Peg Solitaire

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1-2 Competitive (Alternating)

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Review:

Peg Solitaire is a word-based Puzzle game released on the Nintendo DSi via the DSiWare service in 2010 and then grandfathered into the Nintendo 3DS eShop when that system was released. This game is a version of the classic physical Puzzle game that has you using the touchscreen to jump pegs over each other like checkers, eliminating the pegs you jump over and with the goal of reducing the board to one remaining peg.

The presentation here is okay, but nothing special. The game uses decent and colorful but not particularly noteworthy 2D visuals with cartoony vaguely anime-style characters acting as mascots of a sort, backed by repetitive music that gets annoying pretty quickly.

The gameplay here doesn’t do much that players won’t expect. Once you’ve seen how these sorts of Puzzles work, this game plays pretty much exactly how you expect. This is to say, nothing especially compelling, but it works. The only real noteworthy inclusion here is a 2-Player competitive mode that has players trading off the same system and trying to avoid being the last one stitch unable to make a move.

Look, I don’t know what else I can say about this game. It’s… fine. But it’s certainly nothing to get excited about, and even the low $5 price tag seems a bit steep for such an old Puzzle game formula. If you know you like this sort of thing, know that this game works as intended, but it holds no interesting surprises for you.

tl;dr – Peg Solitaire is a Puzzle game based on the old-fashioned style of puzzle that has you jumping pegs over each other to remove them from a board. This version of the game has no surprises, either good or bad. It’s exactly what you expect. Whether that’s worth $5 to you is going to have to be your call.

Grade: C

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