Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 09:43 am
Hearts Card Game—New Classic – Card Game Review
Hearts Card Game—New Classic is a Card/Entertainment/Family game from NeverBored Studios, first launched in 5th October 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,798+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hearts Card Game—New Classic Stand Out
This is the classic trick-taking game, clean and simple. In this card game, try to avoid the Hearts and the Queen of Spades, or take all of them to Shoot the Moon. How low can you score? On the Hard level of difficulty, Marie, Nikola and Albert are really, really smart! Don't worry, though, you can change their names and the difficulty.
FEATURES
- Different difficulty settings for players of all levels
- Options for choosing player names and rule variants
- View the statistics to see how many games you’ve won
- Play as much as you like, completely free
- Optionally, pay to remove advertising
- Play without Internet (on the airplane or subway)
- Play while listening to music (or podcasts and audiobooks) with other apps
- Compare statistics with other players via Leaderboards and Challenges
HOW TO PLAY
- Each hand begins with choosing 3 cards to pass to another player (every 4th hand there is no passing).
- Each hand, the player with the 2 of Clubs must use it to lead the first trick.
- The other players must play a card of the suit that was led if possible.
- The player who played the highest card (Aces are high) of the suit led takes that trick and leads the next.
- Hearts cannot be led unless (A) a Heart was already played (Hearts Broken), OR (B) there is no alternative.
- When no cards remain, players are awarded points according to the cards in the tricks taken.
- Each Heart is worth 1 point and the Queen of Spades is worth 13 points.
- A player who takes all 26 points (Shot the Moon) scores 0 points while the other 3 players get 26 points each.
- After the points have been added, a new hand begins. This continues until a player has reached 100 points.
- The player with the lowest score at the end of the game is the winner.
WARNING
This game can be very addictive. If you play for long periods of time, move your body position on a regular basis to reduce the risk of injury. Make sure you don’t miss your bus stop. Enjoy responsibly!
CONTACT US
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neverboredstudios
Since launching our first version of Hearts in 2011, we have read every single email that players have sent to [email protected] and we're extremely proud of that!
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hearts Card Game—New Classic is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th January 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed an issue where text on certain buttons and labels were getting squeezed on some devices
- Compatibility, stability and compliance updates
Download & Availability
Hearts Card Game—New Classic is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Hearts Card Game—New Classic on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Below is a post we made a couple of years ago, using our iPad mini. Been awaiting this new iPhone version, here at last! Its clearly the same the game with the layout adjusted for the smaller screen. Its a bit squeezed, but Im SO glad they created this version which we can now play from anywhere. It would have been great to connect both formats thru a cloud, but no complaints! That would probably be a tech nightmare anyway. One question, are the stats combined from both devices? It seems so, as would be expected. Still the best Hearts app out there! ORIGINAL POST.. This hearts game is by far the best available for serious Hearts fans. The layout is elegant (no crazy graphics, meaningfully customizable, clean and easy to navigate). Most importantly, the best programming strategy we've seen in Heartsever. Is there room for improvement? After having played thousands of games over several years, yes. But they don't take away from the value of this smartly produced game as it is. We will submit our suggestions for potential improvements directly. We like that the publisher is always looking to improve the game, but is cautious not to add silly graphics and game features. If youre a Hearts fanthis is the app to have. Probably the top request on our list will be to have an iPhone version, and have both versions synced so we can jump back and forth from our iPad. A challenging upgrade, we're sure. Also adding the split screen feature might be helpfulconverting to a vertical (iPhone) layout when using with other apps in landscape view. Kudos to the publisher for his or her thoughtful development of this app.
Out of many other hearts apps, this one has an add every 3 hands, not terrible, thanks for making a game thats not too revenue hungry.
The red background ad that starts w/ pics of a bunch of fighters and the command pic a fighter causes this app to freeze.
Our daddy taught us this game and we text each others scores. Hes 85 and very good at beating the dealer.
