Hearts ‪∙‬ 4+

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.

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.

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.