Gaming: Forbidden Solitaire Warns Us To Uninstall It 'before It's Too...

The Steam page for Forbidden Solitaire warns you to uninstall it "before it's too late." I saw this a few moments after closing the demo that just dropped today, so it's possible my PC is now haunted by unimaginable horrors. But as a Windows user in 2026, I've probably seen worse, so I'm just going to go ahead and tell you why I think this haunted little card game is worth the risk and we'll see if I survive until the end.

Forbidden Solitaire wastes no time before getting weird. I was only a few minutes into playing the demo when I was offered some upgrades by an eyeball in a wall. It followed my cursor around as I hovered over gems that I thought would be slotted into rings on the giant hand in the middle of the screen. But when I bought one, my character jammed it right into his flesh.

Forbidden Solitaire is solitaire if you could cheat by shoving gems into your hand because an eyeball told you to. My first upgrade let me undo my last move, which ended up being pivotal when I fought the fleshy mass of human skulls later on. I may not be particularly good at card games, but I can handle solitaire. All you need to know is how to pick cards that are one number higher or lower than the card in your hand. And in Forbidden Solitaire, each card you take off the board increases the amount of damage you deal to the enemy before it's their turn.

I don't know why the monsters in the dungeon you explore can be hurt by cards, and I doubt Forbidden Solitaire will ever tell me. You play as a character who found a CD-ROM of the game and decided to try it out on a PC from the '90s. Messages from a friend researching the controversy around the game occasionally pop up with links to things like FMV news footage of parents decrying the game for its violence: "Why is it so violent? It's fucking solitaire!" By the end of the demo, I had seen enough evidence of the game driving people mad that I wouldn't be surprised if it were hiding something from me.

As I cleared passageways blocked by piles of bones and tore the heart out of a shambling abomination with the unusual power of this game's version of solitaire, I couldn't tell if I was getting closer to revealing its secrets or if it was simply luring me closer to my own end.

But I was having so much fun playing cards that I forgot about the possible damage to my psyche. Sometimes cards show up that aren't cards at all. Key cards can be picked up and placed onto lock cards to reveal what's underneath, and there are cards

Source: PC Gamer