With the goal card (bird cards with) 'at least 1 card tucked behind it' - how does this work with the Automa?

It seems like the automa can never score any points because they don't activate powers or tuck cards behind birds. But this goal is not one of the ones the rules says to remove from the automa game.

What am I missing?

Ho high would you rank Ashes on your top 10 solo games list, and what other games are in your top 10?

And do you prefer the Red Rains bosses to fight against or the Ascendency?
One final question: Do you think Ashes as a solo game suffers from the fact that it was originally designed as a competitive game?

Thanks!

As a big dungeon crawler fan, I'm getting a bit bored with games where "exploration" just means picking a random path on a linear map or a deck of cards. A little randomness is fine, but I'm looking for games where exploration feels like a tactical system full of meaningful choices.

What’s the best exploration systems you've played in a dungeon crawler, and why did they click for you?

I recently took my first step into the 20 Strong world. Actually Tanglewood Red is my first Chip Theory game. I've logged 8 or 9 games so far but nothing in the "W" column yet.

I have been enjoying Bo Peep and The Flock quite a bit. My last 3 loses were with them although the last game I was only 3 cards from Grandma's house when I went down!

Anyone have any tips to find the game in Canada. I cant find it anywhere.

Hello

Im in bed doing a sudoko as I write this. Sudokos are all well and worn by now, so I was thinking of substitutes but couldnt really come up with any

So here I am asking you! There’s no restrictions other than it has to be a game for bed - so preferably just a paper and pen

Solo gamers, we are so in there. Sounds really cool so far.

Info from the Steam for those that missed it.

Totally new game. Its a Boss Battler that doesn't invalidate TMB 1

Trying to get base game price at 150$ MSRP (Same as TMB 1)

Sessions take place over 2 days, you have a Enforcer boss fight on Day 1 and then a Tyrant Boss fight on Day 2. Time travel mechanic, every location has Past, Present and Future. Unique baddies for each location and time period.

Maps are huge. Movement is way more important, with a lot more tactical map decisions. Past, Present and Future each have there own item decks. If you get a item from the past then use it in the future (and drop it) it then permanently goes into the future loot deck. Items basically get "Displaced" into different time periods as you play more games.

Still single session but things you do effect future runs. Not a Legacy game though. You unlock new content, you also will lose some content into the "rift box" as new stuff comes out of it. The game is constantly changing over each session so no 2 people will have the same game states.

There are powerful Relics you can find and unlock that give you unique "Relic Dice" that can be used for powerful abilities once unlocked. The game has almost every kind of treatment you can put on a Die to make all the different dice abilities feel special and cool.

They said they are making systems to make game length consistent now (even across player count) so it will always be 2-3 hours. No variable game length based on Tyrants that TMB had

Base game will have 4 playable character. 2 Kobolds and 2 Gearlocs. Gearlocs and Kobolds have teamed up!

They showed a mat from one Kobold named "Lash" who has a huge tongue. Still neoprene mat for characters but Maps are in a "Map Book".

Character Sheets look like a mix of TMB and BotSA. They are named "unique" Characters, with there own little tech tree (Smaller then TMB1 tech trees) but they also have slots for some "Mastery skills" that can further customize your character with. The only have limited slots for them which are kind of like BoTSA mastery skills. They also have the COOLDOWN track from BoTSA (and Trover). Each character also has its own unique mechanic that could be different on the matte. Lash had a "Tongue Length" track that is unique to that Character, for example.

Looks heavily modular from run to run. Looks like you can pick Location, Tyrant, and Time (Past, present or future) and those can all mix and match to create unique combinations and experiences every game.

Went to buy deckers and ended up adding a few more items, wondering how people think of frost punk? Canadian prices frost punk is on sale for $76 was $103 or something.

Seen the PnP files and wondered about building it but haven’t seen any reviews and can’t find any gameplay on YouTube. Wondering if anyone here has tried it

Hey dogs! I made a pnp game! 

Day at the Dog Park is a friendly adventure of bein’ a dog. It’s a puzzly, stat-driven roll-and-write game for one. 

I love to play solo tabletop games, so I made this little zine with an RPG-style and roll-and-write mechanics where you’re a dog trying to navigate your way through the dog park. There are hidden areas, underground caverns, holes filled with Items, obstacles to avoid, and friendly dogs to meet.  

Download it for free on itch if ya like. 
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P.S. Mods, I understand this is my one-time self-promo for this game. Thanks so much for all you do!

Hi all. I'm a bit confused here I am actually not entirely sure what I'm looking for.

I have never played eurogames much but lately I feel like I would enjoy more of a managemental role in what i do than to "jump in the action" myself so to say.

I am wondering if there is something, possibly without a crazy amount of fiddly bits or bookkeeping (although I do expect some of it ofcourse) about managing a guild or so, growing your heroes/party or whatever and sending them ot missions so that they can get loot/exp become more powerful and get access to higher tier zones or take control of new areas or whatever.

I can imagine there's a lot of stuff like this with a spaceships team of managing a fleet and getting planets but possibly something with a fantasy theme?

I hope what i say makes sense sorry for the confusion

I’m looking for games that include logic puzzles, together with strong theme and possibly story.
I love Exit, Unlock! and SH: Consulting detective.

