Forty Thieves Solitaire Collection

[h1] Information Review English [/h1] Forty Thieves Solitaire Collection is a strategy card game developed by eSolutions. [h1] Gameplay History [/h1] Do you like card games? Then you should definitely read on, because this collection has it all. In solitaire, four stacks are always formed, each with one suit, whereby the cards must be placed in the known order from ace to king. This basic regulation also applies to all other three stacks and cannot be changed or canceled by special agreements or extra rules. The game offers you popular variants with different difficulty levels of solitaire like Ali Baba, Breakwater, Busy Aces, Deuces, Forty Thieves, Miss Milligan, Parliament, Red and Black, Single Rail, Thieves of Egypt and whatever they are called. Furthermore, the game offers you a ranking list, which just waits until you have climbed the first place. [h1] Per [/h1] + Arcade Solitaire + great implementation + relaxed music + different levels + brain training + Achievements [h1] cons [/h1] - Few different languages ​​are available [h1] Conclusion [/h1] Forty Thieves Solitaire Collection offers you a game where you have to use your brain in a targeted way. I personally enjoyed this a lot. [h1][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26335619-Adult-World-Gamers/] First of all, thanks to the developer for providing us with this key for the group. You can find more good reviews from others and me here and if you liked the review then we would appreciate a thumbs up. [/url][/h1] [h1] Information Review Deutsch [/h1] Forty Thieves Solitaire Collection ist ein Strategie-Kartenspiel, welches von eSolutions entwickelt wurde. [h1] Gameplay Geschichte [/h1] Du magst Kartenspiele? Dann solltest du unbedingt weiterlesen, den diese Sammlung hat es in sich. Bei Solitär werden immer vier Stapel mit je einer Farbe gebildet, wobei die Karten in der bekannten Reihenfolge As bis König gelegt werden müssen. Eben diese Grundregelung gilt auch für alle anderen drei Stapel und kann nicht durch Sondervereinbarungen oder extra Regeln verändert oder aufgehoben werden. Das Spiel bietet dir beliebte Varianten mit unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeitsgraden von Solitaire wie Ali Baba, Breakwater, Busy Aces, Deuces, Forty Thieves, Miss Milligan, Parliament, Red and Black, Single Rail, Thieves of Egypt und wie sie alle heißen. Des weiteren bietet dir das Spiel eine Rangliste, welche nur darauf wartet, bis du den ersten Platz erklommen hast. [h1] Pro [/h1] + Arcade Solitaire + tolle Umsetzung + entspannte Musik + verschiedene Level + Gehirntraining + Errungenschaften [h1] Kontra [/h1] - wenig verschiedene Sprachen sind verfügbar [h1] Fazit [/h1] Forty Thieves Solitaire Collection bietet dir ein Spiel, wo es gilt gezielt dein Gehirn zu benutzen. Mir hat dies persönlich viel Spaß bereitet. [h1][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26335619-Adult-World-Gamers/] Zunächst einmal vielen Dank an den Entwickler, der uns diesen Schlüssel für die Gruppe zur Verfügung gestellt hat. Hier findest du weitere gute Bewertungen von anderen und mir unter und wenn dir das Review gefallen hat, dann würden wir uns über einen Daumen nach oben freuen. [/url][/h1]

I'm going to try each mode and rate them separately. Based on the average score from all the ratings, I'm going to either recommend the game or not.I wrote my reviews based on my own experiences, maybe I've missed some aspect of a game mode that made my time unenjoyable; you might want to take this in consideration. Total score atm: 22/50 (for 5 game modes played) - Ali Baba (0/10) Everything is based on the luck of the draw. Without that luck, the game can't be won. There's also no strategy to be had because you can move any sized stack around however you see fit. The draw pile doesn't redeal; once you've gone through you're stuck with only the top card of the waste pile. This harms the game, imho. If there were a redeal, then you'd have some options. The game is played with a standard deck size (52 cards); most of the cards are on the board already, only 6 or so are in the draw pile; if cards already seem very inaccessible on the board, the the draw pile won't change much. - Busy Aces (8/10) Cool concept. Played with double the deck size (104 cards); you have 12 work spaces, already filled with a card at the start, where you can stack cards per suit (lower cards on top) but only the upper card is playable. There's a draw pile with no re-deal, only the top card of the waste cell is playable. And there are 8 end game spots to put stacks from ace to king on. So the strategy is to open up some of those spaces to easily move cards around and create multiple larger stacks. Because the lowest cards stay on top, they are easily accessible to place on the "end game spots" once the correct cards have been filled in, immediately giving you a new open space to work with. The beginning might be a bit tricky, and in the middle of the draw pile you might want to start remembering which cards have passed and start considering which you should leave in the waste pile and with which you want to fill one of the empty spaces. If you've done well, then the end game is kind of satisfying because its basically just completing the final stacks. What would be a useful feature for this game is the option to automatically move one of the stacks from the "work spaces" to the "end game spots" when the moment presents itself, because it's a lot of clicking otherwise and there's no reason not to move the whole stack anyway. - Deuces (7/10) It's basically the same as Busy Aces but the "end game spots" start with card number 2 instead of the usual aces, and the numbers 2 are already in place at the start of the game. There's also 2 "work spaces" less, so 10 instead of the 12 in Busy Aces. So, still a fun game but I retracted a point, in comparison to Busy Aces, for lack of originality. - Double Rail (6/10) Played with 2 decks (104 cards); 5 workspaces where you can stack cards from high to lower cards regardless of suit, you may move stacks around as you see fit (no matter the order of suits); one draw pile without a re-deal; top card in the waste cell is available for play; you win by building 8 stacks from ace to king of the same suit. This game feels as if there are possibilities to form strategies to mitigate the randomness of the draw pile. You'll need to micromanage the cards on your 5 work spaces (deciding wether to leave 1, 2 or more spaces empty or fill them with a card, not knowing what the draw pile will deliver; also deciding if you'll place a card from the work space on the end game spot will be important because, while in the work space, the card may still be useful for holding cards coming from the draw pile). I haven't been able to successfully complete a game, as of writing on 2022-07-17, but it feels like you'd be able to win without solely depending on the luck of the draw, like in Ali-Baba or Forty Thieves. This been said, the game is not among my favorites: still too much randomness involved and because of the huge deck and the mechanics there's a lot of clicking to be had. Maybe it would be cooler to ease into the game by being able to have more work spaces; to be able to form effective strategies and the joy of winning once in a while :p 5 work spaces is kind of a hard mode of the game, 6 or 7 spaces would be normal and easy mode. - Forty Thieves (1/10) It's a lot like Ali Baba but with double deck size (104 cards) and you can only move the top card of each column, which makes this mode more strategic than Ali Baba (Are you willing to place a card on another because you won't be able to move the card you are placing it on without removing this one again, which means either being able to move this card to an end game spot or moving it to another card with the same suit and sign as the card you've put this one on just now, of which there is only one other?). Even though this game mode has more reason for strategy than Ali Baba, it's just as unplayable. The draw pile doesn't re-deal again and if you have no luck with the board lay-out, you'll practically have no moves. To be honest, this game mode would have even benefitted from the ability to move stacks around. It would've made the game completable, which is still better than wasting time on strategy for a game you can't win anyway. I had a bad feeling about this game when the titular game mode is so bad, luckily I've played Busy Aces and found that there was at least one decent, enjoyable game mode.

