Solo Game Reviews
All in one place!
All in one place!
NB: My reviews now appear in video form on The Dice Tower. I have stopped producing written reviews because I wanted to write something different. Check out my Articles page for my current board game writing.
Welcome to the written reviews page! This part of the site is a continual work in progress where I will review as many solo-playable games as is humanly possible. Reviews posted to my main blog will be linked here in alphabetical order for you to explore.
Games reviewed on this page are now also entered into BGG, if you want to see a graph of my numerical ratings.
My reviews have a rating scale of 1–5 stars, with these meanings:
5 - I love it!
4 - I really like it.
3 - I like it.
2 - It's okay.
1 - Meh.
This scale is based on the Goodreads rating scale. Please enjoy, and if you'd like to request a review of a game that isn't on this list, feel free to contact me about it. (Click "contact" on the top right of this page.)
Full Disclosure: I aim to review games ethically. What this means is that I do not accept payment from game publishers in order to produce game reviews—or for any other reason. I do accept review copies, and I make it a practice to disclose when I have received one. My reviews reflect my own opinions, and only my opinions.
Welcome to the written reviews page! This part of the site is a continual work in progress where I will review as many solo-playable games as is humanly possible. Reviews posted to my main blog will be linked here in alphabetical order for you to explore.
Games reviewed on this page are now also entered into BGG, if you want to see a graph of my numerical ratings.
My reviews have a rating scale of 1–5 stars, with these meanings:
5 - I love it!
4 - I really like it.
3 - I like it.
2 - It's okay.
1 - Meh.
This scale is based on the Goodreads rating scale. Please enjoy, and if you'd like to request a review of a game that isn't on this list, feel free to contact me about it. (Click "contact" on the top right of this page.)
Full Disclosure: I aim to review games ethically. What this means is that I do not accept payment from game publishers in order to produce game reviews—or for any other reason. I do accept review copies, and I make it a practice to disclose when I have received one. My reviews reflect my own opinions, and only my opinions.
Alphabetical List of Reviewed Games:
51st State: Master Set
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
A4 Quest
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Aerion
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
After the Virus
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Agricola
Agricola, Master of Britain
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Archmage
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Arctic Scavengers
Ascension
Assembly
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Atlantis Rising
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Baseball Highlights: 2045
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
The Big Score
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Black Sonata
- Watch a Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Brook City
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Call to Adventure
Captive
- Watch my Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
Cards of Cthulhu
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Carthage
Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Castellion
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
The Castles of Burgundy: The Dice Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Castle Panic
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Champions of Hara
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Charterstone
Cloudspire
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Coffee Roaster
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear — Operation Barbarossa 1941 (Third Ed.)
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Coraline
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Cosmic Run: Rapid Fire
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Crypt
Crystallo
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Dark Gothic
Days of Ire
Dawn of Peacemakers
Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game
Detective: City of Angels
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Dice Stars
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube
Direwild
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube
Donning the Purple
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Dragonfire
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube
Dreams of Tomorrow
- Watch Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Dungeon Alliance
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube.
Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Elder Sign
Escape the Dark Castle
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Exit: The Game
Expedition: The Roleplaying Card Game
Fleet: The Dice Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Fantastic Factories
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Field Commander: Alexander
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Friday
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
The Game: Spiel so lange du kannst
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Gearworks
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Godforsaken Scavengers
Herbaceous
Herbaceous Sprouts
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Heroes of Terrinoth
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
HEXplore It: The Valley of the Dead King
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr
Hoplomachus: The Lost Cities
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Hoplomachus: Rise of Rome
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Hoplomachus: Origins
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Hostage Negotiator
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Hostage Negotiator: Crime Wave
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
House of Danger (Choose Your Own Adventure)
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Imperial Settlers
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama
La Granja: No Siesta!
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Legacy of Dragonholt
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Legends Untold
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Limes
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Lisboa
- Watch a Board & Book video on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Loup Garou
The Lost Expedition
Mageling
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Maiden's Quest
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Maquis
- Watch a Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
MetroX
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Mice and Mystics
Mini DiverCity
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Mint Delivery
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Mint Works
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Movie Empire
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Mr. Cabbagehead's Garden
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Mutants: The Card Game
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Nautilion
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Oaxaca: Crafts of a Culture
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Obsession
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
OctoDice
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
One Deck Dungeon
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Onirim
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Orléans
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Palm Island
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords
Pavlov's House
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Pax Pamir (2nd Edition)
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Pocket Mars
Quest: Awakening of Melior (Video Review)
Railroad Ink (Blazing Red Edition)
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Renegade
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Rescue Polar Bears: Data & Temperature
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Rolling America
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Roll Player
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Rune Age
Rurik: Dawn of Kiev
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Sagrada
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Sentinels of the Multiverse
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Shahrazad
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Sidekick Saga
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Spirit Island
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Sprawlopolis
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Squire for Hire
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Street Masters: Rise of the Kingdom
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Stellar Leap
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Sunset Over Water
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Sylvion
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Tales of the Arabian Nights
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Tasty Humans
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Thunderbolt-Apache Leader
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Triplock
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Unbroken
- Watch a Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
Urbion
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
V-Commandos
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Valley of the Kings
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Valley of the Kings: Afterlife
Valley of the Kings: Last Rites
VivaJava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar - The Rise and Fall of Anvalor
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
The Wars of Marcus Aurelius
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Welcome to...
