Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Eurogamer.net: April 22, 2020 at 04:00AM - Ancient Enemy reimagines Solitaire and it works wonderfully

I've tried a bunch of deck-building card games but Ancient Enemy feels fresh and new. It's another game where you have one life to see how far you can get, and where you battle with cards and gain new cards as you go. But at the same time, Ancient Enemy is fundamentally different.

In Ancient Enemy, the majority of the cards being played aren't yours. It's not my hand against your hand. Instead, Ancient Enemy is a game built around Solitaire - TriPeaks Solitaire. You clear a board of scattered cards by selecting those of either the same number, or one higher or lower, than the card by the draw pile below.

As you do this, your abilities power up, and you build combo multipliers to magnify their strength the longer your run goes on. Your turn ends when you use one of those abilities on your opponent, or when you decide to refresh the board or End Turn because you can't go.

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