Hearts Deluxe

Updated March 21 Ive played most of the highest rated Hearts games which are only 3 stars unfortunately in the App Store and this seems to be the best of them Ive played over 250 full games on this app On the positive side the game play is fast the UI is very good looks rich but very simple and makes the cards easy to read and play There are several color options to choose from The AI seems to be the best of the bunch but has one major flaw which Ill mention later Most of the other Hearts apps are pretty easy to win 80 or more of the time but this one is a bit more challenging my win is between 5560 I havent noticed the scoring errors mentioned in other reviews here The card designs are very simple and nonstandard Just a large icon for the suit and a single numberletter for the card which makes it very easy to read Its easy to make a play your cards are spaced perfectly and theres no worry about mistakenly playing the wrong card Same goes with passing cards to your opponents you select the cards you want to pass and then double tap to pass them so you cant mistakenly pass one or change your mind after youve passed the first card unlike a few other games Ive played There are 24 computer opponents to choose from and it keeps winloss stats on them and you It doesnt appear that they have different playing styles pretty much the same AI for each player The game has one major flaw The opponents AI will play the Queen of Spades on the first or second time Spades is lead even though that player has more Spades and the player is not mooning For example Ive seen Player A lead the 5 of Spades then player B throw the Queen of Spades to take that trick then Player B comes right back and leads another Spade ie the 10 of Spades on the next trick then might play a low heart ie the 2 of Hearts on the following trick No way hes mooning and no way any player who has played cards would play this way This doesnt happen every hand but it seems to happen at least 50 of the time when I dont have the Queen of Spades I wrote the developer 23 months ago about this and got no reply I wrote him again recently and have yet to get a reply Not encouraging Hes released other iPhone apps since and doesnt seem to be interested in fixing this He has put in some nice features like viewing the scoreboard during a hand seeing the last trick played who played what card so I still have some hope and patience that hell fix the Queen of Spades flaw When he does Ill move my rating back to 5 stars For now its actually 3 to 35 stars but Im putting it at 4 stars for now to give him a chance to fix it              Best Hearts Game in App Store by a tadbut

Downloaded 2x Crashes after while     Hearts

CRASHES ALL THE TIME PLEASE FIX     Mb

Works fine for a few hands then crashes     crashes

Game has great AI and interface but crashes frequently and will randomly have one of the other players shoot the moon eventhough they didnt get all the points Fix it and it will get five stars           Needs fixing

1 Please add a TRAM The Rest Are Mine function for autoclear of the hand if player or AI knows remaining card play outcome And 2 Last card autopickup Other than that its a beautiful thing And thanks for bein out there                 Excellent Tough to beat thats a good thing Just 2 update requests

Very nice graphics but repeatedly crashes after a dozen or so hands and has to be reinstalled Cant recommend unlessuntil that bug is fixed     Needs crash issue fixed

Worst Heart game out there 3 others conspire try to take u down on every hand     Heart Master

Game was great first couple days Then all the crashing started Please fix or refund my money     Crashed

Never got past loading screen Company never responded to problem report Pity no zero star option     Hearts

Best AI of any iPhone hearts game Tends to pass high hearts and aces making it easier to shoot the moon but it plays the cards intelligently Would be nice to pause and review the passed cards              Great AI

This is the best looking and playing hearts game I have found but it is crashing me way too often and is not currently playable I hope the developer works out the bugs if so its a winner two stars for now if the crashes can get fixed Ill move up the rating to 5 stars        Best application but needs work

i have been having trouble lately with the game not displaying my name correctly then it keeps changing my options such as the card color shoot the moon option other than that its a good game           broken heart

I have been playing and really enjoying Cribbage from this developer so when I saw they had Hearts as well I had to get it I am glad I did The game is very relaxing and fun with great graphics Very clean and easy to see and with a very iPhoneish feel UPDATE I just downloaded the new Version 13 of this game I really love the new features and the option to change the background colors I had held off on updating when I saw some of the crash comments on earlier reviews of version 11 but the problems seemed to have been resolved in this version The opponents seem smarter too Much harder to shoot the moon                 Fun Game now even better

I really liked this game at first but now it crashes everytime I open it Please fix Im very unhappy I spent money on this game that I cant even play     Crashes Dont buy until its fixed

Still crashes damn this suks because its an awsome game     No gooooood

I have played 300 games on this app Won 209 AI patterns becoming obvious rarely allows you to slip a heart by so lead a high one if you are dealt 4 or fewer spades pass 3 clubs opponents play similarly easy to run in hearts Good app I would love another skill level              Wheres the beef

This one is ridiculously annoying If I play the game one or two times it gets a bug The screen turns blue and then ot wont let you pass cards or see whats being played I have to delete the game and read load it regularly to get it to stop Get it fixed     Hearts

