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Constant Ads/ No Universal Support
I downloaded this app primarily because of nostalgia, I played this game 9 years ago on my first iPod. The app works great, even if it is only single player and not online. However, I would've expected after all this time for most apps, and all popular apps, to have universal support for iPod and iPad. I almost have this app more stars for at least opening, but then I realized that all apps should open and not crash, so no extra stars for that.
Btw, I'm only complaining about the full screen ads. I'm going to play this game with the WiFi off so it stops bothering me.Show lessLoganL2
Finally deleted this app from my phone
I had this app on my phone for years and played the game nearly every day. There always were things about it I didn’t like. As many others have reported, I played this version of the game long enough to recognize that it is rigged against you. You can have the lowest score, yet other players, when given the opportunity to dump the Q of spades on a higher scoring player will choose to hang onto it and dump it on you in a later hand, at the detriment of their own game. It happens time and again and completely illogical and counter to serious human game play. Even so, it is particularly inept at preventing the human player or others from shooting the moon. This can even things out sometimes for the human. Another unrealistic element is that I don’t worry about the cards I’m passing and what it tells the receiving player about my likely strategy for the round. All that said, I still enjoyed playing the game UNTIL the annoying ads became unbearable with the addition of audio. I played this game almost exclusively as a way to help me fall asleep. No more, after it woke my spouse twice. Now it is gone from my phone.Show lessJeff & Steve
Hard mode counts cards
I thought that 1 star reviewer reporting card counting was being salty but it HAS to be the case. I never leave reviews but I came back to see if anyone else noticed the cheating and I’m not the only one! I’ve played dozens of times and I can win maybe one out of 20 games? You can dismiss this review and just assume that I’m a bad player lol but I don’t think I am, I love playing hearts with friends and spades and am an avid strategic board gamer. The hands that are played by the AI have to be based on what’s in your hand - there’s no way for a player or AI to be “lucky” that often where they know exactly what to play and exactly when, unless it’s counting cards and all 3 AI know what’s in your hand (working together, which of course it will - its all the same AI). Im all for challenging, and this is essentially a game
of awareness of what cards are out there, but the AI shouldn’t know “who” has which cards and it essentially does - so it can set you whenever it wants. That doesn’t make the game is hard, just unfair. Perhaps it should just be unfair mode (other games have that mode lol). It should be making educated guesses based of unknown variables per player/AI, not as a collective team that knows your hand.
As a positive, the UI of the game is pretty good. I just wish I could get my $1.99 back.Show lessUXJesi
EXTREMELY LOUD ADS GALORE
This is a fun game, but I agree with the other reviewer that the game cheats.
The most annoying part is that they require a $2.99 per MONTH to stop ads. Living with ads wouldn’t be bad except that even with the sound in the game turned off, the ads blast out with sound in a quiet room. If the sound is turned off in the game, the developers should respect your wishes & keep the ad sounds off also. Probably another game by other developers would be preferable.Show lessBlendap
Forcing horrible ads - Do NOT update
This has been an enjoyable time-waster game app for me for quite a while. I updated the app earlier this week and now find the ads obtrusive and extremely annoying. I understand that with a “free” app there are banner ads, & they were OK before this latest update. But now, you cannot get through a complete game before it sends you to an advertisers website - not a banner ad - it actually takes over your device, stops the game and forces you to have to get out of the web browser to return to the game. NOT COOL!!! I am deleting this game as it is now worthless.Show lessMojaveman
Game Cheats!
The computer counts cards AND it knows what cards I have in my hand. I have played hundreds of games on this app. I have studied it time and time again.
For example, left player played a 9 of diamonds. One player played a heart, and the other played queen of spades. I only had the 10 of diamonds. This forced me to take the truck and eat 13 points. We still had 10 cards each left in our hands, and I closely watched the other cards player 1 could’ve played. They could’ve played their 3 of clubs, or their 3 of spades. This would’ve kept them from taking a trick, yet they played a high diamond knowing i only had one higher diamond in my hand, and knowing that the other players were going to play point cards against me. I QUIT!!!
I’m going to find another version that doesn’t cheat. If I could count cards, and know what my opponents had, I could win just about every hand, too.
I don’t mind losing if it’s fair; however, if you have to cheat to win; how good are you?!?!Show lessWord Stud
Annoying and loaded with deceptive advertising
So adds come up with x's to exit. The top right is generally where you exit but they switch it with a slightly different x and says x cross install. What the hell is a cross install. Anyway, it's not brain surgery but I am uninstalling due to deceptive adds. Game developers should not try to trick you into downloading apps. I'll just go with one of the other 10 hard games available. Way to screw up a perfectly good app. Oh... and there's no volume control. The sounds are annoying as well.Show lessNatureboy 1969
A bit disappointing
I don't usually write reviews but I have to say the way the computer plays you isn't consistent with real life play. It purposely plays cards that wouldn't realistically be played during your game and the harder you set the game the more unrealistic it gets. Maybe I'm being sensitive to it, but I would say I'm 50/50 for winning and losing which is fine but I just don't feel the game is set fairly for the computer side. It plays the game just a little too good when you're the first or second player to lay down a card...Show lessBjnewco
Game is rigged
Sorry for using that expression but this game is definitely skewed against the player. The computer controlled players work as a team against you and they always know what cards to play so you get stuck. I can elaborate with examples but that would make this a long read. I'm a veteran hearts player and this game makes moves that no real player would ever make UNLESS they KNEW what cards your were holding. If you want a fair game to play, look elsewhere because this isn't it. One star is one too many.Show lessTrainZ321
Logic in this game is subpar
The logic in this game is subpar. I have seen the NPCs (non player characters) play the queen of spades when they weren't shooting the moon and had other cards they could have played instead of collecting the points. The NPCs do seem gang up on one player that seems to shift to others after each game finishes. This game is hardly realistic. The only reason the hard level is hard is because real players would never play like the NPCs in this game do, therefore making gameplay so unpredictable because never in a million years would a real player ever be that stupid. The AI seriously needs looked at.Show lessDmp812
