Hearts‪+‬ 17+

HELLS 500

I love this game! It is my addiction! I like that you can pass the Queen, it adds strategy. Allow opening lead to be either a club or a diamond I would also like the freezing in the app to improve which has caused me to be booted more than a few times. Also, if a player leaves the game then ends up winning the game, there is currently zero points awarded or subtracted. I think in that case, the 2nd place person should get 15 pts, 3rd place should get 10pts and last place 5pts or zero (whatever your thought is). When someone leaves a game before it is over, there should be a 10 pt penalty! There should be no penalty charged and no points lost if the game glitches before it ends and people get booted. If a person goes into stall mode b/c they are loosing or feel a player shouldn’t have stuck them with the queen, that staller should be booted if they don’t play within 7 seconds AND they should be penalized 10 points. This scenario is the most frustrating when playing hearts in this app. Lastly, if you win like 10 games in a row, you should provide a 50 point bonus for that unbelievable achievement. Add comment “nice title”, “good play”, “sorry”

Developer Response ,

It's great to see that you've been enjoying the game! We really appreciate these suggestions. Your comments allow us to make our games even better, so thank you for taking the time to leave your review.

Great game!

Great game. I play a little bit nearly everyday. I play either one of two games. I can play the ‘computer’ players and I have the settings where if you take the jack of hearts you get a minus 10 points and if you shoot the moon you have a choice of either adding to your opponents or minus your score. I play that game to 100 points. Another game you play with real people. That is setup the traditional way to 50 points. My biggest gripe is those players with leave the game if they start to lose like when they get the queen of spades. I hold up the game till a ‘computer’ player takes over. These players are simply rude, and I have gotten to the point I can recognize their player names, and know they won’t stay and continue playing, so sad. But I do really like real good players it can be very challenging as they are not predictable and some will make mistakes so it makes for a different game. The play is free with advertising, that can be expected. But overall my favorite game. 5 stars to the developers!

Need help.

I have tried to add feedback and get help in the app. It says I need a mail account. I don’t know how to sign up for one since I use gmail on my phone, not Apple mail. I wish there was an account tab where I could put in my email for this purpose. We use the app to play Hearts with my partner’s senior citizen parents. It’s the best app we have found but the problem is they can’t always figure out how to escape the ads between rounds and eventually one of them often times out. Alternatively if someone loses hold of their phone and accidentally hits the “boot” button on a player, they are immediately booted. It would be helpful if there was an “Are you sure you want to boot this person from the game....” pop-up, OR (even better) if you could re-invite or re-add the person back into the game instead of having a random person (or Watson) added to the crew.

I’d love help with these issues instead of airing my frustration here. I wish I could write the company myself. Sorry if this is a negative review. We love the app when it works but tonight, for example, it was a problem and we had to restart 3 times and the third time we had to stop because my partners mom’s eyes are so bad she was getting tired. Thanks for trying to help.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. It's great to see that you've been generally enjoying the game, and we are sorry for the frustration the ads are causing. While ads are necessary in our free apps, there should be a way to close it out quickly and return to the game. We've shared your insight with our developers, and please feel free to reach out to us by email at support@astarsoftware.com. You should also be able to contact us through the Help page by choosing the Gmail option to send in the message. We're glad to assist in any way we can.