Crashes constantly Problem with moon and points No indication where the cards are passed Did anyone test this program before releasing     Horrible

Did they take the money and run It appears that the program owners have abandoned this project The program simply does not work To complete any game win or lose is not possible The screen randomly turns blue then after that the game is locked out and cannot be played again without a deletion and reinstall Then the same thing happens all over again Dont buy this obviously incomplete game as it never worked from the beginning How about a refund Then remove this junk permanently from the App Store Thanks for reading     What a joke

I play hearts all the time I got this app so I can play by myself It worked great at first now it just crashes when I go to open it I wasted my Oh and its way to easy to shoot the moon     Crap

This is very fun when its not crashing Im sick of reinstalling the game to get it working again AI is pretty good but could be easily improved The user interface is great Flexible rules are nice           Fix crashes and youve got a winner

Virtual players will lead with hearts before theyve been brokenplayed which is basically cheating The players seem to play at all the same skill level and seem to be there just for stats which are actually then skewed because you play every game while many players sit out Still the players dont seem to make the obviosly dumb moves some other apps do I do like the ability to view the last trick I dont like that you cant pick and hold your next card to throw before the player before you plays their card Is it worth paying for 1 app you get what you pay for           Leads with Hearts

I would buy a different version eehhhh The AI is basically the same as was in Windows 97 One player is the Sponge one player is the Saint and one player is the Lever The Sponge and the Lever only have one objective and that is to attempt to make you lose The Sponge will lead with the queen and do totally stupid things which throw off your game and rack up points for themself irrationally while the Lever will never drop the queen on the Saint and the Sponge will take the queen on behalf of the Saint The Saint has perfect knowledge of your card hand so if you are left with the 4 of clubs shallow and late in the game and the queen has not fallen the Saint will know this and lead with the 3 of clubs Wham you are queened with two hearts by your drop of the 4 of clubs If you shoot the moon be careful it will give you a queen and heart eating hand as Retribution AI in the next round or two No matter what you do the leads will be exactly what is needed to feed you the queen in two tricks Then it resumes the normal SpongeSaintLever AI Watch out because the brainless run of points the Sponge tallies up will run out the game before you can execute your strategy to beat the Saint That is part of the games strategy against you The Sponge is there to help the Saint win fast before you can recover an advantage Lead a high heart early with a dangerously strong hand in order to shift it into CounterMoon AI and you will be able to reverse the SpongeSaintLever AI to a protective AI and they will start taking the hearts and queen irrationally on your behalf        Rigged to Compensate for Shallow AI

The double tap function doesnt work very well Most of the time it is necessary to tap the screen very hard in order to make anything happen Also occasionally the game will just disappear and my iPod Touch reverts back to the screen where I have all my games I wish that once one has chosen the names of the other players it would be possible to get rid of all the rest Until all this happens save your money     Fix It

Sometimes gives you points other times doesnt Plus a number of the ai players play like fools Wish there was one solid hearts app but so far they all blow        Innacurate scoring

WTF Will lead with the queen of spades for no apparent reason and with no chance of shooting the moon Still looking for a legitimate error free hearts game        Yeah right

This is a fun version of hearts I like the graphics and the computer is a good opponent It blocked my attempts to shoot the moon a couple of times I also like the way you can tailor the preferences to the version of the rules youre used to A few more options for themes would be nice and it really should let you see the last trick taken especially if youre continuing a prior game but overall this is a really great game Edit for Version 13 Just downloaded the new patch It addresses the issue I had about not seeing the last trick played gotta love a developer who actually pays attention to what their customers have to say The new background colors are decent They appear to be basically just a palette shift but its still nice to have choices                 Nice gameplay

The original version was always crashing and was missing things like not allowing one to view the last trick or determine the score The newest version corrects the missing functions but it crashes whenever I score a winning number of points which makes it very frustrating I am looking forward to the next revision              Much better but still buggy

Still crashing even after todays update Cant get past loading screen b4 it closes Gets an extra star because it was a fun game while it lasted     Crasharama

My earlier comment was out of line A problem report has been sent     Bought it doesnt work V13

The game has problems but 3 stars for their personal email assuring me that they are working on an update              Lady

Its a good program when it actually works        Its ok

Please update this app to ios7 Love this game                 HELP

It is an excellent game if it wouldnt crash ALL the time It is addicting and fun and once this glitch is fixed It will be a 4 star game     CRASH

Was my fav app but has crashed repeatedly only at the conclusion of games I win Very frustrating The player ranking system was the big draw for me but with the crashing it is all meaningless Whats the point in playing if you cant win If fixed five stars     Crash

this game is great when it works which is about 1 of the time     constant crashing

Dont DO IT Listen to the reviews Crashed all the TIME I even tried it 3 THREE Times CRASHED EVERY TIME Done with it till get fixed Dont waste your time or Lousey Quality Control     Plugging away