Best solo board games

Find standalone games recommended for 1 players, with rules assistance and available scenario narration. Selection follows the BoardGameGeek community player-count poll; order follows overall BoardGameGeek rank.

5,118 games

Ranked games appear first, followed by games without a BGG rank.

BGG rank: BGG #10,053
BGG rating: 7.8

Holdfast: EastFront 1941-45

1–2 players
60–300 min
Complexity 2.2/5
2017

BGG rank: BGG #10,055
BGG rating: 7.4

Bitter End: Attack to Budapest, 1945

1–2 players
240 min
Complexity 3.0/5
2005

BGG rank: BGG #10,056
BGG rating: 6.2

Deckscape: In Wonderland

1–6 players
60 min
Complexity 1.5/5
2022

BGG rank: BGG #10,060
BGG rating: 6.7

Rolling Village

1–12 players
10–15 min
Complexity 1.6/5
2022

BGG rank: BGG #10,068
BGG rating: 6.4

Kluster Duo

1–2 players
10–20 min
Complexity 1.0/5
2023

BGG rank: BGG #10,069
BGG rating: 7.3

Odyseja

1–6 players
15–30 min
Complexity 1.3/5
2019

BGG rank: BGG #10,072
BGG rating: 6.4

Smoothies

1–4 players
30 min
Complexity 1.7/5
2019

BGG rank: BGG #10,078
BGG rating: 7.4

Beda Fomm

1–2 players
120 min
Complexity 2.5/5
2010

BGG rank: BGG #10,081
BGG rating: 6.5

Blight Chronicles: Agent Decker

1 player
60–180 min
Complexity 2.2/5
2019

BGG rank: BGG #10,082
BGG rating: 5.9

Adventure Games: The Volcanic Island

1–4 players
75–200 min
Complexity 2.1/5
2019

BGG rank: BGG #10,087
BGG rating: 7.8

Timespan

1–5 players
90 min
Complexity 2.8/5
2026

BGG rank: BGG #10,088
BGG rating: 7.9

The Night

1 player
60–120 min
Complexity 1.8/5
2022

BGG rank: BGG #10,089
BGG rating: 6.4

Unlock!: Short Adventures – The Song of the Sea Spray

1–6 players
30–45 min
Complexity 2.0/5
2025

BGG rank: BGG #10,096
BGG rating: 7.8

Z War One: Damnation

1–5 players
40–120 min
Complexity 2.7/5
2016

BGG rank: BGG #10,098
BGG rating: 7.9

Air Postal

1–4 players
45–120 min
Complexity 2.5/5
2023

BGG rank: BGG #10,107
BGG rating: 7.3

Stellar Drift: Pull & Write

1–5 players
30–45 min
Complexity 2.4/5
2024

BGG rank: BGG #10,117
BGG rating: 6.6

Mountaineers

1–4 players
30–120 min
Complexity 2.3/5
2019

BGG rank: BGG #10,122
BGG rating: 7.8

52 Duels

1–2 players
20–30 min
Complexity 1.7/5
2025

BGG rank: BGG #10,129
BGG rating: 7.5

My First Adventure: Finding the Dragon

1–5 players
10–20 min
Complexity 1.0/5
2018

BGG rank: BGG #10,135
BGG rating: 7.3

Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons – Ravenloft

1–5 players
60 min
Complexity 2.0/5
2026

BGG rank: BGG #10,141
BGG rating: 8.0

A Victory Awaits: Operation Barbarossa 1941

1–8 players
180–900 min
Complexity 2.6/5
2022

BGG rank: BGG #10,146
BGG rating: 7.4

Sleeping Gods: Primeval Peril

1–2 players
120–240 min
Complexity 3.5/5
2020

BGG rank: BGG #10,148
BGG rating: 7.0

Micro Rome

1 player
30 min
Complexity 1.3/5
2023

BGG rank: BGG #10,158
BGG rating: 6.6

The Daedalus Sentence

1–4 players
45–60 min
Complexity 2.0/5
2016

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