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Horrible
Ugly
This app doesn’t respect the silent mode!!!
What are you doing for not allowing us to mute the sound?
Bad
When you playing any game that involves dice the results are not random but follows a poor design script where dice numbers keep repeating over and over like in a script. It is designed to let you win a few times and then lose many times. Would not recommend this terrible designed of an app. Thumbs down
Unfair chances
Randomness games such as ludo and match monsters feel extremely unfair and not random at all
Bad
Bad
Hate DON'T GET
This guy was asking to have *** with me I don't like or recommend this game it is very creepy, weird and inappropriate. They have limited games to which are only like card games and random bourd games. And finally it is very slow.
Broken and Garbage Game Platform
Trash app. It’s rigged and or fixed especially when the opposing player is on a winning streak or used virtual currency. Also, the player base tend to be pretty toxic. Normally bots or loser foreigners that don’t live in America. The app sucks. I’d rather stick to 8 ball Pool or something similar. I have no interest in continuously losing to a broken rigged trash game then get threatened by some Indian or Arab. Get a life loser. Your behavior is as cringe as my ex. 😂👎🏻
Vòlè
Your app took my coins for an item, but I never received the item. This is unacceptable. I paid for it and the coins were removed from my account, yet the app keeps asking me to pay again if I try to send the gift. Fix this problem and return my coins immediately. If this is not resolved, I will report the issue because this looks like a scam.
Monsterpedia is missing + decline in Plato’s quality
I go into the app, Monsterpedia is missing from the Match Monsters game category. Can’t access it on browser either but I used to be able to search for the Monsterpedia on google and could use it through the Plato website. But now when I search for it on browser, it says the page doesn’t exist.
Please bring Monsterpedia back. There’s already so many issues with this app** and this would be the last straw for me if Monsterpedia is permanently gone.
** Issues with the app 🎲
•Hackers/ cheaters/ bots. If you’re new to Plato, I would recommend using anything else. This has been an issue for years. (I have used Plato since 2016-2017).
•Users drawing inappropriate images in Draw Together. Please give users the ability to report drawings, including the users who choose to write the word instead of drawing it.
•The change in items being primarily sold in Pips instead of Coins. What exactly are the daily challenge coins going to be used for when this company plans to make coins obsolete? Maybe we’ll stop getting currency as a reward at some point and that is disappointing to think about.
•Users frequently leaving a game after just joining, which is more common in the less popular games and is a nuisance. Please have a system that punishes this kind of behavior.
•Nowadays, if you’re looking for an authentic gaming experience, it would be best to simply add people you know outside of Plato as friends and play private matches. However, this would completely defeat the purpose of this app which is to play casual games and connect with people around the world.
•Finally and most importantly, Plato most definitely uses generative AI. This app is too greedy to charge what they do for work that isn’t theirs. But I guess it makes perfect sense for a company lacking in ethics to only prioritize what little money they can squeeze out of not paying artists. I miss the old days when updates were actually worth getting excited for. They were few and far in-between, but at least they weren’t slop.
All of these issues I listed make for an inferior experience compared to Discord games, Game Pigeon, and simply playing the physical counterparts of these games with people in person. If anyone sees this review and has made it this far, I beg, please just play something else, anything else.
Please bring Monsterpedia back. There’s already so many issues with this app** and this would be the last straw for me if Monsterpedia is permanently gone.
** Issues with the app 🎲
•Hackers/ cheaters/ bots. If you’re new to Plato, I would recommend using anything else. This has been an issue for years. (I have used Plato since 2016-2017).
•Users drawing inappropriate images in Draw Together. Please give users the ability to report drawings, including the users who choose to write the word instead of drawing it.
•The change in items being primarily sold in Pips instead of Coins. What exactly are the daily challenge coins going to be used for when this company plans to make coins obsolete? Maybe we’ll stop getting currency as a reward at some point and that is disappointing to think about.
•Users frequently leaving a game after just joining, which is more common in the less popular games and is a nuisance. Please have a system that punishes this kind of behavior.
•Nowadays, if you’re looking for an authentic gaming experience, it would be best to simply add people you know outside of Plato as friends and play private matches. However, this would completely defeat the purpose of this app which is to play casual games and connect with people around the world.
•Finally and most importantly, Plato most definitely uses generative AI. This app is too greedy to charge what they do for work that isn’t theirs. But I guess it makes perfect sense for a company lacking in ethics to only prioritize what little money they can squeeze out of not paying artists. I miss the old days when updates were actually worth getting excited for. They were few and far in-between, but at least they weren’t slop.
