Solitaire Beach Season Reviews

Don't often find the match-2 mechanic in card/solitaire games, glad I found this game! Fun art, achievements range from easy to a long grind. I'll happily be playing this for quite some time to finish those off, good thing I enjoy match-2 so much.

This game is a simple card game, where you have to select two of the same numbers (or Jacks, Queens etc.) to clear the board. If you collect the golden cards (4/7 each level) you get a full score. The game contains 120 levels, both in two different game modes; tourist and traveller. In tourist mode you can just play a level, select another level and come back later to get full scores. It's a relaxing way of playing the game. In traveller mode you can only select the first level and the level you are at at that moment. Which requires full scores each level before continuing or else you would need to go back to the first level again to play everything over. The most annoying part I found, is that the levels are completely random, which means you can get a board which can't be finished, which is fine. However when you're in traveller mode and you have to start a level over for 30 times it might get frustrating. Beside it can cost you a long time before finally finish the level, which makes it not a casual game to start up for a quick game of 10 minutes. Which I think this type of game should aim for. The bonusses (mulligan, shuffle and joker) are for the most part useless. While mulligan is broken if you go back a step when you used a joker. The shuffle bonus gives you another random game for example: If you have two fives in the deck and one 7 on the board... you probably end up after the shuffle with a King, 4 and 8. Which makes this just a lucky option, most times won't help you. The shuffle option is only usefull at the end of a decent carddeck, so you can go through it again. Only the joker can be usefull for the last cards to clear the board. Achievements are fine, however the 'earn X coins' means OWN that amount of coins. When you spend too much coins for some jokers, you might never reach the 1000000 coins without you need to keep playing after you finished all the levels. Lucky I figured that out in time. Overall it isn't a bad game, but it can get frustrating because of the randomness. For some reason I kept playing the game, because I wanted to finish it, which took me about 29 hours in total, which isn't a terrible for the normal price of €3. I got this game with a 60% discount, which I would recommend it for. It isn't the best, but good enough for the low price.

I wouldn't necessarily call this a "solitaire" game... This is a "match two" card game. It's fairly simple and relaxing. You match the cards on the board that are displayed, and when you run out of cards that match on the screen, you can pick from the shuffle stack to see if you can find pairs to match with the remaining cards until you run out. The ultimate goal is to find all of the "gold cards." The music is somewhat upbeat, reminiscent of Stardew Valley. However, some of the levels can be quite difficult. I keep replaying trying to get a perfect score. Overall, it's pretty enjoyable if you like relaxing games, match two games, or card games. But as long as you are matching two of the same number cards, regardless of suit or color, it's a match. Nothing difficult about that- just strategy. My trick is to only draw from the stack if absolutely necessary because you need to clear the ones on the board first to reach the golden cards.

Solid, glitch-free card game. I would not call it Solitaire, as it is a further simplification of a game that was pretty simple to start with. Most Solitaire games do not require matching or mixing the suite, this game is just matching equal cards. But the title says what it is, so there :D As others have mentioned, completion rate seems lower than an actual deck of cards. The rate that coins are earned in the game is also low, so it seems grindy. Plays like a "clicker" game, good for killing a few hours. I copy and pasted this review from "Solitaire Christmas" - they are identical.

I enjoy card games - preferring "golf" solitaire to this match the pairs - but if you have patience and don't mind playing the same layout over and over and over, then you will enjoy this game. There does not appear to be any weighting of the deck so card distribution is completely random, meaning you will lose many more times than you win. Power ups are limited to three very expensive options so you have to adopt a style of play where you simply replay the level and hope for a better distribution than to attempt to buy a power up. The limited selection of music will ending being repetitive as you grind levels. You have to complete 10 levels to a fairly high "standard" to advance to the next set of 10 layouts. Again, if you don't mind replaying a level several times to get a perfect score or just to advance to the next set of 10 levels, then there are many levels for you to enjoy. Catch it on sale though so you can break even on the trading cards if nothing else. You check out my guide before buying to see the approach, strategies and tips offered to give you a better idea of the gameplay.

It's okay for what it is. But it is not what I consider a solitaire game. Instead, it is a pair matching game. If you want to match pairs, this is the game for you. The game play is straightforward, the set-up is pretty, the controls are easy (entirely mouse click). Despite the name, and how it may appear from the store images, there's nothing substantial to it. It can get boring very quickly. This is probably not the solitaire game you have been looking for. Give it a pass unless it's on sale and you want something to do when you're bored between other things. Or because it has Steam achievements and trading cards. I'm giving it a thumbs up, but it's a tough call. Meh. Very meh.

I really don't think Solitaire is the right name for this game as it isn't a solitaire game it's a match 2 game. It isn't even very good as a Match 2 game either as every hand is not winnable to the point where you can end up with exactly 1 card remaining or 2 completely different cards. The entire point of the game seems to be grind replay so more players are playing it making it seem like a better game than it is. It has the exact same card layouts as their previously released game Solitaire Christmas. Match 2 Cards the only difference being the card backs and backgrounds all of the level patterns are exactly the same and it clearly has the same flaws and game programming. You can 100% it in 15 - 20 hours depending on luck. I would only recommend this if you really like Match 2 games, card games and have something to do while mindlessly playing it even still I would only get it when it goes on sale for .49 cents which it does frequently.

Pretty Damn good Solitaire game. Good graphics and addictive gameplay. 10/10. One of the best Solitaire games I have played on Steam.

This game has a bit of a twist on the original solitaire games. It is a mixture of mahjong and solitaire. The game itself is really fun to play. It has 120 levels on both tourist and traveller. I really like the art style as it is quite simplistic and not too much details so you can concentrate a lot easier. The music in the game is fine, however the game takes very long to complete so after an hour or so I put off the music and started playing a bit of truckersFM in the background while finishing the levels. I must say the levels are not very easy and some levels you will need to play over and over again to complete it and collect all the golden cards. I basically abused the shuffle and joker in the game, as some levels are really difficult and you will need to use some of these functions to complete the levels. When completing a level it is important that you are aware of the exact positions of your golden cards, as sometimes you will have more than 2 of the same card on the field and you need to choose the correct ones to complete the level, however once you get into the game it gets easier. It took me about 10 hours to complete the tourist mode of the game, which is the first 120 levels of the game. In traveller mode you cannot redo a specific level on a map and you would need to redo the whole map. It is therefore really important to focus and complete a level when playing traveller mode. I farmed as much as possible on all the levels so that I had enough shuffle and jokers before attempting to complete each area. I did encounter a "glitch" in the game. If you pair a joker and you undo that pairing, you will have to place another joker even though the card still shows that it is a joker card. For some reason it does not want to pair with any other card and you will need to use another joker. The game took me 25 hours to complete and unlock all the achievements, but I must say that there are 4 or so achievements which are quite a grind. Other than replaying the levels a lot, this is still a fun game to play.

Fans of Solitaire games, beware. This is not a true Solitaire of any form. It's a match game. It's an English mah-jong in disguise with cards, and it's a poorly designed and poorly implemented one at that. Either the game is broken in its design or the programmers purposefully made solving these "puzzles" impossible without using the power-ups. On some boards, there is an odd number of cards, so that the player could have one special card left on the field, but its match is nowhere in the deck. On other boards, the matches to face-up cards on the field aren't even in the deck. At all. I'm going to play it to completion and get all the achievements, but if I had a time machine, I'd go back in time and stop myself from buying this, it's that frustrating.