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.de
Wingspan
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 Lion1 - 4 Players
30 - 120 Minutes
14+ years old
Complexity: hard
Star Realms: Frontiers
Nominated for 1 award.
More details for Star Realms: Frontiers1 - 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.de
Terraforming Mars
Nominated for 26 awards and won 13.
Nominated for Kennerspiel des Jahres 2017
More details for Terraforming Mars1 - 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 Gloomhaven1 - 4 Players
60 - 120 Minutes
14+ years old
Complexity: hard
👍 Good price!133€ at.de
Video 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 Cats1 - 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 Horrified1 - 5 Players
60 Minutes
10+ years old
Complexity: easy
Video reviews for Horrified
PARKS
Nominated for 9 awards and won 2.
More details for PARKS1 - 5 Players
30 - 60 Minutes
10+ years old
Complexity: easy
💸 Too expensive!64€ at.de
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition
Nominated for 9 awards.
More details for Mansions of Madness: Second Edition1 - 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.de
Chronicles of Crime
Nominated for 12 awards and won 3.
More details for Chronicles of Crime1 - 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 Die1 - 5 Players
90 - 120 Minutes
14+ years old
Complexity: easy
💸 Too expensive!169€ at.de
Marvel Champions: The Card Game
Nominated for 11 awards and won 2.
More details for Marvel Champions: The Card Game1 - 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-Earth1 - 5 Players
60 - 120 Minutes
14+ years old
Complexity: medium
💸 Too expensive!79€ at.de
The 7th Continent
Nominated for 17 awards and won 2.
More details for The 7th Continent1 - 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 World1 - 5 Players
30 - 60 Minutes
14+ years old
Complexity: easy
Everdell
Nominated for 8 awards and won 2.
More details for Everdell1 - 4 Players
40 - 80 Minutes
13+ years old
Complexity: medium
Video reviews for Everdell
Sagrada
Nominated for 10 awards.
More details for Sagrada1 - 4 Players
30 - 45 Minutes
14+ years old
Complexity: easy
👍 Good price!28€ at.de
Viticulture 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 Eternal1 - 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.de
Video 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 End1 - 4 Players
60 Minutes
14+ years old
Complexity: medium
🔥 Great price!47€ at.de
Video reviews for Aeon's End
Trails of Tucana
1 - 8 Players
15 Minutes
8+ years old
Complexity: very easy
🔥 Great price!15€ at.de
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