Jewel Match Solitaire

Jewel Match Solitaire is a solitaire derived card matching game that seems to have been copied, reskinned + pasted onto Steam several times so the developers can get paid for several times for the same game. After all, game development is all about the money, not creating things of value for gamers. There's a few bells and whistles and different game modes which differentiate this slightly from sol.exe, but not enough to make it worthwhile (in fact some of the gameplay is more annoying than a regular solitaire game, like the way you pull cards out of the match instead of stacking them in neat rows in the top corner). From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes this is a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Jewel Match Solitaire has a laughable, eye watering price of $10 USD (yes, TEN BUCKS when you can play better solitaire games on the web and on mobile for free!), for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games, let alone the sheer number of free games available on Steam. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, this is impossible to recommend.