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Occlude
Developer Tributary Games
Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplayer narrative puzzle game for the terminally curious. Don’t worry; you can always start over. From the Steam store page
292 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 27, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
81
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157 positive · 36 negative
95% range 75–86%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
366 of 427 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
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60 of 292 · most liked firstArt assets and design bits from OCCLUDE, an occult twist on solitaire that I worked on with @tributarygames.bsky.social! The game is out now, play if you dare 👁️ store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/Occlude/
unlabelledView post →Occlude, the game of cosmic horror Solitaire is out TODAY! Play through seven fiendishly difficult Rituals, unlock multiple endings, reveal hidden lore and break the world. Go read our full blog post here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/354...
unlabelledView post →OCCLUDE, the new game by the studio behind KING OF THE CASTLE, has just been released! store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →Occlude (pantaloon_io) "Occlude is an occult game of solitaire stuffed with secrets. Piece together the rules even as they resist your attempts to decipher them." Paid - Windows: warpdoor.com/2025/08/17/o...
unlabelledView post →We're proud to be partnering with @pantaloon.io to bring you OCCLUDE, a game of occult Solitaire. Occlude is a cosmic-horror card game with cryptic lore and sanity-shattering puzzles. Want to know more? Good. Head over to www.pantaloon.io/occlude Good luck. You'll need it.
unlabelledView post →OCCLUDE is now OCCL-OUT -- grab this game if you enjoy mind-bending puzzles within a mind-bending narrative! Featuring a jigsaw-puzzle plot by yours truly with shades of David Lynch, the SCP archives, and This Is How You Lose The Time War. Don't miss out! store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →We've got a demo for Occlude! A Horror Puzzle Card game that looks like solitaire but has hidden puzzles and mysteries to uncover. store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →Occlude, the game of occult solitaire from @tributarygames.bsky.social has its free demo in #SteamNextFest You thought you knew the rules. You don’t… 👁️ store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/... #ScreenshotSaturday #Indiegames
unlabelledView post →Stand out of next fest for me right now is Occlude, a Solitaire with a variety of obscured extra mechanics It plays like a spiritual successor to Zachtronics' Fortune's Foundation and i love it for that store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →Anyway I have been playing Occlude, my review is that I feel like a toddler with a saxophone in that I understand little and am achieving less than that, but darn if I'm not having fun store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →It's time. Shortly ahead of #SteamNextFest the first demo for Occlude is now live, alongside a brand new trailer for the game. If you enjoy LYNCHIAN vibes, rich LORE and cryptic PUZZLES - this might well be for you. "The world is a broken machine." youtu.be/M7xYWr9hHKc #IndieGames | #GameDev
unlabelledView post →You will not like this game if you hate Solitaire. The "cosmic horror" aspect is entirely in the form of short stories between levels, there is nothing remotely cosmic or horror in the gameplay. Other than solitaire, this is an inductive logic puzzle, which is a genre of puzzle you don't see much of, and is the main reason why I recommend it. There are 7 puzzles in the "main" line up to the credits, which are all fairly easy. The more interesting puzzles come in the post-game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our massive update to Occlude in the Cardinals is here! We've added 24 new puzzles to the game from 7 at launch, new Achievements, quality of life updates and plenty more. Oh, and did we mention it's totally free? Read more here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/354... #indiegames
unlabelledView post →What did you do on your weekend? Play Occlude? That's cool. We hope you didn't lose your mind or anything. Oh, us? Not much. Just rolled out the first update for Occlude. Yeah, no biggie. Just a few tweaks. Want to read about it? Sure, one sec... Here you go: store.steampowered.com/news/app/354...
unlabelledView post →My love and thanks to the entire Tributary Games team, who have done extraordinary work on the game, and to @pantaloon.io, who have been a fantastic publisher. I'm really pleased with how our second studio title has come together. It's unsettling, polished and has a touch of magic. Go play Occlude.
