Solitairica

Great for distracting loneliness and long flights 10/10

Solitairica is an addictive time-killer. The simple solitaire gameplay makes it easy to learn and super fun to master. Getting a lucky line-up of cards let's you go on a fast spree tapping through 2-3 entire layers of cards and you get coins for streaks over 10 which adds so much.

There's a plethora of interesting and unique spells and classes to choose from, ensuring there a play style for you. The enemies are very unique and fun to fight and it feels great to master fighting each one. The better you get at memorizing their abilities, the faster you can move onto the next area with ease.

Progression is the usual roguelite formula: play the game, earn premium currency to upgrade your abilities, become stronger until you can overcome the challenges thrown at you. You can upgrade each class to have unique advantages for drawing Kings or Queens. All classes have an Ace upgrade that gives you more energy when drawn and two additional inventory slots.

I love how much strategy can go into each run. You can reserve spells and items for a small fee and buy them after the next battle, you can save your coins or premium currency to buy lives, seek certain spells to create powerful combos, buy out spells you don't like to force better ones into the store's item pool, etc etc.

My only complaint is the game can be incredibly luck based at times. Some battles and even entire runs I'll get the best spells and items in the shop, and I'll get the perfect line up of cards every time to let me speed through battles, and enemies don't even get many opportunities to do anything. Other times my luck is egregious and I never get any good card line ups to make any moves, never get the right energy from cards, get weak spells and items in the shop, enemies spam powerful attacks or spawn annoying card effects, etc. The game can heavily reward good skill, but it can also just screw you over for no reason with no way for you to counteract anything.

Just about what I expected, which is good. I like these simple solitaire games with the option to think strategy a bit more, if you want to. The resolutions suck, and it takes exclusive control even when windowed. Other than that, I've had no problems.

Before I get in to this review as I'm well aware that I am needlessly wordy when writing reviews I'll give you the tl;dr here. I do like this game but it ultimately falls short due to feeling unfair at times. I'm still counting it as recommended as It's no real strain on your wallet and is really fun in small doses, but it's very repetitive and may be annoying.

Okay now I yap.

As someone who is fairly unfamiliar with the roguelike genre as a whole, I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I know anything about game balance or really any of the kind of things that make this sort of game tick, but I *will* bounce off of what I have seen other people say as it does line up with my personal experience.

This game has a lot of good things going for it. The art style is cute and cartoony, the music (what little of it there is) is pleasant, the small animations look nice, the little blurbs of banjo kazooie style speech from the enemies isn't too insufferable and the game as a whole is very easy to pick up and get in to without too much of a learning curve, if any at all. If you're familiar with how to play solitaire in any capacity, you'll understand how this game works.

The problems start arising with the balance of the encounters. Now, as I said, I know little to nothing about what makes these sort of games work in terms or really anything, but I do have vague ideas about it and I know how the fights feel to me; and that is incredibly unbalanced most of the time. Even on the standard difficulty i find myself getting stuck 3 or 4 fights in most of the time due to not having enough resources to defend myself with.

Now, I am very aware that perhaps that's just me, maybe I'm just bad at the game, but again, using the insight other reviews have provided I'm inclined to think that at least partially it is not me and that there are some issues with encounter balance.

I do really love this game, but I find myself either getting sucked in to a loop of getting a few fights in and continually trying with no real progress made or I just end up getting frustrated and quitting out, and honestly that isn't a really pleasant experience. I don't regret purchasing this game, as I do play it frequently, but I am still a little disappointed by it.

old clunky and not fun . controls suck for steam deck n need trackpad touch.

Heaps of fun

Excellent card game that does have a ton of a replayability. I've played much more of the mobile version but had to own the game on steam too to play on a bigger screen sometimes. Love it.

Extremely solid little roguelike card game! Deceptively deep tactics, with a solid low skill floor. Highly recommend!

fun easy to understand and master, not much replayability but is a nice and enjoyable casual game

a solitaire rpg rules harder than it sounds like it would

good game, yes, yes

This is a pretty satisfying, addictive game. There can be some frustration when randomness kicks your butt and you get the wrong card over and over and over and then just lose a run, but when it clicks, it clicks and it's very fun.

RNG makes it just random enough to where some runs you lose to bad card flips, others you lose because of poor money management. Greatly enjoyed 100%ing this one. Would pay full price. Hopeful for an expansion!