Last updated on June 1st, 2023 at 07:20 pm
Le Havre (The Harbor)
Le Havre (The Harbor) is one of the best $9.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Codito Development Inc., Le Havre (The Harbor) is a Board game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 21st June 2012 with the latest update 19th June 2022
Whether you are a fan of Board, Strategy, or Entertainment games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
383 people have rated 2.4
You can download the game Le Havre (The Harbor) from APP STORE.
Description
Will you be Le Havre’s next Titan of Industry?
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"10/10: This game will undoubtedly go down as a perennial favourite." – iPadBoardGames.org
"4/4: [A] great digital translation of this famous game." – iOS Board Games
"[E]xcellent … as elegant an adaptation as I can imagine. If you like Agricola and/or Caylus, I strongly recommend Le Havre." – The Dish
"5/5: Very compelling and rewarding." – GameZebo
"4.5/5: if you’re a fan of board games, you […] owe it to yourself to pick this one up." – TouchArcade
In this universal adaptation of the popular board game (winner of a 2009 International Gamers Award, among others), you can compete with up to 5 people — or against a computer’s AI — to construct buildings and ships to support your shipping empire. An in-depth tutorial and hint system help you develop the strategy you will need to dominate the harbor.
Collect resources to build and use new buildings, while paying your workers and saving up for ships. Buildings are a good investment, but ships provide necessary income. Deciding where to put your resources early on may determine your fate later in the game, so choose wisely!
With no setup time required, no pieces to lose, and no arguments about the rules, the future of board games is here and Le Havre gives you exactly what you want — to play!
Features
Universal app
Supports 3 modes of play:
- Solo play; solitaire or against varying degrees of AI difficulty
- “Pass and play” with 2 to 5 local human players with or without AI
- Turn-based multiplayer using Game Center
Full tutorial and in-game hints
Eye catching design and interactive game pieces using art from the original board game
Create your own playlists from your iPod
Note: you must have iOS 5.0+ on your device in order to play online!
About
Uwe Rosenberg is an award-winning German game designer. He is well known for the development of innovative card game mechanisms. He also designed Agricola, a game that dethroned Puerto Rico as the highest rated game on BoardGameGeek.com. Le Havre is a successor to that game, and the second in Rosenberg’s series of economic-themed building games.
Sage Board Games is an independent software developer, focusing on bringing award winning and classic board games to mobile devices. With a veritable “who’s who” of Euro games already licensed, Sage Board Games is poised to become the premier source of board games for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Updated on 19th June 2022
Fixed Emporium in Le Grand Hameau expansion.
Cleaned up various aspects of spending upgraded goods to build.
Minor AI tweaks.
Le Havre (The Harbor) Reviews
Plays same as board game. Couple quirks – sawmill is supposed to save a lumber. When playing the computer its able to build regardless of the resource its short of. Its a fun game regardless.
Great implementation of a great game!
A flawless app of one of the best board games of a all time.
Love board games and this one really packs a strategic punch! Great replay value!
This is excellently done and we think we enjoy playing this more than the actual board game. Hints were v helpful in learning the game and we also love the fact that all the hundreds of resource pieces are electronic no cleanup or sorting. :)
We had our Stone Age game we paid for deleted off our iPad. Thankfully this was still here. It took us three times playing it to fully develop a good strategy. The tutorial is great and overall just a great game. We are now going to complete the bundle and hope they are as good.
Really enjoy this board game adaptation for the iPad. We gave it 4 out of 5 because Im able to set the options and close the modal on the iPad mini. The close button is missing. The only way to close the options modal is to tap the reset button which defeats the purpose of saving the changes. So stuck with help dialogs constantly popping up during the course of the game.
