Top 10 Solo Board Games of 2022

Honoured to see Lands of Galzyr on your list! Hopefully it keeps delighting after repeated plays. 😊

Thanks for your review! I’ve not heard of several of these games but it’s always good to get new ideas. Thank you for showing the actual game and components rather than just holding up a game box like so many other reviewers.

My issue with Endless Winter was that, for the play time and teach it just wasn't interesting enough. I'd rather play something else. Solo was a LOT better (no teach!) but there's no challenge to the solo, even in hard mode.

TOP 12. 🤫🤫🤫

Lands of Galzyr and Endless Winter are great.
I still need to try my copy of Frostpunk.

As expected, impeccable taste, Mr Shags

Thank you for your instructional videos for board games. Reading and understanding instructions is not a strong point for me. I actually base the games I will purchase on your videos. Keep up the good work!

Interesting list. Quite a few not mentioned by other peoples list. Very good.

I can't find resist! Anywhere

Great list of games! Glad to see Merchants of the Dark Road made it, excellent game! Keep up the great work on the videos!

Interesting list, thanks for sharing. I've got an eye of Lands of Galzyr so will be following your channel to see if you do any playthroughs and whether it holds its appeal.

This is a great video! Most “single player” game videos stick with games that are specifically for 1 person. I am much more interested in these bigger competitive/co-ops that have great single player A.I.’s. Right now I’m play Great Western Trail (new to me), Now or Never, and Expedition to Newdale (this one is tough!)- all with simple to play but challenging automas. Thanks for all the new game suggestions!

Nice list! I would add Ascension Tactics to my list, but otherwise you have most 2022 games on here I played solo (and a few that's not available yet where I live rip...)

My Top Board Games Solo in 2022':
1. Etherfields
2. Pax Pamir
3. Bonfire
4. Mage Knight
5. Diuna: Imperium z dodatkiem
6. Anachrony
7. Scythe
8. This War of Mine
9. 51 Stan - ale wersję solo sobie zmodyfikowałem :D
10. Nemesis

Endless winter is the epitome of whats wrong with a lot of kickstarter games.

Great vid, I really enjoyed Final Girl

Have you tried Tiletum? I'm guessing you haven't as it probably would have been on the list. :-)

Shocked Sleeping Gods wasn't on here!

Hey, found your channel through the TWOM playthroughs. I haven't decided on buying it yet (currently loving the theme and mechanics but apprehensive at the punishing nature of the game), but your videos are definitely helping me. I watched a couple more of your videos, including this one, and I'm really loving what I see. Thank you for the great content. Subscribed!

I totally agree about Ark Nova; for me it absolutely lived up to the hype. I find even on easy level, the solo mode is a good challenge on the numbered maps. Would certainly love to see you do a play through of John Company 2nd Ed sometime! A really interesting an unique game.

Could you please stop recommendiung Zombie Carnival? My Local store has a copy and every time im there im thinking about picking it up ;_;

congrats on your first year. your content is really great.
that honest happiness in your voice when you talk about games you like and how you present the games is top notch.
keep on gaming!

I played Carnegie solo after seeing how easy it was after watching your video, and it is stellar. I'm really happy with solo modes for games that are really low maintenance but offer logic choices for the ai. Some of them include Carnegie, Black Angel and Bonfire.

Just found your channel and it was an insta subscribe! You have such a good vibe dude! Keep up the great work!! 💕 excited to see what 2023 brings for you!

Great vidéo as usual!!!!
Regards frome France🇨🇵❤

Just discovered your channel looking for Carnegie solo. Thanks!

Great video Shaggi, your recommendations in the last year have been super helpful, looking forward to all the new content, including Frostpunk; Elements of TWOM and Robinson C? Amazing! Cannot wait! Thanks for all the extra work you do ensuring your videos LOOK good. Really makes all the difference.

Great, high quality channel! Love your attention to solo too 👍

Is Endless Winter solo AI exceedingly easy? I have heard this from several folks

Have you checked out Hoplomachus Victorum? I'm pretty stoked about this one coming. Solo from the ground up!

Where can I find a copy of Resist!?

My favorite 2022 solo mode that I played this year is going to have to be Keep the Heroes Out, with Oak and Spire' End: Hildegard a close second. Thanks for the list!

I enjoy Endless Winter solo. More than I expected.

Oh man I hope we can get a playthrough of frostpunk then.

Regretfully I found Weather Machine too mechanism driven for me; and I have Lesboa and On Mars. It lacked a strong thermatic grounding for me. It is perhaps, a rising conclusion that Lacerda is just getting too complex with the mechanics of his games. But that is me. The art is amazing thoe! For sure!

It was really enjoyable to discover your list. I am happy to see Endless Winter have a nice spot. Your top 1 is really making me curious. Haven’t seen this one mentioned a lot and I also love Robinson Crusoe so might be right up my alley

Great list! So glad I discovered your channel this last year, I feel like my tastes seem to line up with yours a lot, so it’s nice to find playthroughs and learn all these games I’ve been picking up. I’ve particularly been helped by your videos on Carnegie, Weather Machine and Endless Winter. Keep it up, I’ll definitely be watching each new video.

merchants of the dark road wowo beautiful , the woodcraft surely future purchase :) thank for video

Killa video as usual Shaggy 👌

Hi Shaggy, just wanted to drop another comment to say how great this video was! I love the video game Frostpunk, so it would be cool to see you make a playthrough on that. Another big request that I have is that you try and get your hands on Nemesis: Lockdown. It’s the sequel to Nemesis, which was in your top 50 video. I love the nemesis series and got my hands on it a while back. It would be great if you could try to get your hands on it, and do a solo playthrough. The solo gameplay is surprisingly good, although the suspense of the typical semi co-op ist naturally where the game performs best. I’ve tried to find playthroughs on YT, but besides NRB’s video (which was great), there was little content on it, and none as clean and well-produced as your videos. Since I know it’s quite expensive, I would offer to ship mine to you, but I’m afraid that you would want to keep it after you played it 😂 (just kidding of course!)
Furthermore, I just want to say thanks for the content of the last year, and how glad I am to have found your channel. I hope you had a great christmas and an even better new year. To another year of solo boardgaming!

Great video! Here's my take on your list. Woodcraft - Love Suchy but not excited for the theme. Very curios about Lands of Galzyr but why anthropomorphic animals :( ? Resist - I'll get the second printing for sure. Endless Winter - some of the solo feedback (too easy) and generic feedback (you get to do everything) put me off of this one even though it's in my ballpark. Carnegie was instant love. Weather Machine - huge Lacerda fan also but the theme didn't connect with me on this one. Ark Nova - I disagree with something you said here. You said the solo doesn't get in your way. The reason I made my own solo variant is exactly because I think the in-box solo gets in your way with how the breaks work. But the game is in my top 3 ever. Frostpunk - I don't know what to think about this one, the theme is meh for me but I'm curious about it.

Happy New Year!

Ooh I'm intrigued by Frostpunk, I enjoyed the video game despite being pretty bad at it lol

oh wow frostpunk is shipping??? can't wait for it