1 Player Podcast
A podcast dedicated to solitaire board gaming, feature game reviews and discussions.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 392
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
1P 306 - Wreckland Run
This week Julius tells us about the solo game Wreckland Run. It's a Mad Max kinda world and you are racing around collecting spare parts and building up your arsenal of a car in a short 7 game campai…
1P 305 - Popular Mechanics: Modular Boards
This week Julius and I look at games with modular boards. It's one of my favorite "mechanics" in a game. I really like games where the setup is different each round and it affects how the game play…
1P 304 - PARKS
I was out with COVID so Julius and family picked up my slack and revisited a cool little game called PARKS. Visit the National Parks in a very pretty game with an interesting solo bot. But do they …
1P 302 - Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar
This week I was lost in time. Julius and family picked up my slack and took an anachronistic look at a Jurrasic Park legacy game Jurassic World: The Legacy of Isla Nublar. It sounds like a fun fami…
1P 301 - K2
I've always been curious about this game but have never tried it. Julius does me the curteousy of telling me all about how it works. It sounds like a fun, light and puzzling experience but not as c…
1P 300 - Popular Mechanics - Kickstarter
This episode comes out 12 years to the day after the 1st podcast! Huzzah! Just to liven things up a bit, Julius and I decided to do something a bit different (just a bit) and make this popular mech…
1P 299 - Back to the Table - Space Hulk: Death Angel
This week Julius and I get Space Hulk: Death Angel back to the table. This is the classic game of dying a brutal death and just watching your team of Space Marines get decimated by a bunch of alien …
1P 298 - Legacy of Yu
This week Julius and I talk about Legacy of Yu, from Shem Phillips and Garphill Games. This is part of their Ancients Anthology collection by the same designer. Unlike those games, this game is mad…
1P 297 - Black Angel
This week we revisit a mechanic Julius quite likes in the form of a game called Black Angel. Honestly though, we don't talk about that mechanic much at all. The mechanic in question is a scrolling …
1P 296 - Fabled Lands
This week we look at a classic fantasy gamebook from the 90s, or more accurately, we look at a few books in the Fabled Lands series. These are some rather unique gamebooks in that they are open ende…
1P 295 - Popular Mechanics: Variable Character Stats
This week we are back to Popular Mechanics. Well, sort of. I'm back but Julius is on vacation so I have a special guest. It's the return of Deborah from Geek Gamers! She chose the episode's mechani…
1P 294 - Merchants of the Dark Road
Let's take a look at Merchants of the Dark Road. This is a 1-4 player competitive game that includes an automa for solo play. It's a beautiful looking game with lots of shiny components (if you get…
1P 293 - The Battle at Kemble’s Cascade
This week we talk about the vertical scrolling, space shoot-em up game, The Battle at Kemble's Cascade. Don't worry though. This isn't a video game but a board game with a theme of a space shooter …
1P 292 - Vagrantsong
This week Julius talks about the Wyrd Miniatures game, Vagrantsong. The publisher is known for making miniatures games but this one uses plastic standies instead. This is a tactical combat game wit…
1P 291 - Resist!
This week Julius tells me all about the game Resist!. This is a game about the Spanish maquis during the Spanish Revolution. You take control of a number of maquis and complete missions by fighting…
1P 290 - Popular Mechanic: One and Done
This week Julius and I finally return to our Popular Mechanic series. In this brief episode, we talk about games that are "one and done". Basically you play the game once and then can move on from…
1P 289 - Solo Game Master’s Guide
This week we have a very special episode. I have a nice long chat with Deborah, the host of the Geek Gamers YouTube channel. We talk about all sorts of things including her channel, playing RPGs s…
1P 288 - Stellarion
This is the final episode in our Oniverse series. Fittingly, it ends with us visiting more of the Oniverse in the way of voyages to other galaxies... well, sorta. In this game, you don't travel anyw…
1P 287 - Aerion
As Julius and I make our way through the Oniverse, we've caught a breeze and ended up in the lands of Aerion where we are charged with making flying machines. This is a Yahtzee like game in which yo…