For example, Klondike has several custom options like one or three card draws, but no matter what you do, you'll never be able to change the fact that cards get locked into their foundation pile permanently. And with 101 games in the pack, not every rule variation made it into all games. To learn the games you pretty much have to poke around and see what the games allow and disallow, and that's a clunky way of understanding the rules sets.
Each game has instructions, but they're written as if you know Solitaire wordage…which makes the rules somewhat hard to read and understand. And that's where this collection falters. With a hundred and one games in its library, you're probably not going to know how to play a huge percentage of the games.
Nothing says solitaire like scenic pictures from around the world.
Solitaire Overload has a pretty good statistics recording option, keeping track of Wins and Losses for each of the 101 Solitaire games, but it doesn't record best times or the dates of when those wins happened. Each game can be sent to as many as sixteen systems at a time using the Nintendo DS Download Play option, completely on-the-fly…an excellent way of getting players interested in the product. Games are grouped by family as well as popularity for easy location of your favorite variation. The designers completely rip off Apple's iPod Touch "cover flow" interface for its game selection menu, but hey, it works and works well. The visuals are sharp and easy to read, and the cards are a snap to drag around and drop thanks to tight touch screen and stylus controls. But they all have their own merits…and the design even tells you how heavy each game is in their skill or luck. These are apparently real designs, and probably the first time you'll ever experience them. But then you're faced with an overwhelming number of single player card games that are mysterious and almost alien by name: Little Windmill, Milligan Cell, Penguin, Spiderette. As is Freecell, another variation that you'll most likely be familiar with. And now it's on the Nintendo DS…and it's good. People play it on their Palm handhelds, their cellphones, even their iPods. Everyone knows Klondike since it's included with every PC running Windows…it's the number one time-suck in the corporate world. There are more than a hundred different games of single player cards in Solitaire Overload, and chances are you've never heard of 99 of them.
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