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Will you be Le Havre's next Titan of Industry? ==================== "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. Visit us: sageboardgames.com Like us: facebook.com/sageboardgames Follow us: twitter.com/sageboardgames Please send us your feedback and requests, and rate the game once you’ve bought it.
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I’ve been playing this game on the iPad and I never tire of it. It’s part of my Saturday lunch routine. Love it..
- DDowler · v2.5
The game opens and closes immediately on newest iPhone with newest iOS installed.
- Rhdhc · v2.4
This worked great until the recent iOS update. Now it crashes whenever opened
- JCmusic123 · v2.4
Just bought the app and it won’t run. Crashes immediately after it opens. Sometimes the can get as far as clicking a button on the main screen, but then crashes. Happens in iPhone 16 as well as my MacBook Pro.
- Mooncusser68 · v2.4
The game does not fit the iPad Pro 11 inch with M2 processor. It will not go full screen, this should be noted in the description. It’s way too difficult to read the fine print! It seems like a good game but I dislike games that won’t go full screen and use such tiny fonts you can’t read them.
- RVR57 · v2.4
Great implementation, only complaint is that the AI pretty much always follows the same strategy (build and buy buildings at all costs, loading up on loans), so it’s pretty easy to adapt and win almost every game.
- gj89adg · v2.4
Countless hours played, zero bug or crashes a month 6 generations of iPhones iPad devices.
- Cronos177 · v2.4
Love this game. Lots of fun figuring out all the different ways to win.
- DRGNLRD1213 · v2.4
Uwe Rosenberg masterpiece.
- SidandSedge · v2.4
Plays same as board game. Couple quirks - sawmill is supposed to save a lumber. When playing the computer it’s able to build regardless of the resource it’s short of. It’s a fun game regardless.
- I need to wipe better · v2.3
Great implementation of a great game!
- myrtle82 · v2.2
Love board games and this one really packs a strategic punch! Great replay value!
- Wastecanx · v2.2
It’s good when its working but glitches a lot. I have several games playing against the AI where it shows the opponents piece permanantly in my Marketplace building. They continue to do actions but their piece never leaves the marketplace so i can’t use it the whole game. PLEASE FIX
- AMSCreative · v2.2
Le Havre is one of my favorite games. The app is useless because the AI is complete garbage. Please don’t buy it. It’s a total waste of money.
- Armand232 · v2.2
Really enjoy this board game adaptation for the iPad. I gave it 4 out of 5 because I’m 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.
- promptyql · v2.2
Fun single player game.
- JS33K · v2.2
I had my Stone Age game I paid for deleted off my iPad. Thankfully this was still here. It took me three times playing it to fully develop a good strategy. The tutorial is great and overall just a great game. I am now going to complete the bundle and hope they are as good.
- Hotbroker74 · v2.2
The UI for the screenshots is misleading. Does not form to the XS phone size.
- Protect · v2.2
I’m not sure I have any complaints. I think the app mirrors the board game... nice to play when I don’t want to pull out board game.
- jball25 · v2.2
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. It’s also a bit disappointing that despite this app having been on the market for such a long time, the following bugs persist. Thus, I’ve finally decided to write a review in the hopes that the developer will take note. In dozens of offline and online games, I’ve noticed the following bugs occur repeatedly: 1-Game center games FREQUENTLY fail to start. I 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 Center’s fault, and not this app’s, however. Game Center is, in general, a mockery of online gaming, and so it wouldn’t surprise me 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 it’s 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 I open the app and take my turn, the sound effects still play, which is extremely disruptive, and makes it impossible to enjoy this app in a place where you can’t 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 hasn’t 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, I am 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, you’ll 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 you’ve lost your internet connection or anything. This has caused me to occasionally wait days for the other player to take his turn, when in fact my turn was never actually sent, despite having displayed on my device. To work around this, I often need to check my online games list after taking my turn just to be sure my turn actually went through. To give this review some balance, here are the things I 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 haven’t 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. I can play a full 3p game against AI in about 20 minutes, 30 tops if I don’t 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 it’s 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. I 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 I can up the rating!
- theagricolan · v2.2
This is excellently done and I think I enjoy playing this more than the actual board game. Hints were v helpful in learning the game and I also love the fact that all the hundreds of resource pieces are electronic— no cleanup or sorting. :)
- LadyMaze · v2.2
Amazing app, with great features. *caution* online features often don’t work. Otherwise nice way to play by yourself.
- JC0nti · v2.1
Best $.99 game I’ve ever played
- Juice95maine · v2.1
I originally played this on an iPad mini 2 before passing that device on to my kids. I recently bought an iPad Pro, and this game was one of the first apps I installed. Just a great implementation of Le Havre.
