With the question for smaller solo games already posted I want to ask if any of you got some large and deep solo games. I’m usually someone who does enjoy longer, bigger and deeper games (not saying small games can’t be deep). But when things get more involved and complex, that’s where I feel at home.
Any recommendations?
Pandemic (and its variants) can be quite fun solo. It’s a co-op game, so all you need to do is decide how many characters you want to have, then run them all yourself. Makes for a very interesting, puzzle-y experience.
- Spirit Island. My overall favorite game since my first play of it. Plays great solo as a single or as 2 spirits. Coop games in general are good for solos because you can run them multihanded if necessary
- Dune Imperium has an automa based solo mode that luckily is simple enough to run
- On the hard to find side: Leaving Earth–space race simulation. I haven’t played that many solos of it but it is a grandiose thing to be launching a moon mission and testing Saturn rockets.
- most of the big Uwe Rosenberg games have excellent solo modes. My favorites are Nusfjord and Oranienburger Kanal. But A Feast for Odin with the Norwegians expansion is also very good!
- I recently got Legacy of Yu which is a solo only campaign game that reminds me of Paladins of the West Kingdom but is much easier to run as a solo because it was designed as such.
- Imperium: Classics and Legends are very versatile and once one understands the basics of how to run the opponents they aren’t that difficult to grok.
- As I mentioned on the small games thread I love Ark Nova and Revive as solos.
- Obsession - tile laying, worker placement, card-game mashup that I recently found out I prefer solo on the table as opposed to multiplayer online.
I am not a fan of having to run automas so I prefer games that can be soloed without complex bot actions. Dune Imperium is one automa deck that I can stomach.
This is a great list that pretty much covers my recommendations. I’ll second this entire list and also add in Aeon’s End/Astro Knights, which are mid-weight co-op deck builders that play great solo.
I never heard of legacy of yu. I just read a review and it sounds very nice. Thanks for recommending so many games to check out.
I’m 5 games into Legacy of Yu, and having just an absolute blast with it so far. As a campaign/legacy-ish game, I’m not sure it’ll have the staying power of something like Spirit Island, but I’m going to get way, way, way more than money’s worth out of it.
