Hearts Pro

AI Factory Limited

About this game

★ Top Developer (awarded 2013) ★
Same as our free "Hearts", but without advertising!

AI Factory Hearts brings this classic and popular 4-player trick-taking card game to the Android market. Created to the same high standard as the rest of our games, AI Factory Hearts provides classy graphics, super smooth gameplay, highly scalable difficulty & much more. Hearts has never been so good!

Hearts is also known under a number of different names around the world, including Chase the Lady and Rickety Kate, and is similar to the game Black Lady. In Turkey the game is called Queen of Spades, and in India it is known as Black Queen.

Featuring:

- Full Hearts play, with optional Jack of Diamonds rule
- Card passing options, including alternating (Left, Right, Across, No Pass)
- 18 CPU Hearts players of varying skill (beginner to expert)
- Choose which characters to play against!
- Choose between 3 decks of cards and 5 backgrounds (or use your own photo!)
- User and CPU player stats!
- Undo & Hints
- Hearts Rules & Help
- Designed for both Tablet and Phone

Ratings and reviews

Good game interface. I play it a lot, but it has a couple of issues: it hangs when first accessing the interface (rather often) - I have to go to the Applications menu and kill the program, then it starts OK. Another improvement to the game would be more rule options in settings. For instance: allowing play of the Queen of Spades to break hearts; also when one shoots the moon, there should be an option to subtract points from ones own score instead of adding points to everyone else's score.

Despite the developer's assertions otherwise, there is no way the cards are dealt randomly. But if you accept the fact that you will always get high cards against tough opponents, it's fun to play. And I can predict which player the app has chosen to win a hand quickly, which helps. When playing at the most difficult setting, Bill always wins.

The user interface for the game is fine, especially with the animation speed set to the fastest, but the AI is simply terrible, even when it's set to the "snartest" level. It would also be good if more game settings (rules) were customizable; one simple example of that is the QS breaking hearts, which many people play.

What's new

A substantial update that includes a revised player selection/rules screen, an alternative Shoot the Moon scoring option, automatic card playing options (for last card in hand, or if all points have been assigned in a hand), and more.