Today’s free game from Epic turns a normal deck of cards into a roguelike adventure

Cardinal kings, four queens, and 4 'Jackstones' (whatever those are) appear in all normal coldcock of playing cards, but we're never really told what they're supposed to be ruling. Solitairica, unloosen today from the Epic Games Stock as part of its 15 days of aweigh PC games, repurposes the standard deck into a roguelike RPG game, full-dress with spells, enemies, and a nasty big emboss.

Every bit the name suggests, Solitairica is a twisting along solitaire lineup games, but this one has been enhanced with RPG combat and a roguelike progression arrangement. Information technology boasts procedurally generated enemies, spells you can drop and combine, and quaternion 'energies' to master in place of the Little Jo standard suits. Your cards are also upgradeable using wildstones you collect on each journey, so the game changes and develops the much you bring up.

Your job is to learn the ways of battle from Kismat, with the ultimate goal of defeating the evil Emperor Stuck. To do that, you'll prototypical have to take on enemies wish flying jam cubes, ice priests, bureaucrats, and plenty more.

Here's a dawdler:

If you're into card games happening PC, there are plenty to be found behind that link – you also mightiness want to check tabu The Solitaire Conspiracy, which combines a rather cyberpunk aesthetic with FMV cutscenes and was highly-developed by the folks who brought you John Wick Hex.

Head to the Epic Depot to pick up your copy of Solitairica, free. You've got until tomorrow at 8:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 16:00 GMT to snag it before Epic poem swaps information technology out for a spic-and-span free brave.