Hearts Reviews

UPDATE: it has gotten worse. Lowering to one star. While having a 15 sec add for every 30 seconds of play is bad enough, now the ads are at 30 seconds! Serious. No way to click through like on other games. You are forced to sit through for the entire time. Last straw. Finding a new app and will double. Heck that I don’t have anything else from the developer.

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This game is so simple and such a money maker for them. I’ve never seen so many ads in a simple game. Each hands takes about 20-30 seconds and then has an advertisement. I loaded it but it is getting deleted.
Gave 2 stars because simple is better.

As other reviewers stated there’s sooo many ads! You’ll spend more time watching ads than playing one round of the game. And it’s also set up that you lose more than you win. I still tolerated it until something started happening recently while I was on Hearts . My phone started beeping every few seconds. Then when I wasn’t touching my screen it would automatically send me to safari where it said it was scanning my phone. Then 4-5 other pages popped up stating virus and threat! Please be careful playing this game! It’s not worth viruses! After realizing it was Hearts I deleted it right away! And I will not be reinstalling it EVER! Be careful with this one guys! ZERO 0 stars!

It doesn’t matter that you’re playing a computer. The creators can decide an algorithm and despite playing just fine on other apps that have long since disappeared and winning at least a few hands here or there, there is no beating this computer. Apparently the creators are not humans themselves or they would be understand human psychology and realize that if someone is inclined to win at least a few times they’ll be more likely to play, thus watching the ads to help pay for their app. I’ll take ads any day as I understand their necessary evil, but not if I don’t get the satisfaction of winning at least 1 out of every 100 games. Delete.

I honestly don’t know how this game has received 5 stars from so many people. I consider myself to be a pretty good this app player (I usually win a high percentage of the games I play) but this game makes it almost impossible to win. They give you the worst hands imaginable, then other computer players play the card you least want to be played at the worst possible moment. I have the jack giving you -10 points if you win it. Unfortunately, they make it almost impossible to get that card. It’s like the other 3 players gang up on you. The will make it so that their cronies get the jack rather than you, even producing the card when it’s to their disadvantage, just so that you will not get it. They give or pass you hands that make it impossible to avoid getting the queen (like when they give you the queen, and maybe one other spade) and immediately start by playing spades until you get stuck. There are no other, less difficult levels (such as “easy”, “medium”, or “hard”). This game is enough to make you want to pull your hair out! Do not get it if you don’t mind losing all the time. I’m disgusted and will probably be deleting this game shortly, even though I hate being defeated and giving up too easily.

When the game is not controlling the random deal it is very entertaining sometimes you win sometimes you lose. Unfortunately, too many times, the deal is not random – it is obvious the game controls the distribution of the cards so that there are several games you cannot win no matter what. this is not a random deal and so I've already removed the game from my other devices because it's just so stupid. it is not entertaining to play a game which the programmer has his finger on the deal in order to make you go nuts because no matter what you do how you play the deal is rigged. I sometimes think that these programmers are anti-American – their goal is to frustrate people and make them go crazy. When I use these software products that are jilted in this way, I delete them.

I get dealt similar or identical cards all the time. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve been dealt or passed the Ace, King, and 5 of this app several times in the same game. That is one example. Same thing happens with other suits. Also, as many others have mentioned, the 3 computer players play collectively against you. If you shoot the moon you will take massive points on the next hand 19/20 times because you will be dealt a horrible hand of which there is no escape. The cards are not dealt at random. Rather the cards seem to be dealt at different difficultly levels based on the players points and what happened on the prior hand. Ads are super annoying and pushed on every hand. After playing this for a couple weeks I deleted it. I’m not going to pay for Hearts when the hands aren’t dealt at random.

This was a great this app game. I never had a problem with the game or suspected that the computer was overly “smart”. My only complaint is that recently the ads have become a big enough problem that I deleted the game just now out of frustration. The ad problem is that no matter how careful you are to hit the “X” it continues to open a link in safari OVER AND OVER every time you try to close it. That’s enough to make me delete it and find another after a couple of years beating up on Barbara, Jerry, and Michael. What a shame, it was fun.

I enjoy it knowing that I will lose a number of games (cards dealt, who wins and how many times and in what order). For example, if I win two or three times in a row, I know my time is up. I’ve predicted who will win next pretty accurately. It’s mindless but not too mindless so a fun pastime at a doctor’s office or somewhere like that. Win I’m getting dealt bad hands consistently or a decent hand when someone else just happens to not have that suite, I just settle in for the loss. Sure enough. Happens that I lose close to every hand even with a “good” deal. I just lose fast and get it over with. Then, I start climbing the winning ladder again. Just pay your dues. Hahaha.

Generally, this is quite a fun App. You do go through periods where it seems unfair and almost every round, you’re either dealt the Queen of Spades or another player gives you the Ace and King (or the other way around). But that’s kind of balanced out by other periods when you’re not dealt or given any of those 3 cards.

My main complaint is that there seems to be a couple of glitches that have the appearance of cheating (especially when you come off worse). I’ve seen this a few times now, while playing the game.

1 - sometimes I have played the high “trump” card (e.g. a Jack of Diamonds, according to the suite chosen by the first player) and another player (say, “Michael”) has put down the Queen of Spades. Then a couple of hands later, that same player (“Michael”) has put down a card of the same suit (Diamonds). So, hold on - why did “Michael” put down the Queen of Spades when he still had a Diamond card ? Just to stick me with 13 points ?

2 - sometimes the winner of the hand isn’t the player who put down the highest trump card. For example, I’ve seen “Jerry” win a hand with the 10 of Clubs, when “Barbara” put down the Queen of Clubs. Why ? Is is because one or other of the A.I. players has already been chosen to be the clear winner of the game ?

