1 Player Podcast

A very light wargame set in an alternate timelean Pocket Landships is.  Sorry, Yodaspeak but this is a neat dice chucking game of fighting steam powered mecha with a big ol' diesel tank.  Fun it is so check out the review.

• Pocket Landships (BGG)
• Pocket Landships free trial version (BGG)

This week we finally talk about Aerion, the sixth game so far in the Oniverse series.  Shady originally said the hope was to make seven games total so hopefully there is still one more to go. Then they can go back and re-publish Urbion/Equilibrion that hasn't yet been made in the larger box size.

Anyway, Aerion is a dice game similar but not at all like Yahtzee!

• Aerion (BGG, Z-Man)

In this episode Julius and I get Suburbia back to the table.  This game was first covered by Julius way back in episode 95.  That was way back in January of 2016.. wow!  Well, I have now finally played the game though I've had a copy sitting around for a couple of years.  Find out what we think about the game and how it's held up for Julius over the years.

Before we do that though, I am going to super-quickly talk about another 18 card microgame, Scott Alme's Food Chain Island.

• Food Chain Island (BGG)
• Suburbia (BGG)

Julius and I spend some time taking a tour of the world of the 18 Card Microgame.  This neat little sub-genre is full of all sorts of neat little games.  These games are usually quick playing and often very creative.

• (10:10) Sprawlopolis (BGG, Button Shy)
• (15:00) Banned Books (BGG, Button Shy)
• (17:38) Ragemore (BGG, Button Shy)
• (19:39) Pentaquark (BGG, Button Shy)
• (24:18) Twins Stars I (BGG, Button Shy) & Twin Stars II (BGG, Button Shy)
• (26:40) SpaceShipped (BGG, Button Shy)
• (29:30) King's Gambit (BGG, Gamecrafter)

I went looking for references to 18 card microgrames for solo play but didn't find anything specific.  Time to go make a geeklist...

Solo Playable 18 Card Microgames

Episode 181!  This time we talk about Proofing Grounds... the game of editorial combat.  I wish... that would be cool!  This is Proving Grounds.. the game of gladiatorial combat!  This is a game designed for exactly 1 player.  Julius give us a detailed run-down and the game sure sounds interesting!

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 Revolt (BGG, Lookout Games)

Oh My Goods! Escape to Canyon Brook (BGG, Lookout Games)

Tybor the Builder (BGG, Lookout Games)

Expedition to Newdale (BGG, Lookout Games)

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 well solo too!

• Lockup: A Roll Player Tale (BGG, Thunderworks)

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 Design Contest (BGG)

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 three cards or are different in all three cards - simple and fun!

• SET (BGG, Publisher)
• Official daily on-line puzzle
• Set Mania solo game (Android, IOS)
• Set Pro HD multiplayer (IOS)

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 games
• Chain of Generosity
• Trade it Forward
• 2020 Challenge Coin
• Solitaire Print and Play contest
• Solo variants
  • Carcassone
  • Pandemic - not solo specific but a COVID-19 variant from GMT
  • Civilization
• Facebook solo group

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.

• Pandemic: Rapid Response (BGG, Publisher)
• Timer song to use with the game (BGG)

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.

Thousand Year Old Vampire (RPG Geek, designer's page)

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)