Are there any single player board games in the real world? No..only on PC

[foxmuldrake]

Are there any single player board games in the real world? I have never seen a single player role playing games until they started making them for the computer...

[TowerDefender]

There are many hundreds of solitaire board games. They are incredible. Some also have multi-player or cooperative rule sets - but all of these have a core solitaire ruleset.

For starters, check out:

Gloomhaven
Shadows of Brimstone
Zombicide
Arkham Horror the Living Card game
Lord of the Rings The Card Game (by FFG)
Sword & Sorcery
Warfighter
Mice and Mystics
Heroes of Terrinoth
Mistfall
Eldritch Horror
Robinson Crusoe
Galaxy Defenders
Secrets of the Lost Temple
Undercity
Mage Knight
Dungeon Alliance
DnD Adventure System: Ravenloft; Ashardalon; Legend of Drzzt; Tomb of Annihilation
Darklight Memento Mori
Scythe
Mansions of Madness Second Edition
Star Wars Imperial Assault rebel Alliance
Descent Road to Legend

[wicked lester]

Arkham Horror (the original board game)
Elder Sign

Oh, and of course, Tunnels & Trolls was a 70s RPG with a solo mode.

[TheHenry]

Chainsaw Warrior was out in the late 80s

All the D&D Adventure system games like the one this game is based on
Ashardalon
Drizzt
Ravenloft
Elemental Evil
Tomb of Annihilation
andmost recently Dungeon of the Mad Mage

[Letobrick]

Chuckling at op's sardonic tone. But yes, lack of multiplayer is keeping me from picking this up right away as well. Despite that there is a good deal on fanatical right now for the complete game. From past discussions here it seems multiplayer was on the radar for awhile but now it seems the devs have abandoned any further development or updates to the game.

[Skinker]

Solo boardgaming is quite common. Here are the top 200 solo games as voted by players https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/248275/2018-peoples-choice-top-100-solo-games-100-1-and-b

[nitnoid2002]

Most board games can be played with more than one person but have a solo variation to the game. Pathfinder: Adventures can be played solo as well. Its more of a card collecting/rpg-lite game with a campaign.

Also, watch for Unbroken: A solo game of survival and revenge. It finished Kickstarter but I'm not sure when it'll come to retail. Its quite a good solo game.

[wicked lester]

Originally posted by nitnoid2002:

Most board games can be played with more than one person but have a solo variation to the game. Pathfinder: Adventures can be played solo as well. Its more of a card collecting/rpg-lite game with a campaign.

Also, watch for Unbroken: A solo game of survival and revenge. It finished Kickstarter but I'm not sure when it'll come to retail. Its quite a good solo game.

Hardly most, but quite a lot.

[ZodiacBraves]

Super Dungeon Explore has a single player mode

[nitnoid2002]

Check the Rolling Solo youtube channel. He covers a lot of solo playable games as well as some coming on kickstarter.

[Murderhobo]

The ones this is based on are quite good for Solo too, I've got 4 out of the 6 and they are pretty good when I want something quicker than App Descent.

[themazingness]

I got Hero Quest back in the day (very similar to this). I had to adapt to playing it myself because nobody I knew wanted to play it. Now I know guys who would play it, but don't have it. I am thinking about getting some of these D&D board games now that I have roommates that would be into it.

It is pretty dumb they didn't include multiplayer or adapt the other board games. They would've made much better add-on content than the DLC.

[Gavener]

Originally posted by themazingness:

I got Hero Quest back in the day (very similar to this). I had to adapt to playing it myself because nobody I knew wanted to play it. Now I know guys who would play it and but don't have it. I am thinking about getting some of these D&D board games now that I have roommates that would be into it.

It is pretty dumb they didn't include multiplayer or adapt the other board games. They would've made much better add-on content than the DLC.

Bro that game was so awesome, I was luicky and had 2 friends really into it as well, we would make new maps and use minis form those .25 machines....good times

[philosoraptorgames]

I don't mind it having a solo mode, but I do mind it NOT having a multiplayer one.

[Gavener]

I used to play 1st D&D alone :/ boy, I would just use dice for everything, who was attacking who kind of thing

[Icedfate]

I dunno if I would call Scythe a "single player board game". Scythe has a "solo" mode vs an "automa" opponent, which is very cleverly designed.
The Scythe soIo mode is good. you can have hours of fun just playing it alone. I played a few games against the automa and got skilled enough to beat my friends who were very skilled euro games experts, but Scythe is still a multiplayer game at its heart.

if every game with an "automa" mode was considered a single player game, you "Could" say that
Terraforming Mars and Viticulture would also be "single player", because they have modes you can play against Automa opponents.


however, I acknowledge that if the OP is just looking for a board game that "can" be played solo, there are many games available.

pretty much ANY cooperative game such as Pandemic, can be played solo, since most times, everyone is just sitting around the table discussing everyone elses moves (sometimes with an "Alpha gamer" more or less taking over), you could just play it by yourself.

I own Pandemic on the ipad and have played the ♥♥♥♥ out of it...to the point where I can almost no longer play it with real people because I solved it and run the risk of accidentally being the alpha gamer at the table and pissing everyone off because I didn't let them figure it out, I dunno.

There are also many, many games that are specificially designed to be played solo. Hostage Negotiator is probably the first one I ever played.

you can find all this info on boardgamegeek dot com



p.s. : after looking back over the OP, it appears as if they are not looking for a single player board game, rather being sarcastic at their observation that you don't see many people IRL playing board games alone. so whatever. i'm not deleting my post.