As a bit of a solitairehead when I need something to do with my hands while thinking about other stuff, this pack rules & owns.
Also it runs perfectly on Steam Deck, fyi, with minimal fiddling. Just extract, add the EXE to your steam library, tell it to run on Proton Experimental in the settings (I'm sure other versions work as well that's just my go-to) and then set the game to fullscreen and the steam input controls to a mouse config. It has been the perfect thing for relaxing with on the sofa. :)
Hi, I think there is a bug in Tap Solitaire (my favourite variant so far because it is so relaxed and still challenging) where it sometimes doesn't spawn all the cards. In this picture, the Keke 4 is missing. It doesn't really come to attention because the auto-pile feature just goes over it.
Hiya! I've been loving playing tap solitaire, but I recently discovered you can quit out to the main menu in the middle of a game, and when you go back into it the cards reset and a new game starts but the streak doesn't go back to zero. Just wanted to make you aware of this.
(I haven't tried it with other solitaires yet, because I'm obsessed with tap solitaire. It taps into the goldilocks-zone of my focus.)
That's intentional, in a way; I wanted to give the player a way to bail out of a game if they notice an obviously impossible deal since the game doesn't guarantee solvability. It's a pretty weak solution since if you care about your streak, you can then effectively restart the game in a more clunky way to "cheat", but making the streak system uncheeseable would've been quite difficult in itself + I don't like the idea that the player can get a deal that's obviously impossible from the start without being able to prevent their streak going away.
I downloaded A Solitaire Mystery on my Windows 11 PC, but every time it launches, it closes. I don't see any in-game graphics before it does so, it just turns on and off immediately. Has anyone else had this problem?
They're just tens; it would've been awkward to fit the number & the symbols, so I thought it'd be aesthetically more striking to leave the number out. Apologies for the confusion.
I set the window multiplication to x2, then next time I opened the game it only showed the upper-left corner of the screen. I can't even access the Settings anymore. Re-install doesn't even solve it. I am guessing the game is reading from some config file that I don't know the location of. What can I do? Can I maximize the window?
This has been great and I have enjoyed every game I've played so far.
As a mildly colorblind person, your diamond and club suit colors are very hard to distinguish, and the symbols are pretty small. It hasn't stopped me from puzzling it out, but it has slowed me down or made me believe I was stalled out several times. If there's a "colorblind mode" or a way to better separate the colors of all suits, I would appreciate it!
These are sorted so that the ones on the left are most disparate, so they are generally rarer but more favorable if you can make them because they get rid of difficult to use cards.
This game gives me mixed emotions. The individual solitaires are all so creative and interesting, and each one needs a unique mental approach. Plus the art and music are fantastic. But holy crap the difficulty is *brutal*, and this is coming from an avid Zachtronics-Solitaire fanatic.
Many of the games have hidden the fact that the gamestate is actually unwinnable from many turns ago (usually because there is a limited resource that you unknowingly expended, often ten to twenty real-life minutes ago). Many of them have a severely disproportionate difficulty spike right at the end. I played several games that were tough-but-doable for as much as 45 minutes only to find the endgame mechanics (which I had never reached before) actually start restricting space and it quickly became impossible not to tie myself into a knot.
A detector for games which are already lost would be nice, although I understand that poses a pretty extensive coding challenge. And the same statement applies for an undo button.
Most of all I think the game needs a better way of easing players in, rather than dumping all 23 games in front of them. The star rating system is pretty inconsistent at best, but currently there's no other way for newbies to know where to start. Maybe if games were unlocked in incremental batches? Or if specific games unlocked their shake-up versions like Tap -> Baba and Single -> Binary.
((Also the "playable with a standard deck" notes are greatly appreciated. Very cool.)
I assume its that the "Babataire" rules mistakenly calls the top slots "middle slots" and also doesn't color the word "slots" like it normally would? Unless there's another one.
