1 Player Podcast

1P 174 - Pandemic: Rapid Response

In this episode Julius and I discuss the game Team Pandemic.  Also known as Pandemic: Rapid Response.  This is a hectic timed game in which players are producing plastic cubes to deliver to cities around the world.  Each city has different needs as to what color cubes will solve their crisis so players are working at a hectic pace to produce the correct cubes while they fly around the world.

 

• Pandemic: Rapid Response (BGG, Publisher)
• Timer song to use with the game (BGG)

1P 173 - Villagers

In this episode Julius and I look what it takes to grow a village.  Turns out isn't that hard and can be done on your own.  The game Villagers is a fun drafting game from Sinister Fish games for 1-5 players.

 

• Villagers (BGG, SInister Fish)
• Streets by Sinister Fish (Kickstarter)

1P 172 - Thousand Year Old Vampire

In this episode I talk about Thousand Year Old Vampire, the self published game by Tim Hutchings.  This very cool solo RPG won three Ennie awards this year!  In it you play vampire struggling with the passage of time and how we remember things.  It's an excellent game worth checking out, not just because of the unique gameplay, but also because of the excellent production quality.  I quite like it.

 

Thousand Year Old Vampire (RPG Geek, designer's page)

1P 171 - Dream-Eaters, Pt.2

In this spoiler-ific episode, Julius tells us all about the Dreamlands half of the Dream-Eaters campaign for Arkham Horror.  It sounds interesting, but not as much as the other half.

 

• Arkham-Horror: The Dream-Eaters (FFG)

1P 170 - Deck of Wonders interview

Welcome to another episode! This time around, Albert interviews Dennis Furia, the designer of Deck of Wonders, which is on Kickstarter right now.

This game has a nice M:TG feel to it in that you are fighting a battle against an enemy by summoning minions to fight for you.  However, what is really cool here is that this game is designed for solo play and does a very good job of giving you an interesting game experience.

It's on KS right now and worth looking into.

• Deck of Wonders (BGG, Publisher, Kickstarter)
• Tabletop Simulator demo instructions

1P 169 - Nubia: Egypt's BlackHeirs

In the latest episode Albert & Julius discuss the White Dog Games title, Nubia: Egypt's Black Heirs.  This is a States of Siege style game designed by R Ben Madison and quite fun.

 

Nubia on BGG

Nubia at White Dog Games

1P 168 - Arkham Horror: Dream-Eaters

In this episode Julius talks about the latest completed Arkham Horror Cycle, the Dream-Eaters (whose name I have trouble getting straight).  This cool campaign takes players to Lovecraft's Dreamlands, though Julius and I will focus our discussion on the waking world, for now and visit the Dreamlands in an upcoming show.

1P 167 - The Challenge of Solo Gaming

a.k.a., how to play with distractions.  Distractions are annoying regardless the number of players.  It's only really a problem though with solo gaming.  What do you do when your kids or your cat show up?  You panic!

 

My Lord of the Rings box at YouTube.

1P 166 - Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale

In this episode we discuss the draw and write game Cartographers.  A Roll Player game without any rolling!  It does have some fun map-making though.

 

• Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale (publisher, BGG)

1P 165 - Caverna: Cave vs. Cave

In this 2nd and final episode of the Summer of Uwe, we look at the 2 player game Caverna 2: Cave vs. Cave which includes solitaire rules.  In this cool little worker placement game, you get to build an empire for your clan of dwarves, all in about 30 minutes!

 

But wait, there's more!  We then talk about the expansion which let's you play for another quick 30 minutes!

1P 164 - Spring Meadow

In this latest episode, the 1st episode in the "Summer of Uwe", we discuss the Puzzle Trilogy game Spring Meadow. It's a light polyomino laying game in which you are trying to maximize your score while hiking in a meadow and defrosting the ground.

1P 163 - Game Art

In this episode, probably for the first time ever, we don't review a game - gosh!  Instead, we talk about game art and art in games.  It's a fun conversation and I for one enjoyed it.  However, we do briefly, oh so briefly, talk about solo RPG products.

 

• 1000 Year Old Vampire (RPG Geek, Publisher)
• Our Innermost Thoughts (KS) by Travis Hill

1P 162 - Dinogenics

Rwarrrrr!  In this episode we talk about dinosaur parks in South America.  More specifically, we talk about the game Dinogenics were you can run your own park!

 

* Dinogenics (BGG, publisher)

1P 161 - Alone Among the Stars

In our latest episode, we look at the solo journaling RPG Alone Among the Stars.  It's a neat little game were you write super-short journal entries about your journey through space as you visit planets and see strange new sites.

I posted my session as a blog entry here.

• Alone Among the Stars on itch.io
• itch.io tags
  • solo-rpg
  • singleplayer
  • journaling
• Kickstarter Zine-quest games

1P 160 - Isle of Cats

In this episode we talk all about cats.  Well, all about the cats of Isle of Cats, a very fun tile laying game by Frank West and published by The City of Games.

 

• Isle of Cats (Publisher, BGG)
• Isle of Cats (remote edition)
• Online version of game