Welcome to our review of UNO on Google Stadia, a very familiar family card game that hits the google service and we checked to see how it compares to other media.
As we all know and usually have a love/hate relationship with this game, UNO as a game holds no secrets, and aside from the official description, what else needs to be said about the game itself? One of the most iconic classic games which we all grew to know and love! UNO makes its return with an assortment of exciting new features such as added video chat support and an all-new theme system which adds more fun!
Match cards either by matching color or value and play action cards to change things up. Race against others to empty your hand before everyone else in either Classic play or customize your experience with a variety of House Rules and match settings to ensure you and your friends never play the same game twice! Also, get ready to shake things up with new branded themes introducing never-before-seen Theme Cards that really change the way you play the game!
As the game is well known, I will not talk about how incredibly unfair this game can be when all you get are bad cards and the AI keeps getting amazing hands dealt. I will not go into detail on how it took me 12 times to even get one victory, I will also not say how awful my experience was at first. Challenging cards dealt without knowing what was going on. If I was to compare this to real-life games, I would totally fail the video game.
Not even joking, though all setbacks aside, this is a game of chance, much like in real life and sometimes the odds stack up against you and that is exactly what happened in the first hour or so of playing. I would have loved a winning game a few more times, but hey, beggars can’t be…
What I really enjoyed, really enjoyed, is how well Stadia responded to everything I did, and with the exception of an occasional blur here and there, I had possibly one of the better Stadia experiences on actual gameplay. I say specifically actual gameplay because it should be noted that when you do end up buying this game, you are not buying everything the game has to offer and several card skins need to be purchased separately. A bit of a disappointment, but I guess money needs to be earned someway?
In conclusion, with UNO, I got to play a game I played hundreds of hours in my childhood with some long-forgotten friends, I did not forget how to play and Stadia was a more than decent experience to give the game a try. Maybe the Switch will beat the Stadia version due to the ability to take it on the go, but aside from losing too many times, no bad things can be said about this game. Oh right, those microtransactions, I disliked that plenty…
