Hearts ∙ for Pc

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 this app 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 had this app on my phone for years and played the game nearly every day. There always were things about it I didn’t like. As many others have reported, I played this version of the game long enough to recognize that it is rigged against you. You can have the lowest score, yet other players, when given the opportunity to dump the Q of spades on a higher scoring player will choose to hang onto it and dump it on you in a later hand, at the detriment of their own game. It happens time and again and completely illogical and counter to serious human game play. Even so, it is particularly inept at preventing the human player or others from shooting the moon. This can even things out sometimes for the human. Another unrealistic element is that I don’t worry about the cards I’m passing and what it tells the receiving player about my likely strategy for the round. All that said, I still enjoyed playing the game UNTIL the annoying ads became unbearable with the addition of audio. I played this game almost exclusively as a way to help me fall asleep. No more, after it woke my spouse twice. Now it is gone from my phone.

The computer counts cards AND it knows what cards I have in my hand. I have played hundreds of games on this app. I have studied it time and time again. For example, left player played a 9 of diamonds. One player played a heart, and the other played queen of spades. I only had the 10 of diamonds. This forced me to take the truck and eat 13 points. We still had 10 cards each left in our hands, and I closely watched the other cards player 1 could’ve played. They could’ve played their 3 of clubs, or their 3 of spades. This would’ve kept them from taking a trick, yet they played a high diamond knowing i only had one higher diamond in my hand, and knowing that the other players were going to play point cards against me. I QUIT!!! I’m going to find another version that doesn’t cheat. If I could count cards, and know what my opponents had, I could win just about every hand, too. I don’t mind losing if it’s fair; however, if you have to cheat to win; how good are you?!?!

Speed this game up or loose me forever. I also like the idea of being able to speed through the last tricks once all the points have been played. For users that want to "slow their lives down" they can select the slower speed option. Fast should be fast! This is 20 frickin' 15!! UPDATE... Love the new speed. This app is the bomb!! For people with a pulse this is the only way to go. I am deleting my other this app apps.