Candy Crush Solitaire Brings The Classic Card Game To The Massive Mobile Franchise

Candy Crush is getting one other feather in its cap. Relatively than providing one other twist on match-three puzzling, Candy Crush Solitaire will convey the franchise’s sickly candy aesthetic to the cardboard recreation basic. It is going to be the primary Candy Crush recreation to launch after Microsoft’s acquisition of developer King.

Candy Crush Solitaire bases itself on tripeaks solitaire, wherein gamers should clear three “peaks” of playing cards. The recreation will function acquainted power-ups from Candy Crush, together with jelly fish, the lollipop hammer, the colour bomb, and the UFO. They may provide comparable, however not precisely the identical, powers as their match-three counterparts. Very similar to different Candy Crush video games, the fundamental solitaire gameplay can be altered and made more difficult as gamers progress.

Candy Crush Solitaire will launch worldwide on February 6. Gamers can pre-register now on the app retailer of their alternative and so they’ll obtain some in-game rewards: 5,000 Cash, 4 undos, two fish playing cards, and three shade bomb playing cards.

Again in 2022, when Microsoft’s now-completed acquisition of Activision Blizzard (which included King in its holdings) was nonetheless unsure, Xbox boss Phil Spencer claimed that the acquisition was extra motivated by King, and by extension the cellular market, than console video games like Name of Responsibility. Since Microsoft’s acquisition, Xbox has emphasised its cellular and Good TV choices with the “That is an Xbox” marketing campaign.