Best solo RPGs?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It feels like I've been seeing more solo RPGs in the past few years. Is that just me or is there a small renaissance in solo rpgs? Is it because of the pandemic, or some mechanical innovations in the rules?

I think yes to all of that, plus the Fighting Fantasy/Lone Wolf generation (Generation X) is now larger than the remaining Baby Boom generation, so there's increasing market influence for them.

 

[Autumnal]

It feels like I've been seeing more solo RPGs in the past few years. Is that just me or is there a small renaissance in solo rpgs? Is it because of the pandemic, or some mechanical innovations in the rules?

A fairly large renaissance at this point, at least relatively speaking. More games the do things Poole would like to do, plus pandemic I wouldn’t have thought about Fighting Fantasy/Lone Wolf, but missed them as a teen/20s/whatever. I mostly think about how really well done gam3s like Ironsworn, Thousand Year Old Vampire, and Mythic GME 2e are.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Finally posted the start of my Colostle game on the Story Hour forum. It takes about a week to do a turn, partly because this is more involved than Thousand Year Old Vampire, and partly because I picked a class (the Mounted) which picks a lot of cards each week. Today's post is halfway through a turn, in fact.