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 #8,465
BGG rating: 8.1

Battle Commander: Volume I – Napoleon's Italian Campaigns

1–2 players
90–240 min
Complexity 3.9/5
2026

BGG rank: BGG #8,468
BGG rating: 7.2

Pocket Landship: Free Trial Version

1 player
5–20 min
Complexity 1.5/5
2017

BGG rank: BGG #8,474
BGG rating: 8.1

Cavern Shuffle: Maze of the Minotaur

1 player
15 min
Complexity 1.1/5
2024

BGG rank: BGG #8,475
BGG rating: 7.3

Deep Shelf

1–4 players
90–140 min
Complexity 3.9/5
2023

BGG rank: BGG #8,490
BGG rating: 6.3

Unlock!: Escape Adventures – Temple of Ra

1–6 players
60 min
Complexity 3.7/5
2017

BGG rank: BGG #8,492
BGG rating: 7.1

Super-Skill Pinball: Holiday Special

1–4 players
15–45 min
Complexity 2.0/5
2022

BGG rank: BGG #8,494
BGG rating: 6.8

Helionox: The Last Sunset

1–4 players
30–60 min
Complexity 2.4/5
2015

BGG rank: BGG #8,496
BGG rating: 6.7

Cthulhu: A Deck Building Game

1–6 players
45–120 min
Complexity 2.6/5
2016

BGG rank: BGG #8,504
BGG rating: 6.1

Feurio!

1–4 players
30 min
Complexity 2.0/5
2003

BGG rank: BGG #8,507
BGG rating: 6.8

echoes: Die Violine

1–6 players
60 min
Complexity 2.8/5
2022

BGG rank: BGG #8,512
BGG rating: 6.8

BrilliAnts

1–6 players
30–80 min
Complexity 2.3/5
2017

BGG rank: BGG #8,514
BGG rating: 6.5

Dragon Keepers

1–6 players
10–40 min
Complexity 1.6/5
2019

BGG rank: BGG #8,518
BGG rating: 7.3

Picket Duty: Kamikaze Attacks against U.S. Destroyers – Okinawa, 1945

1 player
60–480 min
Complexity 2.9/5
2013

BGG rank: BGG #8,520
BGG rating: 7.2

Victory at Midway: Turning Point of the Pacific War, June 1942

1–2 players
180 min
Complexity 2.3/5
1992

BGG rank: BGG #8,530
BGG rating: 8.1

Die Firmenfeier: Das letzte Fest des Oliver Borgmann

1–6 players
240–300 min
Complexity 2.4/5
2021

BGG rank: BGG #8,533
BGG rating: 6.4

Uluru: Neuer Tumult am Ayers Rock

1–5 players
20 min
Complexity 1.4/5
2013

BGG rank: BGG #8,541
BGG rating: 6.9

Afrika: The North African Campaign, 1940-1942

1–2 players
120–720 min
Complexity 2.5/5
1993

BGG rank: BGG #8,542
BGG rating: 7.5

Ecogon

1–6 players
15–120 min
Complexity 2.1/5
2015

BGG rank: BGG #8,556
BGG rating: 7.8

For What Remains: Streets of Ruin

1–2 players
30–45 min
Complexity 2.7/5
2020

BGG rank: BGG #8,560
BGG rating: 8.4

The Vandermist Dossier

1–5 players
120–210 min
Complexity 2.3/5
2022

BGG rank: BGG #8,562
BGG rating: 7.3

Illumination

1–2 players
45–60 min
Complexity 3.1/5
2021

BGG rank: BGG #8,567
BGG rating: 6.5

Crime Zoom: Bird of Ill Omen

1–6 players
60 min
Complexity 1.5/5
2020

BGG rank: BGG #8,568
BGG rating: 7.5

Phantom Fury

1 player
240 min
Complexity 2.9/5
2011

BGG rank: BGG #8,574
BGG rating: 6.9

ScandalOh!

1–6 players
45–75 min
Complexity 2.9/5
2022

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