Hearts - Classic Card Game 4+

I only downloaded the game about an hour ago, and I’m far from an analytical player (plus I’m still just getting my “sea legs” back after not having played hearts in years. But so far I’m very much enjoying this app. There’s a single banner ad across the bottom of the screen and that’s it for ads (yay! Though I would still like to have the option to make a one-time payment to remove that banner); play is otherwise completely uninterrupted, which is a beautiful thing in this age of ads that constantly interrupt the playing experience. I’m playing on Hard mode, which offers challenging (for me) and fairly realistic play; I notice that I don’t get passed high hearts as often as I would expect human players to, but maybe the computer to my right just seldom has them or maybe it thinks it wants to shoot...though the latter is unlikely given the high cards I tend to get in the deal.

Anyway, I’m enjoying the game a lot so far and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good hearts game that doesn’t kill its own experience with ads (why do so many developers make their own products awful? Who would think that’s a good idea?).

It provides what you want out of a game of Hearts. I found however the AI (on Easy) can sometimes feel like they’re all colluding against you lol (strangely convenient hands where all 3 players had the lowest cards of a suit hand after hand). This nuance happens too often to the point that you definitely can tell your 3 adversaries are really just one AI working to compete against you, rather than 3 separate AI with clearly random hands.

I’ll still rate 5 Stars though because it still does Hearts well. I noticed if you play on the hardest difficulty by the way, the AI players feel a lot more natural and the randomization of the deck between the 3 players doesn’t feel doctored to beat you like on Easy.

I’ve been trying to keep an eye for computer cheating. Today, after cards are swapped, I had 2 clubs,1 diamond, 1 spade and the rest hearts. I lead off with the clubs and then the diamond. Clearing the juke from my hand I was sure that 1 spade (Queen) would give me a “Shoot the Moon” but nope. The right computer player beat the Queen on the first play of Spades. Next play was another spade which was a 3 from the computer plater. Why beat the hand on the first play on spades then lose the next round? Seems that I’m playing psychic or a cheating program. I’ve noticed a lot of other things. I seem to get the 2 of clubs and the Queen of spades a lot. Almost every hand has one or the other or both. What are the odds of that? So just because of the entertainment value I rate this as a 2.