Best 1-player board games
The top-rated games that play well with 1 player, ranked by BoardGameGeek community rating across 1,354 games. Gloomhaven leads the list (medium-heavy complexity).
Card Game (336)Fantasy (307)Adventure (223)Wargame (196)Science Fiction (195)Dice (187)Exploration (170)Fighting (168)Puzzle (122)Miniatures (118)Economic (116)Horror (100)World War II (89)Medieval (80)City Building (77)Real-time (68)
Top picks for 1 players
- Gloomhaven (2017)
- Terraforming Mars (2016)
- Scythe (2016)
- Agricola (2007)
- Wingspan (2019)
- Great Western Trail (2016)
- Spirit Island (2017)
- Arkham Horror The Card Game (2016)
- Viticulture Essential Edition (2015)
- Mage Knight Board Game (2011)
- Gaia Project (2017)
- Caverna The Cave Farmers (2013)
- Robinson Crusoe Adventures on the Cursed Island (2012)
- Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion (2020)
- Mansions of Madness Second Edition (2016)
- Everdell (2018)
- A Feast for Odin (2016)
- Eldritch Horror (2013)
- Le Havre (2008)
- Nemesis (2018)
- Star Wars Imperial Assault (2014)
- The 7th Continent (2017)
- Kingdom Death Monster (2015)
- Clans of Caledonia (2017)
- Descent Journeys in the Dark (Second Edition) (2012)
- Sagrada (2017)
- Marvel Champions The Card Game (2019)
- Architects of the West Kingdom (2018)
- Troyes (2010)
- Arkham Horror (2005)
- The Lord of the Rings The Card Game (2011)
- Teotihuacan City of Gods (2018)
- Castles of Mad King Ludwig (2014)
- Underwater Cities (2018)
- Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective The Thames Murders & Other Cases (1982)
- Aeon's End (2016)
- Suburbia (2012)
- Maracaibo (2019)
- Legendary A Marvel Deck Building Game (2012)
- Chronicles of Crime (2018)
- Too Many Bones (2017)
- The Gallerist (2015)
- Agricola Revised Edition (2016)
- The Lord of the Rings Journeys in Middle-Earth (2019)
- Imperial Settlers (2014)
- Tainted Grail The Fall of Avalon (2019)
- Paladins of the West Kingdom (2019)
- That's Pretty Clever! (2018)
Quick games for 1 players (30 minutes or less)
Easy-to-learn games for 1 players
- Sagrada (2017)
- That's Pretty Clever! (2018)
- Cartographers A Roll Player Tale (2019)
- Mensa Connections (2004)
- Magic Maze (2017)
- Escape The Curse of the Temple (2012)
- Between Two Cities (2015)
- Roll Through the Ages The Bronze Age (2008)
- Onirim (Second Edition) (2014)
- Star Realms Frontiers (2018)
- Castle Panic Wood Edition (2009)
- Sprawlopolis (2018)