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a tutorial for the Alexis Solo Mode
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Wingspan
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
51st State: Master Set
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
A4 Quest
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Aerion
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
After the Virus
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Agricola
Agricola, Master of Britain
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Archmage
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Arctic Scavengers
Ascension
Assembly
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Atlantis Rising
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Baseball Highlights: 2045
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
The Big Score
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Black Sonata
- Watch a Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Brook City
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Call to Adventure
Captive
- Watch my Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
Cards of Cthulhu
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Carthage
Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Castellion
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
The Castles of Burgundy: The Card Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
The Castles of Burgundy: The Dice Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Castle Panic
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Champions of Hara
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Charterstone
Cloudspire
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Coffee Roaster
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Conflict of Heroes: Awakening the Bear — Operation Barbarossa 1941 (Third Ed.)
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Coraline
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Cosmic Run: Rapid Fire
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Crypt
Crystallo
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Dark Gothic
Days of Ire
Dawn of Peacemakers
Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game
Detective: City of Angels
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Dice Stars
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube
Direwild
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube
Donning the Purple
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Dragonfire
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube
Dreams of Tomorrow
- Watch Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Dungeon Alliance
- Watch a How to Solo video on YouTube.
Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Elder Sign
Escape the Dark Castle
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Exit: The Game
Expedition: The Roleplaying Card Game
Fleet: The Dice Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Fantastic Factories
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Field Commander: Alexander
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Friday
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
The Game: Spiel so lange du kannst
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Gearworks
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Godforsaken Scavengers
Herbaceous
Herbaceous Sprouts
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Heroes of Terrinoth
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
HEXplore It: The Valley of the Dead King
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr
Hoplomachus: The Lost Cities
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Hoplomachus: Rise of Rome
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Hoplomachus: Origins
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Hostage Negotiator
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Hostage Negotiator: Crime Wave
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
House of Danger (Choose Your Own Adventure)
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Imperial Settlers
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama
La Granja: No Siesta!
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Legacy of Dragonholt
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Legends Untold
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Limes
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Lisboa
- Watch a Board & Book video on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Loup Garou
The Lost Expedition
Mageling
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Maiden's Quest
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Maquis
- Watch a Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
MetroX
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Mice and Mystics
Mini DiverCity
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Mint Delivery
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Mint Works
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Movie Empire
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Mr. Cabbagehead's Garden
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Mutants: The Card Game
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Nautilion
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Oaxaca: Crafts of a Culture
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Obsession
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
OctoDice
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
One Deck Dungeon
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Onirim
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Orléans
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Palm Island
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords
Pavlov's House
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Pax Pamir (2nd Edition)
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Pendragon: The Fall of Roman Britain
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Pocket Mars
Quest: Awakening of Melior (Video Review)
Railroad Ink (Blazing Red Edition)
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Renegade
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Rescue Polar Bears: Data & Temperature
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Rolling America
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Roll Player
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Rune Age
Rurik: Dawn of Kiev
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Sagrada
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Sentinels of the Multiverse
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Shahrazad
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Sidekick Saga
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Spirit Island
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Sprawlopolis
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Squire for Hire
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Street Masters: Rise of the Kingdom
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Stellar Leap
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Sunset Over Water
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Sylvion
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Tales of the Arabian Nights
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Tasty Humans
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Thunderbolt-Apache Leader
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Triplock
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Unbroken
- Watch a Kickstarter Preview on YouTube
Urbion
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
V-Commandos
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Valley of the Kings
- Watch a Let's Play on YouTube
Valley of the Kings: Afterlife
Valley of the Kings: Last Rites
VivaJava: The Coffee Game: The Dice Game
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar - The Rise and Fall of Anvalor
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
The Wars of Marcus Aurelius
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Welcome to...
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube
- Watch a tutorial for the Alexis Solo Mode
- Watch a video review on The Dice Tower
Wingspan
- Watch a How to Solo on YouTube