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Backgammon

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65%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, stability
65% User Score Based on 5,720 reviews

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Backgammon is a single player and multiplayer casual strategy game. It was developed by AI Factory Limited and was released on July 26, 2010. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

A Backgammon adaptation for Android developed by AI Factory Limited.

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65%Audience ScoreBased on 5,720 reviews
graphics116 positive mentions
monetization779 negative mentions
  • User-friendly interface with multiple difficulty levels and customization options.
  • Supports single player against AI and local two-player mode.
  • Smooth animations and clean graphics with useful features like auto bear off and undo move.
  • The dice rolls are perceived as biased or rigged, especially at higher difficulty levels, with the AI often getting perfect or excessive doubles.
  • AI behavior has flaws such as poor strategic moves and allowing backgammon losses when avoidable.
  • Intrusive and lengthy ads that interfere with gameplay, sometimes causing app crashes or freezes.

  • monetization

    808 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    2% positive mentions, 2% neutral mentions, 96% negative mentions

    Monetization relies heavily on ads, which many users find excessively intrusive, overly frequent, and often disruptive to gameplay, including long unskippable videos and ads that ignore mute settings or cause app crashes. Although some tolerate or accept minimal ads as the trade-off for a free game, many express frustration at the aggressive advertising tactics, lack of a clear or effective paid ad-free option, and ads interrupting or freezing the game experience. This has led to a decline in enjoyment and numerous user complaints despite acknowledgement of the game's core quality.

    • “But, overall a great game to play in order to wile away many an hour and no in-app purchases needed.”
    • “No adds, no in game purchases, just a straightforward, relaxing game of backgammon with the AI or pass & play with a friend.”
    • “Nice & fast no ads & the undo button is brilliant.”
    • “The ads have gotten ridiculously long lately, including with sound on.”
    • “Ads lock the game when you start a new game.”
    • “Used to be ok, now advertising so intrusive that it's nearly impossible to play more than one game, so uninstalling.”

  • graphics

    155 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 23% neutral mentions, 2% negative mentions

    The graphics are widely praised for being clear, smooth, aesthetically pleasing, and realistic without flashy distractions, contributing to an enjoyable and user-friendly gameplay experience. Many users appreciate the simple yet effective design, fast animations, and customization options, though a few note the graphics feel somewhat dated. Overall, the visual quality is considered one of the game's strong points, often ranked among the best for backgammon apps.

    • “Great graphics, fast play, shows possible pieces that can be moved on each roll of the dice, and on selecting a piece, shows all possible destinations for that piece.”
    • “Graphics are well done, and visual move options are clear and easy to understand for those just learning the game.”
    • “Great graphics with lots of room for customization, and its AI is both entertaining and challenging.”
    • “The graphics are awful, the RNG is heavily in favor of the CPU, the controls are clunky, it's just bad.”
    • “Graphics in black and white and too small.”
    • “Have played better ones, could use better graphics.”

  • gameplay

    58 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 53% neutral mentions, 7% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally smooth, accessible, and well-designed with various options and good mechanics that aid learning, but many users criticize the AI for unfair dice rolls, artificial difficulty, and poor opponent behavior. Ads can be intrusive during play, and some controls feel unintuitive or awkward. Overall, the gameplay is enjoyable but marred by questionable RNG and AI fairness issues that affect challenge and satisfaction.

    • “Choose your difficulty level, choose gameplay variations, choose the board background and orientation and pieces, and play as a single against the computer or play friends online.”
    • “The controls and gameplay are excellent.”
    • “The highlighted pips make for faster gameplay since player needs not to count pips.”
    • “When you increase the game difficulty and notice that the AI throws the exact number to kill your piece, it means the difficulty is increased artificially because the opponent and dice rolls are in partnership, creating poor game mechanics.”
    • “It literally just rolls exactly what is needed for either the AI (at higher difficulties) or you (at lower) rather than offering more sophisticated gameplay.”
    • “Trash mechanics that just favor the NPC and call it higher difficulty.”

