Forbidden Solitaire is a newly released game from Night Signal Entertainment (creator of Home Safety Hotline) and Dorset-based Grey Alien Games, presented as a pastiche of 1990s CD-ROM horror titles. The article, an opinion piece for Eurogamer, argues the game is a striking example of how deeply video games as physical and cultural artefacts from earlier eras evoke genuine nostalgia, and why that history deserves careful preservation.

The game is styled as a "lost" 90s release from a fictional studio, complete with a lurid FMV intro, pre-rendered-polygon aesthetics and an invented backstory involving media controversy and mysterious disappearance. Beneath the pastiche, it delivers a fully functional and inventive take on solitaire, in which players clear card tableaux to progress through a linear fantasy narrative, encountering evolving mechanics such as damage-dealing "maggot-infested" cards, "bone-locked" cards requiring repeated plays, and suit-based "chained" cards.