All of these issues I listed make for an inferior experience compared to Discord games, Game Pigeon, and simply playing the physical counterparts of these games with people in person. If anyone sees this review and has made it this far, I beg, please just play something else, anything else.
I HATE LANDSCAPE MODE!!! - iPad version
I’ve had this game for over five years, I’ve got so many friends to download to play with me over the years. It has no ads and i never want to delete it. BUT this newest update is forcing the app to stay landscape mode? When it’s been a vertical only game this whole time…. And now when you’re playing, there’s a giant chat window taking up half of the screen! I don’t even use the chat feature in game so this is super ugly and inconvenient. Why can’t I at least hide the huge chat window? The game is so small on my screen, I might as well be on my phone, how would this be an improvement?… this made playing on my iPad worse, not better, I hate it GIVE ME BACK VERTICAL MODE PLEASE. I DONT EVEN WANT TO PLAY ANYMORE 😭 at least make it rotate based on screen orientation like c’mon, I’ll give u a 5 star if you give me back the vertical version….
It’s been over a month and I still haven’t played one game. I open the app every once in a while to see if it will rotate vertically, and close it when it doesn’t. I miss Plato but I can’t deal with that giant chat window…
It’s been well over 6 months and I don’t use this app anymore. I still check but they haven’t made any changes to address this issue. The forced landscape mode makes the games so small on my iPad, so I’m gonna go ahead and delete it now since y’all won’t allow me to change the orientation back to the original portrait format or hide the chat window. I’m didn’t want it to come to this but I’m tired of checking and doubt any changes will be made. The end of an era 😭
It’s been over a month and I still haven’t played one game. I open the app every once in a while to see if it will rotate vertically, and close it when it doesn’t. I miss Plato but I can’t deal with that giant chat window…
It’s been well over 6 months and I don’t use this app anymore. I still check but they haven’t made any changes to address this issue. The forced landscape mode makes the games so small on my iPad, so I’m gonna go ahead and delete it now since y’all won’t allow me to change the orientation back to the original portrait format or hide the chat window. I’m didn’t want it to come to this but I’m tired of checking and doubt any changes will be made. The end of an era 😭
Full of hateful Liars and Slander
I’m dealing with this 24/7 Please Help me Developers do something about it
Rigged
The games are rigged big time not worth downloading
I dont want to see peoples skins
As a developer I cant believe they havent encorporated an option to where the only ones that can see there skinsa and change the boards are the people that payed for it. I dont want my connect four board or colors changed
Why pips and not coins?
Why are all new shop items sold in pips which cost REAL money? This app is fun but make it so daily rewards wins pips instead!! Or go back to coins.
Disgusting
This app has become more and more of a cash grab over time and has even stooped as low as using AI-generated images for their shop. Imagine the audacity. Not even paying an artist but making you spend even more than you would have in the past for real art. Absolutely pathetic. Nobody should be wasting money on this app.
Trash competitive
Every game of competitive I have a teammate who either doesn’t play or play the infect move every turn. This app is just a troll to people who don’t spend money on additions. Very rude.
Algorithm Issue - Unfair
So I really enjoy playing backgammon but I’m pretty much unable to play on this app because anytime I play a live partner, they get anywhere from 5 to 10 double rolls on the dice per game and I am lucky to get even one.
Not only does it give the other player an unfair advantage, but I’ve become disillusioned and don’t trust any of the game algorithms to give fair dice rolls.
Not only does it give the other player an unfair advantage, but I’ve become disillusioned and don’t trust any of the game algorithms to give fair dice rolls.
Waiting game
Maybe when a person resigns just end the freaking game don’t make the one winning wait for them to time out. Also maybe start banning the pervs using this like a dating app just cause they’re from another country doesnt mean you Plato! should allow it. One more terrible annoying thing why no mute? for the life of me I can’t figure out why you don’t have a way to permanently mute the whole game, instead you have us muting each and every new game we start STUPID
Fun to pass time
Have plenty of options for different games however it gets very annoying when you try to play a game and everybody quit quits and there’s a long time to wait. Seems like like I’m spending more time waiting than playing..
And it tells me there’s over 40,000 players, but I’m always playing with blocked players.
Again, it’s not bad if you like to play different games just a lot of quitters and time wasting.
And it tells me there’s over 40,000 players, but I’m always playing with blocked players.
Again, it’s not bad if you like to play different games just a lot of quitters and time wasting.
Chats
I don’t like how you can’t bring deleted chat’s back after redownloading or after accidentally deleting them. Lost some good ones :(
needs portrait mode on ipad
there’s no reason why i should be forced to hold my ipad in landscape mode while the chat takes up over half the screen.
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)