Solo Games

Yellow & Yangtze designer’s next pair of board games claims to be more than European design fads

“Pure strategy” titles Cascadero and smaller companion Cascadito meld Eurogame sensibilities with attractive art and short runtimes.

The Lost Bay is a fever dream of ‘90s suburban horror channeled through dice and slick mechanics

Play in the weed-choked graveyard of the neo-liberal American dream.

Fill the late-nite airwaves with music and meaning in playlist-building solo RPG VOID 1680 AM

Caller, you’re on the air.

Tarot-based RPG Likeness Machines pits a struggling actor against their corporate AI replacement

All proceeds from the satirical biography game support WGA and SAG-AFTRA workers on the picket line.

Star Trek Adventures lets you boldly go solo with new Captain’s Log RPG supplement

Solo, not Sulu.

Roll20’s PocketQuest 2023 game jam sent more than 50 tabletop designers to space camp, sort of.

This is Ground Control to Player Tom.

Gloomhaven’s bite-sized board game Buttons & Bugs coming from Mountains of Madness designer

Finally, a Gloomhaven box below lethal throwing weight.

5 best solo RPGs you can play by yourself

Introspective retrospective.

Horse Girl is a Zine Month RPG about utter submission to love and surgical transformation into a horse

Do you love me: yea or neigh?

Solo But Not Alone’s third annual bundle offers nearly 150 single-player tabletop RPGs for suicide prevention

All proceeds will benefit suicide prevention charity Jasper’s Game Day.

One-page tabletop RPG Cosmic Latte raises funds for Starbucks unions

Stressful time limits and ridiculous mandates echo conditions for underpaid and overworked baristas

These one-page tabletop RPGs lampshade Twitter’s demise and frustrations with Mastodon

Tweeting and tooting at the end of some things.

Impressions: Journaling RPG Not A Demon imagines community action through the eyes of a maligned spirit

Don't judge a monster by its ancient scroll artwork.

Bundle of Holding’s NaNoWriMo collection is an author’s trove of journaling tabletop RPGs

A PDF is worth a thousand words.

Birdy board game Wingspan’s Asia expansion will also support solo, duet play and new Flock Mode

Pre-orders open in November of this year and will support avian rescues in Asia.

Rune looks like the perfect solo TRPG for those of us who need more Elden Ring in our lives

Soulsborne fun for the maidenless and mateless.

More board games supporting single players were released in 2021 than those that didn’t

Being alone has never been more fun.

Unpack the dearly departed’s past in thoughtful but quirky solo RPG Why the F*** Did They Keep This?

Cluttered attic, cluttered heart.

Single-player RPG bundle Solo but Not Alone once again fundraising for suicide prevention

The bundle contains over 100 games and will donate proceeds to Jasper’s Game Day.

Be Like a Crow is a solo tabletop RPG that lets you do exactly what it promises

Murder, you wrote.

Apawthecaria mixes two tabletop RPGs in its Scottish critter cauldron to produce a new solo game

The designers behind Apothecaria and Scurry! join forces on a solo journaling adventure.

Design degistif: Apothecaria creator Anna Blackwell discusses creating a commentary for her solo RPG

Potent potables.

10 best solo board games to play by yourself

Top titles to tackle in single-player.

The Exquisite Corpse in Maggots’ Keep is a gamebook narrated by nearly a dozen revolving writers

Exhumed and loving it.

New Thousand Year Old Vampire companion book have some players angrily grabbing stakes and garlic

Designer Tim Hutchings responds to the reaction to his unique addition.

Ocean exploration RPG What Waits Beneath is getting a 'redux' edition inspired by 20,000 Leagues and Life Aquatic

Fresh water.

Dwelling is a ghost story that’s part solo RPG, part choose-your-own-adventure book and part legacy game

Ex-spectre some surprises.

Blaseball-inspired RPG Fantasy Sport Manager turns the absurd online sports sim into a solo journalling game

Based on Wretched & Alone system.

Queer Games Bundle offers over 200 video and tabletop games for $60

It hopes to pay indie artists a living wage for at least one year.

Shawn Tomkin has reached the stars with Ironsworn: Starforged, but he couldn't do it alone

The designer talks influences, making a good thing even better and the importance of community feedback.

Keepsake game The Shape of Shadows transforms a day planner into a magician’s grimoire

A date with divination.

Read an illustrated playthrough of solo RPG Thousand Year Old Vampire via Twitter

Bloody good story.

Polish both a sword and a pint in solo journaling game The Broken Cask Inn

There's probably rats in the basement.

Feature: Weekend Play Report - Ex Novo, and the joy of mapmaking games

Routing to recreation.

Feature: Solo RPG The Wretched is a fantastic, if unintentional, pandemic anniversary game

All systems go kaput.

Sefirot turns the divination of tarot into a board game for one or two people

Future fun.

Sci-fi solo wargaming adventure Five Parsecs From Home welcomes both green and veteran crews

Solo, a miniatures story.

Keepsake game The Last Will and Testament of Gideon Blythe unpacks the burden, and joy, of family

The ties (and washi tape) that bind.

Precious Little Animal's RPG critters help you foster mindfulness through once-a-day reflection

From Star Crossed creator.

Explore the endless expanse of a mysterious castle in solo RPG Colostle

Well Armed.

Apothecaria mixes Theme Hospital and Stardew Valley for a potent solo journalling RPG

Hair of the werewolf.

Solo RPG bundle raises funds for tabletop-focused suicide prevention organisation

Jasper’s Game Day will receive and direct the proceeds from the Itch.io bundle.

Sail the seven seas solo - or with friends - in the Ultimate Edition of Nemo’s War

Do Nautilus nonsense be something ye wish?

Civilization: A New Dawn has a new solo mode and AI opponent you can download for free

From Terra Incognita expansion designer.

How to play tabletop RPGs by yourself: A beginner's guide to solo roleplaying

What do you mean, ‘solo roleplaying’?

The Dicebreaker Podcast is back to talk solo RPGs, classic board games and more!

Plus, we say goodbye to Sara.

You can now play dungeon-crawling board game Arcadia Quest single-player with free solo mode rules

Support for Inferno and expansions to follow.

Play Carcassonne by yourself or in co-op thanks to free official solo rules for the board game

German publisher also releases single-player variant for Hadara.

Gloom of Kilforth creator reveals solo deckbuilding board game Veilwraith

Multiplayer possible with extra copies.

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

Party for one.