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Discover 'Forbidden Solitaire,' a retro-style indie horror game that blends classic solitaire with a compelling mystery. See why this short but fantastic game comes highly recommended.
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00:00Okay, so I just finished. I don't know, have you played it? Forbidden Solitaire?
00:04No, what's this?
00:05You play as a, you're at a fixed location, you're at like a desktop PC,
00:12you've got someone's Microsoft Windows desktop, and on the desktop is a game called Forbidden Solitaire.
00:18And you get a message, a message pops up on screen between you and your brother,
00:22and you're like, oh, I found this Forbidden Solitaire game.
00:25And it turns out it's a really infamous horror game from the 90s.
00:31So then when you start playing it, it's kind of, it is a solitaire game, it's amazing.
00:36You're kind of going through these different, very 90s-esque 3D worlds.
00:41It's a very sort of almost like, it's not visual novel-y, things are moving,
00:44but you're just playing cards, doing fun solitaire cards.
00:48It's really compelling, but all the while, while you're playing this game,
00:51you're getting the odd message from the person that you'd spoken to,
00:56being like, I don't think you know about this game, this is bad.
00:59And you start learning about the history of the game, so he sends you like an ad for it,
01:04and you're watching then FMV ads on your screen between your little bouts,
01:08and you're like, no, no, I just want to play the game.
01:11And I can heartily recommend it.
01:13It's like, I think it took me three hours to get through all of it, and it's fantastic.
01:17Fantastic.

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