Solitaire of Stygian Shadows

Solitaire of Stygian Shadows is a solitaire card game in which you uncover a cypher to open the gates to an ancient evil’s lair. As an ancient evil consumes the world, you walk through randomly generated city streets and labyrinths, solving randomly generated card layouts. Each playthrough combines new layouts with a different environment.

Solve the cypher

You reveal the cypher’s numbers one by one to unlock the gates. The cards use numerical values from 0 to 9 instead of traditional ranks such as aces, kings and queens. The rules will be familiar to experienced solitaire players, and the gameplay difficulty is described as relaxed despite the dark theme.

A Lovecraftian threat

The game’s story invokes the mute violist from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann,” suggesting you may succeed where he failed. You are the only one with knowledge of the dark forces, though some consider that knowledge madness.