Nice Work, great video: I would also mention others worth looking at: Fear of the Dark, The New Nightwatch: Blood & Bone from Patrick Todoroff, Vyrmhack from Feral Indie, Brutality, Forbidden Psalm, and Sellswords & Spellslingers.
One wargame featuring solo play rules that’s fairly recent is Joseph McCullough’s the Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror from Osprey Games. I’ve painted up the First British Unit and the First French Unit, (which I gave to my younger brother along with the rulebook, hoping that we will soon be able to play together.) The idea between co-op play and solo play is brilliant: in co-op play you will be playing, say, the British or the Russians, while your opponent might be playing the French or the Prussians. You will both be trying to get your hands on magical artifacts that may help in the fight against “the Harvestmen,” (the beings who are responsible for the rise of the vampires, werewolves, ghouls, etc.) But, in solo play, it’s simply your unit vs. the monsters. I would recommend this game to anyone who likes either Napoleonic history, (although there’s not much in the area of actual history in the game,) or classic gothic horror stories such as Frankenstein, (which, ironically was written during the Napoleonic era,) or Dracula.
I have been playing the solo expansion for Relicblade, Catacombs of Kural. It's tough as heck, but quite a lot of fun. Also, not sure if this really counts, but I have been playing a lot of Hero Quest with the app playing the Evil Wizard. It's pretty basic, but very nostalgic and very easy to get a game together.
What's recommended for someone who doesn't yet know if she likes miniatures games and therefore has none yet? I prefer SciFi over fantasy but will try either
I got County Road Z and it looks really fun, especially the base building part. I haven't played it yet as I'm very slowly getting all the terrain ready, but I'm hoping by the time I'm done with that I'll be most of the way towards being able to play Don't Look Back and Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. I hadn't heard of The Doomed before, I'll have to check that out.
In addition to the above, other solo mini games that I've acquired lately: Insurgent Earth (alien invasion in a modern setting), Warlord Ascendant (dark low-magic fantasy), Nightwatch: Blood and Bone (fantasy monster hunting) and Chrome Hammer Ascension (Cyber-fantasy like Shadowrun).
bug hunt sounds great. I don't care for character backgrounds and story building. I like objectives and a good solid rule set. However I like the the whole credit system when jumping from turn to turn in 5 Par Secs.
A cool list. I will check a few of these titles. Have you played The Silver Bayonet, Rangers of Shadow Deep or Frostgrave in solo mode? They are all fun and from Modiphius.
Surprised you didnt cover Zombicide! Great game you can play solo or with others. Has tons of versions with expansion for each core version. Also comes with minatures and a game board! So no fiddling trying to buy extra things
Nice Work, great video: I would also mention others worth looking at: Fear of the Dark, The New Nightwatch: Blood & Bone from Patrick Todoroff, Vyrmhack from Feral Indie, Brutality, Forbidden Psalm, and Sellswords & Spellslingers.
Thanks! Forbidden Psalm was in my first solo game round-up, but I haven't played the others.
Fear of the dark is pretty great, I just wish there was a print on demand option!
The Battletech Aces beta has been fun, looking forward to the full version coming in ‘24.
One wargame featuring solo play rules that’s fairly recent is Joseph McCullough’s the Silver Bayonet: A Wargame of Napoleonic Gothic Horror from Osprey Games. I’ve painted up the First British Unit and the First French Unit, (which I gave to my younger brother along with the rulebook, hoping that we will soon be able to play together.) The idea between co-op play and solo play is brilliant: in co-op play you will be playing, say, the British or the Russians, while your opponent might be playing the French or the Prussians. You will both be trying to get your hands on magical artifacts that may help in the fight against “the Harvestmen,” (the beings who are responsible for the rise of the vampires, werewolves, ghouls, etc.) But, in solo play, it’s simply your unit vs. the monsters. I would recommend this game to anyone who likes either Napoleonic history, (although there’s not much in the area of actual history in the game,) or classic gothic horror stories such as Frankenstein, (which, ironically was written during the Napoleonic era,) or Dracula.
Great list. Thank you for all your hard work.
I have been playing the solo expansion for Relicblade, Catacombs of Kural. It's tough as heck, but quite a lot of fun.
Also, not sure if this really counts, but I have been playing a lot of Hero Quest with the app playing the Evil Wizard. It's pretty basic, but very nostalgic and very easy to get a game together.
Il throw snap ship tactics as a nice miniature solo game out there . Somewhat like a solo Star Wars x wing
Ooh. I may give that a look.
5L/5P/BH ftw!
I'm going to drop so many Aliens and Starship Troopers quotes while playing Bug Hunt.
Could you do a video on solo wargames that are *not* mini agnostic?
County Road Z is still on WGV.
What's recommended for someone who doesn't yet know if she likes miniatures games and therefore has none yet? I prefer SciFi over fantasy but will try either
A bIllion Suns has Single Player Rules as well.
I got County Road Z and it looks really fun, especially the base building part. I haven't played it yet as I'm very slowly getting all the terrain ready, but I'm hoping by the time I'm done with that I'll be most of the way towards being able to play Don't Look Back and Fallout: Wasteland Warfare.
I hadn't heard of The Doomed before, I'll have to check that out.
I stumbled onto Don't Look Back while shopping for County Road Z terrain at Black Site Studio
In addition to the above, other solo mini games that I've acquired lately: Insurgent Earth (alien invasion in a modern setting), Warlord Ascendant (dark low-magic fantasy), Nightwatch: Blood and Bone (fantasy monster hunting) and Chrome Hammer Ascension (Cyber-fantasy like Shadowrun).
Inspired me towards Doomed. Just a few seconds earlier, I made an order, thank you!
bug hunt sounds great. I don't care for character backgrounds and story building. I like objectives and a good solid rule set. However I like the the whole credit system when jumping from turn to turn in 5 Par Secs.
A cool list. I will check a few of these titles. Have you played The Silver Bayonet, Rangers of Shadow Deep or Frostgrave in solo mode? They are all fun and from Modiphius.
Есть ещё рейнджеры глубокой тени и запретный псалом.
What’s up! Nothing like a good solo. You left Battlespace off, it’s a modiphius release as well 😁
I Have your game! My sister bought Rusty Dagger for me and I really like it. I want to make art for it, I`m a graphic designer, can I contact you?
Another great video from you, thanks bro!
Question is Five Parsecs only Solo, or also co-op?
It's primarily solo, but I know there has been expansion material to incorporate other players. One of the expansion books has pvp rules.
Try Deep, Abandoned The Strays Wastelands Highway Hunter, Gatherer and Steampunk Saga
Surprised you didnt cover Zombicide! Great game you can play solo or with others. Has tons of versions with expansion for each core version. Also comes with minatures and a game board! So no fiddling trying to buy extra things
Great vid topic!
Weasels unite!