Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded is now available on Steam, adding a new story and 30 levels to Grey Alien Games and Night Signal Entertainment’s horror card game. Released on October 26, the expansion requires the original Forbidden Solitaire; it is not a standalone sequel.
The DLC listing moves the fiction forward to 2020. Robyn Cierra searches the remnants of a cursed 1995 CD-ROM for traces of her sister, uncovering abandoned material hidden inside its files. The new setting is an otherworldly museum of rejected content, with additional enemies, puzzles and bosses.
A different layer inside the cursed game
The expansion’s premise builds directly on the original’s framing. In the base game, set in 2019, a thrift-store purchase brings an old CD-ROM back into someone’s home. The apparent rediscovery of a forgotten computer game becomes the route into its horror story.
That structure allows The Discarded to revisit the same fictional software without simply repeating the original journey. Robyn is looking beneath the material a player would normally see, while the museum gives its abandoned elements a place in the world. The new storyline also explores a demonic relationship connected to that buried material.
The developers advertise additional arcane upgrades and Jokers alongside the new encounters. In Forbidden Solitaire, Jokers are modifiers with potentially helpful or harmful effects, and upgrades are purchased from an eye embedded in the environment. Their role is to change how a player approaches subsequent card encounters, rather than serving only as narrative collectibles.
New obstacles change card sequencing
PC Gamer’s report on the expansion describes foes that introduce wet paint, preventing affected cards from being played, and marble cards that do not contribute normally to combo damage. Those examples suggest why familiar solitaire rules can still produce different decisions across the new levels: a visible card is not necessarily an immediately useful move.
That observation is based on the published description of those mechanics, not an independent playthrough here. The distinction is especially relevant for an expansion whose appeal depends on the details of its card encounters as well as its additional story.
The partnership has room for an expansion
Grey Alien supplies the card-game background associated with Shadowhand and Regency Solitaire, while Night Signal contributes the horror presentation, writing and music associated with Home Safety Hotline. The official project page identifies that division of experience behind the collaboration.
In a public post about the launch, Grey Alien describes The Discarded as its first DLC. The developer says its earlier games had not sold enough to justify the resources required for an expansion, making this a new production step for the studio.
For existing owners, the practical addition is a separate chapter built around another search through the cursed software. For newcomers, the original game remains the required starting purchase, while The Discarded extends the fiction from finding the CD-ROM to investigating what its creators left buried inside it.
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