unlabelledView post →Yes, I recommend this game, but not without reservations. What I love: The writing is phenomenal and creepy, the lore is intriguing, the music is suitably creepy and moody but not intrusive. The first few levels of puzzles are really fun. What bothers me: I expected the puzzles to get more difficult as I went on, and they do, but they get to the point where they are prohibitively difficult. Example: I got frustrated and looked up how to do the Punch Card. The first thing it said in the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →HARK! Press & #contentcreators 📣 We're currently DEALING out review code for our game of occult Solitaire, Occlude 👁️ If you'd like to check out the game before its release NEXT THURSDAY (!), then please reach out (DM/press[at]pantaloon.io) store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/... #streamer #twitch
unlabelledView post →Oh, AND there's a special deal just for today for King of the Castle! A whopping 50% off. So why not get this *and* Occlude in our Kings & Cards bundle? You get singleplayer headscratching and multiplayer backstabbing all in one package. store.steampowered.com/app/1839880/...
unlabelledView post →THE WORLD IS A BROKEN MACHINE. Wishlist OCCLUDE if you like Lynchean strangeness and cosmic horror, puzzles and solitaire, and/or my writing. store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →Well NextFest was fun. We got out three updates in a week responding to feedback and were in the top 13% of all Demos. So much fun we’ve kept the Occlude demo up for a bit - go see what the fuss is about: store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →There is a small class of games of inductive games, the first I know about is Eleusis - a card game by Robert Abbott. The idea of the games are that you are expressly not told the rules for a particular level/hand, and have to figure it out during play. The sort of puzzle solving is not what one usually sees - you don't try to figure it all out from an initial position, you need to experiment and theorize, and if the puzzles are well designed you get an aha and then have mastered the puzzle.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing NextFest demos including the OCCLUDE demo by @tributarygames.bsky.social and published by @pantaloon.io, come hang @ www.twitch.tv/ancastasia #solitaire #occult #cardgames #indiegames
unlabelledView post →Oh shit I got put on a starter pack of indie horror game makers, erm, ok, right hi everyone, so go play Occlude it’s a really good game with good horror and the people I made it are ace: store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →Sinister new card game Occlude brings Balatro's rule-warping brilliance to Solitaire As you learn the rules of this dark spin-off, you'll be watched by seven entities... But don't worry about those, it won't help #Solitaire #IndieGame www.pcgamesn.com/occlude/new-...
unlabelledView post →Occlude is an occult game of solitaire - but not as you know it. Piece together the rules even as they resist your attempts to decipher them. Take your seat at the table from Monday… store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/... #screenshotsaturday #steamnextfest #indiegames
unlabelledView post →Slight change of plans for today! Before Don't Starve Together collab, I have been given an early look into Occlude, a solitaire cult game from publishers @pantaloon.io ! The game heavily reminds me of Balatro, Inscryption, Cultist Simulator and dash of SCP put into a kettle to boil. 6.30PM CEST!
unlabelledView post →First thing first: this is a card solitaire. If that's not something you'd enjoy solving again and again, move along, this is not _much_ else there. I did not like the writing even a little bit: very cliché, tries to appeal to your emotions but does not always make logical sense. Now this game presents a _single_ solitaire with the same rules. Those are explained to you in the tutorial. There are seven variants on how the required final card for each foundation communicated to you via the coins…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another little Occlude milestone. 150 reviews, 88% positive. Huge thanks to everybody that’s picked up and supported the game so far. The Seven Entities acknowledge and appreciate you 🪬
unlabelledView post →Occlude got a new update that improves controller support for the #SteamDeck, and updates the Game Rules and art: steamdeckhq.com/occlude-upda...
unlabelledView post →Occlude is in the Hungry Ghosts sale! You can save 15% on the base game and the Eschaton Edition right now. Go snap it up, pretty please. store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →If "Zachtonics Solitaire x The Roottrees Are Dead" isn't gobbldeygook to you, then you already know I'm telling you Occlude is great. For everyone else: if you want calm deduction with spooky vibes wrapped in a classic card game shawl- then OCCLUDE from @tributarygames.bsky.social is great.
unlabelledView post →14 days until Occlude is out! If you're interested in what's going to be inside the game at launch and what's new from the Demo, we've released a Steam post you just might be interested in. Go check it out: store.steampowered.com/news/app/354...
