Hearts Tournament

I would give this game a four or five star rating if it wasn’t so easy to beat. I’m not a great hearts player yet I can shoot the moon at least once if not twice every time I play a game. The computer based game never passes a heart. It will hold back high cards and play them last even if playing the higher card could keep another player, human or otherwise, from running the hearts and black lady. Because it is so easy to run the cards one becomes lazy regarding passing strategy, when playing the computer I don’t even try to pass a loser as the how concept seems to be missing from the game. If the publisher would put some work into the game I would be happy to revisit this review and update it or even write a new review.

Just wish it was slower before closing out a hand so you can check to see what was played. You can slow whole game down, but then it is slow the whole time. An option to look at the last hand played before the start of the next would help too.

I like the card games this company puts out, but while Hearts looks and operates very well, it seems too easy. I played it on an older phone and just got bored. On my new phone, 40 games in, 34 wins and shooting the moon better than 1 in 4 hands. Several games I have shot the moon three times! I think the game has a failing in that the computer players almost never seem to try to shoot the moon. More importantly, when it should become obvious I'm going for it, they aren't trying to stop me. Instead they give away their highest hearts as quickly as the turns allow them. I hope that they make a couple mods to the AI to help make it less easy to storm through the games. Otherwise, the game looks real good.