Solitaire by MobilityWare+ in Apple Arcade

★★★★★ Pretty good, some obnoxious quirks

This is overall a pretty great version of Klondike solitaire. It’s simple with opt-in “mini games”, I guess you’d call them, that are easy to ignore if you’re not into that sort of thing (I’m not…I don’t need to build a jigsaw when I just want to zone out playing cards). You’re also able to customize your visuals, and they include some of the classic card backs from Windows 3.1, so it’s nice to be able to get that nostalgia hit. My only real complaint is that it has a pop-up hint prompt that I can’t seem to disable, even after checking every box to turn off proactive hints. Literally just putting the phone down for a minute will prompt a pop-up with a stupid crying king and patronizing message that it looks like I’m “struggling”. No, dude, I just needed both my hands for something else! It has a particularly bad habit of popping up when there’s no available moves, offering to show me the solution which presumably means it would start over and make a different choice than I did at some point, but at that point I’m content with simply making a new deal. If it weren’t for that, it would be an easy 5 star rating.