Whew! It has been a long road to get here. AI solitaire was first submitted to the Steam store in January of last 2023. After more than three weeks of waiting in the review queue with only cryptic messages saying that the review was going to take longer than expected we recieved a letter from Valve's legal team saying that our game looked great and would probably be a big success; however, due to the unsettled nature of the legal standing of generative AI art they were rejecting our game. WHAT?!?
More than a year later, after trying Itch, Patreon, Deviant Art, and forum posts, this awesome game only had a few hundred loyal followers. It just goes to prove how important Steam is in the distribution of modern PC games. So, when Steam announced a change in policy towards AI, there was much rejoicing at Bikini Beach Games!
Even so, any product with AI content gets intense scrutiny and takes much longer to get approved. When we resubmitted our much improved game, we set the release date to May 17th, 2024. With more than a month to clear all the review hurdles, we figured we were golden, but we only recieved final approval to release on Tuesday of this week! Cutting it pretty close, right!
The good news is that AI solitaire is available right now! AI solitaire is free and always will be! and AI solitaire is awesome!
What are you waiting for? Click that Play Now button and give it a try! PLEASE!!!!
The only bad news is that the delay on the approval put a stumbling block in getting the DLC store pages approved, so we are launching with no DLC available today, but we were too excited to finally be able to release that we just couldn't wait any longer!
We have a SOLITAIRE FAVORITES DLC that will give you an additional 18 versions of solitaire including: FREECELL, CANFIELD, GOLF, EAGLE WING, and YUKON!
We also have five additional image card deck DLC bundles ready for release, as soon as we get approval:
AI Solitaire - Anime Cuties provides 12 new decks to use with AI Solitaire! This DLC is themed around beautiful girls in an anime style.
AI Solitaire - Lovely Ladies provides 12 new decks to use with AI Solitaire! This DLC is themed around beautiful girls in a photorealistic style.
AI Solitaire - Painted Ladies provides 12 new decks to use with AI Solitaire! This DLC is themed around beautiful women rendered in the style of traditional fantasy art paintings.
AI Solitaire - Handsome Heroes provides 12 new decks to use with AI Solitaire! This DLC is themed around handsome men in a variety of artistic styles ranging from phtorealistic to comic book styles.
AI Solitaire - Single Ladies - Preview Pack provides 20 new decks to use with AI Solitaire! This DLC is a preview of our Single Ladies - Year One Season Pass. Ten of the decks feature each of our 53 ladies in a single artstyle. The other ten decks feature Miss AI (Missie), our product spokesmodel in ten decks that show the range of content you would recieve for each girl every week for a year.
That last one is a hint of what's coming on July 1st! We will be releasing a Season Pass to our Single Ladies collection. It will feature a new girl each week for a year! Every week you will get six new decks featuring one lovely lady, and you can even vote in the forums for which deck styles we will include!
Keep checking back. Great things are Coming Soon!