Hoyle Official Card Games

I love playing card games on the computer to pass the time, but I was disappointed by this edition of Hoyle. The faces look really strange to me. Gone are the old players and side banter that made playing previous versions of Hoyle fun - I miss Roswell, Rhett, Marvin, and others. There do not seem to be a lot of new games over the previous version, either. I used to enjoy playing French Tarot in the 2005 edition of Hoyle, which they removed several versions ago and never added back. I like that Hoyle is on Steam now, but they really need to go back and try again with this one.

I should have read the reviews before buying this game. Just as some other reviewers have stated, this game is not like previous additions and is not worth the money. Just walk away.

totaly iscrap out of 10 i give 1 the original was far better and exeeded my spectation dont bother with this one the first one i preffered with talking characters and funny the characters made funny remarks "avoid this game" at all costs

Was expecting something like the original. This is crap, save your money.

TL;DR: Give it a skip. UPDATED: Since the Sept 2016 update, I can only say the game is even worse. The Face Creator makes death-mask-truly-gruesome-players. We're not talking fun zombie type characters or even ghouls here. We're talking bony, ugly, emaciated, scrawny, staring-at-you-with dead eyes type faces. Creepy but not-fun-creepy. The NPCs are even worse. You have Satch who is--you guessed it--Sasquatch, a pirate, a character with a pretty un-nifty cowboy hat. It sounds like exactly TWO people voiced the male and female characters--and not with a great deal of talent. While it no longer sounds like you're playing with a malfunctioning Stephen Hawking voice device for every character, the voice work is just GD painful--although not as painful as the awful script. The kicker: you can't turn it OFF! You can't shut them up! You can turn the volume off. You can make them talk a little less. But there they are--lips flappin' at you, slowing down the gameplay. You can't even pick ...

My wife and I love to play cribbage. I wanted to get a computer cribbage game for those times when I need my crib fix and my wife isn't up for a game. This serves that purpose. It's decent, but not fabulous. Pros: -- Game runs in full screen. -- Seems to be totally bug-free (at least cribbage and gin rummy...I haven't had a chance to play the other games yet). -- The AI is alright. -- Some of the other reviewers seemed upset because, apparently, the AI avatars and voices in this version are inferior to previous installments (or something). I dunno...I had an older version of Hoyle's card games on my old computer several years ago, and I personally don't remember the AI's "personality" being anything even remotely memorable. I honestly don't give a rat's behind about any of that. I just want to play crib, and this game lets me do it. I guess it's important to some other players, but it wasn't an issue for me. Cons: -- The soundtrack is atrocious elevator music. Fortunately, it...

They use the name Hoyle but are in no way similar to the Hoyle card games of the last decade. They're version is as unrefined as the first product that came out way back in 2003 and is a complete rip off at 22 dollars. Steam should hold there suppliers accountable as the product demo states that it took all the best of the Hoyle games from the last 10 years and made this product. A complete and out right lie!

This is not a sophisticated p.o.s. (piece of software). It's of the quality that even EA would probably be too embarassed to put in their 'on the house' section, but again, it's a collection of card games, so....Don't get your tightie whities in a bunch about that: it's card games, and it goes relatively deep. It has dozens of different solitares, kiddie classics like go fish and crazy 8s, amongst more complex ones such as bridge, hearts, pinnocle, gin rummy, and quite a few others i haven't heard of or delved in to. There's a lot of unwarranted negging about it, but those complaining solely about the price, you're 100% correct. The only problem with this collection is it's WAY overpriced. I bought it on sale for 6 bucks, and even that much made me raise an eyebrow after i opened it for the first time. It really should be a 5 dollar game that goes half off once in a while. If you like to have a no brainer timesuck card game sim in your library, this is the one, though i cautio...

I have a few of the older games by Hoyle but was still pleased to see this one available on Steam, and for sale. I have played two games, and here is what I think.. Yes we don't have the fun characters we knew and loved from the older games, but this set of card games is quite decent. The cards are a good size, and the customizations available are impressive. There are many different card patterns and backgrounds, plus many types of music, Yes one can even still customize ones' own avatar , but cannot pick the characters to play against. They seem random, and are very chatty but one cannot chat back . The difficulty level can be adjusted which is great. I taught myself quite a few card games with Hoyle software and look forward to learning some new ones here! If you like card games and enjoy playing them on Steam, this is a no brainer.

Dispite the bad reviews, i decided to buy this game. Just because i like to play card games and learn new ones. So far i had a lot of fun with it. i must say, that i'm not known with the previous hoyle card games. maybe that fact made me not dislike this game. but i can't say that for sure. It has computerized voices, and i cant enlarge the game on my screen , or play it full screen. that is a bit the only thing that bugs me a bit about this game. oh and the best part of it , they have my favorite card game. CRAZY EIGHT. just a simple time filling game that i play with my friends. So its pretty cool.