Table for one! Looking for games you can play all by yourself?
Anitra really loves solo games, and we’ll always try a game’s solo mode and let you know whether we think it’s worth trying.
Move and stack books in your apartment to meet temporary goals, and build up your social battery so you can go to town and buy more books! A boardgame all about introverts who love being surrounded by their stuff.
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The Pride Pursuit is a reusable escape-room puzzle game where players solve clues and prepare for a Pride parade.
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Lost Ruins of Arnak: Twisted Paths puts a new twist on the island and temples of Arnak. It requires some extra thinking…
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In Vineyard, players cultivate grapes, harvest them, craft wines, and ship them to earn stars. The player who contributes the most to producing quality wines wins the game.
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The open ocean was both marvelous and terrifying… Sailing out of sight of land was only for the most desperate – and the most adventurous.
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In the original S’mores Galore, you pull ingredient cards from a 2-dimensional grid on your turn. You add them (in order) to your line. But in Roast and Write, every player is taking the same ingredients every turn and building s’mores on their own 2D grid.
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Step right up, step right up! We got an incredible amusement park here! You might even call it an AMAZEMENT park! Lands of Amazement is a solo game by Scott Almes, published by Button Shy Games. As with most Button Shy titles, Lands of Amazement is just 18 cards in a small wallet, and a full game takes 20-30 minutes.
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If you remember the video game Shadow Of The Colossus, this is like that – but as a cooperative board game with a happier ending.
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Especially given its small size and ease of portability, I think we’ll be taking Verdant Arizona out for a spin fairly frequently. Just look out for those spines! Ouch!
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We heat our home with a woodstove. After an unusually harsh winter, I appreciate the absolute necessity to keep the fire from going out.
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Every once in a while, we find games that are so well suited to very young children that they’ll pull them out and play them alone, without an adult’s help.
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For most families, I think Mr. Postmouse’s Picnic is going to be frustrating – unless you modify it to make it easier. But for fans of the series, it can still be a fertile ground for imaginative play.
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If your family loves beautiful games that have a few choices without being overwhelming, Gems of Iridescia is for you.
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INK is a very satisfying puzzle, even playing solo, that takes less than an hour from start to finish.
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Arnak conjures up impressions of adventure, and boy, does The Missing Expedition add a story! You’ve got everything you’d want in an archaeological adventure with a fantasy twist…
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Overall, Hunter x Hunter: The 287th Exams is a tough, fun game. But it needs some additional explanations to just help make things clearer. It’s a great choice if you love the anime and are ready to learn from your failure to pass the Final Exam.
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We played the first Back Stories – and it was awesome! We hoped our kids would enjoy this second spy-themed mission.
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This cooperative game includes monsters from all over the world. Can you defeat the Sphinx, Jiangshi, the Yeti, or even… Cthulu?
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In Leaf, players become the wind, strategically placing leaf tiles to grow mushrooms, help animals, and advance the season.
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At the end of every game of HUTAN, I have a miniature rainforest model right on my table, full of trees and a few animals.
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