This app is worth the money, but mostly because Le Havre is such an amazing game, not because it is an excellent implementation. Mind you, this is a good implementation, just not a superb one a la the original agricola app. Its also a bit disappointing that despite this app having been on the market for such a long time, the following bugs persist. Thus, we’ve finally decided to write a review in the hopes that the developer will take note. In dozens of offline and online games, we’ve noticed the following bugs occur repeatedly: 1-Game center games FREQUENTLY fail to start. We generally need to send at least three game invitations before all players in multiplayer game are able to join. Most players, after joining, just see a Waiting for game start message on the game screen, even after all players have supposedly joined and the first player has taken his turn. This could very well be Game Centers fault, and not this apps, however. Game Center is, in general, a mockery of online gaming, and so it wouldnt surprise us if this issue is on their end. 2-in online games, the player who created the game always goes first. Not necessarily a big problem, but its annoying, bc player order has a major impact on strategy in Le Havre, and it would be nice to have a truly random player order 3-the chat function is completely useless. Most of the time the chat button is unresponsive, but every blue moon or two the chat screen will appear and you can send a message. Of course, the other person will have to wait til the next blue moon to see it. 4-the sound effects setting is broken. Despite having set the music and game effects volume to zero, every time we open the app and take our turn, the sound effects still play, which is extremely disruptive, and makes it impossible to enjoy this app in a place where you cant have LOUD noises playing, e.g. A library, uppity Internet cafe, etc. 5-occasionally when you set up a multiplayer full game, it will instead launch the basic game. (This hasnt happened as frequently as the other issues, only once so far) So, you need to start a whole new game, send new invitations, etc. Frustrating. 6-occasionally, when returning to the app after leaving it open in the background, we are unable to close out of the Last Moves screen, which automatically displays when you enter a game. This is a minor annoyance, as you then need to close the app completely and relaunch. 7-If you lose your internet connection in an online game, it will still let you take your turn and confirm. The game screen will update. However, if you leave and return to the game screen, youll find that nothing it has returned to the state it was before you took your turn, and there is no notification to tell you that youve lost your internet connection or anything. This has caused us to occasionally wait days for the other player to take his turn, when in fact our turn was never actually sent, despite having displayed on our device. To work around this, we often need to check our online games list after taking our turn just to be sure our turn actually went through. To give this review some balance, here are the things we love about this app: 1-The Le Grand Hameau is implemented beautifully as an IAP. 2-You can choose which special buildings will appear in the game. Awesome for trying out those buildings that you havent gotten to play with yet, or for drafting special buildings before play. 3-You can adjust the animation speed to make the game go extremely quickly. So much better than the crawling Brass app. We can play a full 3p game against AI in about 20 minutes, 30 tops if we dont get all AP. 4-The AI difficulty is challenging enough to be interesting, however, perhaps not challenging enough for experienced players (50+ games or so). But its good enough to make the app worth buying, even without the online play feature. 5-it has an excellent rules and building reference, and the tutorial is sufficient to learn the game (and conveniently not broken… Are you taking notes, Steam app?). 6-you can have multiple online and local games going on at once. This is something that Sage games does very well (e.g. In Tigris and Euphrates and their other apps) and more board game app developers should make this feature a priority. 7-for a game with this much information to parse, the UI is surprisingly clean and easy to read. No wasted space on game screen, you can tap on buildings and ships for more info. All in all, well done. All in all, Sage has done a good job making a clean implementation of Le Havre, albeit with some unfortunate, persistent bugs. We thank Sage games for their hard work on this app, and on the others like it, for bringing some of these oldies-but-goodies designs to the modern board game market. Please consider fixing the issues above so we can up the rating!
Im not sure we have any complaints. We think the app mirrors the board game… Nice to play when we dont want to pull out board game.
Its good when its working but glitches a lot. We have several games playing against the AI where it shows the opponents piece permanantly in our Marketplace building. They continue to do actions but their piece never leaves the marketplace so we cant use it the whole game. PLEASE FIX.
Le Havre is one of our favorite games. The app is useless because the AI is complete garbage. Please dont buy it. Its a total waste of money.
The UI for the screenshots is misleading. Does not form to the XS phone size.
We originally played this on an iPad mini 2 before passing that device on to our kids. We recently bought an iPad Pro, and this game was one of the first apps we installed. Just a great implementation of Le Havre.
