Episodes

Saturday Aug 15, 2020
1P 168 - Arkham Horror: Dream-Eaters
Saturday Aug 15, 2020
Saturday Aug 15, 2020
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.

Saturday Aug 08, 2020
1P 167 - The Challenge of Solo Gaming
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
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!

Sunday Aug 02, 2020
1P 166 - Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
Sunday Aug 02, 2020
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)

Saturday Jul 25, 2020
1P 165 - Caverna: Cave vs. Cave
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
Saturday Jul 25, 2020
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!

Saturday Jul 18, 2020
1P 164 - Spring Meadow
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
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.

Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
1P 163 - Game Art
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
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.

Saturday Jul 04, 2020
1P 162 - Dinogenics
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
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!

Saturday Jun 27, 2020
1P 161 - Alone Among the Stars
Saturday Jun 27, 2020
Saturday Jun 27, 2020
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.

Sunday Jun 21, 2020
1P 160 - Isle of Cats
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
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

Saturday Jun 13, 2020
1P 159 - Fire!
Saturday Jun 13, 2020
Saturday Jun 13, 2020
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!

Sunday Aug 25, 2019
1P 158 - Charterstone
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
In this episode, Albert & Julius discuss the lovely little legacy game, Charterstone. Pretty much that's it.
NOTE: THIS EPISODE IS FULL OF SPOILERS!!

Friday Jul 12, 2019
1P 157 - Dwarf
Friday Jul 12, 2019
Friday Jul 12, 2019
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. :)

Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
1P 156 - A Tale of Two Clanks
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
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.

Friday Dec 28, 2018
1P 155 - Discover: Lands Unknown
Friday Dec 28, 2018
Friday Dec 28, 2018
Albert spent some time playing Discover: Lands Unknown from FFG. We get back together to discuss the game.

Sunday Sep 30, 2018
1P 154 - Five Tribes
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Sunday Sep 30, 2018
Welcome to another instalment of the 1 Player Podcast. In this episode we look at the official solo variant for Five Tribes. This is a fantastic game published by Days of Wonder
- News
- (13:08) Five Tribes (bgg, solo rules)