7 Card Games

Genre: Compilation / Card Game (Various)

Players: 1

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Review:

7 Card Games is a Compilation of five types of Card Games released on the Nintendo DSi via the DSiWare service in 2010 and then grandfathered into the Nintendo 3DS eShop when that system was released. The card games included here are Texas Hold’em Poker, Omaha Hold’em Poker, Blackjack, Hearts, Freecell Solitaire, Klondike Solitaire (one card draw) and Klondike Solitaire (three card draw), and yeah, calling the Klondike variants two different card games is stretching things a bit.

The presentation here is decent, featuring 2D visuals with cartoonish representations of players and backed by jazzy background music. The game doesn’t give you any ability to change any of these elements, but what’s here is fine.

The games all play well enough, with players primarily using the touchscreen. Unfortunately, they’re lacking options. You can’t change scoring rules or use rule variants, there’s no undo button for the Solitaire games, there are no interactive tutorials (only text instructions). And despite three of the seven games here being multiplayer games, this version of them will only let you play against AI opponents.

7 Card Games isn’t a bad Compilation of Card Games, but you can do so much better on Nintendo 3DS. For $5, I’d expect more than this. At the very least include some multiplayer support for Blackjack and Poker! What a disappointment.

tl;dr – 7 Card Games is a Compilation of five types of Card Games: Texas Hold’em Poker, Omaha Hold’em Poker, Blackjack, Hearts, Freecell Solitaire, Klondike Solitaire (one card draw) and Klondike Solitaire (three card draw). The Solitaire games here all play fine but are terribly lacking in options and features, and Blackjack and Poker don’t even support multiplayer. You have better options than this on Nintendo 3DS.

Grade: C-

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