- fourseamer · v2.1
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 it’s 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
- Winston Smith IV · v2.1
Terrific game. It’s pretty intricate, but totally worth the time it takes to learn. The layout of the board is different from other worker placement games I’ve played like Agricola and T’zolkin, and at first that threw me off, but it works well.
- watkinsvillian · v2.1
Best IOS board game. Outstanding.
- Friend of euro games · v2.0
The screen doesn’t scale to the proper resolution so everything is shrunk. Sometimes touchscreen commands don’t register so I have to force close the app. This is a prime example of why so many people are hesitant to buy mobile games.
- 0biwaz · v2.0
I started playing the app first, then the actual board game and it’s 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 my wife and I love to play.
- radical ford pickup · v1.7
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.
- @ignoreintuition · v1.7
Excellent board game, excellent digital adaptation. If you are a big fan of Euro board games you should get this now.
- RichfieldTimm · v1.7
Great strategy game and the app is good value for the price!
- KennyBoy5 · v1.7
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.
- ArborBarber · v1.7
Really like this game and I am impressed that he team can put so many info on a tiny phone screen, good job. However, my 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 doesn’t show the function and indicates that you can’t take those actions while entering a building. Please clarify and fix. Thanks!
- Jay1khbtfvol · v1.7
Update: - Bug: MP still a little janky. I am able to connect to friend’s 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, i think i worked around it by tapping outside keyboard area and somehow changed my 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 it’s round 10 & telling you to buy a wood ship because you have wood, etc. original: I am kind of a hobby-boardgame app pariah and routinely go on rants about some of the problems I’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, I even dropped this one a long time ago because I couldn’t 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, I think this is a highly enjoyable and addicting way to learn and play Le Havre, and definitely worth the cash even if it’s 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 I cannot see if my score is being counted correctly or really review where I (or the game) made mistakes. I don’t know if my storage card was counted and the total isn’t visible anywhere at game end. If this exists already I don’t know where to find it! Thanks for the fun.
- grimoire_games · v1.7
Unusable on iPhone
- fake is the new real · v1.7
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, you’ll find that your AI opponents will have FAR more buildings than would seem normal. At first I suspected it, and now, 5 games in a row, I 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. That’s 3 Wood + 3 Clay + 3 Iron. Fuzzy math?...lol Enjoy the game against lesser AI opponents - they don’t 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. ;^}
- Vivacior · v1.7
This is pretty much what I’d 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.
- Rhodesphoto · v1.7
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
- Binturong24 · v1.7
I play this game all the time now. So much depth. AI could be harder. I'm beating the CPU 90% of the time now, but it's still fun and interesting.
- BoomBeaching · v1.4.1
The app now supports 64-bit for iOS 11, but they no longer support 32-bit and can't run on my iPad 4th gen. Boo! 🙁
- J.A.Sim · v1.4.1
I have had Le Havre on my iPad for a long time, and I keep trying to upgrade but it says "you need iOS 10.3.3 to upgrade, do you want to download an older version?" Well, I have iOS 10.3.3, so what's this all about?
- JackMultiple · v1.4.1
Been playing this for YEARS and now this update won't download as it's not compatible with my iPad2. Obviously I won't be running 11 and no one else's 64-bit upgrade has caused any problems. Can you fix this so it downloads to ipad2 or if it's not compatible, quit flagging me that an update is pending and then tell me i can't access it?
- devxx · v1.4.1
So glad it got a 64-bit update!
- AmazingChampionMan · v1.5
👍
- jakobbrowning · v1.4.1
I LOVE this game! I never played the board game before so it took me a bit to get the hang of the gameplay but now I can't stop! PLEASE UPDATE THE APP FOR IOS 11!!
- GreatCellophane · v1.4.1
I really love Le Havre!! This game has adapted the board game beautifully! So much that I skipped buying the actual game and I prefer playing it on my cellphone. I keep getting this pop-up which says that the game won't run once the iOS updates to 11. Please upgrade the game. I'd hate to miss out/lose it. And if you are in the process of updating, can we get more colors/vibrance in the game please
- BalajiIyengar · v1.4.1
I've enjoyed playing this game and hope to continue enjoying it, but I'm afraid I'll lose it once iOS 11 comes out. Please update!
- Harrygthree · v1.4.1
The UI could be better (Agricola's is just so good so it set the bar high) but the game itself is fun and demands a lot of strategic thinking. The long version is not my favorite but the short version works great.
- Wolfpup · v1.4.1
in the options, there appears to be no way out unless i reset or close the app.
- dbonzai · v1.4.1
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