Goritaire

I couldn’t make it through the 20 minutes of game instructions. I don’t care that much to learn a new game. It looks like it could have been fun.

It’s an interesting game concept but needs some adjustments. I started playing normal mode from lowest to highest number of gorillas in the deck. Once you figure out the strategy, it’s pretty easy up through about 15 gorillas. And very repetitive, as the first few best moves of every game are the same. At about 16 gorillas it becomes harder only in the sense that it’s more susceptible to a bad shuffle. Then you can’t win unless you use Scapegorilla which I don’t want to do on principle. Murder as strategy has no place in a game of this type.

I have the free version of the game. It’s a cool deck-builder and well-designed, with a very fun and retro UI. The card designs are wonderful and I found myself showing my favorites to people. The UI elements are a little slow to move; the selector for actions was a little bit unintuitive but I figured it out pretty quickly. I find the full game to be a little bit pricey; I think $2.00US would be more reasonable. If you’ve played wingspan, this has some similar aspects. I really enjoy it and would love to see a physical version for sale.