Fixed flow issue when losing to dirt guppy in tutorial Fixed locked item slots not displaying correct graphic/info Fixed scope issue in texture loading code
Fixed flow issue when losing to dirt guppy in tutorial
Fixed locked item slots not displaying correct graphic/info
Fixed scope issue in texture loading code
Fixed Vanguard's crush spell not showing up in shop Language now set every boot based on settings rather than depend on engine to remember
Fixed Vanguard's crush spell not showing up in shop
Language now set every boot based on settings rather than depend on engine to remember
Bug Fixes Fixed issue with language not saving in some cases on first ever boot Wildstone reward for coins gathered is now the correct value Items with bonus armor/health now stack as intended (eg Turtle) Fix for fire damage flare vfx being in wrong position Card texture settings
Bug Fixes
Fixed issue with language not saving in some cases on first ever boot
Wildstone reward for coins gathered is now the correct value
Items with bonus armor/health now stack as intended (eg Turtle)
Fix for fire damage flare vfx being in wrong position
Card texture settings fixes (slightly blurry numeral)
Card removal VFX bug fixed (was making animaton seem missing or choppy)
Fast animation timing improved (found a few delays that were missed)
Armor smash VFX no longer missing for Ogger's break things ability
Optimization
Several engine systems disabled that aren't needed which may improve performance a bit
Today I have a small bundle of fixes and improvements. Thanks to everyone for reporting the issues! Bug fixes Fixed thunder shock not applying the proper amount of stun Fixed crash when reapplying inspiration during animation of previous sun being used Gamepad now working in diff
Today I have a small bundle of fixes and improvements. Thanks to everyone for reporting the issues!
This morning we have some miscellaneous bug fixes from the pile: Bug fixes: - Bard inspiration now consumed when tripling coin cards - 'didn't look dangerous' achievement is now possible again (an unfortunate typo meant it didn't trigger) - Fixed some spells showing up in shop wh
This morning we have some miscellaneous bug fixes from the pile:
Bug fixes:
- Bard inspiration now consumed when tripling coin cards
- 'didn't look dangerous' achievement is now possible again (an unfortunate typo meant it didn't trigger)
- Fixed some spells showing up in shop when they shouldn't for that deck (eg heal spells in bard and barbarian runs)
Tuning and polish:
- Shield break animation improved
- Flash when card changes made much stronger
- Spells in haste selection UI now have borders and a hover effect
- When rogue queen upgrade grants bonus coins, it combines into one hud element instead of showing two on top of each other
- Removed the tiny black dot in the background under the castle
- Fixed jump frame in death background VFX loop that happened every 2 minutes
Hey all, apologies for the ridiculous bug that was setting the game to German all over the world. This patch fixes it, although to do so, the game resets the language to your steam UI language, so you may need to set language again if you want it to be different. NOTE: When you d
Hey all, apologies for the ridiculous bug that was setting the game to German all over the world.
This patch fixes it, although to do so, the game resets the language to your steam UI language, so you may need to set language again if you want it to be different.
NOTE: When you do change languages via settings it is advised to restart the game to make sure all card textures are loaded with the proper characters. Working on that issue for a future update.
Small update with some important fixes and additions, thanks as always for playing Solitairica! New - Gamma option added to settings - Language can be selected in settings - Initial language chosen on first install is now based on steam and not the OS Bug Fixes - Reset progress n
Small update with some important fixes and additions, thanks as always for playing Solitairica!
New
- Gamma option added to settings
- Language can be selected in settings
- Initial language chosen on first install is now based on steam and not the OS
Bug Fixes
- Reset progress no longer hangs the UI
- Fixed some spots where gamepad didn't work (difficulty choose, emperor defeat flow, one spot in tutorial)
- Fixed gamepad player turn issue where multiple arrows would show up
- Swift strike now repeatedly strikes the column as states, rather than each card once
Tuning
- X-Ray glasses item now shares cost and tier range as spectacles
- Note: The skull item behavior where it only rewards energy on damage and not armor block is intentional, but was missed in the original patch/tuning notes.
