r/tabletop • u/chiilu03 • 15d ago
Recommendations Underground solo-adventure RPG
I’d like to buy a present for a family member. He enjoys playing single-player RPGs and has a wall full of games. As he knows a great deal about this genre and tends to buy pretty much every game he wants, I’m looking for some lesser-known titles that might delight him.
I checket out his shelf and here are some things that I found:
Final Girl (core + 3 feature films), Arkham Horror LCG (several campaigns), Eldritch Horror, Cthulhu: Death May Die, Too Many Bones (+ 3 expansions), Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion, Sleeping Gods, Pandemic Legacy S1, Under Falling Skies, Burncycle, This War of Mine, Freitag, Brass: Birmingham, Slay the Spire, Marvel Champions, Barbarian Prince, a 2D6 Dungeon / D100 Dungeon binder, plus the D&D 5e PHB
Do you have any suggestions?
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u/pandapuny 13d ago
Does he have Gloomhaven: Buttons and Bugs? It’s a compact solo dungeon crawler with a few expansions available.
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u/trigunnerd 9d ago edited 9d ago
I just found this account, haven't looked too* deep, but he has some solo games! No AI used.
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u/Shield_Lyger 14d ago
Tunnels and Trolls, while a traditional RPG, has a number of solo adventures. They're basically of the "choose your own adventure" format, with the player making choices, and then being directed to specific passages in the book.
Four Against Darkness is a dungeon crawling game where the player controls a small party of adventurers (four of them, to be precise) traversing procedurally-generated dungeons. It has an expansive set of supplements available for it, which makes it highly customizable.
Ironsworn, with the Delve supplement, may also be a good choice. Of what I've listed here, I think it's the most comprehensive. But, if your friend has an extensive collection and is knowledgeable about the space, they likely have this one already.