Microsoft Solitaire Collection Comes to Android and iOS

Microsoft Solitaire Collection Comes to Android and iOS

And you thought Office for iPad was big news: Today, Microsoft announced the release of its Solitaire Collection for Android and iOS.

Microsoft Solitaire continues to be one of the most-played games of all time on Windows for more than 25 years,” Microsoft’s Paul Jensen claims. “What’s more, the version of Solitaire you know and love on Windows 10 and Windows 8 PC and mobile devices, Microsoft Solitaire Collection, has reached more than 119 million unique players in the last four years alone! And now, those on iPhone, iPad and Android devices can play the popular card game for free.”

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Described by Microsoft as “the world’s most popular Solitaire game,” Microsoft Solitaire Collection provides five variants of the game: FreeCell, Klondike, Pyramid, Spider, and Tripeaks. It also features daily challenges in which you can play solvable challenges every day in all five game modes with multiple levels of difficulty, while earning cool awards, Microsoft says.

The Android and iOS versions of the game also support Xbox Live achievements and gamerscore, plus you can continue games across platforms (Windows, Android, iOS) because game saves are cloud-based. (Xbox Live membership is free.)

Microsoft Solitaire Collection for Android and iOS is free, but ad-based. To celebrate the launch, Microsoft is providing a free trial of Premium Edition (normally $1.99 per month) now through the end of the year.

Download Microsoft Solitaire Collection for iOS from the Apple App Store

Download Microsoft Solitaire Collection for Android from the Google Play Store

 

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  • 2428

    Premium Member
    23 November, 2016 - 10:47 am

    <p>Why? Do they need the money from Advertising? Or are they that desperate to be relevant in mobile?</p>

    • 248

      Premium Member
      23 November, 2016 - 10:58 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#26996">In reply to </a><a href="../../users/madthinus">madthinus</a><a href="#26996">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>It seems like Microsoft has a mandate that every product must be profitable in some way or be killed off</p>

  • 5949

    23 November, 2016 - 10:56 am

    <p>I for one don’t like all the refreshed UIs Microsoft is giving their Casual games. The Windows 8-era UIs where beautiful. When the Microsoft Sollitaire Collection Preview hit, the UI went to shit, I still though "well, it’s just a preview, they are going to make the UI much cleaner". Now, 2 years later, the UI looks still the same: ugly. My major issues are with the misaligned text compared to the "tiles", ugly drop shadows, "menu" as text in the menu button, the general look (with border and all) of the bar on top of these games, the ugly hamburger menu, etc. Why not just go with the clean UWP look all the other apps have? Seriously. Great games, but the Windows 10 refreshes are getting shitty UIs.</p>

  • 1758

    23 November, 2016 - 11:12 am

    <p>Hmm your IOS link goes to Android Play Store and your Android link goes ITunes store. :)</p>

  • 1043

    23 November, 2016 - 11:22 am

    <p>$1.99 a month seems excessive to remove ads from a single app, most apps charge a one-time fee of $0.99-$1.99.</p>

  • 5631

    23 November, 2016 - 11:23 am

    <p>Does it drain the battery in .47 microseconds on those platforms like it does on Windows Mobile?</p>

  • 5997

    23 November, 2016 - 12:15 pm

    <p>Now, if they could only get Microsoft Jigsaw to work on Redstone.</p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>

  • 907

    23 November, 2016 - 1:00 pm

    <p>Damn, MS is on a roll today with these huge announcements. Add to this Bing now shows companies opening hours, that’s great Bing. Welcome into the 21 century with that. Also, Office is now available in another ten tiny little countries around the world. Meanwhile, Cortana borders on useless outside of America. All snark aside MS your consumer business is falling apart. Talk about Nero fiddles while Rome burns. Then again, maybe I’m over reacting and it’s just a slow news day :)</p>

  • 8179

    23 November, 2016 - 1:03 pm

    <p>Monthly subscription based ad removal for a ‘premium’ solitaire game experience? Now I’ve seen it all…. (up to this point… I know some big company will top this soon in the future)</p>

  • 809

    23 November, 2016 - 2:32 pm

    <p>Kinda sad really</p>

  • 268

    Premium Member
    23 November, 2016 - 3:32 pm

    <p>Funny how they don’t mention the fast decline of their solitaire apps. Up to Windows 7, it was fine – they understood what the word solitaire meant. The apps were simple and worked. Then, with Windows 8, all of a sudden it was all of this "Sign in" and leaderboards and crap. If you don’t sign in, it nags you to no end. Advertisements too. Of course, being a UWP app, it crashes all the time. Being a Windows Insider you go through times when it won’t even launch, others were it cannot sign in, etc. They also managed on Win 8.1 at one point to remove CTRL-Z for undo. You actually had to use the mouse or touch and move to a far corner to click undo. I just want the old, stable, working, Win32 apps back for Freecell, etc. They were much better. Guess what apps won’t be going on my phone? Yep, Solitaire Collection.</p>

  • 5554

    23 November, 2016 - 6:37 pm

    <p>$2/month pay-forever subscription? &nbsp;Lol</p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <p>MS you have lost your minds. No wonder you utterly failed in mobile.&nbsp;</p>

  • 8656

    23 November, 2016 - 9:08 pm

    <p>That is cool to release Win casual games on Android platform, but why they must be paid? There is nothing new in such games, I can play them for free here: <a href="http://www.kizigamesxl.com/">http://www.kizigamesxl.com/</a&gt; Spider and Solitaire were invented a long time before Microsoft, so what’s the reason to pay for them?</p>

  • 2693

    Premium Member
    24 November, 2016 - 12:28 am

    <p>This will make my mom happy. She still keeps her Lumia 640 around just for this game.</p>
    <p>I tried installing some other solitaire games on her Android phone, but they were all super scummy and required permissions to all kinds of stuff a card game doesn’t need.</p>

  • 1454

    Premium Member
    24 November, 2016 - 5:53 am

    <p>I’m a huge fan of Microsoft Solitaire Collection and seriously missed the game sync when I switched to Android 2 years ago. I have made several request to the devs for this. I tried the beta version from earlier this year but it was too much to get it to work (including the feedback mechanism). Can’t wait to try it out.&nbsp;</p>
    <p>Your links to the game are reversed.&nbsp;</p>

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