I haven’t played other this app apps so I don’t have anything to compare it to. I don’t have a problem with the way the boys play. I am okay with losing. My main goal is to try to shoot the moon every hand. That said, there are a few features I wish there were.

It would be great if there were a TRAM button. It’s in exciting to have to play out the rest of the cards once a shoot the moon has been done, or when I know the rest are mine.

It would be nice if there were a pay option to have no ads for life. I won’t pay for the subscription, but I would pay a one-time-fee. That being said, the ads can be skipped almost immediately so they’re not that bad.

I wish there were an option to select whether shooting the moon added 26 points to other players or subtracted 26 from your own score. I don’t know if this was a special rule in games I’ve played years ago, but it was nice because it allowed you to make a comeback. With this game, if any bot has more than 84 points and I am not in first place, it’s sometimes not worth it to try to shoot the moon because I’d lose anyway. It takes away from the excitement.

The game is okay, but not like playing a real game against people, mainly because it always plays as three versus one (and you are always the one). If you are trying to shoot, the opponents will (correctly) try to stop you, but if one of the AI players is shooting, it is entirely up to you to stop it. The other two players do not adjust to the threat. The other players never attempt any strategy to deliver points to the player with the low score, they play every hand as if the score is a four way tie.
This type of coding is typical for this app games in my experience, and the rest is reasonably well coded, so I still give it four stars.

I like how you can pick the names of your fellow players and the cards you can put down is highlighted for you (while the cards you can’t pick are greyed out). Also like the ability to customize the card and background colors. Only minor annoyance is even though I turned the sound off, the ads are blasting sound. The number of ads is a bit excessive (I understand per game but per round is too much). The cost to remove ads is also on the higher side.

I’m not exactly sure of the algorithms, but occasionally the game clearly gives the player unusual advantages and disadvantages. I suspect it has something to do with your rate of success... too many losses and you get a run of unusual and unlikely wins, and the same if you win too often. It seems to let you win enough so that you stay with the game, but not so often that there appears to be no challenge. Net... the deals are not random in the same way a physical shuffled deck would be. The game always knows, and adjusts accordingly.

It’s really fun to play again since Microsoft stopped including games like it and solitaire and minesweeper a long time ago. The only reason I didn’t give it a 5 is because the programming doesn’t seem as fair as the windows version from 20 years ago. What could possibly be different? Well I have noticed that the computer doesn’t seem to play each one trying to win. Many times it seems the 3 agree on one player to win and make you lose, and not 4 separate entities all playing to win. Shooting the moon is much more common than I’m used to, and there are times in which the computer seems to obviously let other computer players, the designated winner, get that specialty as often as it can.
Also, usually when a player is trying to shoot the moon but gets interrupted they may try to salvage the round and get out of taking so many points, however once the computer is determined to try it doesn’t look back, and if you interrupt them they will continue to play the cards in an order that would shoot the moon if you hadn’t stopped them.
Overall, great game and really fun!! Thanks for making it free!

Fun game and since there’s no instructions it’s a learn as you go situation. Occasionally my scores will be a surprise and I began looking at them closely at the end of each game. It wasn’t my imagination. Occasionally when I have a zero score at the end of a hand the game will then show high points on the very next page.
This very thing was written about 2 years ago so they’ve have plenty of time to correct it. Personally I’m going to explore other this app games.

I have also noticed that, when I pass 3 cards, I will either get those same three card suits back or I will get high spades. And that really is 9 out of 10 times! I also just noticed today - after weeks of playing - that the game scores are not adding properly! If you hit the ‘scores’ button, the game scores will appear. You can hit the back arrow back to game 1 and, moving forward, you can see that the prior scores plus the current game scores don’t always add up! I was chasing a competitor knowing exactly how many points ahead he was. And - oops! - his score was totaled incorrectly! And I see it’s not an occasional mistake. It’s very often. I’m done with this game!

I have used Hearts hundreds if not thousands of times. Love Hearts . I don’t know if the developers are aware but there is now an ad I find very disturbing. I have lived 68 years without seeing an animal shot and would have preferred going to my grave that way. But thanks to an ad that shows a wolf or coyote, not sure which, being looked at thru a scope on a rifle and shooting it, injuring it and it writhing in pain I now have seen it. Not sure if they put it out of its pain with another shot because I get out of it as quick as I can. This is not computer generated, it is an actual video. I don’t think I have ever seen anything online that comes close to being as offensive as this advertisement. Please get rid of it!

This game is really fun you can easily find everything I love this game I can find the rules and then I know how to play but it’s a little hard for someone playing it on the first time but when you get in to it it’s really fun. The first time I played this game I lost and I didn’t really get it but then I read the rules and I understood it. I have the game this app and when I read the rules it sounded like the same thing so I understood it better. Like the title says this is a really FUN GAME!!!!

The computers don’t know how to give the queen to the low person, they just drop it whenever they can. They also don’t know how to protect the high guy when they pass cards or don’t take tricks. I realize if you are the low man you would want to get the high guy, but it doesn’t help you win if you’re not low and push the high guy out. This game would be much better with real players who could think.

I've read all those reviews about how the cards passed are not fair but that has not been my experience. I may lose a hand but I most often win the whole set. I've played gin rummy my whole life and, sure, you get passed high cards but that's what happens in real life gameplay. The other guy is trying to get rid of their high cards, too. This is the fairest card game bot I've played against which makes it very enjoyable. There are too many ads but unfortunately every app I play now has too many ads. There is a trick for bypassing them if you have an iPhone XR or newer but if I post it they will delete this review. Play with it and you'll find it. If you do figure it out it works on every game.