I've played hours of Forbidden Solitaire in my hotel room on this vacation... it's very good! It's a wonderful little bit of throwbacky pastiche, and a wonderful little solitaire game. The premise of the game is that, in 2019, you found a cheap copy of a dark, violent old PC game you wanted to play back when you were a child in the 1990s. Your mother didn't let you play back then... so you're playing now, with commentary from your sister, who sends you chat messages while you play. You load into a very simple fake desktop environment and launch the game, Forbidden Solitaire, with a little sequence that imitates the sounds of a CD-ROM drive reading a disc. It's extremely nostalgic - I found it surprising and cool and pretty creepy to suddenly hear my drive-less laptop making perfectly accurate CD-ROM sounds. The game also has a shit ton of absolutely incredible prerendered 3D art made in imitation of the garish, highly-textured, neon-lit style of the time. It looks amazing, and the…
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