A BGG user has recently posted a new solitaire variant for Roads & Boats on BGG that aims to provide a more “full” solo experience than the normal 20-turn puzzles. It consists of two modules: This page contains a quick and dirty implementation of the second module (based on v3 of the variant) for those …
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I just got Rival Cities in the other day and thought it would have been great if a solo mode would have been in the box. Since there isn’t, I of course started creating one myself 😀 This is still in development, but it plays surprisingly well for a first attempt. I will continue to tweak …
As part of my continued deep dive into Splotter titles, I finally got myself a copy of Bus as well. Since I wasn’t sure when I would be able to get it to the table, I started designing another solo mode as I’ve done with Horseless Carriage and Indonesia. It’s still in an early stage and …
I just started playing Creature Caravan but didn’t like the automa that comes in the box. It doesn’t use its card effects, it doesn’t really interact with the player except for the side boards, and it took me a bit too much out of my own turn. And in the end it’s rather random which …
I ran into a number of situations where the automa behaved oddly. So here is an attempt to patch them a bit with minimal rules tweaks or clarifications. I’ll update this post as I evolve the automa changes. Hope you like them! Last updated: Sep 1, 2024 General Barbarian (Yellow) Climber (green) Pirate (blue) No …
With the release of the first expansion “Roads of Fortune”, I’m bringing Foundation of Rome more regularly back to the table and am once again realising: the official solo mode “Gardens of Ceres” still isn’t that appealing to me. Before designing a completely new automa, I wanted to give Ceres a few more tries and …
I recently picked up a copy of Splotter’s Indonesia but faced a similar problem to when I got Horseless Carriage: I’m super intrigued but have a hard time to get this to the table with my group of friends. It’s got a long play time, requires repeated plays, graphics are … well … “Splotter-esque”. So …
Redwood is a super cute select-pattern-and-move game about photographing animals. The solo scenarios that come in the box didn’t feel that exciting to me though, so here is my attempt at an alternate solo mode. It can also be used to spice up the competition with low player counts. I’ll update this post as I …
I was quite disappointed to realise Last Light has no solo mode, so I started creating my own. It’s still under development, but today it produced the first session where it seemed competitive and actually created some nice battles. I’m mainly aiming for full support of all rules/techs/factions, no extra components, and ease of use. …
For me, the the only flaw the excellent Horseless Carriage has is that my friends won’t play it nearly often enough with me! So I designed an automa that can be used both for solo play as well as a third when playing with two players. There are still some elements that need tweaking and …