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REVIEW
Solitaire: Card Games is shovelware that costs $2.99 to find out.
Super Gangster Games' Amazon Appstore Solitaire is paid generic Solitaire with a developer name that does most of the editorial work. There is no reason to pay for this one.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 9, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Solitaire: Card Games
SUPER GANGSTER GAMES
OUR SCORE
3.5
AMAZON
★ 5.0
PRICE
$2.99
Every major app store has a long-tail category of generic shovelware Solitaire apps published by developers no one has heard of. The pattern is consistent across iOS, Google Play, Amazon Appstore, and even the smart-TV stores: a small studio packages a competent-enough card-game implementation, ships it under a keyword-loaded bundle ID, and prices it somewhere between $0.99 and $4.99 hoping that browsers who don’t research will pay for what they could get free elsewhere. Solitaire: Card Games from Super Gangster Games sits squarely in that pattern.
The category leaders are well-known and free. Microsoft Solitaire Collection is on essentially every platform, runs without ads if you buy the cheap subscription or with a manageable ad load if you don’t, and is genuinely well-designed by the studio that ships Solitaire to a billion Windows users. MobilityWare’s Solitaire is the iOS default and competent. Tripledot’s Solitaire Cash is the prize-money variant that’s been the iOS top-grossing card game for several years. Any of those three are better choices than a $2.99 paid app from a developer with no visible track record.
There is no editorial nuance to add to that recommendation. The app might run perfectly. The Klondike, Spider, and FreeCell implementations might be flawless. None of that is testable from the store listing, and the $2.99 cost is a paywall against finding out. App Comrade’s role in cases like this one is to recommend against blind installs in saturated categories where free, well-known alternatives exist. The score reflects that.
There is one Solitaire on every app store that's actually good. This is not it.
FEATURES
Solitaire: Card Games is a paid card-game app on the Amazon Appstore, published by Super Gangster Games and priced at $2.99. The store listing positions the app as a generic Solitaire collection — the package name (com.sgg.classic.arcade.solitaire.spider.cell) suggests Klondike, Spider, and FreeCell variants, which is the standard three-pack that hundreds of competing Solitaire apps offer for free.
No description is present in the krawl mirror and the listing carries three screenshots that show standard card-game UI. There is no advertised feature differentiation, no developer track record visible from the listing, and no marketing position that explains why this $2.99 paid app exists in a category that's saturated with free competitors.
The Amazon Appstore version is presumably an Android port; the developer's broader catalogue, if any, is not surfaced in the listing.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Charging upfront rather than ad-loading is, in principle, the better deal for users who hate ads. A $2.99 one-time purchase for a working Solitaire is, at face value, a reasonable trade against the relentless interstitial-ad model of MobilityWare and Tripledot's free apps. If the underlying card-game implementation works correctly, that's defensible.
The three-pack of Klondike, Spider, and FreeCell variants is the standard expected feature set for a Solitaire collection app. Any user who paid would presumably get all three modes.
The app exists. Card games are not technically demanding to build and a competent Android Solitaire implementation is achievable for a small studio.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Almost everything else. Super Gangster Games has no visible track record from the Amazon listing alone, no major review presence, and no marketing footprint that distinguishes this Solitaire from the dozens of identical-shape apps on the same store. Buying any $2.99 paid app from an unfamiliar developer in a saturated category is a gamble with no clear upside.
The free competitors in this category are well-established. MobilityWare's Solitaire, Tripledot's Solitaire Cash, and several other major-publisher Solitaire apps are free and run on the Amazon Appstore. They have ads, but the ads are well-known quantities and the apps themselves are tested by tens of millions of users. Paying $2.99 to escape ads makes sense only if the paid app is meaningfully better, and there's no evidence in the listing that this one is.
The package name's "classic.arcade" prefix is generic-store-listing keyword stuffing, which is the kind of small detail that distinguishes serious developers from shovelware publishers. No serious card-game studio packs that many SEO terms into a bundle ID.
CONCLUSION
Skip Solitaire: Card Games. Use Microsoft Solitaire Collection if you want a free, ad-light, well-designed Solitaire across Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid, and TriPeaks; use MobilityWare's Solitaire if you specifically want the iOS-default version. Paying $2.99 for a generic Amazon Appstore Solitaire from an unfamiliar developer in a saturated category is the wrong purchase decision in essentially all cases. The only honest editorial position is to recommend against the install.