Seahaven Towers Gold
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $0.99 | fishdog.net, LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
NOTES: Not all games are winnable. You can reject a newly-dealt hand that looks unwinnable by clicking New Game again. If you click New Game before moving any cards, the game is not counted as a loss. Click Undo to undo one move at a time, or Start Over to undo all moves in the current game.
Seahaven Towers is a trademark of Art Cabral, used with permission.
Reviews
Great solitaire
Hmsusieq
Every game used to be winnable. I’m disappointed that’s not the case anymore.
My absolute favorite game in its best iPad version
Pepe the dog
I’ve played tens of thousands of this game since starting in 1986. I play it more than ten to twenty times a day. There is more of a strategy component than other solitaire games. You are going to love this game. Some of the changes are unfortunate including annoying new sounds. What would be good is to poll the app for winning games, so only games with a possible win are presented.
Great game!
Scruffy_Dog
One quibble: with today’s update, you added new tabletops but removed card faces. The new card faces are harder to read within the colors, and make the game less fun to play. Of course, I could also blame my 76-y-o eyes... Update 1 Mar 19: Thank you for bringing back the original card faces. My favorite game for 15 years, going back to the Mac version.
My absolute favorite game in its best iPad version
Pepe the dog
I’ve played tens of thousands of this game since starting in 1986. I play it more than ten to twenty times a day. There is more of a strategy component than other solitaire games. You are going to love this game.
Disappointed
Cal98543
New cards and background are awful. Old version was a great game. This version is a big step backwards.
Best solitaire app
up_de
I'm thankful that my favorite solitaire app STGold has been upgraded to universal, so now I can play it on all 3 of my iDevices. This app is clearly superior to the two Seahaven Towers apps which were on my iPhone. They are now deleted and Seahaven Towers Gold takes their place.
You broke it!
thefungrandpa
I liked this game enough to pay to get rid of the ads, and I played it a lot. Then, one day I watched it reset, and a totally different game popped up! It wasn't really a different game, but it looked strange and it felt strange and it took a while before I could get halfway into the old groove. I hated the new look and the new, weird tinny "music", but I could at least turn the noise off, at first. I finally got used to the new look, but never warmed up to it. The former version was rock solid, but not anymore. I can't turn the sound off now, and if I wasn't able to mute my iPad I couldn't play at all. Even worse, the game is now really buggy. It crashes randomly, and cards suddenly appear in strange places, forcing a reset. Far more trouble than it is worth.
So buggy as to be unplayable.
PD Ferguson
UPDATE FOR VERSION 2.0.1: This update did NOT fix the bugs that were introduced in version 2.0, which made the game all but unplayable because it is SO buggy. Cards disappear randomly, forcing you to resign the game (this appears to be related to undo and start over). Sound prefs are ignored (and annoying), even trying to report a problem crashes the app. Not only that, but the new look is dreadful (wood? really? 1995 called, they want their UI design back.) The new cards with the thin San serif iOS font are very hard to read. Overall, a huge, HUGE step backwards, a textbook example of how NOT to update an app. One star because of a total lack of testing. Very disappointing, especially because the 1.x version was so solid. Review of version 1.x: This is a very good implementation of Seahaven Towers, the author clearly knows the unique characteristics that sets this solitaire game apart from all the others. I only gave this four stars because it's not quite perfect. Among the things I'd like to see changed or added are: (1) a redo button to quickly undo/redo a series of moves to see where to change direction. (2) some sort of indication (e.g. beep or flash) when you've reached a dead end and can't move anything more. (3) I'm not sure the single tap/double tap distinction is needed; it is second nature now, but I made a lot of mistakes getting there. (4) the rapid moving of cards from stacks has a visually distracting Z-ordering bug (this makes sense to programmers). (5) the modal dialog at the end of each game is distracting and unnecessary. (6) the "New Game" button is easy to accidentally hit twice; this is where a modal dialog should be used to confirm you want to take the loss.
Update: What happened here? It's ruined!
FactsDontMatter
I have played hundreds of games on the original version of this iPad app, and thousands of games on the old Mac version over the years. This update is better, but still crap. - The cards still all look alike. I still can't see anything. I have tried, but I haven't managed to complete a game. Can you try the longer card layout with the horizontal arrangement of number-suit? The packed format is impossible. The game doesn't need visual challenges. - The background choices are visually noisy. The game is challenging in a pure way; it doesn't need music, dancing monkeys, or varied backgrounds to interfere with it. - At least the music has stopped... For now. - If I try to report a problem, write a review (in-app), or request a feature, the app quits. On restart, the settings are returned to default. "Riipp, ripp!" Does anybody really like that shuffling sound? - All of these changes could have been feature selections that preserved the classic interface for those who want it. If the prior version were still available, I'd delete this one and buy the old one again. Yes, buy... With money.
Not a great update
CherylRene
This update did nothing to improve the game and much to hinder it. The cards are now much more difficult to read, and none of the backgrounds are pleasant. Can I have the old one back?
