The Discarded adds a self-contained story and 30 new levels to Night Signal Entertainment and Grey Alien Games’ horror puzzler Forbidden Solitaire.
Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded. Credit: Grey Alien Games / Night Signal Entertainment
Night Signal Entertainment and Grey Alien Games have launched DLC for their excellent Forbidden Solitaire. The game combines Night Signal’s lo-fi spookiness (Home Safety Hotline) with Grey Alien’s solitaire puzzle formula (Regency Solitaire). The Discarded adds a short, self-contained story with 30 new levels.
The story isn’t as strong as the core game’s, with weaker mystery elements and little supplementary material beyond chat messages. The core game had more video and other content that added depth to the journey and its lore. The DLC is much thinner.
The solitaire gameplay, however, is as strong as ever. The 30 new levels include several challenging bosses, along with new jokers that you can use strategically to overcome them. It gave me around two and a half hours of solid post-game content for an already excellent game.
The mid-1990s CD-ROM aesthetic of Forbidden Solitaire continues in The Discarded. The world you explore has that charmingly garish quality of early pre-rendered CG cutscenes and environments. The devs absolutely nailed it.
I’m a huge fan of both studios involved in Forbidden Solitaire, and getting more was an amazing surprise.
Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded
More Forbidden Solitaire was an amazing surprise. The Discarded delivers another satisfying helping of solitaire, even though its mystery lacks the core game’s depth.
The Discarded adds a self-contained story and 30 new levels to Night Signal Entertainment and Grey Alien Games’ horror puzzler Forbidden Solitaire.