Ongoing work
Native touch events are now supported for game objects (cards, deck, spell) but unfortunately steam deck is still breaking when switching inputs. If you stick to gamepad or mouse only it works great, but I am bummed because I really wanted seamless mixed input this patch. Something isn't playing nice between my engine (which runs on unreal 5.5 currently) and steam deck, because in every other test scenario it works well.
If anyone tinkers with their steam deck and learns anything, or comes up with a custom input template that helps, please let me know! And of course, upload it to community templates. :D
Bug fixes: - Haste not working when only 1 or 2 spells in list - Upgrades now trigger when sleight of hand is used - Tooltip flicker on quick rollovers - Tooltip sometimes not showing up in deck select screen - A few typos
Bug fixes:
- Haste not working when only 1 or 2 spells in list
- Upgrades now trigger when sleight of hand is used
- Tooltip flicker on quick rollovers
- Tooltip sometimes not showing up in deck select screen
- A few typos
Quick hotfix for a few gamebreaking issues: - Fixed issue where spell selection menu (haste) would work incorrectly due to sort order in battle - Fixed issue where spell selection dimmer did not fill the screen (black rectangle) - Fixed hang on resetting progress, now goes back t
Quick hotfix for a few gamebreaking issues:
- Fixed issue where spell selection menu (haste) would work incorrectly due to sort order in battle
- Fixed issue where spell selection dimmer did not fill the screen (black rectangle)
- Fixed hang on resetting progress, now goes back to main menu
After a few months in beta, tuning and bug fixing, this update is live! Please see discussions for the known issues, and next steps planned, and report any issues that come up and we will jump on them. New stuff Total engine overhaul, built from the ground up for performance and
After a few months in beta, tuning and bug fixing, this update is live!
Please see discussions for the known issues, and next steps planned, and report any issues that come up and we will jump on them.
Total engine overhaul, built from the ground up for performance and maintainability.
Translation to German, Spanish and French
Gamepad and Steamdeck support
Visual improvements
Proper widescreen background art
New title screen and menu
Excessive contrast toned down
UX improvements
New UI for shop/map mode
Inventory grid
Hourglass and battle buttons
More detailed info in help screen, also available in map
Kismet VO shortened, and can be muted in settings
Cleaner simpler UI for pause, settings, main menu, etc
Achievement art and fixed a few confusing descriptions
Rules made consistent for:
Energy gathering. If the card is face up, you get energy. If face down, you don't. This adds value to combining card reveals and piercing and area attacks
Coin vs Triple Coin. If the ability refers to type, they are separate. If the ability refers to coin, it means both.
Corruptions. If the enemy ability adds a number of corruptions, it can only target cards without a corruption. If the enemy ability says "all cards" the corruption will replace existing ones.
Fixed coin swarm only considering single coin cards in its abilities
Insight spell now reveals a single random face down card
X-ray glasses reveals extra cards on start of battle not continuously
Spectacles now reflect the blocked stun (free mind mirror)
Barbarian difficulty tuning
Cracked skull no longer triggers from deck card draw
Attack bonuses trigger at 3 health not 2
Wildstone cost tuning (relying a bit less on emperor farming)
Cost of unlocks slightly reduced and rebalanced
Wildstone cards in emperor battle reduced
Wildstone cards in battles slightly increased
We hope you enjoy and thanks for playing Solitairica!
A new Solitairica update? In 2025?! Whether you are an old school player or someone who stumbled on the game in recent years, I want to start by saying thank you so much for playing Solitairica. Solitairica's 10 year anniversary is coming up next year. After I got over the shock
Whether you are an old school player or someone who stumbled on the game in recent years, I want to start by saying thank you so much for playing Solitairica.
