Campaign Games

If you’re into solo board gaming, you’ve heard about Arkham Horror: The Card Game. It comes up in every “best solo games” thread. It sits at #33 overall on BGG with an 8.12 rating from nearly 48,000 users. Over 370,000 plays have been logged on the site - an enormous number for a card game that needs no randomised booster packs. But you’ve also probably heard the warnings: it’s expensive to collect, the learning curve is steep, true solo is harder than two-handed. Those are all true. This article doesn’t soft-pedal any of that. ...

The Gloomhaven universe sits at the very top of the modern board game canon. Gloomhaven has held a spot in BGG’s top 5 for years. Its successor Frosthaven became the most-funded board game in Kickstarter history at the time of its campaign. And yet somehow Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion - the smaller sibling - is often the smarter buy. Which one should you actually get? That depends entirely on who you are, who you’re playing with, and how much dungeon-crawling chaos you can actually commit to. ...

A giant alien mothership descends toward your city. Five columns of enemy fighters rain down between you and oblivion. Your only weapons? Five dice and whatever you can build in an underground bunker before the sky literally falls. Under Falling Skies is the rare solo-only game that feels like it was born this way rather than bolted on as an afterthought. Designed by Tomáš Uhlíř and published by Czech Games Edition in 2020, it evolved from a 9-card print-and-play contest winner into a full retail release packed with one of the most impressive campaign modes in solo gaming. And it does it all in a box that fits in your coat pocket. ...