Avalon Legends Solitaire

Below is my review after 100% completion:

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Sound/Music (2/10)

Overall rating: (6/10)

who likes solitaire this game is not for him-the game is bad from start to finish...

I started off Avalon Legends Solitaire sharing a lot of the detractors' sentiments, but once I got past my preconceptions of what a solitaire game should be, I found myself enjoying the gameplay so much more than I expected. No, this isn't another "gotta 100% every level" game, but it's exactly that angle that makes it so unique and interesting to me. And let's be honest, the genre could do with a little more creativity these days.

Each of Avalon's levels is comprised of 10 boards with specific goals to meet in order to progress. These goals come in 3 varieties: get X number of perfects, earn X number of points, or get a combo of X number of cards. Naturally, the further you get into into the game, the more difficult the goals get. And as the goals ramp up, so does the need for strategy, and that's when my enjoyment increased exponentially. Once I let go of my need to fully clear each board, I started making calls on whether I should blow all my Wild Cards on a possible chain, or call a board a loss and move on. Did I have enough in my arsenal to pick up the number of perfects I needed to clear the stage, or should I call it a wash and start banking those Wild Cards for my next push?

The game is clearly an older port, however, and the UI is fairly bare bones and missing much of the polish that one would expect of any self-respecting casual title. There's really no reason you can't view the stage goals/progress while on a board, nor is it excusable to only be able to view the collectibles/awards screen between each tableau. And just why can't I open up the Power-Up Shop from the main menu? But as frustrating as these issues were, I still found myself engaged enough to overlook them as I continued to push through to the end.

Avalon Legends of Solitaire may not be the greatest solitaire game I have ever played, but it's certainly a pleasant surprise amid an ocean of cookie-cutter titles. Unfortunately, it seems the sequel drops the level requirements for a more conventional "perfect each stage" approach, which is disappointing. I would love to see an evolution of this formula, but I guess I'll need to be on the lookout for it elsewhere.

Curated by: Chudah's Corner

Time passes quickly in Avalon Legends. The challenges aren't that difficult, and Avalon Legends has variety on a familiar solitaire game and that keeps you going. The graphics are lovely to look at, and there are treasures to purchase along the way. However, once you complete the game - it's over. If you want to play again you have to start over - all achievements lost, all treasure gone. Free play is worthless - no treasure, no achievements, no score that matters. I would really have liked to be able to replay levels for higher scores.

Avalon Legends Solitaire makes me appreciate good solitaire games, as it is not a good game, but one that is less than that, or to put it in technical terms, a bit poopy.

Avalon Legends does do a really good job of showing why making you play ten hands as a set to reach certain goals is probably the worst way to lay out the levels. Play all ten hands and didn't quite make all the goals? Start over. All ten. Whee.

Now maybe the problem is that I'm really bad at high/low solitaire, so I don't make the goals, but I don't think that's it. Plenty of other reviews mention the same issues, so I'm not imagining it. The layouts are poorly done, and the deck is stacked against the player.

In other solitaire games, I have to redo levels sometimes. More than once even. But to have to go back and do ten over for something that one good hand could have corrected, well, that's a bit much.

There are plenty of other solitaire games out there, so I'd give this one a miss, unless you really only want to play the same hands over and over, and don't care about actually progressing through the game.

I don't know what exactly is bugged, but something is. I kept collecting wild cards, but they never appeared anywhere and couldn't be played. There is also no Replay option, you have to play an entire stage (10 hands) whether you know you can't hit the goals halfway through or not.

jxt09's review nails it: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198064050389/recommended/598610/

Starts off ok but the later levels need lots of wild cards to win but they only appear rarely and they cost far too much to buy so grind grind grind, solitaire done wrong.

And I'm thumbing this down because I swear you have to turn over far too many cards to get the one you need to get a perfect, it always happens on the last cards, so often you turn 10 to 20 cards and don't get the one you need - that does not match the odds of what should happen I'm pretty sure, so it looks like the game been rigged against you a bit.

Edit: And the game does not have trading cards.

Avalon Legends 1 is standard but fine. If you've beaten the better ones (Faerie and Regency solitaire), pick it up on sale bundled with its sequels.

Like many games in its genre, earning gold enables you to unlock various abilities (extra undos, some cards face up, and so on). There are no attack powers (such as spells for eliminating cards), apart from occasionally found wildcards. In order to progress, you have to achieve certain goals in each ten-hand world. If you fail to meet each world's goals, you must repeat the whole world from scratch. You cannot simply replay a particular hand. That obviously frustrates some people, but I've only had to repeat a couple of worlds.

If for some reason you haven't played the better solitaire games available on Steam, try out this bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2070/Solitaire_Collection/.

There are many better solitaire games out there. The game is poorly balanced and requires more luck than actual skill, and failing an objective forces you to replay a lot of games in a row. Completing the game is more forcing oneself than actual pleasure. The game has some minor bugs, but nothing that would break the game.

This is a decent enough solitaire game. I would rank it maybe 5/10. If you love playing this type of game it's worth a playthrough.

