Dan Jolin

Contributor

Dan has been a tabletop gamer ever since he first played Dungeons & Dragons as a 10-year-old during the ’80s, just like the kids out of Stranger Things. Unlike the kids out of Stranger Things, however, he’s never killed a Demogorgon. Rather less excitingly, he works as a freelance writer, specialising in cinema and gaming, and has recently launched his own board gaming magazine, Senet. (Image: Marco Vittur)

10 best solo board games to play by yourself

Top titles to tackle in single-player.

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Feature: The Dungeons & Dragons movie at 20: How the RPG’s first big-screen blockbuster suffered a critical fail

A D&D film was promised to rival Star Wars, but its cinematic debut ended up a box-office bomb. What happened?
Feature: ‘It was a mess’: The disappearance and return of legendary ’80s board game Dark Tower

In 1981, there was no game bigger. Then it vanished. What happened to Dark Tower, and why is there such hunger for it to come back?

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Feature: The real-life tragedy and sensationalised fantasy behind D&D-inspired movie Mazes and Monsters

“There were a whole lot of people that thought it was an evil company.”

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Going Solo: How playing tabletop games alone went from sad to rad

Party for one.

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