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Ancient Enemy

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Developer Grey Alien Games

Ancient Enemy is an RPG card battler set in a crumbling world where the forces of evil have already won. Blast distorted enemies with a satisfying range of spells and abilities. Journey into a scarred wilderness and draw power and hope from the landscape to defeat the deadliest foe of all! From the Steam store page

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2025

    NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT! A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching. Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... With @slicknicklives.bsky.social

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  • Night Signal Entertainment @nightsignalentertainment.comBluesky · Feb 3, 2025

    From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline… 🫀Forbidden Solitaire🃏 is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 90s CD-ROM that should have never existed. 💎 Wishlist Now! store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2025

    📀A thrifted 1995 CD-ROM game, buried for a reason. 👁️ You install it, ignoring the sinister warning label: ☠️ 'DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME.' Wishlist Forbidden Solitaire — a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

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  • Helen Carmichael - Forbidden Solitaire @bchezza.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    A game that shouldn't exist, found on a discarded 1995 CD-ROM. And you just installed it. Forbidden Solitaire - a card-flipping dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. Coming soon to Steam + GOG #comingsoon #steam #indiedev

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    📣 Celebrate solo / small #gamedev teams during The Yogscast’s Tiny Teams Fest ☠ Forbidden Solitaire has been selected! A 1995 CD-ROM game buried for a reason — dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social @nightsignalentertainment.com

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  • Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2026

    if you tried the demo to forbidden solitaire and really liked that, you should play Shadowhand and Ancient Enemy. if you haven't tried the demo to forbidden solitaire, you should do that store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

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  • Night Signal Entertainment @nightsignalentertainment.comBluesky · Nov 5, 2025

    In case you missed it - Forbidden Solitaire is coming to the home of 90s gaming, @gog.com! From the creators of Home Safety Hotline and Ancient Enemy comes a card-slashing CD-ROM dungeon horror straight out of 1995. 💜Wishlist Now: www.gog.com/en/game/forb...

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  • Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2025

    My dog came home with ticks AGAIN yesterday and I have found them on her, on the rug, on the kitchen counter (???) and one IN MY HAIR 💀💀💀 so now I’m playing a fun little game called “identify that black speck” all over my house. Is it a rogue poppy seed? A mote of dirt? Or MY ANCIENT ENEMY

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  • Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 21, 2026

    While I am tooting the sales horn, another game I enjoyed working on was Ancient Enemy, one of @greyalien.bsky.social's themed solitaire games, for which I wrote and did some art direction and audio. -75% off! Also, please beware of Jake's next game: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    In the past week I've updated 4 previous games on Steam *and* our new game Shadowhand Solitaire! 💪💪💪 - Regency Solitaire (2015) - Shadowhand (2017) - Ancient Enemy (2020) - Regency Solitaire II (2024)

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  • Helen Carmichael - Forbidden Solitaire @bchezza.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 31, 2025

    📣 Celebrate solo / small #gamedev teams during The Yogscast’s Tiny Teams Fest ☠️ Forbidden Solitaire has been selected! A 1995 CD-ROM game buried for a reason — dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social‬ @nightsignalentertainment.com

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  • Helen Carmichael - Forbidden Solitaire @bchezza.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2025

    Cool - thanks for hosting! Check out our card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Just updated Ancient Enemy with some Steam Deck/Cloud enhancements and other improvements fixes: steamcommunity.com/app/993790/a...

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  • Helen Carmichael - Forbidden Solitaire @bchezza.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.

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  • Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2025

    OR! you can get Shadowhand AND two other fantastic solitaire games by the same devs, Regency Solitaire and Ancient Enemy, for just $8.60. all three are great on their own and a total steal as a bundle. store.steampowered.com/bundle/6129/...

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2025

    Not to jump on @writnelson.bsky.social 's bandwagon too much, but Puzzle Quest was a direct inspiration for our combat solitaire games Shadowhand and Ancient Enemy. Furthermore our new game may feature something like that... Anyway I'm looking forward to seeing this game!

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2024

    Steam was only 50% of our casual game net revenue in 2023 (doesn't include Shadowhand or Ancient Enemy). The other 50% comes from other sites e.g. Big Fish Games, Game House, iWin, and a nice little chunk from our Patreon (thanks!) www.patreon.com/GreyAlien

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  • MrNelson007 Belongs in a Museum @mrnelson007.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    #44: Ancient Enemy. Okay now we're talking. Great solitaire game with a bit of RPG going on. They knew what they were doing almost a decade before Forbidden Solitaire, and I'm looking forward to getting to it soon. 9/10.

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2024

    I'd like to showcase Ancient Enemy! Our turn-based combat game powered by a mutated version of solitaire. Check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/993790/A...

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  • KayJoon @liberaljoon.comBluesky · May 1, 2026

    Grabbed forbidden solitaire, been looking forward to this for a while. I also got the bundle with Ancient Enemy, because it's a massive bargain and I can always use one more card game. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    No, the original version. I'd have liked to have used that but I didn't want to change tech for this game as we reused our Ancient Enemy solitaire engine.

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  • The Character Issues Podcast @characterissues.bsky.socialBluesky · May 5, 2026

    Can't wait to play this. For anyone that likes this game I recommend Regency Solitaire 1 and 2 and Ancient Enemy. All very different games with different takes on Solitaire. Good shit.

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2026

    Oh I didn't mean it like that, just that people are discovering via this game, that our take on solitaire is fun. But we are also making some extra Ancient Enemy sales too because it's in a bundle with FS.

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  • Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.comBluesky · May 1, 2026

    Ancient Enemy is an all time fave so I’m all in on this game

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  • Gavin “Hissara” Herman @hissara.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2026

    Finished Forbidden Solitaire and I loved it. It really goes to show how what can make or break a solitaire game is the aesthetic that surrounds it. So while I was less enthusiastic about Ancient Enemy, I was ecstatic about FS’s use of period accurate graphics, meta horror and FMV. Highly recommended

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

    Aha! Yes, we did make both Regency games, and Shadowhand and Ancient Enemy. FS was our 7th solitaire game in fact so it benefited from those others being made first.

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  • Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2026

    Yes, they all have the one up or down style of solitaire gameplay with varied layouts, special cards, and powerups/jokers etc. Ancient Enemy is the closest game though the combat is slightly different. Shadowhand also has combat but it's different again. The others have no combat.

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  • PhantasmSam @phantasmsam.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2026

    Got around to doing my second run at the game last night to clean up achievements and it, unsurprisingly, holds up well to repeat play. I am so happy for Jake and Helen that they finally have a hit on their hands. Now go back and play Shadowhand, Regency Solitaire 1 & 2, and Ancient Enemy

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  • David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.comBluesky · May 1, 2026

    Do they ever! I highly recommend Regency Solitaire I & II and Shadowhand Solitaire. And the original Shadowhand and Ancient Enemy are similar games with more mechanics layered on top of the core card game.

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  • Nate E-K @newertkrocker.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    Delved into next week’s #RandomBacklogSampler game a bit early, sampling the first hour or so of ANCIENT ENEMY. I always like the stuff Grey Alien Games puts out (the Regency Solitaires are lovely), and this is a neat evolution on the RPG-lite gameplay they cooked up for Shadowhand. Fun!

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  • GameSense.co @gamesenseMastodon · Jun 26, 2023

    Ready for another free game? #AncientEnemy https://gamesense.co/game/ancient-enemy/news/discuss/get-a-free-copy-of-rpg-card-battler-ancient-enemy-in-the-gog-summer-sale/

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