Every time I start this game I have to go into preferences. It does NOT save any settings even though the "save preferences" tab is there. Most of the rest is OK.One player is usually designed to run in most hands.

Lousy program. You eitheer lose every game repeatedly (for hours at a time) or you get a short win streak of 2 or 3 games . This game is not won by chance and odds. It's highly stacked against you, and when you finally hit a win streak (a short one, but still a streak), it's because the robot players throw the Queen of Spades before they've collected the necessary hearts needed to Shoot the Moon. Any skilled player will quickly recognize that the game has been designed to highly favor robot wins and will see the that when you finally win a few games, it's not because of the chance hand you were dealt but because the robots make stupid moves to throw the game.

This is the second game I purchased by the developer. It is my favorite version of Hearts. I appreciate developers who offer both a free version as well as a paid, ad free version. I prefer to pay a reasonable fee to buy a good game that is ad free. THANK YOU! I have had no issues described by the other negative reviews that are older. Developer must have fixed the issues they describe.

I thought that the older reviews stating that the preferences settings did not save would have been fixed by now. But, the settings still do not save. Everytime one opens the game fresh, one must reenter their prefered settings in preferences. If you are okay with the default settings, this is not an issue. However, if you prefer different settings it is an inconvience. The actual game is good enough.