I'm running Mint on my laptop. Couldn't say if SteamOS would use the same method, but I'll give it a shot.
If you have access to Software Manager within the Menu (Administration>Software Manager) run that. Then, in the search field type in "wine". Install the package "Wine" as well as "Q4wine" if that is available.
I finally got it running, if anyone else has the same issue I got it running by going to properties>compatibility>force compatibility tool>proton 9.0-4
Thanks to Matthias for encouraging me to try and get it working even though he had diff software
I notice that sometimes the cards in stacks will pop out, letting me see what's underneath, but other times it doesn't work, which makes certain games more difficult (like time travel).
Yeah, in some of them the hover display had bugs so I disabled it; I should go back and try to get it working (I can't recall atm exactly what the issue is/was)
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As a bit of a solitairehead when I need something to do with my hands while thinking about other stuff, this pack rules & owns.
Also it runs perfectly on Steam Deck, fyi, with minimal fiddling. Just extract, add the EXE to your steam library, tell it to run on Proton Experimental in the settings (I'm sure other versions work as well that's just my go-to) and then set the game to fullscreen and the steam input controls to a mouse config. It has been the perfect thing for relaxing with on the sofa. :)
Hi, I think there is a bug in Tap Solitaire (my favourite variant so far because it is so relaxed and still challenging) where it sometimes doesn't spawn all the cards. In this picture, the Keke 4 is missing. It doesn't really come to attention because the auto-pile feature just goes over it.
That's really odd! I haven't heard of this happening before. How often has it happened to you?
Hiya! I've been loving playing tap solitaire, but I recently discovered you can quit out to the main menu in the middle of a game, and when you go back into it the cards reset and a new game starts but the streak doesn't go back to zero. Just wanted to make you aware of this.
(I haven't tried it with other solitaires yet, because I'm obsessed with tap solitaire. It taps into the goldilocks-zone of my focus.)
That's intentional, in a way; I wanted to give the player a way to bail out of a game if they notice an obviously impossible deal since the game doesn't guarantee solvability. It's a pretty weak solution since if you care about your streak, you can then effectively restart the game in a more clunky way to "cheat", but making the streak system uncheeseable would've been quite difficult in itself + I don't like the idea that the player can get a deal that's obviously impossible from the start without being able to prevent their streak going away.
Ah! That makes sense! Thanks for taking the time to explain. And thanks for the fun game. Hope you have a good rest of the day :)
Maybe you could make it so your streak doesn't reset if your very first move is pressing the Redeal button
Hi! Love the game; any chance this gets a linux release?
I run it under Linux like so:
1. extract ASM.exe and rename to ASM.love
2. install the Love2D runner
3. in the command line:
saw this at GDC, looks really fun! 🃏
Someone help me, I am so bad at solitaire but that didn't stop me from playing this 4 hours straight
I downloaded A Solitaire Mystery on my Windows 11 PC, but every time it launches, it closes. I don't see any in-game graphics before it does so, it just turns on and off immediately. Has anyone else had this problem?
Can anyone explain what the "blank" cards in Fork Solitaire do? The ones that have a suit but no displayed value.
There is nothing in the explanation and I have been racking my brain trying to figure it out.
They're just tens; it would've been awkward to fit the number & the symbols, so I thought it'd be aesthetically more striking to leave the number out. Apologies for the confusion.
I set the window multiplication to x2, then next time I opened the game it only showed the upper-left corner of the screen. I can't even access the Settings anymore. Re-install doesn't even solve it. I am guessing the game is reading from some config file that I don't know the location of. What can I do? Can I maximize the window?
I'll try to make the resolution work better in a future update; it might be a bit convoluted though...
That'll be great because as it stands now I have made the game totally unplayable by my own mistake 😭😭
Oh right, sorry, I missed that the issue wasn't resolvable - for now, you should be able to fix the issue by going to
users\<your username>\AppData\roaming\ASM\settings.txt
and adjusting the "scaling=" line to say "scaling=1" or so.
