The best board games you can play by yourself 2021
It's not always easy to find teammates and then get them to the same table on the same night. Fortunately, many games have special rules that make board games playable for 1 person alone. Some games are even designed for one player (e.g. Friday or The negotiator - we have created a separate list for these games: The best games you can only play solo).
Some games go a different way and include a solo campaign or a so-called automa opponent, which is controlled (semi-)automatically by special game rules (e.g. Scythe or Wingspan).
Solo games are many, for example from the strategy board games for 1 person, card games for one, logic games for 1, solo dice games, single-player board games with story and many more single-player board games.
Games with other number of players desired?
You can play board games, card games and dice games with a wide variety of players - even alone. We created many lists for every special number of players or player range. You find our "by number of players"-lists below.
List of the best games 2021 that you can (also) play alone:
Enclosed are the best board games you can play alone and buy 2021:
MicroMacro: Crime City
1 - 4 Players
15 - 45 Minutes
10+ years old
Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!26€ at
.deWingspan
- 1 - 5 Players
- 40 - 70 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Wingspan
Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
Nominated for 1 award and won 1.
More details for Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: hard
Star Realms: Frontiers
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Star Realms: Frontiers- 1 - 4 Players
- 20 - 45 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Cartographers
- 1 - 100 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
🔥 Great price!15€ at.deTerraforming Mars
Nominated for 26 awards and won 13.
Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2017
More details for Terraforming Mars- 1 - 5 Players
- 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Video reviews for Terraforming Mars
Gloomhaven
Nominated for 21 awards and won 10.
More details for Gloomhaven- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: hard
👍 Good price!133€ at.deVideo reviews for Gloomhaven
Welcome To...
Nominated for 11 awards and won 2.
More details for Welcome To...- 1 - 100 Players
- 25 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Welcome To...
The Isle of Cats
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for The Isle of Cats- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for The Isle of Cats
That's Pretty Clever!
Nominated for 8 awards and won 1.
Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2018
More details for That's Pretty Clever!- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Horrified
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for Horrified- 1 - 5 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Horrified
PARKS
Nominated for 9 awards and won 2.
More details for PARKS- 1 - 5 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 10+ years old
- Complexity: easy
💸 Too expensive!64€ at.deMansions of Madness: Second Edition
Nominated for 9 awards.
More details for Mansions of Madness: Second Edition- 1 - 5 Players
- 120 - 180 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Forgotten Waters
- 3 - 7 Players
- 120 - 240 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!48€ at.deChronicles of Crime
Nominated for 12 awards and won 3.
More details for Chronicles of Crime- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Chronicles of Crime
Cthulhu: Death May Die
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for Cthulhu: Death May Die- 1 - 5 Players
- 90 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
💸 Too expensive!169€ at.deMarvel Champions: The Card Game
Nominated for 11 awards and won 2.
More details for Marvel Champions: The Card Game- 1 - 4 Players
- 45 - 90 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Video reviews for Marvel Champions: The Card Game
The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth
Nominated for 4 awards.
More details for The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth- 1 - 5 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
💸 Too expensive!79€ at.deThe 7th Continent
Nominated for 17 awards and won 2.
More details for The 7th Continent- 1 - 4 Players
- 5 - 1000 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
It's a Wonderful World
Nominated for 7 awards and won 1.
More details for It's a Wonderful World- 1 - 5 Players
- 30 - 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Everdell
Nominated for 8 awards and won 2.
More details for Everdell- 1 - 4 Players
- 40 - 80 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Video reviews for Everdell
Sagrada
Nominated for 10 awards.
More details for Sagrada- 1 - 4 Players
- 30 - 45 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!28€ at.deViticulture Essential Edition
- 1 - 6 Players
- 45 - 90 Minutes
- 13+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Aeon's End: The New Age
- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Video reviews for Aeon's End: The New Age
Frostgrave: Second Edition
- 2 - 8 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 12+ years old
- Complexity: easy
Aeon's End: War Eternal
Nominated for 3 awards.
More details for Aeon's End: War Eternal- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Dune: Imperium
- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 - 120 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Big Box
- 1 - 6 Players
- 10 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
👍 Good price!73€ at.deVideo reviews for Escape: The Curse of the Temple – Big Box
Aeon's End
Nominated for 5 awards.
🔥 Deal: 22% cheaper than the best Geizhals deal, likely for a short time only!More details for Aeon's End- 1 - 4 Players
- 60 Minutes
- 14+ years old
- Complexity: medium
🔥 Great price!47€ at.deVideo reviews for Aeon's End
Trails of Tucana
- 1 - 8 Players
- 15 Minutes
- 8+ years old
- Complexity: very easy
🔥 Great price!15€ at.de
Didn't find the game you were looking for?
We're positive that you'll find it in one of our other lists! To make the search easier for you, we split our website into different categories. The following board game categories will help you find the right list: