Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
- Offline: 11 [200]
- Online: 1 [10]
- Approximate amount of time to 200: 5-6 Hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: Multiple Games
- Missable achievements: None
- Does difficulty affect achievements: No
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed: None
Introduction
Welcome to the achievement guide and roadmap for Hardwood Hearts. Hearts is a centuries old card game, with the object to evade all the cards in the hearts suit. All the cards are dealt, and each player must play one card every turn (trick). The person who plays the highest card of the suit the opening player opens with takes the trick (i.e. if the first person plays 5 of diamonds, player 2 plays 8 of diamonds, player 3 plays 10 of clubs and player 4 plays king of spades, player 2 takes the trick). If a player has no cards in that suit, they may play another suit. The goal is to avoid taking and hearts or the queen of spades. The game ends when one player reaches the score limit, then the lowest scoring player is declared the winner. The achievements aren't too hard to get, and are mostly luck based. They all pop when they are supposed to, and once you get a hang of the game it is pretty easy.
Step 1 - Multiplayer
I would suggest getting the multiplayer out of the way pretty early as the community is very dead as of 2013. Visit the boosting thread found here or create or join a Session to find a partner.
I would advise going for a ten wins streak online as with good communication you can engineer wins easily. You should have 2 achievents for 50
Step 2 - Playing games and mopping up
After the multiplayer is out of the way, you will have to play many games of Hearts before you are done. Luckily games can go very quickly. Either play partners with a 50 point max, or turn on "Spot Hearts" and play with a 100 point limit. First of all, go for the Shoot the Moon/Sun related achievements, "Solar Sniper", "Lunar Sniper" and "Lunar Satellite", 3 achievements for 70. Now just continue playing towards your 100 games played. By the time you get there you should be done with this game.
Conclusion
This game is what it is. It is a no frills card game, the achievements aren't very imaginative, aren't too tough and it is a bit of a grind, but as it is from 2005 you can forgive that a little. It won't take too long for the full 200, as long as you find a boosting partner. Have fun, and watch out for the Queen of Spades.
[XBA would like to thank Corrupt. for this Roadmap]