Top 90 solo board games
All 90 games below support one player. Compare their playing times, complexity, and trade-offs to choose your next solo game.
Ranked by Game Rating, our editorial rating out of 100. Equal scores share a rank. Ranks are within this solo selection and use overall game scores. Times shown are the listed game ranges.
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Heat: Pedal to the Metal
Shift gears, hold the line, pass on the inside.
Before you choose: Table talk can slow things if the group isn't crisp
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Lost Ruins of Arnak
An expedition to a lost island, with two archaeologists and never quite enough time.
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Sagrada
Draft colored dice to build a stained-glass window, one careful placement at a time.
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Planet Unknown
Spin a lazy Susan of tiles and settle a new world at the same time as everyone else.
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SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Run a space agency and hunt for alien life across a solar system that keeps turning.
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Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale
Draw a kingdom on paper while your neighbors sketch monsters into it.
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Next Station: London
Draw your own Tube map with colored pencils and a stack of station cards.
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Viticulture Essential Edition
Inherit a modest Tuscan vineyard and try to make something worth the label.
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Dorfromantik: The Board Game
A cooperative tile game about building a quiet countryside and beating your own best score.
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Next Station: Tokyo
The pencils and station cards of London, plus a printed loop line that asks more of you.
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Meadow
A nature walk in card form, built from overlapping cards and carefully placed path tokens.
Read review73OUT OF 100 - 31
Dune: Imperium Uprising
Deck-building meets worker placement on Arrakis, now with spies and sandworms.
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Clans of Caledonia
Run a Scottish clan in the age of industry and let the market do the arguing.
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Sleeping Gods
A storybook sea voyage in 1929, with a lost crew, a steamship and twenty-six pages of map.
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Pax Pamir: Second Edition
You are not Britain or Russia, just a local trying to survive their Great Game.
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Paladins of the West Kingdom
Hold a 9th-century frontier with strength, faith or influence, and rarely enough of any.
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Revive
Wake your tribe from hibernation and race to resettle the great sites of a lost world.
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Anachrony
Borrow resources from your future self, then hope you remember to pay them back.
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Architects of the West Kingdom
Build for the king, and feel free to round up your rivals' workers on the way.
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The Guild of Merchant Explorers
Spread your cubes across a kingdom, wipe most of them away, and do it better next era.
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Merchants of the Dark Road
Drive a merchant wagon through thirteen weeks of winter dark, and keep money and prestige in step.
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Aeon's End
A co-op deck-builder that never shuffles, so every mistake comes back on schedule.
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Ierusalem: Anno Domini
A card game set in Jerusalem in AD 33, where your followers seek seats at the Last Supper.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
A co-op card game through Middle-earth, with decks built before play and the game playing the enemy.
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Nucleum
Rails, turbines and alternate-history nuclear power in a dense euro for serious planners.
Read review67OUT OF 100 - 57
The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game
Eighteen chapters of Tolkien, told through cooperative tricks.
Read review67OUT OF 100 - 57
Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island
Shipwrecked, short of food and one bad card from disaster.
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Twilight Inscription
The Twilight Imperium galaxy as a roll-and-write, with four sheets and a lot to track.
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Between Two Cities
Build two cities with two different neighbors, and score only the weaker one.
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Slay the Spire: The Board Game
The deck-building video game comes to the tabletop, and the party climbs or falls together.
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Long Shot: The Dice Game
Buy, back and meddle with eight horses in a 1930s race that rarely goes to plan.
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Fields of Arle
A long year on the East Frisian marshes, with peat, dikes and patient horses.
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Earthborne Rangers
A card campaign in a wild valley, where a good ranger befriends as much as they overcome.
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Cozy Stickerville
Ten in-game years, over 800 stickers, and a village that is yours to keep.
Read review65OUT OF 100 - 68
Tiletum
Every die you draft sets your income and your action at once in this Renaissance trading puzzle.
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Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Read the morning paper, pick your leads, and see how you stack up against Holmes.
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The Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Build a ridiculous castle one room at a time, at prices set by your rivals.
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Trek 12: Himalaya
Roll two dice, pick your math, and climb the mountain one number at a time.
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Voidfall
A very heavy space empire game that swaps dice for nine Focus cards and hard choices.
Read review64OUT OF 100 - 76
Praga Caput Regni
Rebuild medieval Prague from a rotating action crane that will not let you get comfortable.
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Lacrimosa
A heavy card game about hiring composers to finish the Requiem Mozart left undone.
Read review63OUT OF 100 - 82
Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition
Terraforming Mars boiled down to a card game where everyone picks phases at the same moment.
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