My spouse enjoys Spider Solitaire, Wordle and Dark Souls. So I made the Dark Souls of solitaire word games. It’s been a big hit in our household.

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Word Solitaire – Release 1

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Windows: WordSolitaire.zip (0.1 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions
Word game + Solitaire. You need to clear the board by doing 5 letter words.

• A-Z = To form words
• CTRL+Z = UNDO
• CTRL+Y = REDO
• RETURN = Input word
• BACKSPACE = Erase letter

Credits
Game Design & Code: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )
Playtesting: Anna Zajączkowska

I made a small (and unpolished) Minesweeper variant. The game could be polished to make it more user friendly, but also I don’t know if I want to put too much more time into it. I was inspired by some of the Minesweepers Hempuli did.

Original idea was to make it work with a full deck of cards. Unfortunately 4 suits seemed like too much, so I dropped one. It was also an interesting experience to play around with the “single wrong click and you die” -mechanic. It seems somewhat under utilized way of designing puzzle games, cause usually as a designer you want the game to be forgiving.

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Solitaire Sweeper – Release 1

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Windows: SolitaireSweeper.zip (0.1 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions
Minesweeper meets solitaire.

Your goal is to reveal all the cards without hitting any of the mines.

• Click on space to reveal it
• Right click to mark a mine

If you hit a mine, it’s game over.

If the card flashes, it means there’s a mine next to it in one of 8 neighboring spaces.

The number under the card tells you how many cards of the same suit are around that card. Max 8, min 0.

There are 3 suits (hearts, diamonds, clubs) and 13 cards each.

The orthogonal spaces next to a mine are always safe. I.e. Mines may NOT be next to each other horizontally nor vertically.

Credits
Game Design & Code: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )

I made a simple – maybe the simplest – board game! Its called Hide No Seek and it is available at the a print and play service The Game Crafter. Although if you want to play it you can also just print it out, or write the rules on a card with a sharpie.

The Game Crafter had a single card game design competition. You had to design a whole game with rules and everything on a single poker size playing card. I liked the challenge and ended up making a design I thought was rather obvious. As illustrated by this image of the card:

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You can download the print and play files from here.
PDF: boardgame_hide_no_seek.pdf (0.3 Mb)

The game is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License.

It has been a long and rewarding journey to get Noita to this point. I’m really excited to see people play the game. Even after working on Noita for way too many years, I still really enjoy playing the game. I think we have something special in our hands.

We do have a Steam page for our game. You can wishlist it there.

Noita is a magical action rogue-lite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you’ve created yourself. You can find more info at http://noitagame.com/