Forbidden Solitaire

Great game! Utterly addicative, but doesn't take too long. And a good thing too, otherwise I would never again do any eating, sleeping, or breathing.

awesome

This game is great! a short game you can beat in roughly 2.3 hours on your first playthrough because that's what I did, with an interesting enough story to keep you engaged in the overall vibe and strange happenings this world throws you into. Plus with super fun gameplay that is 100% more in-depth then just play solitaire it keeps you engaged throughout the entire story. GAMEPLAY: The gameplay overall is super simple, its solitaire, you stack cards either one above or below the current card in your hand, and rack up combos depending on how many cards you can play. But the twist is you can gather jokers that do a variety of various different abilites, from destroying a bunch of cards, to giving you more damage when youre in combat, to even duplicating your already existing jokers in your hand. And using them wisely can extend your combos allowing you to do a crazy amount of damage in one turn. The game isn't the hardest overall I only died six times throughout my entire first playthrough and that was mainly because it was super early on in the game so i was still getting used to the mechanics and combo system. But honestly once I got the hang of it I breezed through pretty much all of it. STORY: The story follows two parties, you the player character and their sister, as you playthrough your thrifted copy of Forbidden solitaire as your sister discovers why this rare game became so rare in the first place. and then the second party being the game studio itself, and how it became so hated due to both the satanic panic during the 80s-90s as well as the proper scary reason as to why this was pulled from shelves. Im being super vauge cause the story is 90% of this game and i dont want to spoil it VISUALS: Its really well done, it has a creepy early 80s cd-rom style asthetic to it, with crusty 3d models, jpg quality images where you can count the pixels, and music that feels true to the era this game is based in, and honestly the visuals on display are unique enough where i truly havent seen any other games to my knowledge attempt something similar ACHIEVEMENTS: You can quite litterally get most of them on your first run without any issue, and without trying to go for them anyways, you only need to realistically go out of your way for like 3 of them, which would be the duplicate a Bad joker, have all bad jokers in your joker slots, and alert an enemy in a stealth section 5 times and win. Those realistically are the only missable achievements, ones I missed on my playthrough but you can easily go back and snag them without issue. This game has super fair achievements and as long as your progressing the story and buying everything from the shop, you wont need to grind or sweat about litterally any. Overall this game was super fun and worth the price! 10/10