Take Some Time For Yourself With These Solo RPGs
Never wonder who in your party is going to mess up the plan and take yourself on an adventure with these solo RPGs.
We can’t always get the party together to go on a quest. And sometimes, we don’t really want to. Sometimes a nice, quiet, solo adventure is just what the doctor ordered. Luckily, these solo RPGs will have you wandering off into the woods on all your own in no time.
The Broken Cask
Starting a business and being elbows deep in spreadsheets seems like a drag, right? What if you could pretend to start an inn and tavern in a fantasy setting? Suddenly those spreadsheets sound like a lot more fun. Run your own fantasy tavern with nothing more than a D6 and a bunch of charts.
The Broken Cask is a solitaire innkeeping roleplaying game. Well what, in the name of the Leaky Cauldron, does all that mean? It means your dining room table covered in papers and charts; it’s slinging dice to find out what happens next; it’s hoping that slowcoach cook of yours can get the next meal out in time for a hefty tip and wondering who will come through the door next.
AdvertisementYou play it with paper and pencil and at least one six-sided die. It may inspire you to imaginative feats and storytelling of your own, or it may just be a good time when you feel like relaxing and playing alone. You will create your inn and innkeeper persona, hire staff, earn gold, expand your inn, trade at the market, send heroes off on adventures, and oh so much more.
Tinyoji
This cozy, rules-light solo RPG will make an adventure-for-one feel like moving into a relaxing, quaint village. Your neighbors are tiny animals, and adventures are more about living a fulfilling life and making and helping friends. It sounds a lot like Animal Crossing without the electronics, and I remember how many hours we all sunk into Animal Crossing a few years ago.
Step away from epic battles and complex rules. Welcome to Tinyoji, a rules-light tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) designed for quiet moments, gentle creativity, and heartfelt stories. If you’re seeking a relaxing, narrative-focused experience you can enjoy solo or with a friend, you’ve found your perfect escape.
In Tinyoji, you take on the role of a villager in a charming hamlet populated by tiny humans, mice, otters, and other delightful folk. Life moves at a gentler pace, shaped by the changing seasons. Your adventures aren’t about slaying dragons, but about the beauty found in everyday moments—tending gardens, baking bread, helping neighbors, and watching the community blossom through your care.
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Deify
In Deify, you can create your own deity, their history, and their entire mythology from the ground up. Instead of dice, this game uses a deck of tarot cards and prompts. And each card will guide you through everything there is to know and create about your deity.
Deify is a captivating creative writing role-play game based on mythology from around the world. Players can create their deity, molding new gods and following their fate from inception to demise. Players can also manage divine resources like domains and navigate written prompts with a tarot deck.
The gameplay follows four phases represented by specific tarot cards: birth, prime, decline, and death. Before players can begin these phases they must create a god. The book presents the important attributes of creating a god and character prompts to aid players in creation. Once players have completed a prompt they can write down the important features of their god in the provided notebook. Players will then begin the game by pulling tarot cards and following the 4 phases of the game.
Loner: Paranormal Files
Taking solo gaming in a spooky direction, in Loner, you are a paranormal investigator without a partner. But you only seem to get the weirdest, creepiest, and possibly most haunted cases. No prep is needed in this game, as you uncover surveillance logs and case files to figure out what’s been going bump in the night.
You are the only line of defense between reality and what leaks through the cracks. In Paranormal Files, you play an agent—freelance or embedded—tasked with investigating the strange, the unexplained, and the deeply classified. One case leads to another, threads fray and converge, and soon the line between fact and fiction begins to dissolve. Who controls the narrative? Who controls the truth?
No prep. No game master. Just you, your notes, and the creeping feeling that you’ve been on this case before.
Solo Game Master’s Guide
Running a game for yourself can be daunting, and it’s easy to find yourself in a dead end. This guide will help with system-neutral tips for avoiding this, as well as suggestions for ways to move yourself and your solo adventure forward. It even includes tons of tables and specific suggestions for soloing through various popular usually-group-adventure TTRPGs.
Geek Gamers: Solo Game Master’s Guide – Create immersive solo RPG experiences with this dedicated guide from the acclaimed host of the Geek Gamers YouTube channel. This long-awaited solo GM guide is a crash course in solo storytelling: a toolkit to help your solo sessions shine as brightly as hers do.
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Lost in the Dark
You’re in a cave; you don’t remember who you are or how you got there, and you’re alone. In Lost in the Dark, you’ll wander through a cave system, revealing various parts of the temple that was there before. Hopefully your memory returns soon, because there is an ancient evil to deal with around here somewhere.
You wake in a cave, with amnesia. While you explore, you slowly discover who you are, and how you became lost. The broken and dangerous cave system reveals part of a temple to a lawful good goddess that befell a calamity. As pieces of your memory return, you realize that you must race against time to help your mentor battle an ancient evil. But, for now, you are alone and Lost in the Dark.
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