Ferrous Solitaire

A cross-platform Klondike Solitaire game written in Rust, with a card-theme system, full progression (XP / levels / achievements / daily challenges), and optional self-hosted sync so your stats follow you across machines.

Features

• Klondike Solitaire — Draw One and Draw Three modes; foundations are unlocked (any Ace lands in any empty slot, the slot then claims that suit)
• Card themes — bundled hayeah/playing-cards-assets default plus user-installable themes (drop a directory under the data dir or import a zip from Settings → Cosmetic)
• Modern HUD — reserved top band keeps cards from crowding the score readout; the action bar auto-fades when the cursor leaves it so it can't compete with the play surface
• Drag feel — every legal drop target is highlighted in green during drag; cards cast a soft drop shadow that lifts when picked up; the stock pile shows a remaining-count chip so you can see how close you are to a recycle
• Keyboard navigation — Tab cycles focus through buttons, arrow keys move within picker rows, Enter activates; works across every modal and the HUD action bar
• Progression — XP, levels, unlockable card backs and backgrounds
• 19 Achievements — including secret ones
• Daily Challenge — server-seeded so every player worldwide gets the same deal
• Leaderboard — opt-in, powered by your own self-hosted server
• Special Modes (unlocked at level 5): Zen, Time Attack, Challenge
• Sync — pull/push stats across devices via a self-hosted server
• Color-blind mode — blue tint on red-suit cards alongside the suit glyph

Building

Prerequisites

• Rust stable toolchain (rustup install stable)
• Linux: libasound2-dev libudev-dev libxkbcommon-dev
• macOS: Xcode Command Line Tools

# Fast development build
cargo run -p solitaire_app --features bevy/dynamic_linking

# Release build
cargo build -p solitaire_app --release
./target/release/solitaire_app

Controls

Every action also has a visible UI button — keyboard shortcuts are optional accelerators.

Key	Action
Left click / drag	Move cards
Double click	Auto-move card to its best legal destination
Right click	Highlight legal moves for a card
Space / D	Draw from stock
U	Undo
H	Hint (highlight a legal move)
N	New game
Z	Zen mode
G	Forfeit (during pause)
Tab / Shift+Tab	Cycle keyboard focus
Enter	Activate focused button / auto-complete (when badge is lit)
Esc	Pause / dismiss modal
F1	Help / controls
F11	Toggle fullscreen
S / A / P / O / L / M	Stats / Achievements / Profile / Settings / Leaderboard / Menu

Card themes

The default theme ships embedded in the binary, so the game runs self-contained with no external assets. To install another theme, drop a directory containing a theme.ron manifest plus 53 SVG files (52 faces + 1 back) under the platform data dir's themes/ folder, or import a zip from Settings → Cosmetic. The picker chip lights up the moment a new theme is registered. Themes are SVG-based, so they rasterise cleanly at whatever resolution the window happens to be.

Sync Server (optional)

To sync stats across machines, run the self-hosted server. See README_SERVER.md for setup instructions.

Once the server is running, open Settings → Sync Backend, enter the server URL and your username, and register an account from within the game.

Running Tests

# All tests (982 passing as of v0.11.0)
cargo test --workspace

# Just game logic (no display required)
cargo test -p solitaire_core -p solitaire_sync -p solitaire_data -p solitaire_server

# Lint
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings

Credits

Built on Bevy and the wider Rust ecosystem (Tokio, Axum, sqlx, Serde, kira, and many more). Card faces come from hayeah/playing-cards-assets (MIT, derived from the public-domain vector-playing-cards library); the default card back is original work; the UI font is FiraMono-Medium (OFL). All audio is synthesized programmatically by this project. See CREDITS.md for the full list and license details.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.