Leave a Review Le Havre (The Harbor)
Too small interface for iPhone
Unusable on iPhonefake is the new real
Great Game - But at upper levels, AI is broken
Very fun strategy game - as challenging as Caylus and the lower levels of AI opponent skills makes it excellent and totally worth the price.
That said, at the higher levels, you’ll find that your AI opponents will have FAR more buildings than would seem normal. At first I suspected it, and now, 5 games in a row, I can confirm:
AI opponents will purchase buildings WITHOUT the proper resources.
Examples of AI purchases, 5 player game...
Game 1: Round one, TURN ONE: Shipping Line! 3 Brick and 1 Wood. After, AI still has 5 wood and 2 clay in inventory!
Game 2: Round one, TURN ONE: Hardware Store! 3 Wood and 1 Clay. Where did Wood #3 come from?
Game 3: Round five: AI has 72 points of buildings already!!!! Seriously?
Game 4: Round one: AI has 2 turns. Purchases both Abattoir and Wharf. That’s 3 Wood + 3 Clay + 3 Iron.
Fuzzy math?...lol
Enjoy the game against lesser AI opponents - they don’t cheat. Upper levels appear to have god-like powers to buy things with invisible resources.
Btw...this may be an internal database problem...If you uninstall then re-install, the problem goes away for several games before rearing its ugly head once again. ;^}Show lessVivacior
Developer Response
Sorry you're having some confusion over the rules, but with respect the game has been in the App Store since 2012 and has been extensively tested. Your #1 we would need some further information on, but certainly that bug has not been reported in the past 5 years. #2 is not a bug - when a building is purchased or sold, any occupant is cleared and the building can in fact be used again. #3 is also not a bug - the Harvest only occurs in some rounds and "No Harvest" is shown to indicate this. Please feel free to contact customer support if you have further concerns.Excellent digital implementation of a classic
This is pretty much what I’d like from every iOS version of a classic board game. Le Havre is an amazing game whether you play it on your phone on at a table with some friends.Rhodesphoto
Excellent game, just a couple of requests:
Your implementation of Le Havre is almost perfect. Can you just add pinch zoom into the phone app. Also a chat system that works and appears better. A repeat nudge button to online players that alerts their opponent that it is their turn cause they might not have heard it the first time. Also, maybe new different notifications sounds like a seagull or ship horn.
Otherwise it is a perfect game. ThanksShow lessBinturong24
Game - 5 tutorial - 4
I've really enjoyed learning to play this game. I've only played against the computer, but that has worked out just fine. I highly recommend the game.
For the most part, the tutorial is really good and helps tremendously with the game. The only reason I did not give it a 5 is the same as another commenter. It would be extremely helpful if the tutorial also gave the specific items and the specific numbers for certain things that it suggests. If it tells me to use the shipping line, then please tell me how many and what to ship. Sometimes it isn't so obvious to us newbies to the game.
Spend the few dollars for the game. So worth it.Show lessFullMetalPrincess
needs more thorough hints
I'd bump my review from 4 to 5 if they improved the hints. I bought this to learn the game. As such, I need the hints to help guide me. The problem is that the hints fall short. It will give you the hint that you need to use someone's marketplace. But then it won't give a hint on the sell screen. Same goes for others like shipping line. Nor will it tell you which resource to use for food/money. Without knowing this, the tip is kind of useless and my actions may totally screw up the reason it gave me the original suggestion.
It would also be helpful if some information was shown while on other screens. For example, it should show the shipping values for each item while on the shipping screen.
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Dropping another star because of the ridiculous popups. They're the worst kind, too - the kind that take a second to show up right over the button you need to push. So you wind up accidentally clicking the stupid things. ENOUGH.Show lessjtotheetothep
Worthy of purchase
This is an excellent port of the board game. A little hard to see on an iPhone, but still useable. Definitely better with the larger screen of the iPad. My only major issue is not so much with the app itself, but the fact that I have a much harder time keeping track of other players on the app than I do face to face over a board. With an app, their actions are more behind-the-scenes and their buildings and resources are compressed. Yes, you can enlarge to look, but it takes more effort since it isn't as organic an experience as playing at the table. This isn't the fault of the app though - I have the same problem with another computer game (Race For The Galaxy) - just in how I process information.
Have noticed only one bug (negative food value), and customer response was top notch. They replied the next day and a fix was out a couple days later.
Another reviewer complained about in-game ads. I'd like to clarify on that. Yes, there is an ad for the company's other game and it is mildly annoying at how frequent it comes up ( about 1/4 of plays), but it is only on the main screen and doesn't disrupt actual game play at all. This isn't some annoying blinking banner ad that distracts from the app.
If you like Euro games, I'd highly recommend Le Havre.Show lessPunGent333
Awesome game
This app made me fall in love with Le Havre. I play at least one full game a day. I have played over 150 games on my iTouch and only played the physical game three times so far.
I appreciate the recent update, especially the saving of audio preferences. I will have to see if it crashes less frequently now. It was never a major issue, only about once every fifteen games, usually when the computer was building a wooden boat late in the game (never involving Wind Farm though). I also appreciate that the game is compatible with my older iTouch, many newer board game apps are not.
The AI could use some improvement. It never plans in such a way to get ready for the upcoming stage of the game. Everything it does is small potatoes. It only goes for bricks in a very minor way, allowing me to build all or almost all of the mid and late game buildings. It doesn't go hard after steel either which means it hardly ever builds luxury ships, never ships steel, and I only get locked out of steel ships if I have made a dreadful mistake. It needs to lose a little of its maniacal focus on wood and pay more attention to bricks and steel. The result is that my score in a three player game is usually more than the other two players combined score. I have finished a two player game at 298 to -5.
Better AI would make thus an even better game. Even as it is though it is my favorite app and has been for two months or so.Show lessJim and Billy's Dad
Good game, has bugs
Let me start out by saying I've played over 100 games of Le Havre on my ipad. It's well implemented in most regards, but there are some bugs that crash the whole game and you can't recover from. Most notable is the Soccer Stadium card. When it turns over the game tends to crash. This one tends to be recoverable using the game's autosave feature.
It's very frustrating to be 1-2 turns from a victory and have the game crash completely and have to start over. I would say about 1 game in 6 has a bug that causes it to crash out.
Hopefully the next rev will fix these issues.Show lesspvilleSteve
Wonderful game, but crashes
UPDATE: when the game crashes, it seems you can select to play again and THEN it prompts you to resume the last game. So 4 stars for crashing, but if you don't lose all progress I would only take off one star instead of four.
This is a wonderful game. Beautifully executed. Mentally engaging. But when it crashes 30 minutes into a game and you lose all progress, it is just frustrating. Either add an option to save the games through crashing or fix the crashing, and it would be 5 stars.Show lessMissCascadian
