One Player Two Cats

2019-06-11

Chose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger – A Review Without Spoilers

Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger is an interactive book turned into a board game by changing the medium from paperback to card stacks, and by adding a six sided die, one pawn, one little cube and a board. I had to have a look at it!

2019-06-09

Friday – A Condensed Review

In this short review me and the cats briefly share our thoughts on Friday, a highly regarded deck-building game for one player, designed by Friedemann Friese and released in 2011.

2019-06-08

REVIEW: Hostage Negotiator

Hostage Negotiator is a game for one player created by A.J. Porfirio and released by his publishing company Van Ryder Games in 2015. It was voted best solo game of 2015 by the 1 Player Guild. The game is something of a contemporary solitaire classic and it’s ranked just below the top 200 thematic games on BoardGameGeek. Will it hold up to the scrutiny of cats?

2019-06-06

Review or Boisterous Babble? Judge Dredd – The Cursed Earth

This game’s based on the The Lost Expedition. But instead of a trek through the Amazon its a journey across a wasteland plagued by radiation. I liked The Lost Expedition, but will I enjoy this re-theme as much? Subtle hint in the form of a disclaimer: they didn’t pay me!

2019-06-05

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A Review of After The Virus

I’m sure that dividing a review into three parts, each named after one of the gunslingers in Sergio Leone’s Western classic, has been done before. Another thing that’s been done before is zombie-themed games. But that something isn’t original doesn’t have to mean it’s bad, does it?

2019-06-04

REVIEW: Shahrazad – A Few Thoughts on a Simple Game

Does Shaharazad’s storytelling keep me engaged enough for her to survive my judgement? Read this review and find out?

2019-06-03

REVIEW: The Lost Expedition

In The Lost Expedition you take a team of explorers on a trek through the Amazon in search of a previous expedition that never came back. They were looking for the mythical golden city of El Dorado. Will you find them? Will you find El Dorado? Or will you meet the unknown fate of the previous expedition?

2019-06-01

REVIEW: One Deck Dungeon for One

In our first review me and the cats take a look at One Deck Dungeon, a quick fantasy adventure with lots of dice rolling. Follow us as we descend into the dungeon…

2019-05-31

This is Where We Start

The games above are all lined up, waiting to be judged. Some have been around for a while, others are almost new. One of them, The Gathering Storm, an expansion for Race for the Galaxy that adds solo rules, was released over ten years ago and has been with me for several years. I’ll never get rid of it. The...

2019-05-30

Solo Game Reviews? What’s This About?

It’s about board and card games in general and solitaire (solo) games in particular. Me (Arvid) and my two contributors (the tabby cats Juni and Mysan) will focus on reviewing games that supposedly play well with one player. In the reviews we will share our personal opinions, but we will sometimes also include other voices by quoting or linking to...