Solitairica's 10 year anniversary is coming up next year. After I got over the shock of that fact, I decided it is important to meet two goals for this milestone:
Catch up to modern standards on each platform
Be ready to work on future versions of Solitairica
The first step starts today on Steam, with the anniversary update, which is available on the beta branch now
Steam deck using gamepad input
Some more background:
Solitairica was built in 2015 using a now ancient version of Unreal Engine. It was our first game, and first time using the engine, so naturally mistakes were made. Most of the issues are invisible to the player, but behind the scenes they have tied up our ability to grow and maintain the game.
Over the many years we worked on our second game ZOR, we improved massively in the technical arts of using Unreal. With that project coming to a close, and considering Solitairica's continued cult popularity, I have been working on a major overhaul of the Solitairica engine. Almost every core system has been rebuilt, with improvements and optimizations that will allow us to extend and adapt the game in the future.
While there are some select UX and visual improvements, this isn't a remaster with new artwork or reworked game systems as I believe in preserving the game close to the original state. There is some sparing tuning in only the most egregious spots like Barbarian difficulty and tweaking a few useless spells and items. That said, the new engine is buttery smooth, supports gamepad, is ready for translations, and improves on a bunch of minor issues that we weren't able to address back in the day.
After 9 years of research and development, we bring you: Widescreen backgrounds
Due to the scope of the overhaul there will undoubtedly be some bugs that pop up, so the update will start out as an opt-in beta branch. We will continue to test and update it until it feels solid enough for full release.
I hope everyone dives in and gives it a shot! I will be monitoring the discussions and fixing the issues in the weeks to come.
Cheers,
Clint
You can finally play with your feet up
New stuff
Gamepad support
Full steam deck support
If gamepad control isn't active by default, check the input setting for the app
Optimizations
Shaders compile up front and indicated in load screen (no stutters)
Visual improvements
Excessive contrast turned down
Wide background art replaces magic portal frame
New title screen art and layout
UX Improvements
Resuming game is now optional, use continue from menu
New map screen UX (Feedback wanted here!)
Battle button, hourglass UI
Inventory management uses a grid instead of a long horizontal carousel
Help/info screen reworked (more info, more relevant, available in map screen)
Kismet VO shortened, and can be muted in settings
Achievement description for "unlock warrior deck" changed to "complete tutorial" to be less confusing
Tuning
Consistent energy gathering rules: If the card is face up, you get energy. If face down, you don't
This adds value to combining card reveals and piercing and area attacks
Insight spell now reveals a single random face down card
X-ray glasses reveals extra cards on start of battle not continuously
Spectacles now reflect the blocked stun (free mind mirror)
Barbarian difficulty tuning (evaluating in beta)
Cracked skull no longer triggers from deck card draw
Attack bonuses trigger at 3 health not 2
Wildstone cost tuning (relying a bit less on emperor farming)
Cost of unlocks slightly reduced and rebalanced
Wildstone cards in emperor battle reduced
Wildstone cards in battles slightly increased
This build has various fixes intended to reduce the number of odd issues with resolution, cursor, input and video settings. Because we were unable to reproduce some of the issues, we would appreciate confirmation of any issues that were fixed!
This build has various fixes intended to reduce the number of odd issues with resolution, cursor, input and video settings.
Because we were unable to reproduce some of the issues, we would appreciate confirmation of any issues that were fixed!
Attempted fixes for issues with touch, video display settings or cursor position. We were not able to reproduce every reported issue, so If you can report back with results I would appreciate it!
Attempted fixes for issues with touch, video display settings or cursor position.
We were not able to reproduce every reported issue, so If you can report back with results I would appreciate it!
Created a low spec branch for that purpose, as Beta will soon have the changes attempting to address some of the settings/video issues that have popped up. If you need the low spec build, please use the low spec branch.
Created a low spec branch for that purpose, as Beta will soon have the changes attempting to address some of the settings/video issues that have popped up.
If you need the low spec build, please use the low spec branch.