Plays a fair game at the highest level.
Way too many ads that you are forced to watch.
Best card game on the entire internet.
How come when you check leaderboard nothing is updated fir instance hands with no points is still stuck at amount even though we have many hands with out points since then.
Game is so quick and so enjoyable to play.
We love this hearts game because we didnt have to pay each month for it. Its a great bargain.
Enjoy a good deal about the game but it has been literally frozen for several days. Havent found a way to thaw it to be able to continue.
No long add. Game goes quick. Its fun.
No option to change face of cards. Otherwise fine.
Ive been playing this game and since it first came out no we still play it every day 3 or 4 times a day.
The game is fun and it keeps us entertained but its too easy to run them all.
Ive been playing for a few months at the hardest difficulty level and still win 75% of the games. The bots ai is not very good; even playing at the hardest level its like playing against a bunch of none-too-bright kindergartners. The bots wont play a card to stop a moon shot, try to shoot the moon when its obvious they cant make it, and play the jack of diamonds at stupidly random times. The bots also make questionable card passing decisions, e.g., keeping the queen of spades when its the only spade in their hand, and seemingly always passing the deuce of clubs even when its to their advantage to keep it.
Great card game very enjoyable, just to difficult to close out adds.
Awesome that your ads take over and you cant get back to the game. We justnde,Ted the app. Fail.
Love this fast pace, fun fair game.
Fairly good at not ruining the game with ads.
We enjoy playing Hearts but could not continue with this version, unfortunately. There is quite a lot of room for improvement in the visual aspects of the game. Ive played some other Hearts games where the use of color, player emoji, and spacing goes a long way to offer a more pleasurable player experience. For Seniors, these things also help to minimize confusion. For example, simply coloring each card suit differently will avoid accidentally selecting the wrong card. Like green for clubs, blue for diamonds, black for spades and red for hearts would distinguish the card suits from one another. Also, the use of sound could greatly enhance the user experience. These are just a few examples for GUI improvements we hope you might consider. Ill check back down the road to see if the game is updated with Improved interface.
There is one ad that you cannot get rid of. The x to close it out doesnt work. This needs to be addressed because we have deleted it twice and same problem.
Three computer players act cooperatively, with identical algorithms and perfect card counting. For all intents and purposes, the cards are marked.
The game is ok but there are flaws. For example, the player, you, is dealt the two of clubs 80% of the time. Another thing, minor indeed, after the hand is finished, you click on what is supposed to be Okay but actually says Oy.
Liked the game but too many ads caused us to delete it after two hours. Unfortunately you cant pay to remove them.
Annoying ads pop up between games, so we are deleting this game.
Enjoy playing the game but we do not enjoy the Republican extremist ads that play between hands . Please remove them.
This hearts game is by far the best available for serious Hearts fans. The layout is elegant (no crazy graphics, meaningfully customizable, clean and easy to navigate). Most importantly, the best programming strategy we've seen in Heartsever. Is there room for improvement? After having played thousands of games over several years, yes. But they don't take away from the value of this smartly produced game as it is. We will submit our suggestions for potential improvements directly. We like that the publisher is always looking to improve the game, but is cautious not to add silly graphics and game features. If youre a Hearts fanthis is the app to have. Probably the top request on our list will be to have an iPhone version, and have both versions synced so we can jump back and forth from our iPad. A challenging upgrade, we're sure. Also adding the split screen feature might be helpfulconverting to a vertical (iPhone) layout when using with other apps in landscape view. Kudos to the publisher for his or her thoughtful development of this app.
The game is okay. The ads are raunchy and appalling. They are so perverted that we will not describe them.
We have played other heart games we deleted them when we found this one! Love it.
3 against you. Bots will not play a card to stop a moon shot.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.3
- Size: 18.74 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: NeverBored Studios
Last updated: 28th January 2025 | Genre: Card, Entertainment | Developer: NeverBored Studios