unlabelledView post →The demo for Occlude - a game of occult solitaire - is available NOW in #SteamNextFest store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/... Launch day is July 10th, and I've got 5 keys reserved just for Bluesky... 👁️Follow Pantaloon 🔁Share this 🔑We'll draw 5 winners on July 10th GL x #IndieGames | #Giveaway
unlabelledView post →Definitely a mixed thumbs up, For the first half of the game, and the initial set of achievements, I absolutely loved it. Working out the hidden rules behind each Ritual was incredibly satisfying, especially the second puzzle. Once the solution clicks, it feels so obvious that you wonder how you ever missed it. It's the Cardinals, and the second batch of achievements, where the game lost me. Rather than feeling like clever deductions, many of them become so obtuse that I don't think a normal…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In a word: Unsatisfying I like games where you figure out the rules as you go. Losing a bunch for not knowing them, then figuring them and out then using mastery of the previously obscured systems to do well feels good. This game isn't like that. The "Figuring out the rules" part wasn't that hard (for the first few rounds that you can play within the refund window), but knowing them isn't enough of an advantage in the core gameplay to make much of a difference. It felt like I spent relatively…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I find the store description that this is a narrative-driven puzzle game quite misleading. There are just some lore snippets and that's it. Calling this narrative-driven is really far-fetched. However, getting behind the rulesets of the different rituals (puzzles) is quite fun so far. So even if I was highly disappointed with the lack of a story, I am pleasantly surprised by how fun this solitaire variant can be.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A pretty tough series of Solitaire variations with a grim narrative around it. A good time but I'm definitely too dumb for 80% of the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Occlude from @tributarygames.bsky.social and @pantaloon.io is out, with a 'Lynchian narrative' and 'brain-contorting puzzles' — and with an alternate reality game. table.pantaloon.io #ARG #indiegame
unlabelledView post →Occlude, a game of occult Solitaire from @tributarygames.bsky.social, launches in just under two weeks! Here's an in depth piece from the team taking a look at the new features & improvements that are coming to the game after feedback from our recent demo 👁️ store.steampowered.com/news/app/354...
unlabelledView post →I checked out the demo for Occlude, a warped game of Solitaire with an Occult twist made by the awesome people behind King of the Castle!
unlabelledView post →It’s time to show our hand… Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game from @tributarygames.bsky.social, where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake …and the Steam page is now live! store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →I really enjoy the atmosphere of the game, the trickle of information, the figuring out of the rules. But oh my god the notations on the letters/etc (i.e. LOL RIP, "corny ass sign off") really take me out of the game in a frustrating way.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Solitaire with specific rules + hidden rules on each game. Roughly the game difficulty can be divided up to 3 levels: Story mode, original mode and cardinals. Story mode is the easiest as it allows unlimited undo's and +1 extra slot to set aside a card in your way. This one slot gives the player a major advantage and the undo basically breaks some of the difficulty in majority of the games so Story mode is by far easiest. None of that easy stuff in original mode. You don't have the extra slot…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Steam Scream Fest has begun! And with it, Occlude is 20% off. It's a game with immaculate vibes - one reviewer said it's like "getting a coffee enema in a bookshop" So if you're into... that, and also want to try our free update with 24 new puzzles, go here: store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →An admiral attempt at a solitare-based spooky puzzle game, marred by a complete lack of game logic to prevent Dead-Man-Walking scenarios (card hands where you cannot win from the outset, but may not know this until fifteen minutes into the hand.) or Sierra Game Deaths (You lose the hand because it was impossible to get the hint information without making plays that get you demerits), Moon-logic card rules using an infuriatingly vague hinting system (And one that isn't even consistent from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The pitch sounds so cool - discover the rules to different variants of solitaire. Sadly the reality under-delivers. Every game uses the same base Solitaire rules - the only thing that changes is essentially a side quest. Additional rules that, if followed, will unlock one of the alternate endings. There are only 4 possible endings for each mission, and "uncovering the secrets" is perhaps 4-6 hours of gameplay. Aside from that, Occlude is a sub-par Solitaire title. I'd love to see the devs add…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game of Solitaire that makes you wish you weren't alone. Spooky, divine OCCLUDE is out today from our sister studio @tributarygames.bsky.social and @pantaloon.io. Cosmic congrats. Highly recommended. store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →"Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake." HOW COOL 🫠 ... and right up our lovecraftian linguists' alley 🤍💫 (@pantaloon.io you know where to find us 👀) store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/...
