Home Run Solitaire

7/10 Home Run Solitaire is a solid solitaire experience. As you complete levels and earn money, you can use it to buy both passive and active upgrades to help you in subsequent levels. The game is a good length, and unlike the Revills other game Chef Solitaire, you begin unlocking your final upgrades towards the end of the experience rather than about halfway through. Although there are more than four active abilities to unlock, you can take only four into a level with you. This is neat, and allows you to create a "build" that you prefer - however, I felt that there were clear winners when it came to these abilities. There were two abilities that dropped in a card that you could immediately use, one that dropped in a wild card, and of course the lightning bat, that removes all of the top cards in each stack on the board. The "humor" in the game is typically puns on the names of the opposing teams by one of the announcers, Frank. I suppose it was amusing enough, although rather groan-worthy. Additionally, there were times when I wondered if developer Revills Games had ever played baseball, after listening to some of the things that were highlighted by the announcers. If you like this sort of solitaire game, you really can't go wrong here. Just like in Chef Solitaire, the Revills have little mini-games that pop up from time to time as you play. I thought these were generally OK, although your mileage may vary. One very small gripe I had was that there were achievements for activating certain inferior abilities 40 times. I tend to like picking up the achievements as I go, but in my opinion, the abilities I was asked to activate were inferior to others that I had available. For instance, the soda can always drops an Ace when activated, but when compared to abilities that drop cards that can always be used, or a wild card? It pales in comparison. I felt the same way about the foam finger, which shuffles all of the cards on the board - there were times that I would use it and still not have a play. Therefore, if you want to snag all the achievements, you might have to self-handicap for a little while.