1 Player Podcast

We are finally talking about this game that has been.  It's been out for like 5 years waiting, just waiting for me to play and talk about it.  Julius finally pushed me to do it and I've had a great time with it.  Come here what we think about this game.  I'll give you a spoiler.. it's fun but hard.  Wait, did I just give it away?   Oh My Goods! ( BGG , Lookout Games ) Oh My Goods! Longsdale in Rev...

Another Roll Player Tale game from Thunderworks Games.  Julius seems to be a big fan of the Roll Player universe so we talk about yet another game in the series.  I think we've got them all.  Unfortuantely, this means we may not hear my cool song again any time soon :)   Anyway, Lockup is an area control game with a cool mechanism in the multiplayer game.  Thunderworks found a way to make it work...

In today's episode, we ae joined by KarenSDR from the 1 Player Guild to discuss solo trick-taking games!  You'll be surprised just how many trick-taking games can be soloed.  Then we look at one specific trick-taking game, Eck, which is currently part of the 2020 Solitaire Print and Play design contest!   Eck ( BGG , Contest thread ) Solo trick-taking games geeklist ( BGG ) 2020 Print and Play Des...

Julius and I are between a rock and a hard place on this one.  Between Two Cities is a Stonemaier Games game about building a city while working with your opponents or against two Automa.  It's a neat little tile laying game.   Between Two Cities ( BGG , Publisher )

Today Julius and I talk about the classic game of SET..  this one is from '88 so yeah, it's pretty much a classic.  It's a light family game that can be played with any number of folks that you can fit around a table, be it one or one thousand, though that's a big table and you'll probably need a really big edition.  It's a simple game of collecting sets of cards with patterns that match on all th...

In this episode Julius and I sorta talk about the 1 Player Guild and what it can offer the solo gamer these days.  This show is sorta about nothing. Learn what to guys can do when the show up un-prepared... not much. 1 Player Guild Solo Challenges Collective Acquisition Disorder geeklists Solitaire Games on Your Table geeklists SGoYT Aggregator Top 200 solo games Morten's No Prize for Top 200 game...

In this episode Julius and I discuss the game Team Pandemic.  Also known as Pandemic: Rapid Response.  This is a hectic timed game in which players are producing plastic cubes to deliver to cities around the world.  Each city has different needs as to what color cubes will solve their crisis so players are working at a hectic pace to produce the correct cubes while they fly around the world.   Pan...

In this episode Julius and I look what it takes to grow a village.  Turns out isn't that hard and can be done on your own.  The game Villagers is a fun drafting game from Sinister Fish games for 1-5 players.   Villagers ( BGG , SInister Fish ) Streets by Sinister Fish ( Kickstarter )

In this episode I talk about Thousand Year Old Vampire, the self published game by Tim Hutchings.  This very cool solo RPG won three Ennie awards this year!  In it you play vampire struggling with the passage of time and how we remember things.  It's an excellent game worth checking out, not just because of the unique gameplay, but also because of the excellent production quality.  I quite like it...

In this spoiler-ific episode, Julius tells us all about the Dreamlands half of the Dream-Eaters campaign for Arkham Horror.  It sounds interesting, but not as much as the other half.   Arkham-Horror: The Dream-Eaters ( FFG )

Welcome to another episode! This time around, Albert interviews Dennis Furia, the designer of Deck of Wonders, which is on Kickstarter right now. This game has a nice M:TG feel to it in that you are fighting a battle against an enemy by summoning minions to fight for you.  However, what is really cool here is that this game is designed for solo play and does a very good job of giving you an intere...

In the latest episode Albert & Julius discuss the White Dog Games title, Nubia: Egypt's Black Heirs.  This is a States of Siege style game designed by R Ben Madison and quite fun.   Nubia on BGG Nubia at White Dog Games

In this episode Julius talks about the latest completed Arkham Horror Cycle, the Dream-Eaters (whose name I have trouble getting straight).  This cool campaign takes players to Lovecraft's Dreamlands, though Julius and I will focus our discussion on the waking world, for now and visit the Dreamlands in an upcoming show.

a.k.a., how to play with distractions.  Distractions are annoying regardless the number of players.  It's only really a problem though with solo gaming.  What do you do when your kids or your cat show up?  You panic!   My Lord of the Rings box at YouTube.

In this episode we discuss the draw and write game Cartographers.  A Roll Player game without any rolling!  It does have some fun map-making though.   Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale (publisher, BGG )

In this 2nd and final episode of the Summer of Uwe, we look at the 2 player game Caverna 2: Cave vs. Cave which includes solitaire rules.  In this cool little worker placement game, you get to build an empire for your clan of dwarves, all in about 30 minutes!   But wait, there's more!  We then talk about the expansion which let's you play for another quick 30 minutes!

In this latest episode, the 1st episode in the "Summer of Uwe", we discuss the Puzzle Trilogy game Spring Meadow. It's a light polyomino laying game in which you are trying to maximize your score while hiking in a meadow and defrosting the ground.

In this episode, probably for the first time ever, we don't review a game - gosh!  Instead, we talk about game art and art in games.  It's a fun conversation and I for one enjoyed it.  However, we do briefly, oh so briefly, talk about solo RPG products.   1000 Year Old Vampire ( RPG Geek , Publisher ) Our Innermost Thoughts ( KS ) by Travis Hill

Rwarrrrr!  In this episode we talk about dinosaur parks in South America.  More specifically, we talk about the game Dinogenics were you can run your own park!   * Dinogenics ( BGG , publisher )

In our latest episode, we look at the solo journaling RPG Alone Among the Stars.  It's a neat little game were you write super-short journal entries about your journey through space as you visit planets and see strange new sites. I posted my session as a blog entry here . Alone Among the Stars on itch.io itch.io tags solo-rpg singleplayer journaling Kickstarter Zine-quest games

In this episode we talk all about cats.  Well, all about the cats of Isle of Cats, a very fun tile laying game by Frank West and published by The City of Games.   Isle of Cats ( Publisher , BGG ) Isle of Cats ( remote edition ) Online version of game

Wow another podcast!  That's right.. episode 159 is here and this time we talk about the game Fire!  It's a short show for a short shoot-em up based old old video games like Space Invaders.  In fact it looks a whole lot like Space Invaders. Pew! Pew! Pew!   Fire! on BGG

In this episode, Albert & Julius discuss the lovely little legacy game, Charterstone.  Pretty much that's it.   NOTE: THIS EPISODE IS FULL OF SPOILERS!!

Wow another episode in the same year!  We are on a role.  This time around, Albert interviews Lee Broderick, designer of Dwarf, now on Kickstarter.  We have a fun chat about Uwe Rosenberg games and get into a lot of the details about dwarfs (or dwarves).  We get into dwarven details. :)   Dwarf ( BGG , KS )

Wow, it's been a while, huh?  Life is busy lately and there just isn't much time to game, not even solo.  Still, here we are with another episode and this time we cover two games!  Well, both are pretty similar. Actually, both are about the same game with a different setting. Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure Clank! In! Space!