System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Card Games / Gambling
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG
Description: Power Solitaire VR is a delightful version of the Klondike solitaire card game that introduces unique gameplay only possible in Virtual Reality. Play alone, against an intelligent robot, or live multiplayer with others online. It’s a social VR game the whole family already knows how to play.
Review: Solitaire is a single player game, best played alone at times of extreme boredom. Well…it used to be until Power Solitaire VR come along and turned it into a social game with up to 3 other players! The good news is there are a couple of modes you can play including a nice and traditional single-player mode. Using the Oculus Touch Controllers the controls are pretty much as you might expect. Pick cards up, place them down, but I will say this is not quite as straightforward as it should have been. But I did get used to the slower select style of control after just a few games.
While there are a few little things you can play and mess around with (try getting the paper ball into the basket) this game is pretty much about the solitaire itself. It’s not until you play a few games of the multiplayer solitaire that you start to really find out how much fun this game can be. While there isn’t a whole lot of players playing this game some do pop up now and again. Our you can always invite a friend to play if you want.
While there is already a few VR solitaire apps none of them are as social or as fun as this one. Sure this app could do with a little graphical makeover, but overall they are more than adequate. At the end of the day, this is little more than a social game of solitaire what will get boring rather quickly. Given that it is mostly free I suppose you can’t expect much. The one thing I will say is this is by far the most fun you will ever have playing solitaire.
