Finally! a 5 second ad option

It only takes a few seconds to know if you’re interested in an app ad or not so giving the option to skip after 5 seconds instead of having to put the phone down for the torturous 30 seconds of the same stupid ads is awesome. I actually play this game way more because I know I’m not going to have to waste so much time waiting for the forced ads to finish playing. I’ve also downloaded a few of the actual ads that interested me so it still works. They Hearts game itself is also the best out there! The graphics are great and the animated facial expressions and sound effects of disappointment when they don’t get good plays is entertaining 😂. Makes it more real feeling. Hopefully more games will follow this company’s example of balancing ad time with play time. I rarely play other games after having to watch 3 or more 30 sec ads after a few seconds of playing a level. So nobody wins there - no ads can be played if I don’t play the game - right? Keep up the good example. I love this company’s Spider card game too!

Almost Perfect

This is the best hearts app without question and it has earned a 5-star rating. Having said that, I only play it in the highest level/most difficult mode. I wish I could report that all of its “ability” is due to its AI. Unfortunately, in my opinion that is not entirely the case. I believe it “cheats” some of the time. The reason I say that is not due to the way it plays, but in the deals received and cards passed that are consistently perfect fills for the cards you passed away. If you are an excellent player the app will know you are getting ahead or too far ahead and you will get a deal with no spades or just a King or Ace of Spades that you have to pass and the you will receive the Queen of Spades on the pass without any backers. This is even more evident on the “no pass” round. If they fix this and make it a straight program, it will be exceptional.

Decent game play. Ads are ANNOYING

Game play isn’t bad. Ads BETWEEN EVERY HAND is awful. A paid version would be so much better. The ads hide/disguise the X or >> button to move past them to the next hand. Those buttons are also really small and can take a few tries to hit. Seems like they’re a little “predatory” and designed to get you to click on the ad and not easily be able to close it out. That coupled with the excessive ads makes it very annoying. At most, ads between each game would be tolerable. I’m still early on, but it seems like the game has the typical AI issues where your “luck” seems to kick in when you need some point or have been struggling and then there are games where you can win even with good strategy. Overall it’s fun. Fix the ad issue and it’s at least a 4 star review. UPDATE: Contacted customer service about the annoying ads between each hand. They responded quickly, to their credit, but did not offer any solutions. Only asked if the ads were inappropriate or offensive and what I could do about them. They also said they would suggest an ad-free version to their development team. It’s clear they want to make money off ads rather than make a fun and enjoyable game. I DELETED THE GAME

Giving It Another Try

After writing the 1st review below, I was contacted by the developer. I have reinstalled this game and tried it again. No ads between each hand! ORIGINAL: I play quite a few Mobility Ware games and enjoy them all. I stick with them because I like the graphics and ease of play. However, I've noticed that compared to games I play from other developers, your's have more frequent ads. Okay. Part of life, right? But if you think I'm going sit there while this game is interrupted by an ad between each and every hand, I'll take a pass! There's no way to get a flow going and I have better things to do with my time. I finally learned how to play Hearts, though!! ❤️ AMENDED: The quality I've come to know from Mobility Ware is in this game. I've enjoyed learning to play it and appreciate being contacted by the developer about my consternation regarding the frequency of the ads. I tried it again just now and went through an entire round without an ad break! Yay!! 🥳 To be clear, however, I consider anything that stops game play to be a disruption, because I still have to wait those few seconds before I can tap the X, which wouldn't really be that bad if it wasn't hidden in one of the corners half the time. And when I tap on this symbol >> >> I'm often taken to the App Store to download the ad's game, which is not acceptable. So, we shall play and we shall see!! Ads between games? That's okay. Ads between hands? I'll find a different version.

Correction: Love the app…but ads on phone on annoying

The ads when playing on the iPhone are after every hand and often cannot be closed without getting out of the game. It appears on the iPad the ads are much better. They only appear after every game and are easy to close. Perhaps the developers can look into this discrepancy. I like the game so much I would pay for it….but if a pad option is not ever going to be offered please change the phone app….Thanks. Correction: The ads on the iPad are the same as the iPhone. Unfortunately the ads are after every hand. Definitely breaks up the flow. Please offer a paid version or change the ad model to after every hand.

This Version Cheats Terribly

I don’t mind playing a game where I’m playing against the computer however, this game knows what is in your hand and will play accordingly to make sure that you lose. You don’t always lose, but you lose a lot and when you do, it’s obvious. One example is if you’re trying to shoot the moon and you play a mid number card The computer will play a higher card to take a point and then play the lower card later in that same suit there’s no way in real life that a person would take a point playing a hard card when they had a lower card in that suit they could have played to not take a point This happens consistently in addition to the computer knowing what is in your hand will make you play suit that you have low numbers in in order to get rid of them so that you have to play a suit that you have high numbers in and end up eating the queen This is a terrible game. It’s not fun just a warning in case you want to play a fun game this is not it.

Master Level

This is a great game, well designed. Until you get to the Master level. Once i got there it changed. You start off in about 20th place and are pretty far back, 1500 points. The leaders, top 5 don’t change their score for months. But once you get into the top 5, it changes. I got into the top 2, then the number 1 and 3 continually had point increases that are not possible. I’m sure these are computer generated players. Once, the number 1 player went up about 50 points in 10 minutes. That is winning 12 games in 10 minutes, coming in 1st place 12 times. You can’t play 12 games in that amount of time. Enjoyed the game, got within 20 point of #1, but not worth it any longer, will move on to another Hearts game.

Few probs

I have a number of mobilityware games and they’re great. I sought out a Hearts game made by mobilityware bc I’ve been so happy with other games by them. This was a great game to begin with, but Later it seemed rigged against me. I’d get repeated consecutive hands with the Qspade or always get it passed to me or my cards would be so high I’d always end up taking the Qcard. This especially happened when there was a particular avatar at the table (for me it was an alien). This happened so frequently that I hated that avatar being in the game and it took the fun right out of it. Second problem, I like to listen to music while I play but the ads cut out my music. If it was an ad every once. In a while l, like after a game, it would be fine, but there’s an ad after every, single hand, which makes it impossible to listen to my music. I get the need for ads so that’s not my complaint. The last problem is more about me and less about the game. The undo makes it easy to cheat. I have a hard time resisting it especially bc I’m always getting the Qspade card. I’ve deleted the app and found a different Hearts game I like much better bc it’s more balanced and has no undo. I’ll always be grateful for Mobilityware version though bc it taught me how to play Hearts.

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