Having multiple missions to deal with forces you in certain directions… or, sometimes, you just choose to go your own way and take your lumps. The solo game (and campaign) are similar in design to the multiplayer game – with a small solo action board helping “simulate” the additional actions other players might take that would affect your decisions. Pfister has traveled these waters before – creating a solid game engine intertwined with an ongoing solo campaign that drips new cards and objectives into the system. I played solo through the entire CloudAge campaign in a couple of weeks after buying this one with some extra Christmas money. I went ahead and picked up the expansions when I found them on sale… and they add some nice twists to the decision-making.ĬloudAge (7 plays – approx. It’s short, the puzzle is interesting, and I love the chunky wooden pieces. This Christmas present was on my wishlist in hopes that my wife might enjoy it… well, I haven’t got her to play it (yet!), but I’ve become intrigued by playing it solo. (I wrote a review of the new expansions last week for the Opinionated Gamers.) I fully expect this to reach 20+ solo plays by mid-summer. My younger son & I played through both campaigns… and then I played through the same campaigns (5 games each) solo. This excellent game was augmented early in 2021 by the release of the Corruption & Ascension expansion as well as the War or Peace and Leisure & Decadence campaign boxes.
You get four pairs of five-card “packets” (with the option to discard 2 cards in order to look at five & keep one)… which makes for a great solo version of this card-drafting game. It’s a Wonderful World (12 plays – approx.
(Note: this is not necessarily how much I like a particular game for solo play – for example, I think Nemo’s War is a brilliant design but only played it two times this year… so far.) So, what follows are my thoughts on a variety of solo games I’ve played over the past three months – ordered by number of solo plays. But there’s something really satisfying about physically playing a game: shuffling cards, moving pieces, seeing it all spread out in front of you. I know, I know – there are plenty of board game apps on iOS and Steam… and I own many of them. I’ll repeat my same caveat as each previous report: For comparison, the yearly total for 2020 was 19% and for 2019 was 6%. Interestingly, there’s been a LOT more solo gameplay over the past 90 days – almost 45% of my gaming was solo. What you’re reading is the first solo gaming post of this new year – which is, for all but the last week or so of March, before your intrepid writer got his first vaccine shot. …so I decided that I’d continue that trend into 2021 by doing a solo gaming post every four months. I’ve written a good bit about my solo gaming over the last couple of years, both for the Opinionated Gamers and for my personal blog…
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