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.
