Solitaire TriPeaks Journey

It’s fun for a week or so, but once you get in far enough, it becomes obvious that the game is rigged even worse than most. Each level has a slightly different way it seems programmed to make you lose and waste currency so you’ll have to buy more at absurd prices. It’s very boring and predictable when replaying a level multiple times results in the exact same failure mode repeatedly. There are different ones, but each level seems to choose one and stick with it no matter how many times you replay it. Like the draw pile is always filled with junk, or the cards are always laid out to preclude chaining, or it lets you get easily to the final card only for your draw pile to never be able to produce the final match. Having to pay 10s of thousands of coins in boosters, draw pile cards, and/or wild cards to complete most levels is not financially sustainable, but it’s also not fun. Throwing money at a rigged level so it’ll let you win isn’t enjoyable. And repeatedly playing rounds where the gameplay feels stilted and slow due to poorly dealt cards that preclude basically any chaining or having a draw pile always filled with loads of useless cards is also not fun even if you could always afford to pay to pass it. Then the game giving you a one star rating after you’ve had to pay to pass a badly rigged level is just icing on the not fun cake. It’s giving you a poor performance review for something you had basically no control over. Then because of this, you can’t get the best rewards at the end of a series of levels because you need to have gathered enough stars. This is doable in the first bunch of areas, but then it’s basically impossible. You’d have to spend so many coins to brute force your way through enough levels in a way that’s good enough to get lots of stars that the reward wouldn’t even be worth it.

This game is horrible. There’s no way to make coins and if you want to make queens, you have to watch a video and it only lets you watch one video an hour. It’s a horrible game absolutely horrible. Do not recommend it.