It was a little too easy to meet the objectives of each level in my opinion until the very last level, and then this one level I probably played 40 or more times before I hit all 3 objectives at once and beat the game. I still enjoyed it even though I probably wouldn't play it again.

The story was pretty non-existant and the art was decent until the final drawing of the forest which I kinda wondered if someone's kid drew.

I've played quite a lot of Solitaire games and while is not a bad game, I do have to rank it somewhere towards the bottom. There's virtually no story beyond the theme and setting and the power-ups are not that special and cost way too much to upgrade. I also believe that the game, like many others of its kind, cheats. If the AI is not cheating then it is just poorly programmed. I don't think that drawing seven kings in a row can be labelled as anything other than those two possibilities.

There are better Solitaire and traditional card deck-based games out there. Avalon Legends gets a marginal thumbs up. Fun was to be had in playing it, but there's no way I can stick it out to the end as it just hits a brick wall after a while.

A nice solitaire game. A bit fun and relaxing. Would suggest getting it on sale and/or in the bundle.

High-Low solitaire is my favorite type of card game. It's relaxing and great for casual gaming. Bonus is the trading cards (which are not working lol) and achievements.

This game would have been great except for the fact you cannot replay hands to try to get a perfect score. That alone makes it very frustrating if your like me and strive to get a perfect score at the end. I got the game in a bundle sale so can't complain about the price but I would not have paid for this game on it's own knowing I could not replay the hands.

I thought the 2nd game in the series was hard. Nope, that was child's play compared to Avalon Legends 1. This time around you have goals (are they are no joke) to reach, magic cards to collect, and items to you can buy and sell. Graphics is really good and music is ok. Overall, I had a good time with this game, but still have not finished it. That last puzzle is a beast.
10/10.

5/10 Not the best by far, but not the worst solitaire game either. Wait for a sale, is my advise, and only get this if you've played just about all the other solitaire games out there.

I suspect this was made longer ago than other solitaire games. It feels more bare bones than others. And the number of cards you get on some levels is off. For instance, you need to uncover a hammer to turn over cards with stone on them but I kept clicking and clicking on the deck and not getting the card I needed. Now there are wild cards you can use. They are numbered and one time use. So you could use one of those if you have the one you need to continue. And in the store you can buy a random wild card. That was the first red flag that popped up in my head. Hmm....this might be one of those game that was phone/tablet game with in-app purchases and they want you to buy more wild cards. On Steam this cannot be done so we are stuck with the way it is. YOu'll have to do some grinding to build up your wild card deck and money to buy special help items. That's another red flag, becauase I did not gain enough money to buy all the help items! That is the first time that's happened to me in a solitaire game. Usually by the last level one has already bought them all.

Graphics look older and are just ok. Nothing special.

Sound: I don't know because I turned it off to listen to my own music while playing.

Final thoughts: Since Steam only has a yes/no review system I'm giving it a tentative yes. I only give "NO"s to really, really bad games. This one is just for solitaire fanatics who have played everything else and need something new to play. Not the best by far. But not really the worst. I've seen one that is blatantly skewed to in-app purchases and they didn't change it for Steam. This one isn't as bad as that, just middle of the pack (heh, heh, nice pun, eh? pack?)

Simple solitaire game based around magic and the Druids of Avalon.

Gameplay is average and fairly quick and there's a store to buy items with in-game gold to make each game go a little smoother. I've bought some of the items and it has made it a little easier to get perfect games.

Much like other solitaire games I've played there is no option to replay a single level if you don't get a perfect score and this is a little frustrating but not enough for me to rate down.
It's typical of solitaire games it seems and there's no achievement for completing each level/game with a perfect score so I wouldn't worry about it too much, it's easy enough to complete the challenges for every stage without getting all perfects.

I'd recommend this game when it's on sale (like now) or as part of a bundle but not at full price.

Liked the solitare and story but would have liked to try again to get a better score on each level.

I'm a pretty big fan of solitaire games. I play them to relax and, at the same time, exercise my mind a little. Too bad Avalon Legends doesn't really allow you to do either.

In a baffling design choice, you're unable to choose to replay a level you didn't do well on, making getting perfects almost impossible. Which is bad enough, but even just doing well is very difficult, as your hand is often 80 to 90% cards you don't need and won't use. I have literally found myself in situations in which I could remove almost no cards as all, because there wasn't a single useful one in my hand. It was particularly common to find the same card over and over and over. Not that the game cares at all if you've left almost every card on the board. For a solitaire game this frustrating, the actual goals it asks you to achieve are so easy you can do poorly on every single stage and still complete them.

There isn't much else in the way to allow you to strategize, either. You're given a paltry few wild cards, and most of the time they're barely worth using, since they won't get you far. There are items you can buy that give you abilities, but most of these are pretty useless, being things like giving you 1 more undo, or something similarly pathetic.

The story in the game isn't even interesting enough to keep be going. There's just nothing fun about this game.

I know I can't expect every solitaire game to be Faerie Solitaire, but I can certainly expect them to be better than this.