Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.
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Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 2.14/day in the week to Sep 10 → 7.43/day in the week after.
About
It’s 2019. You brought home a strange yet familiar 1995 CD-ROM game from the thrift store. You vaguely remember seeing ads for this game, and some kind of controversy, but you never got the chance to play it. Until now.
Delve into a 90's FMV-inspired digital hellscape of dungeons and death with visuals, story and music from the creators of Home Safety Hotline.
Survive the horrors with bloodletting solitaire gameplay from the veteran indie team behind Shadowhand and Regency Solitaire.
Purchase upgrades from the friendly eye that watches you from the walls.
Uncover a variety of game-changing Jokers - some helpful, some malignant.
Uninstall the game before it's too late.
Genres
Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $11.83−26% | 2.3Kreviews | 97% | — | $1.2M |
| $11.99−25% | 35ratings | 84% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
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Reviews
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Reviews
My RTX5080 was able to keep up with the breakneck graphics in this game. Once that DLSS kicked in, my computer ascended into the 165+ FPS. My house is now a flaming inferno due to Forbidden Solitaire.
The first solitaire game I've ever bought. I picked it up to support the developer after learning about his life story, and I wasn't expecting to get hooked. I ended up enjoying it from start to finish! Highly recommended!
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 8.14/day in the week to Jul 30 → 13/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 459 reviews with recorded playtime.
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It's really quirky, and I like the premise. However, I really regret that I can't endorse this game on account of what a linear grind it is. When I booted up, I was excited to dive into the "OS" and click around in it, but it's really only a veneer and nothing about it is immersive or makes it really feel like you're on a 90's PC. It's just a launcher to open the "CD ROM" and that's it. Most of the desktop icons just exit the game and open in an external website on your own default browser. The IM app that your sibling uses to communicate with you just spams you with their messages. You can't interact with them in any way, nor can you even drag the windows around. This is just one pre-staged solitaire round after another. Even the shop is linear and devoid of player creativity. Just spend all your money to buy all the items. Occasionally you won't have enough to buy everything in the shop, but eventually you acquire everything. Grind, grind, grind, grind some more until you finish all the grinding, and then it's over. Don't make any meaningful decisions along the way, just do all the stuff and eventually you'll be mercifully done. The quirky premise and artwork pulled me along using nostalgia as bait, but the grind was stressfully tedious and ultimately very unsatisfying throughout. Even though I finished over the course of 2 days, it felt like an unnecessarily long ordeal. I wish I would have enjoyed this dive into the 90's even half as much as I hoped I would, but the execution fell on its face. Since it's really just a linear experience anyway, I would have been a lot more satisfied and less annoyed watching a heavily abridged YouTube video of a run-through and called it good.
It's ok. But for the high price, not worth it. Very short. Was looking forward to this for a while after playing the demo, was expecting a full length game. If the price was lower it would be ok
A solid game that really nails it's aesthetic to a truly believable level, soundtrack is BANGIN and the game looks great. However, the elephant in the room is that this game has some very similar themes to Inscrpytion, but doesn't execute them nearly as well. I'd say buy on sale, but it doesn't need to be a deep discount.
This was a random shot in the dark game that i bought because i love playing solitaire, but it was a fantastic game and i enjoyed every minute of it! highly recommend!
WHO THE F*** IS PAPA GIRTHQUAKE???
This is an absolute banger. Immaculate vibes. They went all-in on the 90's horror CD-ROM aesthetic and completely nailed it. People complaining about the story or gameplay in the reviews are missing the fact that this is a vibes-based experience which the gameplay and story are there to support, not the other way around. Not to say that either the story or the gameplay are bad (they're both very good IMO!), but they're here to do a job and that job is putting funky 3D models of dead wizards and guys with messed up heads and goofy FMV sequences on my screen while rompler synths play in the background, which they do a perfect job of. The gameplay is fun, with what I would call a "pretty chill but definitely not free to win" difficulty level, and the story hits the haunted game beats I'd expect with a good twist or two. If you're here strictly for the gameplay or strictly for the story concept with no interest in the vibe or aesthetic of the game this is probably not the game for you (go play Balatro or The Stanley Parable or something ya big nerd). If you're here for a very neat 6 hour interactive experience with some laid back gameplay and a fun story, hit Add to Cart. Also, I experienced some of the crashing issues other folks were mentioning here at first, but it would appear I was dealing with a Certified 14th-gen Intel Moment rather than any problem with the game itself; if you're having issues and also have a Raptor Lake chipset try disabling hyperthreading in BIOS. I had zero crashes in 3 hours after changing that.
I had never played Solitaire before and decided to let myself be tempted by Forbidden Solitaire since I love horror and since I enjoyed Home Safety Hotline (also because the aesthetic reminded me of Goosebumps). This game is so fun and deliciously spooky! The difficulty curve is also perfectly balanced on the first run (you unlock a Hard mode upon completion). Also when you finish it you get a fascinating artbook that explains how the whole development of the game took place in detail. Read everything from end to end. Thanks to both Grey Alien Games and Night Signal for this gem!
Captures early 90's well. Could be a little longer but worth the price.
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