  • stability

    48 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    10% positive mentions, 7% neutral mentions, 83% negative mentions

    User reviews reveal that the game's stability is inconsistent, with frequent freezing and crashes reported, often linked to ads. While some users experience smooth, glitch-free gameplay, many find the freezes frustrating enough to require frequent reinstallations. Recent updates seem to have increased these stability issues for several players.

    • “No glitches, bugs, or extra fancies.”
    • “Plays well, no glitches.”
    • “No freezes, no issues.”
    • “After playing for about a year, the game now freezes mid game every time I play.”
    • “Since the last update, I can play one or two games and then find that when a new game begins, it freezes.”
    • “The ads do show up all the time; I have to close the app and reopen since it freezes.”

  • humor

    26 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    92% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions

    The humor aspect of the game is largely sarcastic and centered around users finding the rigged dice rolls and perceived CPU favoritism ironically amusing. While some describe the game as "kind of humorous" or "funny," most humor comments highlight frustration with unfair gameplay and the developer's defensive responses, with humor stemming more from disbelief and sarcasm than intentional comedy.

    • “It is so consistent it's hilarious.”
    • “It's funny that the computer continues to get all kinds of doubles while you struggle to get a win due to those doubles.”
    • “It also has a funny habit of giving you doubles that aren't helpful while itself throwing 5s and 6s at incredibly useful times.”
    • “This is not funny, amusing, or interesting.”
    • “Not funny.”

  • music

    17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    18% positive mentions, 64% neutral mentions, 18% negative mentions

    Users find the in-game music lacking or sometimes absent, preferring to listen to their own background music, but intrusive and lengthy ads with loud music often disrupt and override their personal audio, causing annoyance. Recent updates have introduced issues where ad music plays regardless of sound settings, negatively impacting the experience.

    • “Sound doesn't interfere with music listening.”
    • “Very relaxing and can listen to music when playing.”
    • “At least I could turn off the music.”
    • “Too many ads, which have sound and block your music if you have it playing in the background.”
    • “Recently started randomly playing ad music whether the app is active or not.”
    • “Way too many extremely long ads with music that will stop whatever music or podcast you have.”

  • optimization

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    57% positive mentions, 22% neutral mentions, 21% negative mentions

    Optimization is generally praised for smooth performance and good graphics, with the game running well across skill levels. However, users note that the AI and dice roll algorithms appear optimized more for player engagement than true randomness or strategic depth. Minor issues include ad loading interruptions and some optimization tweaks suggested to improve AI performance.

    • “Runs smoothly unless your connection drops while loading an ad.”
    • “Non-glitchy performance, nice interface & great playing options for free game.”
    • “Good graphics, performance.”
    • “The game would be improved if the CPU optimized for the game result rather than the next move.”
    • “There is simply no way that the dice rolls are truly random; computer rolls seem to be optimized for favorable outcomes.”
    • “The algorithm behind this game isn't strategic or intelligent; it just artificially changes the odds to decide the winner based on past performance so that you feel engaged to keep playing the game.”

  • emotional

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users express frustration and emotional distress due to intrusive ads and touch inaccuracy, which detracts from the enjoyment and leads to feelings of unfairness and dissatisfaction with the game.

  • story

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The story aspect is criticized for being repetitive and frustrating, as users repeatedly encounter prompts to purchase the paid version before being kicked out, hindering their experience.

  • grinding

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users find the grinding aspect tedious and frustrating, citing a poor dice algorithm that makes higher levels unplayable as the AI consistently rolls favorable outcomes.

    • “Distracting and unplayable due to another tediously bad dice algorithm.”
    • “Level 3 and above gets tedious as the AI invariably rolls exactly what it needs almost every time.”
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Backgammon is a casual strategy game. Common tags for Backgammon include free to play, realistic, abstract, competitive and board game.

Backgammon is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

Backgammon was released on July 26, 2010.

Backgammon was developed by AI Factory Limited.

Backgammon has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Backgammon for its graphics but disliked it for its monetization.

Backgammon is a single player game with multiplayer support.

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