unlabelledView post →Yeah, nah. It's a pretty standard solitaire variant with the twist that a particular card needs to be the last one placed on the stack for each of the four suits. You're not told what card this is. If you place a card incorrectly a coin flips and you'll need to start the puzzle over. However, before flipping, the coin will move to a different position. The puzzle comes in working out what rule has been triggered that would cause the coin to move, and using this to deduce the correct final card.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starts off very strong, then ramps up with obscure tactics on ritual 4. Would have been a lot more enjoyable with a slightly more ramped difficulty curve, which could have been as simple as marking coins to a particular suit, because the 4th ritual makes it seem almost randomized.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Happy Halloween! Why not pick up KOTC at a terrifying 66% off and sitting horrifyingly at 98% positive recent reviews? Or try out Occlude, our spookier Solitaire game, at 20% and a creepy 92% positive recent reviews? Or.. get both? Trick or treat yourself: store.steampowered.com/bundle/56371...
unlabelledView post →if you like paying less for things, boy do I have some news for you. It’s the Steam Autumn sale! And there’s 20% off Occlude! 30% off Sub-Verge! And 85% (!) off Acolyte. treat yourself to a nice little indie game, you honestly deserve it x store.steampowered.com/publisher/Pa...
unlabelledView post →[AD/gifted] We're checking out the cultist card game #Occlude before more SHODAN antics in System Shock 2 - thank you @pantaloon.io @tributarygames.bsky.social for providing code for cards :D twitch.tv/lomadiah youtube.com/live/xE5DFE_...
unlabelledView post →“Passed down between generations, lost to dark rooms and hidden spaces, now Occlude finds its way to you.” 📢 Media: if you’d like an early look at the game ahead of something exciting next week (👀), please reach out. store.steampowered.com/app/3547010/... #ContentCreator #Twitch #TwitchStreamer
unlabelledView post →For me, an ideal puzzle game has a short window between knowing the solution for one puzzle and moving on to the next. As other commenters have said, the problem I had with Occlude is that knowing the solution to the puzzle actually just makes it harder to play the solitaire, and the rigged game of solitaire is getting between you and the next puzzle. I bought this thinking the rules of the solitaire itself would change, or there'd be more experimentation to find different outcomes. Since…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A couple of hours in Occlude, and what a game idea. A solitaire spin-off, where the rules of the game are hidden, to be discovered by the player each time. Occultism, conspiracies, hidden secrets, narrative weaving itself with the medium and the way we play games. Great great great so far.
unlabelledView post →Good puzzle game -and- good solitaire, all in one, excellent. A word of caution -- this is a puzzle where finding out the rules is part of the challenge, which will turn off some people. If you did not enjoy the likes of The Witness and its rule-bending puzzles this game might not be for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"what if freecell were an SCP?" is not a pitch I expected to pan out so well, but sometimes life surprises you! finished the main story set (all endings) in about eight hours, looks like I've got about that much again with the extended variants; caught it on sale but would have happily paid full price. in fact, I gifted my partner a copy to play while she's out visiting family! had a bug in the tutorial where the coins didn't move at all, but the explainer text made sense once I was in a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not sure if I'm stupid or if it's a cool concept poorly executed. Other reviews would point to the former. I found the first two very very easy, then hit a wall immediately.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a slight little game, this one. I enjoyed my entire time with it save for the moment when I realized the scope of the game I was playing, and how small it is. This game has a grand total of seven puzzles in it, with the front half essentially functioning as a wordless tutorial. Of my five hour playtime, about an hour was spent curiously exploring the tutorial puzzles, about two hours were spent on enjoyable but unsubstantial optional busywork, and only about two hours were spent peeling…
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