Solitaire Overload for DS deals itself in

The publisher is claiming it is the most comprehensive and feature-laden compilation of solitaire games ever released for a handheld, and at 101 promised unique versions of the card-based pastime, we're predisposed to agree.

If you have the time to work through them all, you'll find Klondike, FreeCell, Spider, Baker's Dozen, Yukon, Beleaguered Castle, Forty Thieves, Canfield and another 93 examples, most of which are likely to compound your feelings of ignorance when it comes to your knowledge of solitaire variants – that's assuming you're anything like us, of course.

Thankfully, with so many games to choose from it's reassuring to know the game lists them alphabetically, by family, by time, by skill, by chance and even by time played or times won (which, helpfully, the game tracks automatically for you).

Equally pleasing is the inclusion of instructions for each of the games, as well as information such as the number of decks, time estimate, skill required and chances of winning.

Control is said to be iPhone-like in style with regards to the menu structure, with selection done via the touchscreen – which is also where all the card games are played.

Customisation options exist, enabling you to play with your favourite decks, choose from a range of background pictures or gradients, and edit the 40-minute long original soundtrack playlist.

And because hogging 100 other games when you can only play one at any one time could be considered avaricious, a gamesharing option allows a DS-owning chum to download any of the games for them to play on their own – well, it would hardly be solitaire if you suddenly faced off in some card-based two-player deathmatch, would it?

Solitaire Overload is expected in October. Which is about as long as we'll need to play through all 101 games in order to review it.