Detective Solitaire. Butler Story 2 Reviews

Detective Solitaire. Butler Story 2 is a basic mobile-app like solitaire puzzle game. Solve various puzzle levels using Klondike style card moving and matching. It's been done a million times before, for free, and free on mobile app stores too... yet this one has a hefty price tag on it. Who knew you can just charge $5 for mobile trash? I guess Creobit does. The developer, Creobit/8Floor, has copy + pasted this game an insane SEVENTY TWO TIMES onto Steam with minor reskins... why cash in on one asset if you can cash in on multiple copies of the same game? Asset flipping begins at home! Here's a list of Creobit's copy + pastes of this asset: [list] [*] Dangerous Solitaire. Zombie Fever [*] Dark Solitaire. Mystical Circus [*] Detective Solitaire Inspector Magic and the Man Without Face [*] Detective Solitaire Inspector Magic [*] Detective Solitaire The Ghost Agency 1 + 2 [*] Detective Solitaire. Butler Story 1 + 2 [*] Detective Solitaire: Inspector Magic And The Forbidden Magic [*] Egypt Solitaire. Match 2 Cards [*] Fairytale Solitaire. Witch Charms [*] Fairytale Solitaire: Red Riding Hood [*] Gnomes Solitaire [*] Holiday Solitaire Easter [*] Knight Solitaire 1-3 [*] Mystery Solitaire Cthulhu Mythos [*] Mystery Solitaire The Arkham Spirits [*] Mystery Solitaire. Cthulhu Mythos 1 + 2 [*] Mystery Solitaire. Dreamcatcher 1-3 [*] Mystery Solitaire. Powerful Alchemist 1-3 [*] Mystery Solitaire. The Black Raven 1-4 [*] Mystery Solitaire: Grimm's tales 1-8 [*] Pirate's Solitaire 1 + 2 [*] Restaurant Solitaire Delicious Lunch [*] Restaurant Solitaire: Pleasant Dinner [*] Solitaire Beach Season 1-3 [*] Solitaire Bonbon [*] Solitaire Christmas. Match 2 Cards [*] Solitaire Christmas [*] Solitaire Halloween 1 + 2 [*] Solitaire Jack Frost Winter Adventures 1-3 [*] Solitaire Legend of the Pirates 1-3 [*] Solitaire Match 2 Cards. Thanksgiving Day [*] Solitaire Match 2 Cards. Valentine's Day [*] Solitaire TED and PET [*] Solitaire Victorian Picnic 1 + 2 [*] Strike Solitaire 1-3 [*] Sweet Solitaire: School Witch 1-3 [*] True Detective Solitaire 1 + 2 [/list] [i]These are all reskins of exactly the same game![/i] What value is there in this spam/pollution glutting the Steam store for gamers? From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio (with some lazy "wings" to fill the pillar). It's possible they developed this using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game has been specifically designed for people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes Detective Solitaire. Butler Story 2 might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Detective Solitaire. Butler Story 2 has the farcical price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.

After a few hands I could no longer play this game. It is visually too busy - too many disparate patterns. It gives me a headache and it is difficult to focus on anything. Seriously, if you have eye problems you may want to pass on this one!

I'm addicted to these solitaire games by this dev, despite the bugs and sometimes downright laziness of the devs. They just keep churning out these games like they're on an assembly line, so you know they are just trying to make the most money from the least amount of effort. So if that bothers you, then don't buy the games. I get them when they are on sale, less than a (US) dollar so it doesn't bother me and I feel like I get more than my money's worth out of the game. This is not klondike solitaire but up/down solitiare (there's probably an official name for it but I don't know). There's a tableau of cards across the screen in different designs for each level. WHen you draw a card, let's say it's a 6, you look for cards of a number above that or below. For instance, 5 or 7 will match with a 6. Aces match with a King or a 2. Color and suit do not matter, just number. Usually in this type of solitiare you have to clear the board, but in this game you don't have to clear every card but only get the gold cards that are hidden below a bunch of regular cards. Some of the levels can be very tricky but in this particular game I found the majority of levels to be easy to medium in difficulty. There are 3 helps that you can buy with the gold you get when you make a match. Shuffle, which shuffles the tableau cards. Muligan, which is basically a go back one more. And my personal favorite the Joker card which will match with any card. No story, despite the title of the game. Music is the same in all of the "Dectective Solitaire" games and a few others (that's what I mean about laziness, they just re-use the same music over and over again). Achievements are in-game only and took me 24 hours to get them all. A couple of the bugs are actually in our favor. Once in a while when you click on a card to match suddenly you hear the winning game sound and all the gold cards fly out from under the stacks and off the screen and you get the pop-up box that says you won the level. I'm like, "Okay, I'll take it!" Another bug I have encountered in these games is an achievement that doesn't work right. There are achievements for earning money, like one for earning 50,000 gold, one for 100,000 gold. Well when I earn 50,000 it will suddenly say I earned the 100,000 achievement instead. But sometimes it's the ohter way round, I earn 50,000 and get no achievement, I earn 100,000 and get the 50,000 achievement. That totally sucks. Is it that hard to code a game to keep accurate track of how much gold you have? How do these wonky achievements happen? In the laziness department, in some of this developer's games the, what I call, areas that contain 10 levels are not given a title like normal. Instead it will be something like "Location 1", "Location 2", etc. How lazy can you get that you don't take the time to come up with a name for the area? There was one game where the titles of the areas didnt seem to match the background picture. Stuff like that I just call lazy. That should be enough info for you to decide if you want to give money to these guys or not. I say wait for a sale.