Forty Thieves is what it sounds like - a collection of solitaire card games. Includes 20 variants on the classic, most much harder than the classic. Well-presented UI, smooth controls. Challenging! Ali Baba is like super hard mode! Just not being able to re-shuffle the deal pile adds a serious challenge. Forty Thieves variant is also a lot of fun and I really enjoyed Breakwater and Busy Aces. Not sure which is my favourite! I also like the "variant beaten" checkbox addition on the main menu, something to strive for. For more niche curation, follow me at: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27440015-CSH-Picone/

Way too expensive for what is a very unpolished and very limited game. For this sort of money one would expect more games and some options to change things around a little. I bought it on sale for less than half price and I still feel a little ripped off.

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Interesting Collection of Solitaire games based on the Forty Thieves system, there are No Redeals on most games so its aimed at Hardcore Players. Play it. Interesante Coleccion de juegos de Solitario basados en el sistema de Cuarenta Ladrones, No hay Segundo Pase en la mayoria de los juegos asi que esta orientado para Jugadores Duros. Recomendado.

[b]edit:[/b] review text unchanged but flipped to a non-recommendation due to missing quality of life (e.g. no mid-game saving) and the dev deleting critical feedback to hide the shortcomings of their games. [b]forty thieves solitaire collection[/b] is one of the not that many card game collections available on steam. some are better value for money, others are worse, but [b]20 variants[/b] will still keep anybody busy for a long time. this is exactly the same as [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1337840]klondike solitaire collection[/url], [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1943870]freecell solitaire collection[/url], [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1941660]spider solitaire collection[/url] and [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/2086130]canfield solitaire collection[/url], obviously with different games, and since only a few are listed on the store page, here's the complete list (interchange used to be a part of it but was pretty much impossible to win, so after a while it got replaced by breakwater): [list] [*]ali baba [*]breakwater [*]busy aces [*]deuces [*]double rail [*]forty thieves [*]indian [*]lady palk [*]limited [*]midshipman [*]miss milligan [*]parliament [*]rank and file [*]red and black [*]single rail [*]squadron [*]swiss patience [*]the spark [*]thieves of egypt [*]waning moon [/list] rules for each are available in-game, there's [b]unlimited undo[/b] and [b]optional auto-complete[/b] to save on a lot of tedious clicking. stats keep track of times played, won, best time and score, etc. unfortunatly, [b]the timer and move counter can't be turned off[/b], they appear as soon as the first move is made. they're not super-intrusive at least. [b]the end-level animation can't be skipped either, just as annoying.[/b] mouse controls are simply left click to drag cards around, double-click to move them instantly, the end. right click could do the double-click action too. controller is also supported, didn't try it, and not only are there hotkeys, noted next to every button for convenience, arrows and enter also work. why anybody would want to play solitaire with a keyboard (or a controller for that matter) is beyond me, but it's an option. hotkey binds aren't that great, 'y' to access rules, 'b' to close the window, which is also undo for some reason, and 'x' is auto-complete but when it's not available, it'll deal the next card, except it's not mentioned anywhere. and there needs to be a restart button on-screen, too tedious to get a new deal right now. settings, also available while playing, are limited to sound on/off, music on/off and a full screen toggle with a resizable window. some effects are a bit annoying but they're always the first to go in a game like this. classical renditions serve as music, very small selection sure to get on your nerves fast. [b]progress is lost when you quit[/b], which is not ideal, but it's all endless/random deals, so just about not a dealbreaker. a 'no more moves' pop-up would be appreciated though, as well as an 'only solvable layouts' toggle and seeds to replay the same ones later. while there are cheaper $/game alternatives, this is still a good collection. however, for this price [b]it needs more quality of life and some customization[/b]. a few card backs and fronts, and definitely alternative themes to mix up all the purpleness. until then I'd recommend waiting for a sale.