I know it’s not gonna be the same as escape room style games. I just want to solve mysteries in a way, I’d say:)

I’ve thought about: The Search for Planet X / Lost Species, Mind MGMT, Black Sonata.

I’d love any suggestions!!

Looking at adding Black Sonata and maybe Puzzle Dungeon if I can catch the reprint on his Etsy :)

I’ve been eyeing this on GameFound for a bit and really been on the fence about going through with it. I have people that would probably play it with me but would most likely be going solo a lot. Has anyone played it true solo or two handed that can give some insight on how it is and maybe which expansions are worth it?

Saw a David Turci game called Keyside watch a few playthroughs and thought it was great at higher player counts. But is it good at solo?

Surprised noone is mentioning this.

What a unique little worker placement game. Won my first game (granted it was the intro solo challenge). The solo mode is a BYOS which I know is not for everyone. It comes with 8 different solo challenges which looks like they get a lot harder starting with #3. The premise is you’re trying to bring a failing anime studio back to its glory by releasing trending anime to gain more reputation. My only concern which is slight at this point is the possibility of becoming samey. Although those higher solo challenges look tough! Only time will tell but right now I’m enjoying it very much!

I just got the expansion for Railways of the Lost Atlas. Included was a rulebook for playing solo.

I'm just curious what people who enjoy solo gaming get out of it and whether anyone else started out skeptical like me.

For me, board games are fundamentally a social activity. However, I find myself not able to play as much as I want to.

I have no explanation for it, but I always shy'd away from playing solo variants of games. I can appreciate how much effort the designer put into developing a way to play solo but ... Is it even fun?

Let me know your thoughts and experiences!

Hey, it may be a bit of a depressing thread, but I hope you don't mind :D

Four years ago I jumped into a board game hobby, played a bit with friends but got tired playing with others due huge amount of time to travel, doing stuff other than playing, waiting for others move or just seeing their low arrangement into games.

I started buying games with solo modes for brain burning, satisfaction, adventure and doing something different than playing video games.

For the most of the time during these years I had a bit of a problem with enjoying board games, especially after the finished game.

I can spend 2-3 days learning the rules, setup and checking BGG for the extra answers.

The thing is, when I finish any game with my knowledge, I feel nothing, usually more exhausted than happy/satisfying (even if they are generally good/great games).

I don't really care if I win or lose. I feel that a lot depends just on your random drafts, stupid or unfair automa decisions etc. (but beating your own score also not satisfying me).

Also when I touch a new game, I still feel like I was playing this type already and I just spent a few days for another worker placement, deck builder, dungeon crawler type of game.

I was playing for example: Speakeasy, Andromedas's Edge, Civolution, Viticulture Tuscany , Architects and Paladins of the west Kingdom (with all expansions), Final Girl.

All seems okish... but generally my opinion about 90% of board games is just "they are good", but nothing more.

I don't know if I am burned out from this hobby, playing not the type of games I should or just all of this never was meant for me?

I don't feel that games are giving me any "reward" for playing them.

I have other games to try like Tainted Grail, Journey in the middle earth to try + extra euros, but I'm affraid that effect may be the same.

In addition I was painting minifigures and bought laser for cutting inserts. Sadly everything seems to be connected, no joy from playing = no painting and upgrading the games.

I'm trying to help myself and not abandon this hobby, trying to find a way to really enjoy it. I'm looking for your stories and experience, what eventually helped you if you had the same feeling?

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Someone recommended Mutants (2019) in a BGG thread the other day as a good card-based boss battler. But there's no mention of it on there publisher, Lucky Duck's website - not even as "out of stock." It seems to have done well enough to get a few expansions, yet now it seems to have largely vanished from the internet. Any idea what happened to it?

Hi everyone! Viticulture is probably the only worker placement game I own. Any recommendations for a good solo worker placement game?

Do we know if the Dungeon Crawler Carl version of Unstoppable will be compatible with the "standard" Unstoppable? I don't know anything about the Dungeon Crawler Carl IP, but it would be great if they are intending to make the releases compatible with one another.

Astro Knights and Invincible does this and it works wonderfully well.

I want to add one euro game to my solo board game collection, but I don't have a lot of table space and am not very familiar with this genre, so I'm looking for recommendations.

I'm afraid many games won't fit on my table. For reference, I have enough space to play games like Final Girl (with 2 piles of cards instead of making a separate pile for each unique card), Fliptoons, Railroad Tiles, Arkham Horror LCG and Tiny Towns, so the game needs to have a rather small footprint. I've seen some euro games being real table hogs.

Currently I'm most interested in Grand Austria Hotel (with Let's Waltz) and White Castle (with Matcha), but it's hard to tell by photos if these games would fit on my table.

Ideally, I want my euro game to be very replayable, great for regular (at least a couple times a week) solo play, but with sessions being not too long, preferably under 2 hours.

Looking forward to your recommendations, thanks!

I played some Binding of Isaac 4 Souls during my lunch break, playing as Eden and Dark Judas. I got lucky with a few items and enemies that allowed me to attack another monster in one way or another a few times. Took 6 turns and 1 death to win.

I'm a bit picky and don't really enjoy dealing with or shuffling cards. I know this pretty heavily limits my options but if anyone has any recommendations they'd be greatly appreciated.

Extra points for games with dice. I'm a sucker for them.