1 Player Podcast

This week Julius is out so I have a special guest. A podcast listener, ChrisOkay, comes on the show to talk me into playing Expedition to Newdale. The game will eventually get played by me but that is probably years away. Technically, I did play it a couple of times when I first got it... one solo and one with my son. Chris thinks I should play it sooner and really get it on the ta

This week Julius and I discuss set collection solo games. We each bring three games that we think include set collection in the mechanics and are interesting solo games. Just a footnote here... I am right about Agricola. The first set of three sheep gets you a point. After that, every set of two sheep gets you a point! If you disagree, just let me know. 08:15 Onirim 11:00 Pandemic:

I accidentally used Podbeans AI processing. Let's see how it sounds.. the description below is from their's. Welcome to Episode 334 of the One Player Podcast, where we dive headfirst into the unique game systems of '20 Strong' and 'Solar Sentinels'. Join our host Albert as he navigates through the intriguing mechanics, quality of components, and player strategies of these engaging

This week's game is Dungeon Pages, a roll and write by Jasons Greeno & Tagmire. It's a roll and write dungeon crawl game. It was initially released once over the course of a year. Each week you would get a new dungeon page. Effectively a hero with their set of five dungeons to explore. Each of those pages is a quick campaign game that can be played in under 30 minutes!

This week Julius and I talk about Bullet ♥︎ and, really, Bullet ★. These games are in the style of Bullet Hell video games were bullets are flying all over the place in overwhelming quantities. It's a really fast playing simultaneous play game with a timer. Julius find the timer optional and I appreciate that because it makes the game sound more fun to me. Bullet ♥︎ (BGG)

This week's episode I tell Julius all about the game Red Cathedral, in which you are tasked with helping to build St. Basil's Cathedral in Russia. It's an interesting game with beautiful artwork and a very simple AI for the solo gamer. Fortunately, I did most of the talking this week. Julius's audio was a bit garbled and I was unable to clean it up.

This week Julius and I look at Mathy and try to figure out if the subject adds up for us. We had some conversations I thought were interesting in what makes or doesn't make a mathy game while presenting six different examples. 07:00 Sprawopolis (BGG) 08:50 Castles of Burgundy (BGG) 15:20 Friday (BGG) 17:15 Cartographers (BGG) 19:45 Search for Planet X (BGG) 21:30 Racetrack (mistake

This week Julius and I revisit a classic realtime game... Escape: The Curse of the Temple, in which you Indiana Jones your way out of a cursed temple. Hurry though, you only have 10 minutes! Escape: The Curse of the Temple (BGG, Queen Games)

This week Julius and I talk about Flamecraft, a fun worker placement-ish game of running around being a good dragon. It is actually worker placement but for me it felt more like running around doing errands than like placing workers. Flamecraft (BGG, Cardboard Alchemy)

This week Julius and I look at Cyberion, the latest Oniverse game my Shadi Torbey. It's a cool game about fighting the Devious Cog whose trying to destroy your factory. We really like the Oniverse and send almost an hour discussing this game! Cyberion (BGG)