Le Havre (The Harbor)
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $4.99 | Codito Development Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Reviews
Excellent digital implementation of a classic
Rhodesphoto
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.
Great Game - But at upper levels, AI is broken
Vivacior
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. ;^}
Very good interface and implementation of Rosenberg game
grimoire_games
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.
Awesome game but maybe with one wrong rule in the app
Jay1khbtfvol
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!
Better than hard copy
ArborBarber
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.
So easy, so hard
RichfieldTimm
Excellent board game, excellent digital adaptation. If you are a big fan of Euro board games you should get this now.
Deep and engaging
@ignoreintuition
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.
Hard and soft copies
radical ford pickup
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.
