But the info-dump of games, the lack of tutorials, the poor controls and the chunks of game that don’t work add too many caveats for a recommendation. Yet you get the feeling that Solitaire 3D wants to be adopted by casuals, since, you know, it’s a Solitaire game. This last point is actually a fatal issue: if you’re a casual player, Solitaire 3D is harder to use and way more complicated than it needs to be.
Mostly, the social features clog up the game interface, which was already confusing. We could be a prodigy and we’d never know it, damn it. Unfortunately, Solitaire 3D’s leaderboard functions are intermittent, working a quarter of the time, so you’re often left wondering whether you’ve just beaten the world’s best all-time score. Winning a game gives you the fun bouncy-card animations you might expect from early games of FreeCell on the PC, and then you get a promise of ‘posting the score to the leaderboards’. The audio cues are all very tactile and have that clean “schwiff” sound as cards are dealt. You even get some nifty user improvements, like the ability to single-press a card to move it to the best stack, and there’s a togglable ‘Auto-complete’ feature with a few increments, allowing you to control how presumptuous the AI is for you. There are no click-area issues, weird bugs or rules that aren’t familiar.
Hopping into a game you know, it does what you’d expect. It’s no surprise to see that the majority of users on the leaderboards aren’t playing on Xbox. While Solitaire 3D is a Play Anywhere title, so can be played on PC, the developers could have taken the time to remove the mobile options (a toggle for where the handset’s battery shows, anyone?). Pretty much every other card game on the Xbox has adopted it, so you can only assume that the monumental task of creating 100 games took up the developer-time, so it couldn’t be done. It’s laziness, really, that there isn’t a gamepad-friendly option to snap from pile to pile, or at least snapping from option-to-option on the interfaces.
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If you’re used to PC versions of Solitaire that might be serviceable, but an analogue stick just can’t replicate the speed of a mouse, and it makes the whole thing a trudge, even with responsiveness controls. We can’t say the same for the controls, which have opted for a mouse cursor.
We almost expected to see a stained ashtray in the corner. It’s got one visual tone, and it’s ‘Gentleman’s Club in Basingstoke, circa 1970’. You may not expect Solitaire to be an eyeball-massaging experience, but while there’s a wealth of card backs and a fair few boards hidden in the menus (historians rejoice, as there’s plenty from across time and the globe), it’s all a bit stiff and stuffy, and certainly not making use of the 3D in the title. They each take one of the 100 slots, but they’re welcome additions.Ī couple of things become clear from this bemusing interface: Solitaire 3D isn’t a pretty game, and it’s not designed particularly for console. There are ‘Easy’ versions of the games, listed separately, that amend rulesets to ensure you are more likely to win: things like allowing unsuited stacks, turning one card at a time rather than several from the deck, and more. Most people will have a favourite game and will scroll down to kick-off with it, and they’re all here: every variant we could name – even those from the more creative Solitaire games on mobile. You’ll be immediately presented with a confusing interface and 100 games listed alphabetically.
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