Hearts Gold‪.‬ 4+

Great app!

It's a great app, as are the other apps by this developer! I would leave a more thorough review, but in the past week all the 300 reviews I've left over the past 7 years have vanished from the AppStore, so what's the point? I'm only leaving this review to support the app and the developer, and to see if it shows up.

Developer Response ,

Hi, sorry about the late reply. We really do appreciate the reviews they help a lot.

Good app, bad purchase scheme

I like the app in general. My main complaint about game play is that it seems to deal me only really good or really bad hands, although passing is clearly a factor. Tried team play but found that my partner’s strategy did not take his teammate into account; he continued to play only for himself. And I wish there were a “pass” button instead of automatically passing on the 3rd selection: there’s no way to change your mind without deselecting an earlier choice. My gripe with the purchasing scheme is that I had to go through the motions of repurchasing the app to reinstall it, although I wasn’t actually charged a second time. It should recognize that it’s already been purchased; the App Store knows it but the app doesn’t (until you “Buy” it again). And the reason I had to reinstall is because the scoring system suddenly went nuts and started dumping huge numbers of points on me and the other players. I had no idea when the game was going to end because one player had 120+ points, I was getting hand scores like 46, etc.

Hearts game

You need to add the option for a player to subtract 129 points from his own score instead of automatically adding 129 to all the other players after shooting the moon. The way it is now a player can shoot the moon and lose, if he trails the leader by more than 129 and the 129 added on puts another player over 500. The add/subtract option has, to my knowledge, always been a feature of non-computer hearts.