Thank you!!
Great game!
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Minor typo in the rules for Gardening Solitaire:
"Cards will be automatically
beharvested from the garden slots."Thank you!
This has been great and I have enjoyed every game I've played so far.
As a mildly colorblind person, your diamond and club suit colors are very hard to distinguish, and the symbols are pretty small. It hasn't stopped me from puzzling it out, but it has slowed me down or made me believe I was stalled out several times. If there's a "colorblind mode" or a way to better separate the colors of all suits, I would appreciate it!
Thank you for the feedback - I'll definitely add this to the to-do list!
For anyone else whose brain broke trying to play garden solitaire, here are the possible combinations of cards with an average of exactly 4:
These are sorted so that the ones on the left are most disparate, so they are generally rarer but more favorable if you can make them because they get rid of difficult to use cards.
This game gives me mixed emotions. The individual solitaires are all so creative and interesting, and each one needs a unique mental approach. Plus the art and music are fantastic. But holy crap the difficulty is *brutal*, and this is coming from an avid Zachtronics-Solitaire fanatic.
Many of the games have hidden the fact that the gamestate is actually unwinnable from many turns ago (usually because there is a limited resource that you unknowingly expended, often ten to twenty real-life minutes ago). Many of them have a severely disproportionate difficulty spike right at the end. I played several games that were tough-but-doable for as much as 45 minutes only to find the endgame mechanics (which I had never reached before) actually start restricting space and it quickly became impossible not to tie myself into a knot.
A detector for games which are already lost would be nice, although I understand that poses a pretty extensive coding challenge. And the same statement applies for an undo button.
Most of all I think the game needs a better way of easing players in, rather than dumping all 23 games in front of them. The star rating system is pretty inconsistent at best, but currently there's no other way for newbies to know where to start. Maybe if games were unlocked in incremental batches? Or if specific games unlocked their shake-up versions like Tap -> Baba and Single -> Binary.
((Also the "playable with a standard deck" notes are greatly appreciated. Very cool.)
fun fact: exactly one of these solitaires has factually incorrect information in the rules. can you guess which one?
I assume its that the "Babataire" rules mistakenly calls the top slots "middle slots" and also doesn't color the word "slots" like it normally would? Unless there's another one.
No, that's just a terminology difference
make a linux(steamOS) build and my heart will be yours
I do have a plan to do so, same for a Mac version, eventually, I've just been very busy ;_;
It seems to run fine via WINE. But yes, a native port would be great!
can you please help me setup WINE for use in gaming mode on steamOS i tried guides and it just don't launch
I'm running Mint on my laptop. Couldn't say if SteamOS would use the same method, but I'll give it a shot.
If you have access to Software Manager within the Menu (Administration>Software Manager) run that. Then, in the search field type in "wine". Install the package "Wine" as well as "Q4wine" if that is available.
I hope this helps you! Sorry if it doesn't.
I finally got it running, if anyone else has the same issue I got it running by going to properties>compatibility>force compatibility tool>proton 9.0-4
Thanks to Matthias for encouraging me to try and get it working even though he had diff software
I run it under Linux like so:
1. extract ASM.exe and rename to ASM.love
2. install the Love2D runner
3. in the command line:
$ love ASM.love
I notice that sometimes the cards in stacks will pop out, letting me see what's underneath, but other times it doesn't work, which makes certain games more difficult (like time travel).
Yeah, in some of them the hover display had bugs so I disabled it; I should go back and try to get it working (I can't recall atm exactly what the issue is/was)
Will this ever come out on Steam/other platforms?
I want to put it on Steam once I get some more work done on it, polishing things etc
If you ever port this to Android and put it on the app store, it'll be just you and the Zachtronics Solitaire Collection. Both excellent
That'd be cool! But I'm very unskilled at mobile app dev so we'll have to see...