Patch Notes New: Player can reset all progress from the main menu settings Fixed: crash with bomb in face up stack created by warlocks weird ritual Fixed: epic Emperor Stuck attack problems Fixed: Righteous Wall (was giving too much armor)
New: Player can reset all progress from the main menu settings
Fixed: crash with bomb in face up stack created by warlocks weird ritual
Fixed: epic Emperor Stuck attack problems
Fixed: Righteous Wall (was giving too much armor)
Patch Notes New: Player can reset all progress from the main menu settings Fixed: crash with bomb in face up stack created by warlocks weird ritual Fixed: epic Emperor Stuck attack problems Fixed: Righteous Wall (was giving too much armor)
New: Player can reset all progress from the main menu settings
Fixed: crash with bomb in face up stack created by warlocks weird ritual
Fixed: epic Emperor Stuck attack problems
Fixed: Righteous Wall (was giving too much armor)
Four new decks, each consisting of a single color Barbarian (Attack) Bonus card destruction when heart is low, but be careful...overflowing attack energy damages you. An aggressive deck that encourages risky play. Vanguard (Defense) Powerful armor spells, and the ability to spend
Bonus card destruction when heart is low, but be careful...overflowing attack energy damages you. An aggressive deck that encourages risky play.
Powerful armor spells, and the ability to spend your armor as a resource and destroy cards. High defense with an explosive counter strike.
The combination of an exclusive wild card spell, and a trait that always reveals the second card in a column, makes this the ultimate sequencing deck.
Exclusive destruction and healing spells that add disruptive cards to the enemies deck. Very strategic, with lots of fun decision making.
After defeating the Emperor, epic difficulty unlocks for that deck. Epic difficulty is tuned carefully to be an exciting new challenge, from the very first battle, for experienced players.
Deck select now remembers your last played deck
Fixed most weird card rendering issues
Exploit where you could buy hourglasses on credit fixed
Four new decks, each consisting of a single color Barbarian (Attack) Bonus card destruction when heart is low, but be careful...overflowing attack energy damages you. An aggressive deck that encourages risky play. Vanguard (Defense) Powerful armor spells, and the ability to spend
Bonus card destruction when heart is low, but be careful...overflowing attack energy damages you. An aggressive deck that encourages risky play.
Powerful armor spells, and the ability to spend your armor as a resource and destroy cards. High defense with an explosive counter strike.
The combination of an exclusive wild card spell, and a trait that always reveals the second card in a column, makes this the ultimate sequencing deck.
Exclusive destruction and healing spells that add disruptive cards to the enemies deck. Very strategic, with lots of fun decision making.
After defeating the Emperor, epic difficulty unlocks for that deck. Epic difficulty is tuned carefully to be an exciting new challenge, from the very first battle, for experienced players.
Deck select now remembers your last played deck
Fixed most weird card rendering issues
Exploit where you could buy hourglasses on credit fixed
Catalog Screen Track your progress, plan your combos and scout your enemies with the new catalog screen! The catalog lists all spells, items and enemy traits with achievement tracking (Available from the title screen) Battle Info This overlay has been totally overhauled to give u
Track your progress, plan your combos and scout your enemies with the new catalog screen! The catalog lists all spells, items and enemy traits with achievement tracking (Available from the title screen)
This overlay has been totally overhauled to give useful information like info on the current enemy traits, equipped items and additional basic info to help new players.
Some achievements that stopped being checked based on profile data, now check every session in case original event didn't get through.
Catalog Screen Track your progress, plan your combos and scout your enemies with the new catalog screen! The catalog lists all spells, items and enemy traits with achievement tracking (Available from the title screen) Battle Info This overlay has been totally overhauled to give u
Track your progress, plan your combos and scout your enemies with the new catalog screen! The catalog lists all spells, items and enemy traits with achievement tracking (Available from the title screen)
This overlay has been totally overhauled to give useful information like info on the current enemy traits, equipped items and additional basic info to help new players.
Some achievements that stopped being checked based on profile data, now check every session in case original event didn't get through.