THIS MONTH
THIS MONTH ON EDGE
Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else
GAME
Solitomb
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A new year, and a new digital card game to threaten our spare time. Following in the grand tradition of familiar games given a Roguelike reinvention, Jakub Wasilewski’s Pico-8banger takes as its basis not poker or Magic but solitaire. You drag and drop cards into stacks based on their number, but with extra attention paid to the suits: sword, shield, potion or monster. Play of-a-kind cards into the arena and combat will ensue, the former suits adding to your attack and defence totals (with bonuses incentivising you to score out larger hands), before the enemy cards have a crack. There are plenty of elite monsters and cards that add new mechanics to discover, not to mention the hero classes and difficulty settings. It’s already playing with a full deck, then, even before the expanded release arrives via Steam.