1 Player Podcast

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A podcast dedicated to solitaire board gaming, feature game reviews and discussions.

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1P 374 - Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition

Apr 12 2025 34 mins

This week Julius and I talk about the smaller version of Terraforming Mars. Well, one of the smaller versions. The game is the very lovely love-child of Terraforming Mars & Race for the Galaxy, Ares Expedition. In this game, you are working to make Mars a habitable planet by managing the temperature & oxygen levels while raising oceans. The theme is straight out of Terrafor

1P 373 - Harvest

Apr 05 2025 30 mins

This week, we talk about Harvest, the farming game from Keymaster Games, publishers of PARKS. In this game, you are trying to farm and harvest your fields as often as possible. It's a worker placement that can be soloed by playing against Gairy, the Dairy cow. Harvest (BGG, Keymaster Games)

1P 372 - Back to the Table: Lewis & Clark: The Expedition

Mar 22 2025 32 mins

This week Julius takes us back to the table with Lewis & Clark. Go on a slow boat ride accoss the North American continent to explore lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase and explore the yet unclaimed Pacific Northwest. That is, not yet taken from the native populations of the are.

1P 371 - Colostle

Mar 15 2025 37 mins

This week Julius and I explore a RPG about exploring a giant castle. Giant doesn't do this castle justice though. This is a world inside a castle so immense there are seas in it. The castle is filled with room so large there are cities and villages in them. You will wander around exploring and fighting Rooks, massive creatures made of stonework. When you defeat one, you can gain po

1P 370 - Loooooong Games

Mar 01 2025 32 mins

This week Julius and I talk about looooong games. These are games that take 3 or more hours to play! Serioulsy, these are the kind of games I wish I could play more often but find it hard to get out on the table... <sigh> 03:44 7th Continent (BGG) 04:25 Sleeping Gods - Distant Skies (BGG) 08:28 Mr. President: The American Presidency (2001-2020) (BGG) 12:12 Cantalopp (BGG) 15

1P 369 - Fit to Print

Feb 22 2025 35 mins

This week, Julius introduces Fit to Print the newspaper layout game. It actually sounds like a fun game with a timer. In this game, you are buying the best stories and laying out on your newspaper to make the most captivating paper in town! It sounds a big goofy but it also sounds really fun. Also, Final Girl contest reminder! Fit to Print (BGG, AEG)

1P 368 - Free Ride

Feb 15 2025 36 mins

This week I tell Julius and the audience all about Free Ride, the train game by Friedemann Friese and published by Rio Grande Games. This is a fun pick-up and deliver game with quick turns that includes a solo challenge. Hop aboard and hear all about the game and what I think. Also, listen in for the Final Girl Season 3 giveaway!

1P 367 - Welcome to Reckoning

Feb 08 2025 29 mins

This week Julius tells us about the small game Welcome to Reckoning. This 1 player game by Mike Heiman set in a wild wild west with cosmic horrors. Gotta love those cosmic horrors.

1P 366 - Vinhos

Feb 01 2025 42 mins

This week we talk about a Vital Lacerda big-box game on wine making. The game is the 2016 release of Vinhos: Deluxe Edition. It's a fun game that lets produce wine, compete in wine fairs, sell and export. All this in an effort to become the pre-eminent wine producer of Portugal. It's a pretty neat game with an interesting theme but maybe too big for me. Vinhos: Deluxe Edition (BGG

1P 365 - Popular Mechanics: The Year

Jan 25 2025 25 mins

This week, we look at a year of gaming. Well, sorta. We look at games that have a year in them or somehow use the flow of time in them. It was harder than expected, but we found a few games that do have a pretty decent sense of time passing. Check out the sample fancy map someone drew for Cartographers: 02:30 Creature Comforts (BGG, KTBG) 04:30 Project Ecco (RPG Geek, More Bluebe