Can you play the game with one guy?

[Don Cool]

I have seen groups of 20 in easy mode and saw this guy starting out with only one guy on adaptive mode on Youtube. Is that at all feasible? Aren´t some fights meant to be fought with at least a certain number of people?

[Golden]

Since some missions involve capture, yeah you would need two people.

[navarras]

i play with one archer and 2 icebears (4 work horses and 4 slaves on the stocks for professions) and it is big fun - works just fine for 80% of the game, especially the fights, even for the solo heroes). you can't do though

- arenas (needs 4 people)
- rouste games (need 6?)
- cursed villages (need 4 or more?)
- creeper king (tank with damage reduction....)
....
the problem is that some questlines are blocked where you need several characters (like belerion tomb - 3 strong dudes...)

my workaround: on my journey i picked up companions with good traits and parked them at the travel post for later. takes a while to at least train up a good fab-four but it is my best experience jet in the game. the less the better.

difficulty: expert/expert/adaptive regions and free save

[zAcEz]

If you are talking about 1 guy no ponies nor prisoners, then not possible.
If just 1 guy for combat & supported by ponies & prisoners in camp, its mostly ok on adaptive. You cant start solo also as your merc needs to be well skilled & geared.

Arenas - 4
Rouste - 6
Cursed Villages - you can use work ponies to fill up the willpower requirement, but with only 1 merc you will fail either Str or Dex challenges since there's only 1 primary stat & you cant bring prisoners.
Creeper king - Doable with the right build
Main quest - 2 as some regions have quests that need to capture targets
Champion - there's 1 champion that needs to be surrounded before he can take damage.
Belerion ship - 2 if you wanna use the ballista
Belerion encounters & tomb - can use prisoners for the challenges.

So you'll need a minimum of 6 to full clear the game. But for recurring bounties, you can get by with 1.

[VipreRX]

You could roleplay taking on hirelings for any task that absolutely required more than one person and then dismissing them after. In that way a full solo playthrough might be possible on adaptive.

As for a solo start, I gave this a go last night on Expert and Region-locked. Created a guy, started the game, ditched everyone but him, had a carrying capacity of 6. Dropped everything except 1 tool, one bread, and one medicine and was still overweight. Ran from the first forced fight, used the medicine and tool to to repair the damage from running. Went to the stables and bought a pack horse. Touch and go but from there I was able to survive until I could recruit people. A very interesting beginning.