Le Havre (The Harbor) app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 1120 ratings )
Games Entertainment Board Strategy
Developer: Codito Development Inc.
4.99 USD
Current version: 2.4, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 21 Jun 2012
App size: 193.12 Mb

Will you be Le Havres 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 youre 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 computers 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 Rosenbergs 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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Pros and cons of Le Havre (The Harbor) app for iPhone and iPad

Le Havre (The Harbor) app good for

Never played the actual board game before, but my wife and I love playing this game together.
This is a great app and I LOVE being able to add AI to up the player count in multiplayer games! Unlike many other developers, you took the time to make good AI for single player, and you also let us use it in multiplayer. Why other developers dont do this just mystifies me.
Just a must. If you like Puerto Rico, Caylus and Agricola, you will love Le Havre. By the way SageBoardGame, do you plan to adapt Agricola? Would be genius!
Pocket Le Havre! Very good implementation. Extremely polished, though there are a couple of bugs here and there, which will certainly be fixed in the inevitable updates. Meanwhile, enjoy Le Havre on the go. Set up time? 5 seconds! And nothing to put back in the box when youre done. Wheres Agricola? Bring it on!
Its a great exemple of good App and a fun table top Game. All recomandation to download.
I Love the board game version of the game, the app is a very faithful reproduction and therefore 5 stars!!

Some bad moments

Le Havre is a fun game, but the app crashes often, the ai isnt very intelligent, and the interface could be changed or customizable; the screen is very crowded and the art could be better.
I was fooled by the good comments. The game has a serious bug. It freezes in the middle of a game. You touch the sceen and the game doesnt respond. You have no choice but restart. All the progress you made in the game is lost!
I paid for the app and it just forced me to watch an ad for other games. Wouldnt let me close it. Dont care if its a bug. Im uninstalling.
Flawless ios representation of my favorite board game of all time. Keep up the good work Codito.
Im really enjoying playing against friends and computers alike.
I am very impressed by both the game mechanism, and Sage Games’ digital version. Moderately steep learning curve, with a good payoff—it could be an introduction to worker placement games, which is a genre. I found it more accessible than iOS Caylus. Not quite as slick as Carcassonne, Pandemic, and (I hear) Agricola, Lords of Waterdeep. But it gets the job done, and it is usually cheaper. The font on the cards should be bigger. On iPad Air, I still require squinting.

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