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Faerie Solitaire: Clearing Card Hands to Rebuild Avalon Across 8 Worlds

Faerie Solitaire on Windows and macOS: 8 worlds, 40 levels, 400+ hands, gold-bought powerups, combo energy, and 32 pets. Steam product date: 2010.

Faerie Solitaire — official game profile — official store artwork
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Rebuilding Avalon: Clearing Levels for Resources

Clearing a level in Faerie Solitaire produces the resources used to repopulate the magical land of Avalon, and that restoration work sits alongside the goal of saving the Faeries. The campaign is laid out across 8 distinct worlds containing 40 levels to complete in Adventure Mode, with more than 400 hands of cards to play through. Gold is the primary currency earned along the way, and it feeds directly into buying unique powerups and specialized upgrades for later stages, so the time spent clearing hands converts into tools for the levels ahead.

The rebuild runs on the loop between card play and spending. Working through a stage generates the resources found by clearing each level, while the same play earns the gold needed to purchase powerups and upgrades at the shop. Those purchases are meant to make each stage easier, giving players a way to trade accumulated wealth for smoother card clearing. Layered on top is the pet side of the adventure: finding and raising a Faerie pet is part of repopulating Avalon, so progression touches both the world map and the creatures collected there.

The Card Table: Combos and the Energy Meter

At the card table, the core action is chaining together combos. Each combo you link builds momentum toward filling the energy meter, so the sequence of successful plays matters as much as clearing the board. The meter itself is the visible target of that chain work: keep the combos going and the gauge rises. In this way, the card table sets up a direct relationship between consecutive successful plays and progress toward saving the Faeries, tying the moment-to-moment card clearing to the larger rescue goal.

The combo system and the energy meter work as one loop rather than two separate features: chained combos are the input, and energy-meter progress is the result. Because the meter is filled specifically through combo chains, a player who keeps linking plays keeps the gauge moving, while the documented structure does not describe any other source for it. This loop sits inside a campaign with over 400 hands to play through, so the card table repeats the same combo-to-meter interaction across a long run of hands.

Faerie Solitaire — official gameplay screenshot 1
Faerie Solitaire — official gameplay screenshot 1

Spending Gold on Powerups and Upgrades

Gold is the main currency used for purchases, and clearing levels generates the resources that also include the gold needed for those purchases. The shop stock consists of unique powerups and specialized upgrades, two separate categories of items that gold buys. Buying them is framed as easing progression, so accumulated wealth from card clearing converts into tools intended to make stages easier to get through. The documented loop is therefore straightforward: play hands and clear levels to earn gold, then spend that gold on powerups or upgrades before continuing.

The campaign supplies a long runway for that spending: 8 worlds, 40 levels, and more than 400 hands to play through, with loads of upgrades to buy. Because gold comes from clearing each level, every hand completed in that run contributes to the pool that funds the next purchase. The upgrades and powerups are stocked as a large set rather than a single reward, so buying specialized upgrades and unique powerups is part of the same progression that repopulating the magical land of Avalon and saving the Faeries depends on.

Faerie Solitaire — official gameplay screenshot 2
Faerie Solitaire — official gameplay screenshot 2

Finding, Hatching, and Evolving Faerie Pets

The pet side of Avalon's restoration is built around a collection of 32 unique fantasy pets to find, hatch, and evolve. These creatures are not passive rewards; each one moves through distinct stages, beginning with discovery and hatching before evolution changes it further. The overall objective of finding and raising a Faerie pet runs parallel to clearing card levels, so pet progress is part of the same campaign rather than a separate mode. The fantasy story that frames this work is told through 8 hand-painted cutscenes, which mark out the narrative beats as the player continues through the adventure.

Finding, hatching, and evolving are the three documented actions applied to the pet collection. A pet is first located, then hatched, and afterward evolved, so the sequence gives each creature a progression path within the collection. With 32 pets available, the full set represents a long-term collecting goal that sits alongside the card-clearing campaign. The pet work is also tied to the stated aim of finding and raising a Faerie pet, and the story cutscenes provide context for that effort. No other pet mechanics are described in the supplied material.

Faerie Solitaire — official gameplay screenshot 3
Faerie Solitaire — official gameplay screenshot 3

Adventure Mode, Challenge Mode, and Replaying Locations

Adventure Mode carries the Avalon restoration across 40 unique fantasy locations, a set the supplied features also present as a 14-hour stretch of campaign play. Challenge Mode sits outside that main tour as a separate set of five bonus locations, so players who want further card work beyond the campaign have additional places to visit. Achievements run alongside both modes, with 30 to collect as you play, giving each mode a shared layer of goals that records progress while the locations themselves are explored and the Faerie Land is restored.

Replay sits apart from the one-way push through Adventure Mode. Any location can be replayed as many times as you wish, so a favorite spot in the 40-location set is not closed off once cleared. Because achievements accumulate as you play, repeated visits to a location keep feeding the same 30-achievement collection, and the five Challenge Mode bonus locations add further places that can be worked through repeatedly. The documented design thus pairs a fixed campaign route with open revisiting, letting the same fantasy locations serve both first-time exploration and later return visits.

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  1. Faerie Solitaire — official game profile Retrieved Oct 21, 2026
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