Hearts ∙

Name: Hearts ∙
Rating: 4.55042 (21360 reviews)

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Hearts ∙

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User Reviews for Hearts ∙

I have used this app since it started up, but…

I’ve loved this app. I still love this game. But over the last two years have slowed the startup screen to a snail’s pace. Today I measured: although we have blindingly fast download speed, it took over a minute to load… the commercial. The commercials which used to be a tolerable few seconds long have gotten longer … and longer … and LOUDER. I ALWAYS have the sound turned off on my games. I hate games with bee-bee-bee-boops. I have 6 children. I don’t need more noise. But despite having the GAME noise turned off, the commercial sound isn’t. And they can take 4 or more minutes to wait out. I am not going to wait that long. Then, if I have to swap out of the app for a quick task and come back, I have to wait through all that all over again. I’m done. It’s not worth it. I’m dropping the app.

G0dzillasRus, May 18, 2022

Hearts

Have spent many hours enjoying the challenge of this game. I select the most difficult level. I would suggest that it have a “do over” feature that would let you see what would have happened if you had played a different card. Also, some times when trying to “run” the hand It is clear that the last 5-8 cards are all winners, but you still have to make 5-8 more plays before starting the next hand. This a waste of time and I know the computer can easily analyze all the remaining cards and hands and put the number of hearts on each account as if the hand had been played out. It could just state the hand is “conceded” and flash up “deal next hand.” Just my thoughts! Also I play alone a lot and try to get better each time. Sometimes I make a play and wonder what would have happened if I would have made a different play. A do over feature would be helpful and educational.

Grandpa Lowell, Apr 09, 2022

The Game is pretty good, but...

I like playing Hearts with this software, but I wish the software was set up for each of the computer players to play to win. Instead, the game is set up for the 3 computer players to team up to keep the 4th player from winning. After playing it a while, it's easy to see that the computer players help each other "Shoot the Moon" and also that each of them is willing to collect points toward the end of the game so that the player is kept from winning. I still enjoy playing it, but would prefer it if the deck wasn't stacked against me from the start.

Hearts Fan 2013, Jun 06, 2015

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.

Jeff & Steve, Jun 24, 2019

Was good but now kinda funky

I love to play this game and I have spent many hours having fun with it. But the past year it has gotten problematic. Right now, there is a Mahjong ad that has taken over the whole screen and I can’t get rid of it. I can’t access the Hearts game at all. And, again this past year, sometimes it won’t allow me to play during the game even after I have started. I have to quit the game and start over. A few other funky quirks have shown up: like a game too easily won; an opponent using a queen of spades to take a trick but having lower spades left in his or her hand (while not having a very strong hand at all, so it’s not a strategic thing, it’s just a stupid thing). I’m off to look for a better Hearts game now. I hope the developers work on this game and get it back to his former reliable level.

mowfree, Oct 07, 2021

Used to be perfect

Now you will get the queen of spades very often, specially when you are winning. Some how all others know what is in your hand after the second card is played at any round. You will get the queen of spades when the other 2 have smaller cards than the smaller card you started. Passing the card is rigged, you will always get high cards no matter what. Starting hand has the highest cards of all times. Sometimes, it will favor one player and keeps on saving that one. Even if you have 5 spades with the queen you will be stuck with the queen some how. I’ve been playing hearts for 50 years, some how i am always losing to this particular game from Optime. If there were (0) starts i would have chosen that. Never run into a game that MUST beat you at my cost, and you are NOT allowed to win no matter what. It seems that some reviews are like the game rigged. And try to hove (1) star on the app, it won’t go through!!!

Sami2691, Sep 30, 2021

Just Ok. They Missed Excellence

Most important Fact: this game does not include “show last hand” as in the rules of a real hearts game. Tricks disappear so quickly that they are impossible to track. (A true bonus would be an option to back track through the consecutive tricks of an entire game to see where you went wrong.)A Huge Weakness: The Jack of Diamonds Option: The game is also not programed for three robot players to weigh covering for the Jack of Diamonds early in the game. This removes a great portion of the element of risk in Jack of Diamonds vs. Queen of Spades strategies. The designers threw in the Jack of Diamonds element (good) without including any logarithms that mimic human strategy decisions. Good graphics with this game. If this review looks disjointed it’s because the review page does not form for an iPhone. i.e. I can’t see all I wrote in paragraph 1.This is an OK game, but the end result of these flaws is that they lead to bad habits when you play real human beings. They make you a worse player in real life.. If the designers could fix these problems, this would be the best Hearts option on the Internet.

Sandro from Gearhart, Dec 16, 2021

Use to think this was the best Hearts of all

I loved this hearts game, but lately the ads have become so aggressive and long I’m changing to another brand. If I use this on my cell phone, ads come on as soon as I click on the app and do not cut off as quickly as they use to. Even between games it’s happening WAY LONGER than before. The worst is that sometime I cannot get the opening ads off AT ALL: I have to get out of the app, and then when I go back a day or so later the SAME app is frozen on the screen. Today I’m thinking it’s going to be frozen there forever. Also, when one selects for no sound, some adds come blaring music etc., not great if you’re in bed and your partner is sleeping: ‘no sound’ should also mean no sound from ads too.

Slp1776, May 23, 2022

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 gameof 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.

UXJesi, Apr 29, 2019

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?!?!

Word Stud, Nov 07, 2017

Description

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