Churchill Solitaire
released on Jan 20, 2016
A variation on the classic card game Solitaire which was loved by Winston Churchill. Gameplay differs from standard Solitaire in the following ways: - Uses two decks of cards concurrently - Newly drawn cards are laid on top of existing columns rather than their own pile - Features "The Devil's Six", which are six cards in a row up top which must be sent directly to the scoring area and may never enter the field of play. This game was commissioned by Donald Rumsfeld and features video clips and audio recordings of Winston Churchill throughout a war-themed campaign mode.
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I just found out about this game and added it to IGDB and Backloggd immediately. This is a solitaire game all about Winston Churchill.
And it was commissioned/produced by DONALD RUMSFELD.
What a bizarre thing!! The presentation is above average for a mobile card game, with inexplicably nice 3D models for the desk you play on and some decent music. But each hand of solitaire is treated like it's a mission out of an old Medal of Honor game, with a briefing from a commanding officer. It takes itself incredibly seriously!
Beyond the military fanboy vibe, it's an interesting enough version of Solitaire, I guess. But it's ultimately still just Solitaire, a frustrating and evil game, with some basic mods (which I have added to the game's description on the site). But obviously someone like Rumsfeld wouldn't be content with pre-existing evil, he microtransacted the heck outta this baby! I beat a hand on Easy, Medium, and Hard, and then the game expects you to pay for additional hands. This isn't like Windows Solitaire where a deck is randomly shuffled and you get what you get. This functions more like FreeCell, where each hand is predetermined. On the plus side, this implies that every hand can be beaten. But the man who pushed for the U.S. invasion of Iraq wanted that sweet, sweet MTX paid multiple times over by each Churchill fanboy who got addicted to these card puzzles, as well as charging for 10-packs of hints.
It's simultaneously better and worse than standard Solitaire. The game itself is not remarkable in any way other than how baffling its existence is. I'm sure there are a bunch of dads in their 50s and 60s who truly appreciated their playing card app starting with “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat", but to anyone without a shrine to WWII memorabilia in their office, this is just a goofy little thing to gawk at for a few minutes.
And it was commissioned/produced by DONALD RUMSFELD.
What a bizarre thing!! The presentation is above average for a mobile card game, with inexplicably nice 3D models for the desk you play on and some decent music. But each hand of solitaire is treated like it's a mission out of an old Medal of Honor game, with a briefing from a commanding officer. It takes itself incredibly seriously!
Beyond the military fanboy vibe, it's an interesting enough version of Solitaire, I guess. But it's ultimately still just Solitaire, a frustrating and evil game, with some basic mods (which I have added to the game's description on the site). But obviously someone like Rumsfeld wouldn't be content with pre-existing evil, he microtransacted the heck outta this baby! I beat a hand on Easy, Medium, and Hard, and then the game expects you to pay for additional hands. This isn't like Windows Solitaire where a deck is randomly shuffled and you get what you get. This functions more like FreeCell, where each hand is predetermined. On the plus side, this implies that every hand can be beaten. But the man who pushed for the U.S. invasion of Iraq wanted that sweet, sweet MTX paid multiple times over by each Churchill fanboy who got addicted to these card puzzles, as well as charging for 10-packs of hints.
It's simultaneously better and worse than standard Solitaire. The game itself is not remarkable in any way other than how baffling its existence is. I'm sure there are a bunch of dads in their 50s and 60s who truly appreciated their playing card app starting with “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat", but to anyone without a shrine to WWII memorabilia in their office, this is just a goofy little thing to gawk at for a few minutes.