Challenging and addictive, even though Im still playing on the lower levels. We’ve never played the actual board game, so we cant say how well it translates. But Im enjoying this version.
Best $.99 game we’ve ever played.
Terrific game. Its pretty intricate, but totally worth the time it takes to learn. The layout of the board is different from other worker placement games we’ve played like Agricola and Tzolkin, and at first that threw us off, but it works well.
Decent implementation of a great board game. The UI is far better in the iPad than phones and the online play is wonky lots of frustrating times getting games with friends to connect and start properly. All that said when it works its great. Newer devices beware the screen is shrunk down to to previous generation sizes (pre iPhone 10) for both phone and pad so if you have either explicit rhat compromise.
Amazing app, with great features. caution online features often dont work. Otherwise nice way to play by yourself.
Best IOS board game. Outstanding.
The screen doesnt scale to the proper resolution so everything is shrunk. Sometimes touchscreen commands dont register so we have to force close the app. This is a prime example of why so many people are hesitant to buy mobile games.
Classic Uwe Rosenberg thematic/euro worker placement game. AI offers up a good challenge. Cards and tiles are a bit hard to see on a phone (plays much better on a tablet) but still a great implementation of a classic game.
Your implementation of Le Havre is almost perfect. Can you just add pinch zoom into the phone app. Also a chat system that works and appears better. A repeat nudge button to online players that alerts their opponent that it is their turn cause they might not have heard it the first time. Also, maybe new different notifications sounds like a seagull or ship horn. Otherwise it is a perfect game. Thanks.
Great strategy game and the app is good value for the price!
Much less bookkeeping than the cardboard version, which has notorious tiny and obnoxious components. Makes for a much streamlined and more satisfying version of the same game.
Excellent board game, excellent digital adaptation. If you are a big fan of Euro board games you should get this now.
This is pretty much what Id like from every iOS version of a classic board game. Le Havre is an amazing game whether you play it on your phone on at a table with some friends.
We started playing the app first, then the actual board game and its seamless. Recommend you follow the same order. App for solo play and understanding the game strategy, then the real board game for groups. The app does have a online group play with random players, pick and pass, or through the iOS Game Center. All in all, best board game our wife and we love to play.
Really like this game and we are impressed that he team can put so many info on a tiny phone screen, good job. However, our understanding of the rules is the you can purchase/sale building at any time during your term; however, when you are using the construction building (8) in the app to build 2 proposals, it seems you are not allowed to build one first, buy the 2nd underneath, and then build the 3rd card. The app doesnt show the function and indicates that you cant take those actions while entering a building. Please clarify and fix. Thanks!
Update: – Bug: MP still a little janky. We are able to connect to friends game but it does odd things, such as removing all AI despite starting a 5p game with 2 human players. – bug: Resetting round from help screen during sell building sub-action when repaying loan causes game crash/dead end loop: screen empties and prompts user to finish main action or choose a building to sell. – bug: odd issue with player names where if you change your name on keyboard overlay popup and hit return game boots you to iOS main screen and you must re-enter game, we think we worked around it by tapping outside keyboard area and somehow changed our default single player name this way. – AI is pretty good but understandably this game has so many choices that it cannot expect to match AlphaGo on its budget lol. It often makes poor choices, or status hints, particularly when a sacrifice move is more obvious, such as taking 2 iron to snag an ironship when shipping line is out next, or an important building even if it means getting hit with 1-2 loans. Instead its round 10 & telling you to buy a wood ship because you have wood, etc. Original: we are kind of a hobby-boardgame app pariah and routinely go on rants about some of the problems we’ve noticed in the push for applifying brick and mortar catslogs. A lot of great boardgames have messy apps with dropped support and lost development, sitting around the online stores as abandonware. Some bg apps are crippled with stupid bugs, we even dropped this one a long time ago because we couldnt get multiplayer to work, but have gotten over it. Another personal grievance is the practice of porting iOs apps to Steam barely altered in any noticeable way (terra mystica, small world, ticket to ride, most bg adaptations on steam actually). Anyway, we think this is a highly enjoyable and addicting way to learn and play Le Havre, and definitely worth the cash even if its only played solo and the MP is glitched. A small but very helpful feature improvement would be a way to see on bonus cards what the buildings rolling or final bonuses are or at least on a log page in its own screen , as we cannot see if our score is being counted correctly or really review where we (or the game) made mistakes. We dont know if our storage card was counted and the total isnt visible anywhere at game end. If this exists already we dont know where to find it! Thanks for the fun.
