SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE
Worth it · Short indie · 2016
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99, a BANGER if it drops to $1.26.
- Length
- 0.6h 9.1h to 100%
- Value
- $4.98/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 222 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.26 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
NO ENGINEERING, ALL PROCRASTINATION! SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE is a brand-new solitaire variant originally developed for SHENZHEN I/O, and is now available as a standalone game! It's simple but challenging, and oddly addictive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
53 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $1.26, a level the record has reached 3 times.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection ($9.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game (free, scores 36).
More about SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE
The main story runs 0.6 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 15 times as long.
What players say
Absolutely love this version of solitaire. It's also included in the full Zachtronics Solitaire Collection, but the UI is a little more fun here and it's worth having a few more Steam achievements to grab/to support the dev.
2 more reviews
SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE takes the familiar idea of a single-player card game and turns it into a surprisingly absorbing logic puzzle. Developed and published by Zachtronics, it began life as a diversion within SHENZHEN I/O before becoming available as a standalone release. That background explains its unusual personality. Instead of reproducing Klondike or another traditional form of solitaire, it presents its own system...
Absolute classic. I'd actually recommend buying the zachtronics solitaire collection instead of this, though.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/570490/shenzhen-solitaireReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.