Very fun strategy game – as challenging as Caylus and the lower levels of AI opponent skills makes it excellent and totally worth the price. That said, at the higher levels, youll find that your AI opponents will have FAR more buildings than would seem normal. At first we suspected it, and now, 5 games in a row, we can confirm: AI opponents will purchase buildings WITHOUT the proper resources. Examples of AI purchases, 5 player game… Game 1: Round one, TURN ONE: Shipping Line! 3 Brick and 1 Wood. After, AI still has 5 wood and 2 clay in inventory! Game 2: Round one, TURN ONE: Hardware Store! 3 Wood and 1 Clay. Where did Wood #3 come from? Game 3: Round five: AI has 72 points of buildings already!!!! Seriously? Game 4: Round one: AI has 2 turns. Purchases both Abattoir and Wharf. Thats 3 Wood + 3 Clay + 3 Iron. Fuzzy math?… Lol Enjoy the game against lesser AI opponents – they dont cheat. Upper levels appear to have god-like powers to buy things with invisible resources. Btw… This may be an internal database problem… If you uninstall then re-install, the problem goes away for several games before rearing its ugly head once again. ;^}
So glad it got a 64-bit update!
This is a great game with lots of strategy and stays true to the original board game. Although it definitely helps if you’ve played the board game before as there are lots of little pieces and cards and it can be complicated to follow on a small screen.
Very fun game, tutorial isn’t great if you haven’t played it before. If you are familiar with the game it’s a great implementation of it.
As mentioned elsewhere, a little complicated by nature, but the tutorial does a great job of getting you started and even building confidence along the way. Great fun and a great game… Looking forward to playing this on the kitchen table with friends!
Really good adaptation of the boardgame. Words are a little small to read because of so many things on the screen. Definitely recommend this game!
Great game! No set up time. No clean up time. Just start playing.
They took a great Euro boardgame and created a great port to iOS. The AI is a bit weak though, but still fun to puzzle out a victory.
Just finished the tutorial actually our first time to ever play the game… Seems like it will be a very fun game.. Great app so far.
We LOVE this game! We never played the board game before so it took us a bit to get the hang of the gameplay but now we can’t stop! PLEASE UPDATE THE APP FOR IOS 11!!
Wonderful implementation of a classic.
We are obsessed with this game. It is awesome!!! We could easily play it every day.
We love this game… So well thought out and it keeps you thinking!
Love the game, great implementation of the board game. If you like thinker’s board games, games that require care and planning, this is definitely one to consider. Highly recommended.
This is an excellent port of the board game. A little hard to see on an iPhone, but still useable. Definitely better with the larger screen of the iPad. Our only major issue is not so much with the app itself, but the fact that we have a much harder time keeping track of other players on the app than we do face to face over a board. With an app, their actions are more behind-the-scenes and their buildings and resources are compressed. Yes, you can enlarge to look, but it takes more effort since it isn’t as organic an experience as playing at the table. This isn’t the fault of the app though – we have the same problem with another computer game (Race For The Galaxy) – just in how we process information. Have noticed only one bug (negative food value), and customer response was top notch. They replied the next day and a fix was out a couple days later. Another reviewer complained about in-game ads. I’d like to clarify on that. Yes, there is an ad for the company’s other game and it is mildly annoying at how frequent it comes up ( about 1/4 of plays), but it is only on the main screen and doesn’t disrupt actual game play at all. This isn’t some annoying blinking banner ad that distracts from the app. If you like Euro games, I’d highly recommend Le Havre.
If you love board games this is a must buy!!